Thank you, FF dot Net, for behaving yourself this time.
Also, I made it to under 25 pages, yay!
And here's the showdown you people have been waiting since the last chapter for! Considering how long this is, I've split this into two, because I don't want it to be approximately 12,000 words like I did last time, so my story length would be up to 21 chapters, including the epilogue.
Also, JenJenGundamFan, if you're reading this, I've still got some Pokemon stuff up my sleeve, including making an autobiography for my Trainer OC Remilia! So I would recommend you stay tuned for that! Don't worry, I'll still write some Gundam stuff, Wing especially!
Enjoy~
Chapter 18 - One Who Gives Birth and One Who Steals
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ultra Wormhole~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*~Rin - Eliminator~*
The angel-winged Gundam flies through the Ultra Wormhole, bright streaks of powdery blue flashing past the massive machine. Heero, with Remilia on his lap, navigates through, careful to not let Wing Zero become ensnared by the other ringed wormholes' gravitational pulls. The various sensors built in Wing Gundam Zero all say that there are unusually high energy outputs emitting from the other ringed Ultra Wormholes, only blaring when Wing Gundam becomes too close with in the range of each of their gravitational pulls, prompting Heero to move the joysticks slightly in two directions to stay away from the pulls.
Remilia rests her head on Heero's safety harness, her hat just barely touching the crook of his neck, and her right hand having a soft grip on the glossy material on the other side. Her breathing soft and steady, one would think that she is sleeping. Well, the reality is-aside from being awake-if they look closer, her expression was dismal, sad, even. She was grateful to Heero for promising her not to destroy Duo or Lunala, but… what if Heero would have to do it because they had no other choice? Remilia's more than certain that the others would think the same, but there was something else that was biting at her ever since she and Heero went back into the Ultra Wormhole they came from. This one, tiny little thing… It was fear. Fear that either Duo or Lunala would not make it alive. That was why she looks so despondent. This sensation, this feeling made her feel hopeless; she was worried that her efforts to help would be all for nothing.
A single tear streamed down from her left eye and managed to drop into Heero's new hoodie. Thankfully, he fails to notice, as he was too busy maneuvering Wing Gundam away from the gravitational pulls of the different wormholes. All Remilia wanted more than anything was both Duo and Lunala to be alright.
The pink-haired Pokèmon Trainer let out a soft exhale that she felt was hurting her chest (possibly the after-effects of being in the Ultra Deep Sea for too long). Despite this, she fought the urge to cry. She can't afford to waste any more time doing so. She's done with being weak.
Unbeknownst to her, Heero managed to hear her soft exhale, and asked, "Are you all right?"
The Wing pilot's speaking suddenly made Remilia jump a little in his lap. She furiously wiped away any evidence of her tears leaking from her eyes, and simply looked at him, her face flushing in embarrassment.
Heero stared at her intently, that unusually soft and gentle expression of his just making her want to cry again (Damn him! was all Remilia could think at the moment). "I promised you to save Duo and Lunala, Remilia. I fully intend to make true that promise."
"I-I know that, but.." Remilia was saying, but stopped herself.
"I don't make promises I'm incapable of keeping."
Remilia resigned herself by laying her head back down on Heero's crook. With what Heero had said… She's not sure if this was supposed to put her mind at ease. She's well aware of Heero's insane skills as a Gundam pilot, and yet… It just seems that no matter what she thinks, no matter how much Heero tries to assure and comfort her in the situation they're in, uneasiness would still linger within her.
A minor alarm in Wing Zero's cockpit controls started to blare, startling Remilia once again. Managing to quash her unpleasant feelings, she asked Heero, "Do you think it might be the others?"
Heero briefly looked at the monitors. "Looks that way; it also looks like they got their Gundams as well."
White electric streaks in four different areas flashed and zipped, which would later spread out and four different Gundams emerged from them. The first is a forest green and turquoise Gundam with two Gatling guns on each of its arms, the second a sky blue and gray with scarlet accents, and a third that's a different shade of green from the first armed with what appears to be yellow stag crushers similar to those of a Vikavolt.
"We all made it okay~!" She heard Hau over the intercom. "Without any motion sickness to boot!"
"Or wormhole travel sickness," Trowa pitched in.
"Trowa; Quatre; Wufei," Heero greeted them. "You retrieved your other Gundams, with or without any trouble?"
"We did," Quatre replied sheepishly.
"The Ultra Beasts in whatever dimension each of us landed into more or less attacked us," Trowa confessed. "Then again, we've technically invaded their territory, so it would be somewhat inaccurate to say that we were surprised."
"You said that the Ultra Beasts attacked you guys?" Remilia asked them.
"Except for us," Plumeria answered. "We only managed to stay out of their way and out of their sight."
"Yeah, so did we, in the dimension Remilia and I went into," Heero shared.
"Neither one of you killed any of them, did you?" Remilia asked next, her voice coated with concern.
Hau opened his mouth to answer, but Trowa beat him to it. "We made sure not to kill them, don't worry." Hau looked a little nervously at him. Luckily for him, Remilia didn't even notice.
"Okay, so now that we've found our Gundams and all," Wufei began to ask. "What should we do next? Aside travelling through the Ultra Wormhole?"
"First, we need to find an exit point," Remilia began to explain to the whole group. "These exit points typically have rings on them along with a gravitational pull. Some exit points have no rings at all, so they don't have any gravitational pulls, as I've only recently discovered. The more rings there are, the stronger the gravitational pulls will be."
"How many of these rings would these wormhole exit points have?" Quatre inquired. "The last thing we need to have one of us get accidentally caught within their range and risk being pulled in through them."
"The amount of rings I see whenever I go through the wormhole with Nebby are up to three," Remilia replied. "Three rings means a wormhole has the maximum possible gravitational pull."
"So we would still get sucked in," Wufei said bitterly.
