Chapter 26: Ultra Beast Battle
"Break your neck! Stab your chest! Smash your skull!" Moon grunted. "How does he wish to die?" Mew floated up to him and patted him on the head.
"I don't think Cynthia will want Cyrus dead." Sarah said.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
"Aipom!" The monkey said, startling Sarah, she had forgotten that she even had the monkey in her hands.
"Oh right, Aipom." she said. "How are you feeling?"
"Pom Pom!"
"Moon...can we please…"
"My blood compels me. Manaphy needs to be rescued."
"It seems as if Moon is dead set on rescuing Manaphy...as it stands...I assume Mew serves as his connection to Manaphy as a messenger legendary for Arceus."
"I am indeed." Mew said. "Your friend is in great pain Sarah. Manaphy speaks to him constantly."
"What is Manaphy asking?" Sarah asked.
"She asks him for help. But she mainly has consumed Darkness speaking for her. She's begging him to cave himself."
"Why is that hurting him?"
"Manaphy is fighting." Shaymin said with a sad tone. "The dark ball uses some sort of negative energy to put her in pain to make her think evilly. That pain is carried over to her keeper."
"Help me…" Moon whispered.
"Moon...are you okay?"
Suddenly, four bursts of light came from Moon's hoodie pocket as Sapphire, Genji, Lancer, and Fabby all appeared in front of them and ran over to Moon.
"Nine?"
"Cario?"
"Grenin?"
"Bee?"
Sarah stood there, dumbfounded as her friend's four main Pokemon stood around him, Fabby's head brushed against his leg, Sapphire's paw and Genji's flipper on his shoulders, and Lancer just kinda buzzed around him.
"It seems as if Moon's Pokemon have connected with his heart after all that happened inside of Aether." Shaymin hummed. "If they've become really close, Moon could maybe command Pokemon without speaking."
"That's nice and all Grace." Sarah replied. "But how do I communicate with someone who is so dead set on killing someone?"
"Sarah?" Moon asked. "How's the Aipom?"
"Huh?" Sarah was taken aback by his sudden change. "Oh...the Aipom is fine now."
"Ai Ai Pom!"
"That's good, you can let it go or ask it to join you."
"Why don't you take it?" Sarah asked. "I mean...you did take it from Ruby and Echo."
"I'm not sure." Moon said, looking at the monkey in Sarah's arms.
"Oh come on, what's the worst that could happen."
"It could die…" Sarah felt herself facepalm in disappointment.
"Come on, if you're worried it can at least rest at Kukui's laboratory correct?"
"I...I guess." Moon took out a pokeball and put it to the Aipom's head. "You wanna come along?"
"Ai!" the purple monkey tapped its paw to the ball and entered the Pokeball.
"Well...I guess that's something." Moon said. "Unlike...Edelgard…"
"Moon...are you…" Moon looked down in disappointment as the pokeball disappeared.
"Sarah...what did I do wrong?" he asked.
"What?"
"I was asked by Manaphy to guard Edelgard...and I failed her as a whole. Now, Manaphy is held in Cyrus's grasp...and...His body suddenly did a full twitch before he suddenly collapsed onto the ground, startling Sarah and his Pokemon. Who quickly ran over to him.
"Moon?" Sarah nearly shrieked as she started to shake him. "Moon? Moon!"
"Nine...Nine Tales?" Fabby brushed her head against his head.
"Moon?" Sapphire barked. "Moon?"
Sarah looked around in distress as she shook Moon's body,
"Fluffy?" Grace asked.
"Manaphy is not doing very well...she's in distress and panicking as she struggles to stay in a conscious state for Moon...but the pain from the dark ball is apparently too much for them to handle." Mew replied.
"Why did Moon choose to name you Fluffy?" Sarah asked.
"I don't know...that's just what he started calling me. You two aren't Sapphire and Willow who make cute little references with everything."
"Well...what do I do?" Sarah asked, at this point, she was looking at her pokemon with tears starting to develop on her eyes. She looked down at Moon's body, which was still twitching as his Pokemon looked at her, each of them seemed confused. She noticed the ocean wave pendant was still flashing.
"Sarah...you can't remove the pendant."
"But...it's hurting Moon." Sarah sniffed. "Why can't I remove the pendant? Just let me remove the pendant."
"Removing the Pendant will cut contact and possibly harm him even further. When keepers remove their pendants, we as legendaries feel a sense of mistrust. Unless the Pendant was taken off by someone else...we can sense when they are taken off for bad intentions, but Manaphy needs Moon right now...to remove their contact may have her cave into whatever Cyrus needs her for."
Moon felt himself slowly walking through a dark abyss. The only light that he could see was whatever was directly in front of him. There was no helping hands here for him, all he could do was wander around in the darkness.
