AN: Side stories are a set of 5 short stories that happen before, during, or after the main story based around either the main characters or characters that were cut from the main story. Or just stories I made up for fun and not considered cannon to the main story. Enjoy!

Side Story 01/05 – Training Doom

Team Doom HQ – Training Grounds

In the early morning of a new day in Team Doom's HQ stood one hundred and seven new recruits chosen to become soldier's for Shiny Latias' army in front of a platform all looking up at their new boss staring down at them ready to train them. One hundred human soldiers, and seven standing to the side together were Pokemon, Pokemon who were once human were members of the Team Doom Eight, a group of selected people connected with Team Annihilation in some way to become Pokemon with altered colors and different move sets than the original form all for their life energy and strength to be absorbed by the eighth member known as; Zack Raines so Shiny Latias when he was strong enough and to control him as a weapon to take over the region if not the world.

Normally, Shiny Latias would let another instructor watch over the new recruits as they were trained, but today was special. Today was the day her special team; members of the Team Doom Eight were all together for their first training session to test out each of their abilities preparing them for their fate; to face Zack Raines and be killed by him making him stronger. It wasn't training for her new one hundred soldiers; it was for members of the Team Doom Eight to test their new abilities against them. "Welcome all to Team Doom HQ to be trained to become members of my army." She announced with a rare bright smile that showed delight instead of her usual vicious smile that showed often malice. She knew her new soldiers would take time to become stronger, faster, to gain as much power as they could, all for Zack to absorb, with her plan underway, she smiled knowingly that soon all of Unova would be under her control.

"Today on this day you will all begin your path to become proud members of my growing army, all strong, all fast, all ready for your foes showing no fear neither refusal to give in despite the odds. You are all but weak children starting anew in this world, but in time you will become stronger, proud soldiers of our growing family that is Team Doom." Her smile grew as she turned to her Team Doom Eight all standing together watching her speech bored out of their minds, none wanting to be there. Some with bodies still aching badly after their transformation from human to Pokemon, some not wanting to train with other members, and a small few wanting to train in isolation in their own way on becoming strong.

Seven members all with unique abilities; Cornelius a purple Rayquaza with the ability to cause their foes to let their emotions affect them during battle, mostly sadness, Nathaniel a red Pidgeot who can survive in extreme temperatures and create enormous flames. Ren a gray Dewott with the ability to sense all danger within the area only if he were outside and not indoors, Rose a green Ninetales that can poison her foes and force them to fight until they are either defeated or they defeat her, Jessica a white Mew with the ability to create a nightmare world for her victims, a nightmare world that can force said victim to commit suicide after what they see, things that can either upset them or frighten living in a world they do not want, Martha a black Charizard that can easily freeze any foe of any type regardless of type efficacy, and then there is Harry a yellow Regirock who can easily inflict paralysis on all foes he battles. These abilities still new and fresh all had to be controlled by the user, as well as to get stronger with their moves and learn new ones for future battles.

The seven were assigned to ten soldier's each to train on while the remaining thirty were sat in the corner under guard, watching and waiting for one of the ten soldiers of any team to become useless in the training session, a session neither one were looking forward to. It was a long wait, but they did it anyway without running away or fighting back, Shiny Latias saw to it that none of them refused to train, to fight back, or even protest. She didn't care if they didn't want to be there or not, no matter what it took she had to train her soldiers.

Nathaniel was the first to use his ability; an uncontrollable wildfire at first burning seven out of the ten soldiers granted to him for training burnt to a crisp within seconds, but then steadily became somewhat controllable as time passed and the charred corpses piling up. It was an ability Shiny Latias at first had concerns about not wanting her new base to be burnt down before they could get started. But her concerns faded the more she watched their powers grow.

Cornelius became the second member to use his ability, watching the soldiers attack with all sobbing loudly at things that upset them or what they believed today was the worst day possible, a distraction that allowed Cornelius to slam them down one at a time with his gigantic tail using his new moves with glee.

Ren was tasked in using a pacific number of moves as fast as he could per minute on the ten soldiers. At first it was twenty moves per minute on whatever solider he felt like without missing, he completed the first one in one go with thirty seconds to spare. The next was thirty moves. Followed by forty moves, then fifty, and finally sixty all to test to see if he could go any faster to break his record; sixty moves within a minute with ten seconds left to spare.

Harry was fourth to learn his ability; an ability to paralyze all foes within range. Soldiers assigned to Harry attacked with all of their might, inflicting damage most would feel and be affected by, but not Harry. Harry was born without feeling in his body not knowing what touch felt like, or any kind of pain. So to him, the soldiers could throw all they liked at him while he stood there enduring something he could not feel, and learning of his enemies; they way they fought, their tactics used/ Harry after some time had passed would counter these moves and paralyze each one followed by a heavy attack a fist slammed down on the soldiers head cracking it upon impact. To them, they were fighting a giant boulder, to Harry, he was having fun.