"Not exactly. It only means that your chances of being ensnared only increases the more rings there are. So my advice to all of you guys would be to keep your Gundams in a neutral axis, or whatever you call it, at all times."
"Pffft. Easier said than done."
"Wufei's right, pinkie!" Guzma pitched in. "Even if I hold tight on Albert's finger-"
"Nataku!" Wufei shouted to correct him.
"Or Altron…" Plumeria corrected further (which earned her a nasty look from Wufei). "Whatever."
"Altron-slash-Nataku's finger," Guzma continued. "I could still be yanked away no matter what this giant robot does!"
"Then I suggest you change your position, Guzma, and ride on Altron's finger like it's a Dratini," Remilia answered sardonically.
Guzma grumbled for a little bit before sitting down and wrapping his arms and legs around Altron Gundam's middle finger.
"How much farther do we have to travel?" Trowa asked.
"To be honest, I'm not sure," Remilia answered.
"Last time I checked, you're supposed to be expert, Remilia," said Wufei sarcastically.
The pink-haired Trainer Glared at him. "Last time I checked, you never learned to mind your damn pie hole!"
"You know what?!"
"You two, stop arguing!" Quatre raised his voice to a parental level. "For one thing, Remilia's only known about the Ultra Wormholes, and Ultra Space for that matter, for a short time, so we're just relying on what she currently knows. For another, there's no way we can go back to Alola and Aether Paradise with our Gundams to get more info from Ms. Wicke about them, so we're only taking what we're getting from her!"
"Actually, the Aether Foundation's no more of an expert than I am," said Remilia. "So we're both still new at this."
"That being said, Wufei, the least can do is trust her."
Wufei growled in response, but is no longer in the mood to bicker with Remilia or Quatre.
"I'm picking up an unusually strong energy reading from Zero," Heero spoke up.
Remilia looked at one of the sensor monitors Heero was looking at previously. "It's gotta be a rather strong Ultra Wormhole than either any of us has seen."
"Or it might be something else entirely," said Wufei scornfully.
"That's also true."
"Can't your Gundams pinpoint the source of the strong energy signals?" Gladion asked the pilots."
"We don't know, actually," Quatre replied.
"And Wufei, I'd better not hear anymore complaints from you," Remilia warned the Altron pilot, using a tone one would use to discipline a perpetually naughty child.
"I never said a word," the latter replied monotonously.
"That quip aside," Trowa spoke after a while. "Our Gundams are capable of pinpointing a strong signature from a single source, or many all at once. In the case of the Ultra Wormholes, it could be any one of the following: Duo's Gundam, an Ultra Wormhole with the strongest gravitational pull, or a significantly powerful Ultra Beast."
Everybody fell silent in thought, hoping even, that one of these theories Trowa listed out are true. If Duo's Gundam is through one of these Ultra Wormholes, then Duo and Lunala has got to be there with it. They also prayed that Necrozma didn't consume Duo and Lunala completely, and if on the off-chance they are…
Heero snapped out of his own thoughts when Wing Zero let out a "wheep-wheep-wheep" sound of increasing pitch, stopping only after it reached the highest possible pitch frequency. He only looked straight ahead, and briefly saw a white wormhole with no rings visible; however, it has the highest energy reading out of the other Ultra Wormholes.
"It's right there in front of us," he said to the group. "This one doesn't have any rings."
"Really?" asked Hau in surprise. "Are you sure?"
"I'm getting a very intense energy signature emanating from it. I'm sure the same goes for the rest of you just now."
"I got it just now," said Trowa in confirmation.
"Me, too," Quatre said as well.
"So did I," Wufei said last.
Heero started to glow and sparkle with golden light the moment everyone got the same intense energy readings coming from the ring-less wormhole. He's also feeling a slight magnetic pull coming from there.
"Hikari…" Heero called out in his mind. "I'm sure you're feeling this as well…"
"Yes…" Hikari echoed. "Necrozma's soul is likely calling out."
"I will not let you be fused with it… even if Phyco and Soliera commands us all to."
"I will not allow to have both of your bodies and minds destroyed as well."
All of the Gundam pilots gathered around the white Ultra Wormhole where the energy reading is the strongest. Everybody-the Pokèmon Trainers included-took a deep breath, in an attempt to erase any doubt and hesitation and entered through there, disappearing in a bright flash of white light.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~?~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*~No BGM~*
All of the Gundams emerged from the white Ultra Wormhole and into a whole different dimension than the ones they've been into. This space is rainbow-colored, with star clusters sprinkling here and there, and there are rocky platforms of varying sizes scattered around. Aside from the intensely strong energy signature, there seems to be nothing else in this mysterious new dimension. Unless, one of them would speculate, that there might be "noise," due to how haphazardly arranged this space is.
"It's kinda quiet," Hau mused.
"I think Heero's body would say otherwise," Remilia answered him. "He's Twilight-sparkling like there's no tomorrow."
Trowa snickered lightly at that comment. It does definitely sound like what Duo would say.
"Duo, Necrozma, and Lunala are somewhere close in this dimension," Hikari informed Heero psychically, with Heero relaying the information to the rest of the group.
"By best guess is that those three might be dead ahead," said Plumeria.
"There's only one way to find out," said Quatre rather forebodingly, which understandably made Remilia shiver a little.
Heero suddenly notices a harsh, bluish-white glow at a great distance from the Gundam group. Focusing a little harder, he also observed that there are swirls surrounding it, flying and whipping with every second passing. "Let's go." Remilia swallowed at the words spoken, but she forced herself to be brave. As they get closer to the target, their worst fears had come true.
