During an autumn morning at Mistralton City, Rachael was casually walking the northern route with Pamela. "That was why it took me that long to get here. Driftveil and its tourists where either in the way... or are fans that need to calm down about my acting. Thanks for coming with me."
The Top Coordinator from Johto didn't mind the trouble as Rachael readied a net ball in hand and had her Alakazam's ball ready. "Durant might be a difficult pokemon for you to capture due to your three pokemon being at a disadvantage. They can be dangerous in large numbers." The aspiring reporter agreed as she saw the entrance to the mountain and found Boldore's scurrying for shelter. The duo journeyed into the mountain and found it vast.
Almost immediately, they found a swarm of Durant patrolling the mountain and returning from a forage; plants, fungus and what looks like the remains of a picnic, were all carried towards a massive burrow. Rachael shook her head as Pamela whispered. "There maybe a lot of them... but if you anger one, you will anger them all."
Rachael agreed and whispered back. "We need to find a stray Durant that would go unnoticed. Let's keep looking."
The duo followed a trail of tiny foot prints and found them scattered all over, a Woobat flew by in curiosity and heard something from the Alakazam, the bat pokemon hummed from its nose and flapped to an exit way, in the center of the mountain that was supported by a ledge. The girls sighed in annoyance, it was going to a maze. The Woobat glowed with the Alakazam to help him learn the navigation of the mountain, who in turn took the lead as to where to go and signaled to Rachael on where to go, the girl understood. "We just follow the path until we find the end of the mountain, as well as a stray Durant. Thank you for the help Woobat!"
The Woobat nuzzled at Rachael's cheek and left a heart snapped mark, it followed suit to Pamela and caused both to blush as the bat flew back the way it came. Rachael nearly felt bad about not capturing the bat as she and her friend journeyed deeper. "I heard this is a sign of good luck. That Woobat was a sweet heart."
Pamela agreed. "They evolve into Swoobat when their love reached their maximum. It means a lot when a pokemon can be this sweet."
The duo kept their journey until they heard noise from afar, a metallic shriek followed by a deep bellow. Rachael had her net ball ready and went forward without thinking, Pamela followed and found a grissly sight. A Durant was biting into a Heatmor, laying by the side was a black egg with red spots and a blue marking, the Heatmor tossed the Durant off of him and tried to strike his prey down with a flame lash from his tongue. The Durant dodged as Rachael tossed her net ball at the ant in an instinct, the ball whistled and dragged the irritated iron ant in, right before the Heatmor was able to land a fatal blow and startling him as the ball rolled to shake. "Click!"
The Heatmor looked at the Alakazam in a hunger induced daze, by the pokemon's side was human in burgundy clothes and panicked. He panted from his tail tried to roar to scare them away to no avail, he looked more desperate than intimidating. Rachael saw the egg exposed to the environment of battle and asked Pamela. "You mind getting that out of danger while I catch this poor guy?"
The coordinator nodded and sent out a green eared Clefairy that whistled and caught the Heatmor's attention, Pamela sneaked around the danger zone as Rachael ordered. "Alakazam, use thunder wave to paralyze Heatmor! Then he is ours!"
The Alakazam glowed and shot a thunder wave, the Heatmor rolled out of the way and struck the psi pokemon with a burning tongue. The sizzling burn mark left a wound exposed, Rachael cringed and ordered. "Again, he really can't take a hit!"
Alakazam covered the wound with his left hand and used his right hand to shoot another thunder wave, one that Heatmor failed to dodge, he fell on his back and tried to crawl away, his paralyzed limbs would not allow it. Rachael took a heal ball and tossed it at the Heatmor. "This should help!"
Tap!
The ball dragged the Heatmor in and fell to the cave floor. Shake...shake...shake... click!
Rachael wiped sweat from her forehead and picked the two balls up as Pamela backed away towards the group, a Durant scout crawled towards their location to see what the noise was and screeched at the sight of the egg, a swarm of Durants emerged from bellow, all their sights fixated at the egg. The coordinator was reaching for another ball as Rachael had the Alakazam ready a move, Pamela knew what was coming and ordered her Clefairy. "Fae, to us!"