Martha surprisingly learnt her ability fifth out of the seven members of Team Doom. She was a peaceful woman, a teacher who had loved her students whilst working at Team Annihilation's base before it was shut down for good. At first, Martha believed the armor the soldiers were wearing were suitable for whatever ability or moves she would use against them. Go all out and they would all be fine by the time training had ended. But her ability an ability which would freeze all and any types no matter the type had frozen solid. Three soldiers trapped within her freeze ability had shattered into millions of shards all on the floor when Martha used her moves to attack them to get used to her new moves, not realizing at first that the soldiers she had attacked once frozen were dead the moment her moves touched the ice surrounding them.

Rose's ability would poison anyone within area until either she was rendered unconscious or the victim(s) had fallen to the affects of poison, killing them, sometimes killing all of the soldiers she was assigned with most of the time. Rose focused on learning moves that'll affect her foes, status affects and moves to push her foes back should they get too close to attack her. her training like the others lasted for hours; she poisoning the soldiers and fighting them off mastering her moves as fast as possible not wanting to fail her boss, or to be seen by others as slow and useless to Team Doom. As the hours passed, Rose had always used her ability every time the soldiers got too close to her, all the time she tried over and over again; she could never find a way to shut off her ability, in battle or not, she could never get to close to anyone she wanted, not even her boyfriend Ren.

Jessica the white Mew was the last to use her ability and the only member within the training room not to have used the ability more than once, something which had angered Shiny Latias to the point she almost at top speed approached her and controlled her using her own ability to use Jessica's ability over and over again on the human soldiers until she was used to it. But Shiny Latias calmed herself down and told herself 'She is new to this, all I have to do is give her some time, but not too much time and she will catch up.' Throughout the day, Jessica could only muster one successful activation of her ability to the first ten soldiers she was granted to train on. The first time she used it against the ten soldiers, everyone including the other Pokemon members of Team Doom were drawn to Jessica as the horrifying shrieking and cries from the soldiers echoing loudly throughout the room had almost halted everything. The soldiers were experiencing visions, seeing and hearing things that were not there, things that would convince whoever were caught in Jessica's ability to commit suicide. Jessica was terrified at what she saw; horrified that she could do such things. She refused at first to take part in the training anymore. But she was ordered over and over again to continue using her ability otherwise she would receive punishment from Shiny Latias.

Throughout the day, Shiny Latias watched as her soldiers one-by-one all used their new abilities on the other soldiers, from the struggled usage of their abilities from a small few to getting the hang of things from most of them. She was happy, happy that her soldiers were growing, and soon they would become the soldiers she needed them to be.

"Congratulations on your first day, my soldiers. But today was only a small fraction on what you can all become. You will all train to become stronger than what you were at the start and your moves and abilities will become stronger, and the new world, the promised world will soon be ours." Shiny Latias gave one last smile at her soldiers before turning away from them, levitating away from the exhausted Pokemon, above the fallen human soldiers most dead while the rest either worn out or injured, Shiny Latias levitated out towards the exit of the training room with a pleased smile she whispered. "Tomorrow the training will become intense. I'll have to work them as hard as I can for them to be ready to face off against Zack Raines when it is time for him to become the final member of the Team Doom Eight. He will grow strong, he will kill the other members of the Team Doom Eight, absorb their power to become his own, and then I shall control him to be my slave, my personal weapon to destroy any army who stands in my way in order to take control of this region and reshape it in Juro's image… but the question is; how will I make him come after us?" She asked herself as she neared the doorway of the training room, glancing back over at her soldiers still resting on the floor. "I could get one of them to attack him… hmm, he probably won't come after us if it was just a random attack. Perhaps if one of his friends or family members were injured, then maybe he-" Suddenly her eyes widened at a thought "He killed my father… so maybe I shall kill his mother? Or maybe my sister should be the best one to kill. Choices, choices… whichever one shall I ever pick?" She chuckled as she left the training room, leaving behind her soldiers, and the human soldiers.

As for the remaining soldiers to survive the training session; should they be injured or not, the next day they would be included in another training session to be used to help train the Team Doom Eight to become stronger. Not all human soldiers went through this, only a select handful of the thousands Shiny Latias has at her disposal. The human soldiers weren't mercenaries, neither one were ex members of Team Annihilation, they were all random civilians she had captured throughout the region all to be used as her soldiers or to be used for training.

Trivia:

Shiny Latias wasn't the leader of Doom in the draft for 03 or even a member, She was more of a behind the scenes villain watching and waiting for Zack and Latias ready to strike when the time was right.