*~Final Fantasy IX - Sword of Doubt~*
In front of them was Gundam Deathscythe Hell-recognizable from its black and red color scheme and enormous bat wings-kneeling on the rock platform surrounded by white light and white streaks surrounding it. Its entire body was transforming into a glossy dark purple color with white static sparkles, with black crystals growing all over the place, but otherwise in proportion with Deathscythe's humanoid anatomy. Its normal mechanical hands transformed into claws, its facial plating developed into a mouth with sharp teeth, and a black crystal mask settled itself over its visor area, changing its normal glowing green eyes into blood-red underneath the crystal planes, with the addition of curved devil-horns.
Its bat-like wings also developed black crystals similar to the ones Lunala had while possessed by Necrozma. It also gained new wings in a slightly different shape; while Deathscythe's wings are made of metal, these additional set of wings bear a resemblance to Lunala's. The difference is that these new wings look a little more demonic than the real thing, although everything else about them remains the same.
Deathscythe Hell raised its head and opened its new "mouth"-revealing a dark violet void with a black tongue-and let out an eerie alien/mechanical/beastly howl that could make even the most stoic Mudsdale tremble in fear upon hearing it.
The others-Remilia, especially-could only look on in horror at the transformation they had just witnessed. The outcome was worse than they had imagined. Not only did Necrozma fuse with Lunala, but with Gundam Deathscythe Hell as well. But, what about Duo? Is he still here with them? Or did he suffer an even worse outcome than those three?
"Wha… what the heck is that thing?" Hau inquired fearfully.
"Gundam Deathscythe Hell…" Quatre replied, not actually knowing what in the world he had just witnessed (and he knows full well that the others do feel the same).
"This Necrozma thing… fused with it?" asked Gladion, shock evident on his face.
"And also with Lunala…" Remilia finished.
"Is Duo… Is he even…?" Quatre started to ask, but too afraid to finish the question.
"That's not something we're obligated to answer, unfortunately," a female voice said.
The Sandrock pilot felt a chill run down through his spine as soon as he heard that. It… it can't be…
All the Gundams turned their heads towards the two adversaries they only recently became familiar with, but at the same time, did not want to encounter again. It was Phyco and Soliera, standing on one of the rocky platforms adjacent to them. Soliera had her arms crossed and folded while Phyco had placed his hands behind his lower back. Both of them had that familiar condescending yet ruthless atmosphere, the same atmosphere they had when they had their first scuffle with Quatre back on Akala Island.
"You…?!" Quatre called out to them.
"Bastards!" Wufei shouted. "Did you follow us all the way into Ultra Space?!"
"Well, what do you think?" Soliera coldly asked in response.
"Our reason for following you all the way to Aether Paradise was to retrieve the first half of the Blinding One so that it can fuse with the other half," Phyco explained. "Unfortunately, you lot have made things unnecessarily difficult for us."
Realization suddenly dawned on Remilia as she listened to them both. "Wait, you guys were on the purple Pokèmon while we were luring Duo to the Altar of Light on Poni Island!"
"And unfortunately for you guys, Remi's the one who noticed you!" Hau pitched in.
"That still doesn't explain how those two managed to follow us through the Ultra Wormhole," Trowa said with doubt.
"Yeah, as far as we know the Ultra Wormhole closed behind us!"
"You would think so, but I believe all of you have forgotten one little thing about these Ultra Wormholes," Soliera replied. "Particularly the area where they open in."
Remilia straightened her pink-brown brows, trying to figure out what Soliera meant by that. Then her brows raised up and her eyes widened with a soft gasp.
"That's right, young lady," said Soliera. "When an Ultra Wormhole opens, it overflows with the energy indistinguishable from the energy a creature-whether it's an Ultra Beast or a Pokèmon, or any other living being-becomes enveloped in."
"Tell us something we don't know," Gladion spat out.
"When an Ultra Wormhole closes," Soliera continued, ignoring Gladion's "rude" interruption. "It leaves behind residue of the energy it had emitted while open. However long the wormhole remains closed, the leftover energy never dissipates. Captain Phyco and I used a device to kickstart the energy that has been used to reopen the Ultra Wormhole…"
"And follow us all the way to even this dimension, despite the fact that the nine of us went to different places in Ultra Space," Quatre finished, realization finally dawning on him. His skin started to tingle with developing rage. If those two were shady before, then they managed to be bad, if not worse than they once were.
"Precisely," Phyco confirmed as he used his fingers to twirl his violet mustache.
"So you managed follow us all the way to this dimension, given that you've given both Duo and Quatre hell," said Gladion. "Since you two are so damn smart, why did Lunala-or Necrozma, rather-fuse with Gundam Deathscythe Hell, huh?"
"Necrozma craves for a body," Heero finally said.
Remilia looked at him. "Meaning what, exactly?"
"He means that Necrozma, the Blinding One, needs a living body in order to stay within the dimension it's currently in," Phyco explained.
"The same might- No, it definitely is the same with Hikari when she reincarnated into Heero…" Trowa said under his breath.
"Then it might mean that Necrozma's soul is more capable of sentience than we previously thought," Wufei mused aloud. More capable than Hikari once was, I might add.
"What about the case of Necrozma/Lunala fusing with that Gundam?" asked Plumeria. "What does that even do in this grand scheme of things?"
"Remember," Trowa replied. "Duo absorbed some of Necrozma's light from Heero while under Necrozma's soul's influence. It also fused with Lunala; the only correlation is that Necrozma hungers for light, no matter the source."
"Except that with, um…" Gladion briefly bit his lower lip. "Actually, what power source does your Gundams run on?"
"All mobile suits, including the Gundams, run on a nuclear-powered engine," Quatre answered.
"Right, okay."
"Even if that were the case," Remilia interrupted. "I'm very doubtful Necrozma would absorb some sort of light procured from nuclear power. Getting artificial light for energy is like drinking water; nourishing, but not very good for energy consumption or usage."
"I was going to say, in layman's terms, the more light it absorbs, the more powerful it would get. And by that, I was referring to natural light."
