Prologue
Detonation
São Tomé and Príncipe, 11:05
The island of São Tomé and Príncipe was quiet, at 11:05 PM local time nearly every living being was asleep. That was aside from a group of men in a warehouse, a group of private security contractors and the man who hired them.
The man had blond hair and golden eyes, his long white lab coat covered a simple black uniform with purple outlines. The only thing that stood out about his appearance was a strange blue cowlick that went from the top of his head. His lab coat had gauntlets with touch screens to control whatever tech he wished.
"I must see to my work in the back room, check in with the outside patrols every 10 minutes, if anything happens activate the floodlights outside and barricade the doors, understood?" Colress asked.
"Copy that, squads 4, 5 and 5 commence outer patrol, squads 1, 2 and 3 with me" the commander ordered.
As the men began to patrol outside one of soldiers grabbed the commander by the shoulder and asked "are you sure this guy isn't a nut case?"
"What makes you think that?" The commander asked.
"His outfit alone gives me the impression of that, and having us armed to the teeth just to guard a warehouse on a tiny African island? Something's not right about this" his subordinate replied.
"Eh, so what if he's crazy, he paid us our usual fee in advance and promised us triple our usual rate after tonight" the commander reminded him.
"Payday is a payday I guess.." the mercenary admitted before walking off…
Outside of the warehouse, from within a small row of bushes, 6 soldiers in full body armor were waiting for their leader's go. They had night vision goggles and assault rifles. The patches on their shoulders had the letters M.R.I.A
"Sir, the patrols are rounding the building and finishing their third sweep" one soldier said, they had memorized the guard's patterns and were ready to engage.
"Spilt up, three years of you will engage from the east side of the building and the other three from the west" their leader ordered.
"Affirmative, Alpha and Bravo teams moving now" the soldier said as they split up to surround the building.
"You ready Connor?" Charlie Mason asked.
"I've been ready for 27 years, Colress has managed to evade us for long enough" Connor scoffed. While he and Jake usually left missions to the alpha level agents, this was a special mission that the director and Connor himself were overseeing.
Colress had escaped the Icarus dome and gone underground, stealing tech and DNA samples from around the multiverse. The M.R.I.A was formed to combat threats like him a mere 5 years ago, they had dealt with minor incidents but Colress had remained at large despite their best efforts. He was always one step ahead, predicting every move they made and was always in the shadows, using thugs or mercenaries for his dirty work. He hardly ever stayed anywhere for more than a month to avoid detection. Which is why this hideout was particularly concerning.
Whatever he was planning here was worth risking capture and execution. Connor had made it clear that if they couldn't apprehend him they would execute him on the spot. This world was completely void of Pokémon at all and no traces could be left of his presence.
"Alpha and bravo in position Director" the teams confirmed.
"Lethal force is authorized, weapons free" Charlie ordered.
With a hail of lead the teams opened fire, lighting up the night as they gunned down the mercenaries.
"Tangos down, moving to breach" the soldier's said as they began to stack up at the door, before they could plant the C4, Connor stopped him and said "their is a squad of mercy inside, they'll gun us down the second the door blows, let me open it, be ready to follow" Connor explained as he held out his hands and channeled his psychic power, with a thrust of his hand he blew the reinforced steel door in, crushing the mercenaries underneath it.
"As the team entered the warehouse Jake looked at Connor surprised and said "wow, your not pulling any punches today are you?"
"No, no I'm not" Connor said as the soldiers came to the door to the back room. However thanks to a psychic blocking field, Connor was unaware of the danger right behind the door. The soldiers opened it, but just as they entered Connor noticed the tripwire.
"No don't…." was all Connor could say before a soldier tripped the wire, unleashing a huge explosion, killing all of the soldiers and knocking Jake and Connor on their backs. The durability of Legendary Pokémon leaving them relatively unharmed from the blast.
"Shit, come on, he's gonna make a break for it!" Charlie yelled as the sound of a teleporter hit their ears.
As they arrived however they saw something unbelievable, Colress was on a raised platform with what looked like a metal obelisk and a teleporter shooting a beam into the sky.
"What have you done?" Connor asked as the device began to count down from 3 minutes
"I've won, that's what I've done, with the wormhole opened my DNA bomb will turn everyone in the multiverse into shifters, that includes the legendary DNA I saved from Giovanni's database" Colress said proudly.
Charlie shifted into a Raikou and tackled Colress, pinning him under his massive paw.
"Turn it OFF" Charlie threatened with bared fangs.
"I can't, I locked myself out of the system. As a shifter it won't affect me but there's no stopping this!" Colress explained.
"How do we contain it, TELL US NOW" Connor demeaned as the countdown read 2 minutes and 45 seconds.
"If you destroy the wormhole generator it will contain it here, but everyone the excess energy will change this world's inhabitants DNA completely and permanently" Colress confessed.
"NO, THIS CANNOT HAPPEN!" Connor yelled as Charlie shifted back and cuffed Colress. He desperately tried to pull the device off its base, the illusion around his arms dissipating from the effort he was giving, but even the physical strength of a psychic augmented Latios's arms couldn't budge the magnetic clamp.
Colress smiles and said "too bad, you're too late to save another world, I am interested to see what choice you make though. Will you choose the first solution and sacrifice this world or let it go off and allow every world to change for the better?"
At that moment, something in Connor snapped, all of the rage of the situation combined with the guilt of the entire world's population changed unwillingly on his mind broke the self control he had developed. For the first time in almost 80 years, Connor lost control of his actions.
With a bloodthirsty scream and a single motion of his clawed arm he relieved Colress of his head, his body falling to the floor limp.
Charlie's jaw dropped, he had never seen Connor kill someone in cold blood like that, he knew that Connor had to be incredibly distraught to lose it like he just did.
Connor took a deep breath and deactivated the wormhole generator, containment was the only option.
As the countdown reached 1 minute, Connor turned to Charlie and said "this isn't a good choice, but it is the right choice"
Jake nodded and opened a portal, there was nothing more that they could do.
Jake walked through, Connor took one last look at the device before entering the portal as well.
The device activated, the blast vaporizing everything in a 2 miles radius from the sheer power output. The blast caused two beams of energy to shoot in the north and south, then they formed a wall of energy that began to circle the globe at an obscene speed. It was over, Earth 161 would never be the same….
Author's Note-Welcome to 12 hours, a mostly new story. It takes place within the wider multiverse i've created but this chapter will likely be the only time Connor and his organization appear, I wanted to keep the focus on this Earth. Colress chose this island because like in real life, it's pretty much as close as you'll get to the centermost part the world, right on the equator and the zero latitude line. Leave a review if your excited to see what's next!