37. Hammerlocke Stadium Raid


Hammerlocke City: Hammerlocke Stadium

In the stadium, the heroes have arrived to the gate.

"Raihan? Raihan?! Raihan!" Leon contacts Raihan but, he isn't responding.

"Leon, what's wrong?" Ash asked.

"I tried to contact Raihan. Maybe he's in there but... he's not responding." Leon said.

But then, a black fog appeared above them and, within the fog was Lucifer.

"It's him, Lucifer!" Rook said.

"Greetings, heroes. I see you have made it this far, and you were kind enough to bring Zacian and Zamazenta here to me." Lucifer said.

"You gotta be kidding!" Goh said.

"We would never hand them over to someone like you!" Chloe said.

"Ha! If you think you can oppose me, then go ahead!" Lucifer said and he emits the fog on the stadium.

"Come, I'm waiting for you." Lucifer said, and the fog dissipated as the door opened.

"Is he really inviting us?" Kevin asked.

"Then, what are you waiting for? Let's go, everyone!" Ash said, and the heroes entered the stadium.

Inside the stadium, the heroes noticed the difference in the surroundings.

"Guys, why it looks so different?" Dawn asked.

"Yeah, as if we are in the castle." Julie said.

"I think Lucifer emitted fog on this stadium to make this place darker and more haunted." Ben said.

The heroes walked in the hall towards the staircase.

And then, Lucifer appeared on the top of the staircase.

"It's him again!" Ben said.

"Lucario, use Aura Sphere! Chespin, Pin Missile!" Ash and Clemont had Lucario and Chespin to unleash the attacks, but the attacks went through them, revealing that he was an illusion.

"That was an illusion!" Gwen said.

"Pathetic..." Lucifer said.

"Where are you hiding?!" Alain asked.

"I'm up in the Tower Summit." Lucifer said as he showed the map of the stadium, with a flashing green light indicating his location. "If you want to truly face me, then you must it through all the floors and all the obstacles that come with them."

"And then, the illusion disappeared into thin smoke.

"Be careful! He's clearly got traps waiting for us." Ben said.

"Yeah, but we have to face them anyway if we wanna stop Lucifer." Ash said, and the heroes proceeded to the second floor.

On the second floor, the heroes entered the hallway.

"What is this place?" Leon asked.

At the end of the hallway were giant three crystal blocks carved with symbols of omega, alpha and delta.

"Hey, what are those?" Ben asked.

"They are giant crystal blocks, carved with each Greek alphabet symbol on it. One is Omega, second is Alpha and last one is Delta." Gwen said.

"They remind me of Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza." Alain said.

And then, the fog with Lucifer reappeared.

"Your first obstacle is to face the fake weather trio..." Lucifer said, and he filled the crystal blocks with power.

The power caused some parts of the blocks to break apart and what was the left of the blocks were the statues of the Weather Trio of their respective crystals.

"The blocks... they look exactly like Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza!" Squishy said.

The statues came to life.

"Oh great! We have to face this kind of obstacle." Dawn said.

Ben transforms into Humongousaur to fight off the fake weather trio.

"Dragonite, use Hyper Beam!" Dragonite fires the orange beam from its mouth at fake Groudon but, it dodged.

Fake Groudon spits out lava ball at Dragonite but, Dragonite dodged the attack.

Fake Kyogre hits the ground with its fins, causing the wave to be summoned.

"Prinplup, use Ice Beam!" Prinplup breathes out the ice beam at the wave, freezing it.

"Congelar!" Gwen shoots the icy beam at the wave, increasing the power to freeze the wave.

Fake Rayquaza chases Goh and Kevin.

"Any ideas, Kevin?" Goh asked.

"I do have!" Kevin said.

Kevin ran in opposite direction and so did Goh, confusing fake Rayquaza.

"Hmmm... Perhaps I should give them more power." Lucifer said and emits the purple energy at the fake weather trio.

The fake weather trio combined into a giant mecha-like robot. The mecha has the body parts based on the fake Weather trio: fake Groudon became a torso of a mecha, fake Kyogre became the legs of a mecha and lastly, fake Rayquaza became arms of the mecha.

"No way!" Humongousaur said.

"The three crystal monsters combined into one robot?!" Clemont asked.

The mecha ran to attack the heroes, but, Humongousaur grabs its leg, only to be kicked off.

"Farfetch'd use Brutal Swing! Bisharp, X Scissor!" Ash and Alain had Galarian Farfetch'd and Bisharp to unleash the attacks at the mecha, but it crossed its arms to block the attack.

"Charizard, use Blast Burn!" Leon's Charizard pound its fist to the ground then sending a wave of energy into the earth which then moves underneath the mecha, causing it fall after the explosion occurred from the ground.

"Everyone, now!" The kids and Leon had their Pokemon to unleash the attacks but, failed as the mecha blocked the attacks successfully and delivers the shining beam at the heroes.

"That mecha's strong!" Gwen said.

Zacian and Zamazenta then stepped in.

"Zacian? Zamazenta?" Ash asked.

Zacian used Hyper Beam that it was so powerful enough that it cracked the mecha's crystalline body.

Zamazenta uses Metal Claw, scratching the mecha that shattered it into pieces.

"Oh yeah! Zacian and Zamazenta, you did!" Ash said.

Humongousaur switched back to Ben.

"Okay. Whatever that's up on the next floor, we can expect for it to be more dangerous than the fakes we defeated." Ben said, and the heroes proceeded to the next floor.

Meanwhile, Lucifer watched the heroes' progress.

"They have exceeded my expectations. I will see and enjoy how far they go..." Lucifer said.

To be continued...


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