Before:

"You won't take her!" Rio says as he jumps forward but smoke billows from them and he is struck unconscious the last thing he hears is maniacal laughter as they grab zero and her screams can be heard as her pokeballs fall to the ground.


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After: Rio wakes up in the Pokemon center with a foggy head. He then looks around but doesn't see Zero. His memories rush back to him and he gasps. "Verity!" He yells to the air and Zero's Mother appears before him.

"Rio? Where's Zero?" She says worriedly.

"Some group known as Neo Eclipse, took her after our battle with Erica." Rio says with shock in his voice.

"Oh no, We have to help her. Neo Eclipse you said right?"

"Yep, are they part of the scientists in the future you told me about?"

"Yes, It's terrible, remember what happens next right?"

"She gets killed and that monster is released onto babalon correct?"

"Yeah that's right. We need to save her before that happens. If the monster is released onto babalon it'll destroy the cities core and cause the world to be flooded with water as the resulting explosion will cause a collapse and push all the water trapped in the inner earth to be pushed out. Babalon is such an ancient city that it cannot stand more than 50 minutes under attack."

"Very well, Verity. Let's head out," Rio says determined as his aura flares up and he starts searching for Zero with her familiar aura. He detects her aura deep underground.

"She's under us. Verity, can you use dig?" He asks verity and she shakes her head.

"Wait, Never mind. Rose can use a dig!" Rio says excitedly.

"Are those her pokemon?" Verity asks pointing to the pokeballs that are laid upon the desk.

"Yeah, Those are hers." he says releasing rose from the pokeballs and orders her to dig a tunnel large enough for them to travel through so they can reach an underground base down under the ground and it nods digging into the ground and going deep eventually it comes back out and gives a soft vee meaning that she was done and Rio jumps down while verity just teleports.

They fall down into an underground laboratory. Inside is hi-tech science equipment upon entry alarms go off in the facility. Neo Eclipse members appear and pull out Pokemon to fight with, they send out a blaziken and ampharos Respectively. They order them to strike with thunder and blaze kick and they do as they are told.

Rio sidesteps the blaze kick and grabs blaziken before using his force to toss it into the thunder attack. This knocks out Blaziken and he rushes towards the ampharos and uses bone rush dealing enough damage to knock it out as well. The members get scared and use their smokescreen abilities that their uniforms provide to retrieve their Pokemon and flee.

Loud alerts go off on the speakers, about intruders in the facility. Rio can see Zero through aura and heads in her direction but is stopped by Lyre once more as he challenges him once more.

"No no no, You're not going anywhere." Lyre says as he withdraws his blade again. Verity steps forth to challenge him however.

"Rio, go save Zero and the world. I'll take him on." She says as her fists light up with magical power.

"Alright" he says dashing past Lyre as Verity puts up a magical barrier he can't step past.

"Lyre.., how long has it been since we've been in this situation?" Verity says staring him down.

"Hmm about 5 years?" Lyre would say his blade swirling with magical power.

"Why don't we make it 5 more?" Verity says as she dashes at him and lyre does the same they clash as verity disarms his blade with a swift upward kick and then uses it as lyre uses his aura infused bones to clash against it.

"Just as fast as ever I see." Lyre says confidently.

"Same to you, but your strength isn't as it used to be is it." Verity says grinning as she breaks through the bone landing a direct hit to him and creating a slight gash in his arm as he grabs it and growls in pain.

"Damn you..!" He growls back as reinforcements appear, his allies standing by his side.

"So, you're not alone." Verity says looking at his reinforcements that had shown up to aid him.

"Of course not, it'd be suicide to face you alone." Lyre says. "In Fact you've fallen right into my brilliant trap." he says as the blade glows a bright red and Verity gasps as it blows up in her face and she uses "protect" being launched backward into a wall having sustained a large amount of damage from the recoil.

"Ugh that stung." Verity gasps for air as Lyre approaches her.

"Game Over" he says as he forms an incredibly sharp bone preparing to impale her.

"Actually, it's only the beginning." She says as he impales her and she poofs in a plume of smoke as Lyre is ambushed by the real her. She had used Decoy to trick him. Now he was in a prison of psychic and she looked at the others with a sharp red glare. Fear goes up their spines as they immediately retreat.

"That was exhausting but soon enough you'll be imprisoned again in Silver Gate prison, in maximum security." Verity says as she pants and sits down to recover.

Meanwhile with Rio

"Zero!" Rio says as he dashes towards her containment room. Barging into the room and stabbing each member who attempts to hold him off with a sharp bone or with his spikes on his fists. He was running really fast, reaching her room within moments. Suddenly a large blue ball is fired at him from an assailant who stepped in front of the door.

"Sapphire?!" Rio says shocked to see her after so long.

"That's Right Rio." She says with a glare as she pulls out a scepter that had electricity flowing around it.

"No! You have your Astani Weapon!" Rio says as his eyes go wide. "I… I can't win this."

"Ah, so you remember what I am capable of doing!" Sapphire says with a grin.

"Yes…" I might not be able to free you but her loyal pokemon can. Rio says as Rose had dashed past while Rio distracted sapphire.

"NO!" Sapphire says shocked as the door locks behind Rose. "YOU!" Sapphire says gripping Rio's neck with her psychic abilities. "V is going to KILL ME! For losing this chance!" Sapphire says with a red glare in her eyes. "Since I'm probably going to DIE, You're going to die first!" Sapphire says gripping his neck harder and choking him.

"Good, You can Rot in the fiery depths of Hell with me once you're dead too!" Rio says while choking. "I'd Rather go to the plane of non-existence than rot in hell with you!" Sapphire says before her breath is cut short as Verity had appeared and stabbed her right through her heart.

"Ugh…" She collapses on the ground, blood leaking from her wound as the astani weapon hits the ground and shatters seems it wasn't the real one.

"Thanks Verity." Rio says standing up and panting lightly as he slashes the door open and rushes in Seeing Zero strapped down a large machine above her about to extract the being. According to the future, It would fail to contain it and would expel it towards babylon. In hopes that they could cause it to fall into the ocean and melt the Ice caps below the ocean there.

Causing the world to flood.

"Free her!" Verity says to Rio as she stands behind the panel that controls the machine and turns off the charging extractor.

"Come on we're getting out of here Zero." Rio says as he slashes the metal straps keeping her strapped down to the metal table.

"Rio…" Zero says weakly as she reaches towards him.

"Shhh save your energy…" Rio says as he scoops her up into his arms to carry her.

"Verity! Teleport us out. This lab is about to explode!" Rio says as a self destruct sequence is initiated with only 20s to Escape Verity uses teleport on Rio, Zero, herself and her pokemon. They appear on the outskirts of the city as the timer underground reaches Zero and The whole facility explodes. The city above is also destroyed from the resulting explosion. Smoke rises from the demolished city.

Luckily, No one was killed but many were severely injured from the explosion. Emergency Vehicles from saffron then go towards celadon and pick up the injured rushing them towards the hospital there. Verity and Rio are offered a ride to the medical center in Saffron and they accept.

Zero is then hospitalized so she can recover.

Time passes as Zero is hospitalized

2 months later...