The Clefairy skip toed to the group as the Durant swarm closed in, the Alakazam glowed and let loose a flash of distorting light. The girls closed their eyes for a moment and found themselves in a pokemon center.
The girls relaxed, they made it to safety. Rachael wasn't able to identify the egg as she called her Alakazam back, readied her phone and went to the Nurse Joy. "We need to figure out what egg this is! Hey Nurse, we had a run in at Twist Mountain and we would like to have these pokemon healed... except for the Heatmor, I know what's wrong with him."
The Nurse Joy took the pokemon and identified the egg Pamela was holding. "Oh my, how did a Deino egg make it all the way to Twist Mountain?"
The coordinator gasped and looked at the egg. "Goodness! That Durant you are healing was the one who had it, was it... planning on eating it?"
The Nurse Joy considered it a possibility as Rachael sent out a Heatmor that may have had his wounds healed from the ball's effects, but he wasn't in any better condition than before otherwise, confirming her suspicions as she readied a bowel and a bag of food that was topped with blukk berries. "Then this Heatmor attacked the Durant to eat him, I caught his lunch and he didn't even have the energy to get mad!"
The bowel was set, Heatmor burned the food to a crisp and licked up the charred remains in a feeding frenzy, confirming the trainers suspicion as Pamela called her Clefairy back. "He wouldn't have survived if he didn't eat soon. My mama told me about Deino, it is a pokemon that spends most of its life blind?"
The nurse nodded and readied an egg case. "Because of that, its only means of learning its environment involves tackling and biting everything around it. It gets worse as a Zweilous when it grows a second head that refuses to get along with the other and competes with it, a life like that when it becomes Hydreigon will result in it attacking everything in sight if it grows up in the wild or if poorly trained!"
She placed the egg in a case and asked the girls. "For now, the egg needs to be kept safe. Do either of you two want to even raise it? It takes a long time for Deino to evolve into Zweilous, when it reaches that stage then its final evolution is not be far behind. Opelucid city has trainers who will be more than happy to take good care of it."
Rachael listened as Pamela answered. "I already have my pokemon and I don't really need to capture this pokemon, I just want to be sure Deino is going to be alright."
The aspiring reporter answered dramatically while pointing at the Deino egg. "I'll take it! It is a long investment, but I seen a Hydreigon battle!"
Pamela remembered an incident the other day. "You mean Miss Lillie and her Hydreigon? I heard that one wasn't raised by her and she rescued him from bad people."
Rachael agreed. "Maybe, but she has said she had taken care of Ghorchi for years. Besides I seen the news say nothing but horrible things about this pokemon. My parents always told me to never believe a story that is exaggerated and that there is always two sides to the truth. What better way to give them that truth than witnessing it ourselves and showing the world!"
The Nurse Joy placed a premier ball on the top of the case and gave it to Rachael. "Please do, many trainers need to know about that."
The machine was done, Rachael had her pokemon back and wished to give advice on Heatmor. "Take good care of it, now your Heatmor probably had bad luck with getting food and it was been starving for days. It was so weak from hunger that once you caught Durant, he used so much energy that he didn't even know what to do besides try to survive!"
The Heatmor finished his feast and gave a mild grunt from his tail, Rachael folded her arms and waved her hair. "That is why I am keeping him. Vyram," The ant eater flicked his fiery tongue and looked thankful as the trainer readied the heal ball. "I am going to organize a training session and I know the trainer to help me, let me talk to Durant while you wait in the ball!"
The Heatmor saluted and was called back in the ball, Rachael placed the ball away and opened a heal ball to let out a Durant that saw his surroundings and screeched at his trainer.