"Yeah, but look at the state it's in now," Quatre pitched in. "It did absorb some of the light Heero had, and it possessed Lunala, but even with Lunala's light, which has more in amount than what Heero had lost, it still wouldn't even be as powerful as what we might be thinking at the moment."
"So in other words," said Trowa, one half of his face darkening slightly. "Necrozma might be compensating with something for the abysmal amount of light it absorbed. And I mean more than just taking over Deathscythe Hell."
Everybody fell silent in thought. "Wait," Remilia spoke after a few seconds of thinking. "Does that mean Necrozma's a Psychic-type?"
"Definitely seems that way," Wufei said with no reluctance to agreement.
"A very powerful Psychic-type to boot," said Gladion.
"And with Lunala being fused with Necrozma, it might mean a huge boost to its psychic power," Remilia continued to say her realization. "With this amount of psychic power, it's practically enough to take over Deathscythe Hell's computer system, maybe even change its physical appearance as well."
"Hmph." Soliera made a small smirk. "You people are a lot smarter than you put off."
"As much as we appreciate the compliment," Quatre replied with disdain. "I don't believe it's right for you to flatter us like that."
"And now that boy here," Phyco directed towards Wing Gundam Zero. "The one in the robot with the feathered wings."
"You're still that freaking dead set on Heero?" Gladion asked in half-disbelief. "Would it kill you guys just to give up?"
"Perhaps we weren't terribly clear with our motives. The reason why we want that Heero boy and the other-the one you call Duo-is to make a new Blinding One."
"Did you two honestly think that we didn't even know what your true intentions are?" Quatre asked. "With regards to Heero and Duo?"
Phyco directed his head to Sandrock in suspicion. "What exactly do you mean?"
"In case you scumboats didn't even realize," Wufei added. "Hikari spoke to Heero in his dreams about you, including your people, your ancestors, and your home dimension."
"We came more than to save Duo and Lunala from Necrozma," Gladion added next. "We also came to stop you from reaching your goal."
"We could care less if you're well-intentioned or not," Remilia said last. "You've made a rather grave mistake of endangering Duo and Lunala's lives."
No sooner did Remilia say her short piece that the Necrozma-possessed Deathscythe Hell let out another howl and slowly stood itself upright, its footing a little awkward. Heero felt a slightly stronger magnetic pull than last time, but he was currently resisting against it, still glowing and sparkling awhile. He briefly wondered if Hikari was feeling the same magnetic pull as he was, and putting up the same resistance as well.
"The Blinding One's cries are becoming more desperate," Phyco said. "Even with the light of Lunala absorbed, it still has not yet reached its full power yet."
"Please, the one in the feather-winged robot," Soliera said to Heero. "Become one with the one you call Duo. Become one with the Blinding One. You may consider it an act of goodwill to them both if you do not want to see them suffer for any longer."
"I refuse," Heero said flatly.
Phyco and Soliera looked dumbfounded.
"Anybody who toys with me, or my emotions, is my enemy."
"I could not have said it any better myself, Heero," Gladion said in agreement.
"If you refuse," Soliera said in a warning tone. "We will have you unite with Necrozma by force."
"Pffft. We would like to see ya try, lady!" Guzma said haughtily.
"We'll make you dishonorable scum pay for what you did!" Wufei yelled, more angry than ever at the injustices Phyco and Soliera had committed not just to Duo and Lunala, but for the rest of Alola (regardless if they meant it for the latter or not).
"That being said," said Plumiera. "Anybody got a plan here, aside from attempting to rescue Duo and Lunala?"
Remilia lowered her head in thought. A small part of her thinks that Duo might be somewhere in this Deathscythe-Necrozma fusion… There is a good chance that she would be right.
After a couple moments of thinking, she raised her head up. "Duo might be somewhere in there, and I'm not talking about his consciousness."
"What are you going on about?" Wufei asked her skeptically.
"He could be physically there, possibly in Deathscythe's cockpit."
"And how exactly are we going to get his cockpit open?" Plumeria inquired with equal skepticism.
"Do we have to blast it open or something?" Guzma pitched in.
"No we're not, because it might kill him," Quatre chastised.
"What do you guys have on your Gundams?" Remilia asked the group. "Aside from your, um…" She twirled her hand, looking for the best term to use. "Signature weapons, or whatever you wanna call them?"
It took the others a few seconds to understand what their Pokèmon Trainer friend means by that. "Oh, you mean our vulcan guns?" Quatre asked in confirmation.
"Yeah, those."
"Not all of the Gundams have vulcans, actually," Trowa explained accurately. "A couple of us have small machine guns stored into their clavicles."
"Great. We can use those to distract Necrozma," Remilia proposed.
"Whoa whoa wait," Hau interjected. "'Distract?'"
"Yeah, are you nuts?!" Guzma said in surprise.
"Would you two just let me finish?!" she shouted at them.
Both Guzma and Hau complied, opting to remain silent for the rest of Remilia's plan.
"We can use the Gundams' vulcans and machine guns to distract Necrozma," the pink-haired Trainer continued. "With Hau's Noivern and Pucker, my Toucannon, I can fly up to Deathscythe Hell's cockpit and try to open it up with Pucker's Beak Blast. Hau, Noivern has learned Iron Tail sometime ago, right?"
"Yeah," replied Hau.
"I can use Noivern's Iron Tail combined with Pucker's Beak Blast to get the cockpit hatch open and retrieve Duo from there."
"What about Phyco and Soliera?" Wufei asked.
"Guzma, Plumeria, Gladion and Hau will take care of them," Remilia replied.
"Huh? Us?" asked Hau in mild shock.
"Remilia…" Gladion began to say. "I think getting Duo out of his cockpit would be a faster job if I help you out with this."
Remilia stared at her friend with wide eyes. "Really?"
He let out a small smile. "It's my way of saying thanks for keeping up the Aether Foundation's public image after what that woman did a few weeks ago."