"My guardian...Kill! Kill!"
"Manaphy...Please...where are you?"
"In the dark...I'm scared...Kill! Kill! My guardian Kill! You don't need Sarah...just kill!"
"But Sarah's my friend...I need her."
"No you don't! Kill! Help…! Moon...Kill! Help! Kill Kill!"
Moon finally found Manaphy, she was strapped to the nothing with blue lightning sparking onto her body as her body shivered and spazzed uncontrollably.
"Help me!" Manaphy cried. "Do something!"
Moon knelt down towards the small Pokemon and wrapped his arms around it. "I'm right here Manaphy." he said calmly. "I'm coming...don't worry."
Suddenly he found himself inside of some weird glowing city. He appeared to be on top of a building, he saw Cyrus holding onto a dark ball with three pixie looking Pokemon varying in Blue, Yellow, and Pink with small variations in their aesthetics. They were standing in front of a large black prism Pokemon with massive arms and multi-colored eyes. The prism pokemon looked pretty pissed off with Cyrus standing in front of it.
"Necrozma!" Cyrus said, opening his arms out. "I come to you with a proposition, join me in helping rid the world of light! And you shall be rewarded generously."
Necrozma just stared blankly at Cyrus. "I don't take orders from idiots." a cold voice hissed. "Plus, I'm incapable of ridding the world of light without combining my power with others."
"We can arrange for that," Cyrus replied, as Dan and Lavender stood behind him.
"I still don't take orders from you...and if you think bringing an army of legendaries is going to allow you to even stand a chance against me...then you are certainly mistaken."
"If you insist on being a pain then prepare to be captured." Cyrus muttered. "Azelf, Mespirit, Uxie! Use shadow ball!"
The three lake guardians fired three purple spheres from their hands at the large black Pokemon. The blast snapped Moon back out, he blinked himself back into reality, seeing Sarah overtop of him with his Pokemon looking over him.
"I don't think that was the right idea." Fluffy sighed.
"Sarah...what happened?"
"You're angry...you're in pain over Manaphy." Sarah replied, nearly crying. "I'm sorry...but...in your state...you were all over the place…"
Moon looked down at his chest, to his horror he saw that the ocean wave pendant was no longer strung around his chest.
"Sarah...where…" He looked back up and saw her holding the pendant in her hand.
"I'm sorry…" she cried. "I know that it was wrong...I know that you needed to be there for Manaphy...but...you were so angry...so out of control...Moon...please...I'm sorry."
Moon looked at her, she was basically ready to cry at this point. He had lost contact to Manaphy and the pain had vanished. But...he still felt upset and angry...somewhere out there, Manaphy was in pain, and he was unable to be there for her.
"Mister Moon," Fluffy floated up to him. "Manaphy is still struggling. But...I talked the situation over with her...she's asking for you to not put your pendant back on."
"What...why? Did I mess something up?"
"Do not panic friend." Mew replied. "I've discussed it with Manaphy...Sarah begged me to...Manaphy has faith that you will rescue her. She doesn't wish to put you in any more pain."
"But I…Cryus he's…"
"Calm down Moon...Manaphy will be fine as long as you keep the Pendant around you."
"I...Edelgard…" he felt Sarah wrap her arms around him.
"Moon...I'm here for you...Edelgard's death wasn't your fault. You did a great job...it's not your fault...please...stop getting mad." she was cut off as Moon wrapped his hands around her.
"I'm good...I'm good." he whispered.
"Are...are you sure?" Sarah asked.
"Yeah...I just...I just needed someone to...I don't know...you think people are gonna hate this?"
"We have this discussion all the time...just follow your heart and plan."
"Well, anyway...what was on the agenda again?"
"I believe plan 5-b called for an Ultra Beast to attack Hapu at the ruins and…"
"Shit!"
Moon returned everyone except for Fabby and Fluffy and the two of them ran up to the ruins. They found Hapu and her Mudsdale alongside a Pokemon that looked eerily similar to Tapu Koko, except it was a bit more feminine and was a dark blue color.
Then, there was a giant red bug with bulging muscles. It was nearly 8 feet tall and it flexed in a different position as they approached them.
"What in tarnation is going on?" Hapu asked.
"That's an Ultra Beast...it's called Buzzwole." Moon said. "Lusamine was all over this stupid bug."
"That doesn't help." Hapu said. Buzzwole quickly dove down and punched Mudsdale across the ruins and into the side of the canyon.
"Dammit...Can you two help?" Hapu asked.
"Yeah, Fabby, use Fire Blast!"
"Go on Snowy, use Blizzard! Show your strength!"
Snowy burst out of his Pokeball and launched a large blizzard from out of his mouth. The giant red bug dodged the blast of both fire and ice before charging and punching Fabby across the canyon. The bug then grabbed Snowy and jumped up before slamming the ice dog against the ground.