The girl had a sliced nanab berry and presented it to the Durant. "As for you, we need to get started on your training, there is a film we are going to be in that will happen in around a week. When we are done, you and the others are going to be stars!" The Durant was devouring the berry and looked up to listen, Pamela and Rachael found it to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Simultaneously
In a crater on Mount Lanakila, Hau was feeling the cold as he remembered an invitation he received from the mail early in the morning. "I am aware you are trying to awaken Zekrom for a capture, if you wish to give it the ideals it seeks, visit me near the Pokemon League at the crater. Bring your best pokemon and bring the Dark Stone."
Hau wondered who sent it when he saw a figure approaching, a blonde woman in white jeans and a black jacket that exposed a yellow silk shirt, she wore thick grey, winter boots and expected something. Hau recognized the woman. "L...Lusamine?! Why would you send that-" Hau squinted his eyes in suspicion, just as Lusamine predicted, the Aether President stared at the back pack and rolled her eyes, not expecting for him to believe anything she said. "This would have been much easier if Elio or my children where here. Then again, if they were here... you wouldn't have been needed in the first place."
Hau was about to reach for the love ball, feeling like someone was hitting at something delicate. "Wh...what do you mean?"
Lusamine squinted her visible eye and felt annoyed. "They would have given Zekrom the ideals needed for him to awaken, the kind that would be for the better of the world. They shown they are more than capable... but that leaves you, the Kahuna's grandson... who never really accomplished much besides being the Champion's friend. Who achieved that title because Hala became too old to manage the duty and while your management of Melemele is impressive on paper, especially during the Necrozma crisis," She had her hands on her hips and asked. "What have you personally accomplished that had any significant matter?"
Hau tried to answer back and was unable to find an answer, Lusamine found the exposed chink and answered for him. "Even now you are giving me that answer. Without an ideal powerful enough to awaken Zekrom, he will remain as that stone and we are going to keep having nuisance after nuisance on the region's shores until someone more competent takes the reigns and plays the hero... again! Why have the Tapus even trusted something like this to someone who is going to be in the Champion's shadow for the rest of his life!"
Hau flinched and shouted back in a burst of vented up anger. "Elio doesn't have to do everything by himself! Everyone is able to make a difference in the world, whether it be for themselves or others! People don't blindly follow someone, just because they are the strongest trainer in the region!"
Lusamine stomped her boot in the snow to keep fueling the anger. "If you think a bunch of misguided children can really decide that by themselves. Show me!" She readied an ultra ball with her mind decided. "Yes... so me what Hau.. can actually do, this should silence any objections to those ideals!"
Vs Aether President Lusamine
She tossed the ultra ball and let out a Clefable with left overs. "Luna, we haven't grown so old to be lacking in battle!"
Hau tossed the love ball and sent out a pink eyed Heatran with a light shade of red. "Heatran, lets take her out!"
Lusamine switched to her Milotic on seeing an obvious disadvantage. "Nerieda, take what that Heatran has to offer... and remove it with hydro pump."
Hau ordered his Heatran. "Use flash cannon... I know the pokemon to handle this!"
Heatran shot the Milotic and was called back into the love ball, in its place was an Alolan Raichu with choice specs. Lusamine changed her order. "Use icy wind to slow this thing down, then remove him!"
The Milotic blew frigid wind at the Raichu and shot a hydro pump, Hau ordered back. "Dodge and use thunder bolt!"
The Alolan Raichu surfed around the hydro pump and shot a thunder bolt at the Milotic, leaving her paralyzed and exposed to another for a knock out. Lusamine called Nerieda back and sent out her Mismagius. "Circe, finish this Raichu with shadow ball!"
A Mismagius floated to battle and charged a black blob to knock Raichu out and to land on the snow. Hau called him back and switched to a Noivern. "Use dark pulse until Mismagius is out!"
The Noivern pulsed an aura of bad thoughts as the Mismagius was charging a power gem beam. PULSE!
Mismagius flinched and was exposed to another for a k.o. Forcing Lusamine to switch and realize Hau's back pack was glowing black. "Luna, he has the strength but he needs to think outside of his comfort zone!"