Remilia relaxed in understanding. Ever since the Ultra Beast incident, rumors had been spreading that the Aether Foundation was behind it, plus the fact that Team Skull takes the stolen Pokèmon there for that bitch queen's "collection." As much as she didn't want to think about the rumors… that time… she still does have some faith in the Aether Foundation for protecting the hurt or endangered Pokèmon. That's why she was working hard to not let Aether's image become tainted, and help people, the Pokèmon Trainers especially, restore their faith in Aether Paradise. And besides, what Gladion said about making the job of saving Duo easier and faster… The more she thinks about it, the more she thinks he's right about it.
"Thanks back, Gladion," Remilia said to him, smiling as well.
"It's settled then," said Quatre, who's in full agreement of Remilia's plan. "We'll have to go with Remilia's plan."
Everybody else-including Wufei, despite his skeptical doubts-all complied with Quatre's response in agreement, especially with Remilia's plan of action.
Heero opened up Wing Zero's cockpit hatch so that Remilia can step out and walk onto its hand. Trowa, Quatre and Wufei did the same thing with Hau, Gladion and Plumeria, with the latter woman stepping onto Altron's hand where Guzma was standing. Both the Gundam pilots closed their hatches after, but not before wishing them luck.
Phyco and Soliera noticed the movements above. "So you have opted to oppose us," Phyco became the first to say. "If you choose to fight against us, then we will not be holding back."
Both of them took out their strange blue Pokè Balls and released their Pokèmon. Soliera, her Naganadel; Phyco's Pokèmon just released is the same black able creature Wufei, Plumeria and Guzma saw back in the world they were previously in.
Meanwhile, Remilia opens up her Gorebyss-themed fanny pack and produced a Pokè Ball with a light blue feather sticker on top of it. She opened up the ball, out out released a giant toucan creature that seems to reach up to Remilia's neck in height, and it hopped onto Wing Zero's index finger, almost comparable to a little hummingbird with the angel-winged Gundam's size. Hau also released his Noivern, who also nestled onto Heavyarms' Gatling gun with its wings still spread. Gladion released Silvally-who still has the Flying memory installed-who carefully settled itself to watch its footing in the palm of Sandrock's hand and Plumeria became the last to release her Gengar, who floated behind her and Guzma.
Gladion climbed on top of Silvally while Hau did the same on Noivern, who hopped from Heavyarms' pinky to its extended index finger. Gengar simply gathered Plumeria and Guzma in her arms.
Necrozma, meanwhile, in its new fused form, let out yet another alien/mechanical roar, which admittedly sent chills down the group's spines-but they refused to let their wills and nerves be shaken. They're going to save Duo and Lunala no matter what. And, if possible, they could save Necrozma from the fate of being fused with Heero as well.
*~2nd Super Robot Wars OG - S~*
Swallowing once more, Remilia braced herself. "Let's go!"
Noivern became the first to take flight off of Heavyarms' hand, with Gengar carrying Guzma and Plumeria to the rock platform Phyco and Soliera were standing on, along with their Ultra Beast Pokèmon. Both of them dropped their respective Trainers off quickly, while Gengar remained behind and Guzma sent out his ace, Golisopod. Noivern swiftly flew towards Wing Gundam Zero, where Remilia was standing on one of hits hands, and Remilia jumped onto its back as Pucker and Silvally took flight from Wing Zero and Gundam Heavyarms.
As they started to fly towards Necrozma, Necrozma produced two laser scythes similar to the one Gundam Deathscythe Hell had, except that they're black instead of gray and the laser blades an indigo color instead of bright green. Just as it was about to charge at the three after letting out a roar, the Gundam pilots took this cue and started firing their vulcan cannons at it, careful not to accidentally hit Pucker, Noivern and Silvally.
Remilia commanded Noivern to use Iron Tail and Pucker Brick Break while Gladion commands Silvally to use Crush Claw. All three of those moves targeted Deathscythe Hell's cockpit hatch at once, though it only left a big pale scratch on the new glossy black-violet armor. Deciding that it's better than nothing, both Pokèmon Trainers decided to try again with the same attacks in hopes of trying to break the glossy finish-except that with Pucker, instead of Remilia commanding him to use Brick Break again, she ordered him to use Beak Blast to give both Noivern and Silvally more leverage in breaking the cockpit hatch open.
Pucker, Noivern and Silvally immediately moved away as soon as Necrozma moved before they could initiate the attack, however, presumably to attack. Necrozma howls as it prepared its two scythes and charged at the rest of the Gundams, Wing Gundam Zero in particular.
Unfortunately for Necrozma, Heero foresaw this and ceased firing the clavicle machine guns and Wing Zero took out its green beam saber in order to defend itself. Necrozma attempted to slash at Wing Zero with one of its scythes, but the angel-winged Gundam dodged the attack and tried to go for the offensive. However, Necrozma was able to defend itself from Wing Zero's beam sword with its two scythes, the physical contact creating electric streaks in all directions.
A gold and red stag suddenly appeared and struck at Necrozma, which let out a yelp upon contact and made Wing Zero move a distance away from it. Altron Gundam sped towards ti and attacked it some more with its two gold stags.
"Wufei…?" Heero asked curiously.
"I guess I was almost too late," Wufei said as soon as his image appeared on the side monitor. "If those scythes came into contact with you…"
"Thanks, Wufei. I appreciate it."
"Don't worry yourself over it, Heero." Wufei then proceeded to direct the gold stags to each of Deathscythe's arms in an effort to drag it back towards Remilia, Gladion and their Pokèmon and also away from Wing Gundam Zero and Heero.
However, this only worked to enrage Necrozma even further as it tried to wriggle free of Altron Gundam's grip.
"Wufei, bring it here!" Remilia shouted at him.