"Flame Charge!"
Fabby got up and charged into the Buzzwole while her body became engulfed in flames. Buzzwole didn't even flinch as he grabbed the Silver Ninetales and supplexed her onto the ground.
"Fluffy, use Psychic."
"Um...did you not just see that thing supplex Fabby?"
"Am I suddenly not your trainer or friend because I'm not absolutely insane?"
"Fair enough." Fluffy's eyes flashed blue as Buzzwole was lifted into the air. All of a sudden Buzzwole summoned a few rocks and launched them at Fluffy, who teleported out of the line of fire.
Moon and Sarah ran to their respective pokemon, who, despite only taking a grand total of one hit apiece, they were still gravely injured.
"Alright...new plan." Sarah said nervously as she and Moon returned their pokemon. "Grace, show your strength. Use Air Slash!"
Shaymin hopped from Sarah's arms and launched a wave of light from her mouth Buzzwole dodged the attack before charging into Fluffy and knocking him across the canyon. Fluffy charged an aura sphere with his nubby hands and fired at Buzzwole, who swiftly dodged the attack and ran in with a quick punch.
Fluffy teleported out of the line of punch while Grace fired an energy ball attack to knock Buzzwole back as he charged at her. Fluffy then unleashed an ice punch to knock the giant beetle bug back.
Buzzwole took his hands and slammed Grace against the ground before grabbing Fluffy's tail and smashing him into the ground and knocking both legendaries out of the battle.
"Not even legendaries are enough." Moon said as they returned Fluffy and Grace.
"Lancer, cut through!"
The green Beedrill burst from his pokeball.
"Alright Lancer, with each battle, a chance to grow, Mega Evolve!" He tapped the keystone on his mega bracelet causing Lancer to transform, his drills transformed and grew bigger as his two small balck legs turned into drills and his two tiny wings grew into four separately cut wings.
"Poison Jab!"
Lancer's two drills turned purple as he charged at Buzzwole, who dodged out of the way and launched a pin missile, Lancer quickly dodged out of the way and fired his own Pin missile, Buzzwole braced himself as the needles blasted into him.
"It's still standing?" Moon asked in disbelief.
Buzzwole did a little flex before falling to the ground with a giant crash.
"It's...it's been defeated." Sarah breathed.
"Good." Moon replied.
Hapu rubbed her head as she got up and walked over to the two of them.
"You both sure are tough, afterall, you took out that Ultra Beast that not even Tapu Fini was even able to take on by herself.
The blue Tapu floated over to them and tilted her head with a smile. "Fini!"
"Seems that Tapu Fini here recognizes your strength ...if you took down that Buzzwole when I couldn't, I'd probably lose to the two of you in battle. Here, you both earned the Groundium Z."
"But we didn't even defeat you in battle."
"Yeah, but...Tapu Fini here told me that you two are ready…"
"Wait...does that mean that."
"Yessire." Hapu replied. "I'm the new Kahuna of Poni Island. She finally recognized my strength."
"Congratulations then Hapu." Sarah replied. "I'm certain that your grandfather would be proud."
"Well Kahuna's don't have to follow through the family tree, that's just a recommendation."
"Fini."
"Well, since I'm the new Kahuna, you have my permission to head to Exeggutor Island, just a word of warning, the Pokemon can get really rowdy there sometimes."
"Alright, let's go."
"This island freaking sucks!" Moon grunted.
"Why do all of these stupid exeggutors keep attacking us!"
"Decid!" Jade sighed.
"Kiss."
"Jade and Lucky evolved with all the freaking Exeggutors out here." Angel sighed.
"You could argue that Jade was probably one level away." Sapphire said.
"Also, how in god's name is Alolan Exeggutor a dragon type?"
"This place is weird." Moon groaned. "There's only a bunch of freaking eggs out here."
"Kanga?" Lyn asked.
The two of them arrived at the top of a hill where they found a wooden altar with a flute, it had a large circle on the top with a yellow crescent Moon.
The two Cosmoems suddenly burst from their pokeballs and floated over to the Moon Flute.
"Well, it's only fitting that you take it right?" Sarah asked. "I mean...it's the flute of the Moon."
"I guess." Moon said, taking the flute from the altar.
BOOM!
A loud crack of lightning suddenly snapped as rain started to pour from on top of them.
"I saw a cave on the way up here, let's take cover under there and spend the night there, then we can make our way to the altar in the middle of the valley we were at earlier."
"Yeah, we can do that."
The two of them reached the cave and laid out their sleeping bags before laying under the covers.
"Let's get a good rest."
That's all for today's chapter, but, back to true fashion, I have an Omake featuring some characters we all know. Enjoy!