The Clefable returned with a smug smile as Hau switched back to Heatran, exhausted of Lusamine's schemes. "I am tired of your mind games! Heatran, lets take another out!"
Lusamine found herself in a bad corner and ordered. "Use moon blast, we are not giving up."
The Clefable glowed and shot at the Heatran for miniscule damage, Hau ordered. "Use flash cannon, we will have three more pokemon after that!"
The Heatran shot a beam of light at the Clefable's forehead for a one hit critical, super effective k.o. Lusamine shook with frustration and switched. "Poppy, this Heatran needs to go!"
A Lilligant enter the battle with elegance, Lusamine felt a sweat and ordered. "Use stun spore, then it is all on Calli!"
The Lilligant danced stun spores on the Heatran, inflicting paralysis as Hau tried to get an attack out. "If you can, use heat wave!"
The Heatran's eyes glowed annoyed, he blew hot wind that melted the snow that was in the way, Lilligant was ready to block and held on with a focus sash, she felt a burn in her nerves and fainted from the after damage. Lusamine called Poppy back and sent out a Bewear with an assault vest. "Calli, finish this with earthquake!"
The Bewear stomped and tore the ground beneath the Heatran, knocking him out and forcing Hau to switch back to Noivern. "We are almost there, use super fang!"
The Noivern flew at the Bewear and bit into her with her fangs, causing her to squeal and Lusamine to order back. "Dual chop, then Casandra will do the rest!"
Bewear struck Noivern with two brutal strikes and knocked him off of her, the Noivern knew the move as Hau swiped the air. The sound wave pokemon slashed the air and knocked Bewear out. Lusamine pitted her whimpering Bewear and called her back to switch to her Absol, she showed a keystone and dared not take her gaze off of Hau, she activated it and let the energy pour into the disaster pokemon. The Absol took on a more angelic look as Hau flashed his Z power ring and was about to pose. "Noivern, use devas-" Lusamine interrupted with a quick order. "Sucker punch!"
The mega Absol flew to the Noivern and swipped him in the face, sending him falling to the ground for a k.o and landing back. Hau switched to his Vaporeon, refusing to give up, Lusamine's stoic stare focused on the stone once more, it looked like it was about to move. "Use swords dance and we will finish this!" The Absol danced with vigor as Hau shook his head. "End this battle with hydro pump!"
The Vaporeon shot a torrent of water, the Absol leaped back to dodge and saw her foe attack again. SWAT!
She sucker punched again, leaving the Vaporeon to gasp as she shot at point black range. POW! Cassandra was sent flying back and reverted back to her basic form as the Vaporeon glowed with his orb and fainted. K.O! Lusamine tightened her grip and called her Absol back, she saw the back pack moving and nearly smiled. "Hau... I think someone was listening to this."
Hau looked around and found nothing until he noticed his back pack glowing and signs that something was getting out. "Wha-" He unzipped and saw the Dusk Stone floating out of the bag, it flew towards the center of the crater and drew black energy from all over. It stopped for a moment as Lusamine knew a legend was coming. "When a Hero of Ideals presents himself-" The stone spun and radiated power as Hau realized what Lusamine's plan was the whole time. "All those things you said to me was to get Zekrom to wake up?"
Lusamine appreciated how the Kahuna finally figured it out. "It was quicker, easier and it showed him exactly what you are," The stone's black glow took shape, a heart beat was heard, making Hau feel like a fool as Lusamine saw a dragon form. "now that the ideal partner made himself known to Zekrom, it is time someone does something about him," She turned around and left. "Good luck!"
Hau was left confused until he found himself between a rock and a hard place. Zekrom opened his red eyes and broke out of the round force field with his power, causing the whole mountain to feel the force pusle all over, Hau nearly fell backwards and readied a poke ball as the Deep Black Pokemon landed on the ground and gave a mighty. "ROAR!"
Zekrom's generator of a tail powered up and glowed blue, he shot lighting into the sky and let loose his vast power, clearing the vast snow and bringing dark clouds. The Kahuna regained his courage as the dragon stared down on him.