Wufei swung Altron's stag claws and released Necrozma, then Altron released another barrage of vulcan beams in order to distract it so that Remilia and Gladion could move in for the attack. Noivern with Iron Tail, Silvally with Crush Claw, and Pucker with Beak Blast. With these attacked combined, the glossy finish started to chip away.
Necrozma started to move again to attack any one of the Gundams, but Gladion and Pucker was able to catch up and repeated the use of their Crush Claw and Beak Blast at the cockpit hatch.
After a few more attempts, the glossy armor was successfully chipped away leaving the original gray-colored hatch exposed, give or take a couple dents. Actually, a couple dents on the cockpit hatch is signified as a good thing; they were getting closer to opening it by force, and soon, Duo will be rescued.
Suddenly, Necrozma suddenly jolted back and let out an alien scream, like it was hit by something and it felt the impact of it. Silvally and Noivern quickly moved out of the way to what had hit it. Deathscythe lost its hand and lower arm as well as part of its wings, the edges where it had been cut glowing a bright white.
Remilia very briefly felt sorry for Necrozma, even Lunala, but she pushed those feelings of guilt to the back of her head and had Noivern and Pucker use Iron Tail and Beak Blast at Deathscythe's cockpit hatch yet again with Silvally joining in with its usual Crush Claw.
The cockpit hatch looks more bent and dent the more the Flying-type Pokèmon assaulted it with their combined efforts as well as their masters'. Just when the hatch doors looked loose enough to be pried open, Remilia shouted at Gladion to do the deed with Silvally while commanding Pucker to do the same with his enormous monochrome beak.
Silvally used its insect-like claws to grab hold of the bent-and-dent cockpit hatch while Pucker did the same with his beak. Flapping both of their wings furiously, they started to pull at the hatch doors, the metal creaking and whining with every tug they make. The only times when they would let go was Necrozma moving in to attack the Gundams, but they always grab hold again to pull more on the cockpit hatch, with Remilia following along with the two (only once did she have Noivern use Iron Tail to give them a little push).
As soon as one half of the topmost doors were pulled off, Silvally and Pucker went to work on pulling the rest of it away, maybe to the other side and retrieve Duo from within. Necrozma jerked once, causing Pucker to lose his grip on the hatch door, and with Silvally, inadvertently ripping the door away with its green insect claws.
Noivern flew Remilia to the now-open cockpit and she peered inside to see if Duo is okay. As soon as she did, she could almost feel her heart leap up to her throat.
Duo was half-naked, hair undone, completely covered in some sort of glossy black substance. He looked as if he was being absorbed-or held captive-by rougher black crystals extending to the middle of his hips and to his lower arms.
Necrozma suddenly jerked again, but Remilia was able to jump from Noivern to the edge of the exposed cockpit, caring very little if the black crystals jabbed at her skin as soon as her hands grabbed it. She was able to hoist herself up and onto the cockpit's floor. She swiftly zipped open her fanny pack and pulled out a Pokè Ball-called a Quick Ball from the yellow-and-blue circle patterns-and released an icy blue pangolin-like creature with icicle spikes and long claws, known as an Alolan Sandslash, whom Remilia nicknamed Emil.
"Remilia!" She heard Gladion shout her name. "How's Duo looking here?"
"We gotta free him from his cockpit, and maybe his state!" Remilia replied back. "Somehow…!"
Gladion was initially shocked at first at Duo's current crystallized state, but decided to help Remilia out anyway. He unzipped his front pocket and pulled out an Ultra Ball, releasing his Midnight Form Lycanroc. Remilia summoned Pucker back into his Pokè Ball awhile. Gladion commanded Lycanroc to use Shadow Claw continuously while Remilia commanded Emil to use his long claws to chip away as much as the surrounding black crystals as possible extract Duo out of his cockpit, and also try to peel away the black crystal film after.
Both Pokèmon went to work at chipping away at the black crystals, which is an easier job than Remilia had previously thought, as evidently seen with the shards being easily chipped away. Every time Necrozma would move, both Pokèmon would stop and grab hold of Duo's frozen arms while Remilia did the same with his head to keep them from losing their footing and falling out. The process would continue until Remilia manages to get his free arm out, then the other, and finally his hips. Both Lycanroc and Emil wasted no time in chipping away at the black crystals until some skin is revealed, and Noivern would come in and grab hold of Duo's shoulders in order to pull him out of the cockpit once Lycanroc and Emil were done. The more they dig and chip deep, the easier it was becoming for Noivern to physically pull Duo out of his imprisoned state.
Just as Duo was ready to be pulled out completely, Necrozma jerked away again. The movement was so sudden that Noivern lost hold of Duo-who was almost completely out of the crystallized cockpit-and Remilia, Lycanroc, and Emil lost their footing, causing them to fall out, and Duo along with them. Noivern dived down to rescue Duo and Remilia while Silvally-as Gladion had heard her yelp-did the same to Lycanroc and Emil.
Noivern was able to grab Remilia by her tank top and Duo his ankle and flew to the rocky platform where Guzma, Plumeria and Hau (with Golisopod, a new Pokèmon called Nidoqueen and Incineroar) were still battling against Phyco and Soliera (with Soliera's Pheromosa and another Ultra Beast, which is small and white and looking like paper which Remilia recognized as Kartana because of the information given to her by Looker and Anabel from the International Police), and landed them out of the firing zone. As Remilia had laid Duo down to the dirt ground, Noivern went back to join its Trainer in battling against Phyco and Soliera's Ultra Beast Pokèmon.
"Duo?" Remilia asked a little fearfully as she touched whatever part of his body was crystallized.
Gladion touched his skin, which he noted was a little paler than last time. "His skin's cold to the touch."
"We still need to get rid of that crystal layer that's coating him, though!"
"Before we do that, though, we need to let the others know that Duo's been extracted."
"Uh, r-right!"
Quatre grunted as he shoved Necrozma away from Wing Zero with his snake-patterned shield. "You guys able to get Duo out of there?" he asked them through the intercom.