Omake number 9; Two Moons Collide. Moon meets his...interesting...incarnation from another series.
Note: For clarification sakes, Moon A will be Bound By Earth and Moon B will be A Galactic Alolan Journey.
So then I told the guy screw you I don't do crap because I need to It's like a weird sanctuary garden stuff that I just never fully really understood you know like the plot of Sonic 06 which was bad as get up you have many things that just irritate the crap out of me an- he was cut off as blue bladed sword sliced through his body, killing him instantly
"Jeez, what the hell I was I thinking writing that story?" Moon A muttered, putting his sword away. "Plot was stupid and hard to follow, I didn't write and format properly, worst of all I didn't even use quotation marks to identify who was freaking talking. Look at this shit, it even carried over to this stupid Omake."
"I beg your pardon?" Moon B asked.
"Differences here and there, at least in my first story, it wasn't dark as it would be if you were buried alive."
"Your humor doesn't sound very happy go lucky...anyway, you're me, how's life going?"
"Not very good, it's like when the world decides for me to do something, some more bullshit happens and it throws me into another story. One minute I'm a loser with no friends, then I'm a hero to save the world, then I'm failing to save the world. All of a sudden I end up with the Super Smash Brothers where every character that isn't a favorite or semi-favorite of mine is a stupid asshole idiot who doesn't know how to run a proper government despite being shown to be remarkably intelligent. Then all of a sudden, I'm thrust into a world full of anime characters with multiple different weapons and magic and more bullshit rules that I've gotta follow, only somehow the government and political system there is somehow 10 times more freaking worse than the shit I was dealing with in the world of Smash. And then somehow the whole current Trilogy is supposed to overlap and shit but I can't seem to decide on what I want to continue and what'll just go to shit. You know what I mean?"
"You sound a lot like the Angry Video Game Nerd right about now." Moon B replied. "I wish the world of Pokémon got as much attention and detail as whatever you've got going on did."
"Well...wait a minute...what was the point of this Omake then?" Moon A asked.
"I'm not exactly sure...I think according to your train of thought, you just needed to take a minute to let loose on how insane your stories have gotten."
Both boys stood in silence for a moment.
"So...uh...what now?" Moon B asked.
"I'm...not exactly sure..."
"Well...you're the one who started this."
"Yeah...I did...um...dammit, it's so much easier when I've got other characters here and it's not just myself."
"Then what are you doing? Stop writing this Omake."
"You need to stop reading it."
"What sense does that even make? I'm only reading because you keep stupidly writing!"
"Nobody ever told you to keep reading onward, that's your own stupid fault."
"I will continue to read if there's still text there dammit!"
"MOON!" Both boys flinched as they turned to face two Sarah's, one in a purple dress with a blue ribbon in her hair, the other wearing a green dress with no ribbon.
"You're going to give our readers a freaking headache." Sarah A said.
"That's their own fault, I never required them to read these Omakes." Moon A replied.
"You don't subject the Trilogy readers to this bullshit, don't do it to these poor people." Sarah B said.
"Can we just stop arguing and end this stupid omake before Sapphire and Willow just randomly show up and-"
"Were you talking about us?" Sapphire asked as he and Willow just walked in from out of nowhere.
"HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN STANDING HERE?" Moon B shouted.
"Alright that does it, I'm stopping this Omake right now!" Moon A said.
"Thank god!" Everyone said in unison.
"But not before I ask you all how's it going?"
"DAMN YOU MOON!"
Hehe, I swear this was all done for laughs. I just got the idea of Moon always breaking the fourth wall in my Earthbound trilogy that's going on and decided to mess around here to make up for the lack of silly one off Omakes that we haven't had. I even snuck in a little Cameo from the Moon from my first story.
Anyway, I'm not really sure what I'm going to do for the next chapter, and sorry for no chapter last wee, so I'm not sure how this'll affect everything in the long run. Anyway, thanks for reading, leave a review if you want, also P.S. I know that Fluffy is a stupid name for Mew, I can't really explain where it came from so just deal with it.
PKMN Teams:
Moon Wolfe:
Fabby - Ninetales
Sapphire - Lucario
Jade - Decidueye
Sammy - Furret
Genji - Greninja
Silver - Weavile
Lancer - Beedrill
Gojira - Tyranitar
Sparky - Jolteon
Pandora - Absol
Fluffy - Mew
Nebby - Cosmoem
Joker - Aipom
Sarah Jones See you all next time.
Angel - Gardevior
Snowy - Glaceon
Scar - Incineroar
Candy - Corsola
Bellatrix - Mismagius
Flora - Lilligant
Delta - Dragalge
Lyn - Baby Kanga
Lucky - Togekiss
Techno - Porygon Z
Pikaboo - Mimikyu
Grace - Shaymin
Nebula - Cosmoem