Zekrom Wants to Battle
Hau tossed his ball and ordered. "Go Crabominable!"
A Crabominable saw the foe before him and readied his fists, Zekrom charged at woolly crab and beaten him down, Hau shouted. "Use ice punch, we should have him ready for a capture if he wants it!"
The Crabominable was clawed, kicked and head butted into a rock formation as his claw glowed in ice. POW!
Zekrom was punched in the abdomen and tried to tend to the wound as it quickly froze and spread all over his body, Hau tossed an ultra ball at the Zekrom, the ball dragged the dragon in and fell on the barren rock. Shake...shake...shake... click!
Hau felt like he wanted to lay down as he slowly walked towards the ball in disbelief, Zekrom was caught. He picked it up and felt many questions race through his mind, which ever he wanted answers for, someone needs to know, he called his beaten up partner back and called a ride pager for a Charizard. "They might make better sense of this!"
At a pokemon center in Nimbasa City.
Lillie listened to Rachael and Pamela's story about the Deino egg as Elio summed up what is to happen. "Rachael gotten her three pokemon in one day, with Deino being a late comer for when it hatches. All this because someone wanted to eat."
Tammy felt mutual on how brutal nature seems and wanted to warn her friend about pseudo legendaries. "Once Deino, or any pokemon like it, reache their final evolution they are going to be hard to control unless you know what you are doing. You're going to prove the Hydreigon haters wrong?"
Rachael nodded and gave her friend a thumbs up. "Ghorchi is an example against that misconception and there are those like him. I want to see this shift in power myself since you had a lot to talk about with Mo'o."
She asked Lillie in hope of guidance. "Any advice you have that can help or just be nice to Deino and it will be nice to you?"
The mother to be had none and felt tired out. "I never raised Ghorchi to adulthood, but that moment when a Zweilous evolves into a Hydreigon is going to be the most crucial stage of its growth. It is the first time it can see and it may have problems figuring out friend from foe, make sure it knows you are its friend."
Elio had his own advise on the matter. "Since Zweilous looks physical along with Deino... expect to be a physical attacker, once it becomes a Hydreigon... get it ready for it to live the life as a special attacker if you want. Now about the other two pokemon you caught, it must have sucked for Vyram, when you took his lunch he acted like that because he didn't know what to do anymore. What are you naming Durant?"
Rachael had it planned. "His name is going to be Vespron and I can manage training him on my own. I won't ever have him or Vyram out out at the same time for obvious reasons. Also I need to keep a close eye on the egg until it hatches."
Elio stretched himself and was ready to go about his day. "Yep! Each pokemon is their own individual too, you teach them and they will teach you. Lillie, you want to do anything?"
Lillie felt tired and asked. "I want to go take a nap." She gave Tammy a hug and wished her a good day. "Enjoy your day and let us know if you find anything unusual."
The girl was embarrassed and wished the two goodbye. "I will Mom. Dad... are you going to tell us what the movie director had planned for the next movie?"
Elio zipped his mouth closed, it was something she is to figure out on her own. "It isn't fun to spoil it. See ya later!"
With the two gone, Tammy asked Rachael. "You think you found your calling here on Unova?"
The aspiring reporter half closed her eyes and chuckled. "I still want to be a news reporter and I am not giving that dream up. This however will help me stay alive and give my pokemon something to do besides being my friends and bodyguards for when I get into a mess, like back at Twist Mountain. Pamela, is there anything you want to do?"
The coordinator does and opened a sport ball to let her Scizor out. "I want to compare this pokemon with Durant, Scizor is less common among trainers... but if Durant is able to fight back againsts its natural predator, it has to be strong!"
Rachael picked up her egg case as Tammy thought of an idea. "What if I have my Butterfree be your Durant's battle partner? Dipper can be one for Heatmor."
Rachael found it would work as she was ready to head out. "Lets go find Anville town, we got some stars to let shine!"