"Yeah, we did," Remilia confirmed. "We're now working on getting rid of the crystal substance coating his skin and hair."
"All right, now that Duo's been extracted from Deathscythe Hell's cockpit," Wufei began stating his suggestion as he activated his double-ended beam trident. "Let's go and destroy this thing already!"
"Wait," Heero curbed Wufei's enthusiasm.
"Uh?" the Altron pilot looked at him dumbfoundedly. "What are you saying, Heero?"
"Let me handle this. The rest of you find a platform to land on."
"What the fuck are you saying, Heero!? This is our one chance, it-"
"Wufei," Quatre interrupted him. "I think we should leave this to Heero on this one. And besides, Necrozma should be weakened thanks to Heero's efforts in cutting its arm and part of its wings off. I believe he might be onto something."
Wufei growled but turned off his thermal trident. He directed Altron to the nearest rock platform with Sandrock and Heavyarms following.
"Hikari… now's our chance," Heero mentally called out to its name.
Hikari's glowing womanly form appeared before him. "I am there. I'll lend you my power, Heero…"
*~Two-Mix - Rhythm Emotion~*
Heero nodded in response, and slowly closed his eyes. He glowed an even brighter gold, and even harsher sparkles flowed throughout his body. Hikari snaked its hands to the controls where Heero's hands gripped and laid them there. With all of its psychic power, it was able to psychically override the built-in ZERO system, the visual representing a glowing blue orb with red rings surrounding it changing into a glowing rainbow dragon's eye complete with a slit pupil.
I can feel this energy… Heero thought with tranquility. Flowing through me… and into the Gundam…
Outside, Wing Gundam Zero became enveloped in a harsly glowing gold light and surrounded by sparkles, almost obscuring its form. The others-the Gundam pilots, the Pokèmon Trainers, and even Phyco and Soliera, from their strong aura readings they're getting on their visors-witnessed Wing Gundam being bathed in a beautiful, wondrous golden light.
"Wha… what's going on?" Quatre asked breathlessly.
Wing Zero brought its main wings to cloak its front. In this golden light, golden crystals began to sprout from its feet, legs, knees, arms, elbows, and even its head and V-fins. A new set of feathery wings began to grow in the form of a silhouette, as well as a feathery dragon tail.
The transformation done, Wing Zero spread its main wings outward, illusions of golden feathers scattering and then disappearing. The golden-white glow dissipated, revealing Wing Zero's almost brand new form: it has gained a new cream-gold color scheme, surrounded by a bright rainbow aura, with gold crystals placed on its limbs and appendages, especially the skirt armor. The feathery tail also has smaller gold crystals placed around it. The orb that normally glows green now glows rainbow, looking as if it was moving slightly.
Remilia stopped getting the black crystal coating off of Duo's unconscious body, some of which she and Gladion were able to get off with Emil, Silvally and Lycanroc's help, and stood up and slowly took a few paces away from them, as if in a trance. What is this…?
"Necrozma," Heero (now completely enveloped in a golden glow and sparkles and eyes becoming draconic and glowing a bright rainbow) and Hikari spoke in synchronized unison. "You have stolen the light of Alola and the Moone Pokèmon Lunala in order to gain back the strength you have had lost. If I am being honest, I would not fault you for that, nor would I fault you for becoming a savage beast from what the ancient Megalopians had done to you… to us.
"Now… as the Blinding One, the god of light that the ancient Megalopians worship me as such, I will perform my duty and bring all of Alola's light back… and and bring an end to your suffering. Though I do not imagine that you will go down without a fight."
Necrozma responded with a howl, its form becoming a little limp once done.
Hikari understood what that howl meant. This howl was a combination of anger, suffering and misery. "Very well then, Necrozma… let's finish this."
Wing Gundam Zero and Necrozma charged at each other, their beam weapons at the ready. Necrozma swung its lone beam scythe with its only remaining arm, but Wing Zero was able to block it with the green laser blade and knee it in the torso. Necrozma charged at it again, but Wing Zero slashed half of its face with its beam sword, the endoskeleton and a little bit of circuitry becoming exposed. Necrozma howled in intense pain at this action.
Meanwhile, the Gundam pilots and Pokèmon Trainers watched the battle unfold with both awestruck and surprised expressions on their faces; Phyco and Soliera especially.
"That boy…" Soliera began to say. "Did he just unleash Necrozma's light on his own free will?"
Before her superior can answer, a Sludge Bomb went off, attacking both of their current Ultra Beast Pokèmon. Both of them turned sharply at Guzma's Golisopod, Plumeria's Nidoqueen and Hau's Incineroar.
"Your guard's down!" Plumeria shouted at them. "Your other threat is us, remember?"
Soliera growled at her. "Pheromosa, Lunge!"
"Leaf Blade, Kartana!" Phyco shouted at his Pokèmon.
Both the Ultra Beast Pokèmon did as their masters commanded them to, but they were stopped by Golisopod and Incineroar. The Hard Scale and Heel Pokèmon each attacked with Liquidation and Throat Chop, doing some heavy damage to Pheromosa and Kartana both.
"Your Naganadel and Xurkitree put up more of a fun fight than these low-brow beasts!" Guzma exclaimed.
Soliera growled again, and she and Phyco commanded their Ultra Beast Pokèmon to attack again, with Hau, Guzma and Plumeria doing the same to their respective current Pokèmon.
"Remilia!" Gladion called out to his friend meanwhile. "Help me get rid of the stuff on Duo, will you?!"
Remilia turned to Gladion as soon as he called her name. The entire time prior, she watched the battle between Wing Gundam Zero and Necrozma, with her internally musing on how amazing Wing Zero looked in this new form. It also looked like Wing Zero was gaining the upper hand. Maybe Necrozma's light is also a Psychic-type? "Huh? Oh, okay."
She jogged back to Gladion, Lycanroc, Silvally and Emil, who was still working on chipping away the black crystal layering from Duo's naked body. Thankfully, they were almost done, so they should have no problem finishing this in no time, hopefully to coincide with Necrozma's defeat at Wing Zero's hands.
Meanwhile, up in the air, Necrozma cried out as it was held back by one of Wing Zero's knees. Necrozma was already weakened beforehand, and weakened even more when it wasn't able to get its human victim's life force, despite the fact that it absorbed Lunala in an effort to get a power boost. Unfortunately, for it, Necrozma taking over the human's Gundam did absolutely nothing to give it the upper hand in the end.
"Remilia!" Heero called out to the Pokèmon Trainer, his voice still overlapping with Hikari's. "Necrozma's now weakened! Try using your Z-Move on it!"
Remilia heard Heero's (and maybe Hikari's?) voice and paced away from her group. "Would Nebby be saved if I do this?"
"There's no time to be hesitant, Remilia!" she heard Plumeria shout at her as the latter ran close to the edge of the rock platform her group was doing battle on with Phyco and Soliera.
Remilia looked at her, confused.
"We can use the Ghost-type Z-move together!" Plumeria suggested as she held up her black Z-Ring with the Ghostium Z embedded on it. "We'd most likely expel Necrozma's soul and possibly Lunala both if we do this!"
Desperately wanting it to be true, Remilia nodded, and replaced the Fairium Z with the Ghostium Z on her Z-Ring. After that task had been done, she released Isabelle from her Heal Ball and Plumeria released her Gengar from her Ultra Ball.
"Z-Power!" both females said in unison. They then made the motion similar to that of a ghost. "Never-Ending Nightmare!"
Intense violet waves of energy surrounded Gengar and Isabelle, fully cloaking themselves in the Ghost-type Z-Power their Trainers granted them. A black void erupted from them both and enveloped the now-weakened than before Necrozma, who was floating limply without its arm and wings. A violet splash also came from both of the Ghost-type Pokèmon, and violet arms and hands suddenly wrapped around Necrozma, a few of them locking "fingers" with each other until exploding in violet energy.
In the midst of this display of Ghost-type Z-Power, a white outline that looks like Necrozma surrounded by a black aura emerged from Gundam Deathscythe Hell, letting out an enraged roar.
Grateful for the opportunity given to him, Heero had Wing Gundam Zero reach behind its back where its sub-wings are and got out two halves of its twin buster rifle, and attached them together. The buster rifles are the only ones unaffected by Wing Zero's "transformation."
"Target acquired," Heero spoke, overlapping with Hikari's voice still. "Soul of Necrozma. Proceeding with elimination of the target."
Wing Zero pulled the trigger, and shoots a burst of light orange and red energy with a pulsating hum, heading straight to its target.
The energy hits Necrozma's soul, and the dragon-like entity let out an alien-reptilian scream as it became vaporized into nothingness along with a bright flash of white light by the twin buster rifle's shot. The task done, the light orange energy beams ceased, the bright flash along with them.
Everybody held their breath as both the light orange beams and flash of light disappeared. Gundam Deathscythe Hell returned to its original state, albeit damaged from during its dime being possessed by Necrozma. It simply floated in the space, as if unconscious, or even dead. But since Deathscythe Hell had been restored… where is Lunala?
That question had been answered when it was discovered that Lunala was holding itself up on the rock platform it happened to land on, panting from exhaustion from being possessed by Necrozma. Remilia called out its nickname, and Lunala turned its glassy starlight head towards the pink-haired Trainer. Gathering whatever strength it had left, it flapped its starry sky-like wings and flew towards her, but went limp once it had reached her.
Concerned, Remilia walked up to the Moone Pokèmon. "Are you all right, Nebby?"
Lunala responded to her by answering telepathically. Due to not having fully evolved for long, its use of telepathy still has a little "white noise." It nonetheless stated to her that it is all right, and needs to rest for a little bit.
Remilia sighed with relief. But then she turned her attention to Wing Zero. "So what happens next, now that Necrozma's soul is destroyed?"
"I must return the light it had stolen back to Alola," Hikari answered with Heero's lips.
"But, won't it- You know…?" Quatre asked.
"There is a risk of Heero passing out as myself, as I am not used to lending my power to anyone else, let alone him. Unfortunately, there is no other choice."
"Quatre," Remilia spoke to him. "It's best to let her do it."
The Sandrock pilot let out a resigned sigh, but decided not to object any further.
*~Final Fantasy IX - Zidane and Dagger Part~*
Wing Zero's rainbow dragon-eyed orb in its chest plate glowed gold, and it gathered its hands to it briefly. Then it spread its arms out, and its chest burst with golden rays of light, disappearing in what seems to be an Ultra Wormhole.
The golden rays of light spread from the dark void above the Altar of Light on Poni Island, then gathered again to form a large ball of light. The ball of light then burst, making the void disappear, and the bright overcast sky returned in place of it. Gold sparkles and golden glowing feathers slowly fluttered down to the surface like snow, disappearing on contact with the ground by bursting into sparkles.
One such feather floated away southward to the Seafolk Village, making a landing on the water's surface; not actually bursting and disappearing like the rest, but simply laying there, casting a bright glow onto a small area as the Alolan sun attempted to peek from behind the clouds.
As much as I don't do spoilers, yes, Lunala is an evolved Legendary Pokemon, same with Solgaleo. That's all I'm going to give you guys. The official names I would give for Gundam Deathscythe Hell and Wing Gundam Zero transformed like that would be Necro Gundam Ultra, and maybe Rainbow Wing Zero. They're both Necrozma-infected. Same with Duo up until four chapters ago. I got the idea from some fanartists on DeviantART making their own renditions of Necrozma infections of the box legendaries; I recommend looking them up, they're so super cool.