Ash and his friends were running through a corridor, jumping and ducking around giant red veined roots. They had to take a moment in an untouched room to max revive both Ash and Alain's Pokemon. Alain was therefor running along side them.
"I've got to get to Mairin!" Alain exclaimed.
"A friend of yours?!" Shauna asked, quite loudly since she was running in basically an obstacle course.
"Yeah?" He replied unresponsively.
"Then we can go find her!" Ash offered. "The more the merrier! Especially in something like this!"
"Wait for me! I don't have long legs like you all do!" Trevor called to them, having trouble jumping or climbing the roots.
"Oh give me a break." Serena rolled her eyes and went back to put him on her back. "You seriously need to drink your milk squirt."
"Is now really the time to be making fun of me?!" The short redhead talked back to her in an irritated way. Gasping from his response, the blonde tomboy took a second as she grinned with pride and looked forward.
"I guess not. Hold on Trev, this will get bumpy." Like the athlete she is, she displayed a good amount of dexterity as she effortlessly jumped over some of the roots again despite the living luggage on her back as she took the lead.
"She's quite strong." Alain remarked.
"Yeah, she's just cool that way." Ash chuckled. Making it out of the building, Serena placed Trevor down.
"Oh no, it's all over the place!" Monica uttered while trembling. The hex maniac dropped to her knees as she ran her hands through her thick purple hair with a stressed look. "My-my vision! I remember now! Lysandre did this! He's using Zygarde to cause all this destruction!"
"Wait, Squishy? Oh no, Squishy disappeared!" Shauna cried out in fear. Monica then pointed as her swirly eyes stared at Prism Tower.
"Zy-Zygarde." They looked at where she was pointing, and saw a red and black snake like thing on the top of Prism Tower.
"These vines must be coming from that. I'm sure of it." Alain said. Turning to Shauna, he asked, "Is Squishy a little green thing that has one eye?"
"Yes?" She wondered how he knew that, though he must've seen it poke out of her bag.
"Then there's a likely chance Squishy is heading for Prisim Tower to confront that thing."
"But it's so little and cute! I need to save Squishy!"
"Good thing I had these on me." Trevor said as he dug into his backpack and got out some colorful walkie talkies. "We've never really needed these but I brought these along from the beginning in case we needed to split up and know of the other's whereabouts and status."
"Good planning Trevor!" Ash laughed as he took one. "Monica, we'll need you to come with us since you don't have a full team of six. You three go find Squishy."
"Right!" All his friends nodded as the group split apart. Ash, Monica & Alain looking for Mairin while Serena, Shauna and Trevor look for Squishy. Soon after, the first group managed to spot her on a high ledge of the area.
"Mairin! Mairin!" Alain called to her.
"Alain!" The female responded with a relieved look.
"Mairin, we need to-" The male trainer would never get the chance to finish his sentence as a giant root sprouted up in between Mairin and the three trainers. "I'll save you! Charizard, use Dragon Claw!" Sending out his starter, the Kantonian fire type roared as he flew up and slashed at the root, clearing a way for the girl when two more sprouted up.
"Garchomp, use Dragon Claw as well!" Ash sent out his Mach Pokemon, whom slashed through both of the roots but three more took their place. "They're growing faster than we can cut them!"
"Ice Punch!" Faster than Garchomp had time to react, a Mega Weavile socked the pseudo-legendary right in the face with an ice covered claw, defeating the dragon/ground type due to its 4X weakness as he crashed into the ground. The three looked up to see it was Asnix again. "Now then, here we are finally."
"You again?!" Ash growled as he returned his Pokemon. "We don't have time for you!"
"Oh, but I have a new directive. Capturing you." Throwing a robotic orb down to their feet, Alain was able to run away fast enough before Ash and Monica were shocked, screaming as they were zapped into unconsciousness as they crumpled to the ground. Grunts came from the wood work metaphorically and put the two into cuffs and dragged them away. Alain looked away, for this was not what he imagined what would happen today. As for the others, they were about to run past a tv store when a black flame like insignia popped up.
"Your attention please." Lysandre's voice called out, stopping the three.
"Wait, that's Lysandre!" Trevor pointed out, so he and the two girls stopped to see said man appear on screen, whom was grinning evilly. "Hello, my precious Kalos region, along with the entire world. I am Malvine 'Lysandre' Scarlord, and I have a message. Lysandre Labs that is causing this destruction, and they will do my bidding. We are here to remake the world in my beautiful and peaceful image. Our purpose is to transform the world into an exquisite example of creation." The screens then switched to the black and red snake. "This is Zygarde. A legendary Pokemon who will preside over the new order of my world. As leaders of this new order, we decided to join forces with this guardian of creation. Zygard is angry at you all, humanity and Pokemon alike. The discipline of this world has been lost, out of control in its endless greed and insatiable wants, unwilling to share all the resources that we've been provided either by nature or our own hand. We lie, cheat and steal when we can't have something. In order to live in peace, we shall wipe the slate clean. Only those that are aligned with me will be spared. All the rest of you poor scum will be eradicated for the sake of those sharing my image. Lysandre Labs along with the fury of Zygarde will burn this world down, and from the ashes will a world that we desire be born from it."
"Ash." Serena mouthed, worried about what he's going through. Touching down somewhere else in an air craft, Alain stepped out of it, only to be met with a familiar face.
"Welcome Alain. It's been a while." The teen gasped.
"Professor Sycamore?!" Standing before him was the former professor whom was wearing a dark blue suit and regular gold rimmed blue tinted shades. His hair is slicked back and is now sporting a goatee like all some evil people have.
"Yes. How long has it been? And it's not Augustus or Sycamore now. It's Marecosyx now.
"What does this have to do with Zygarde. What does this have to do with Ash like this?!"
"Now now, there's no need to worry about that." Marecosyx chuckled. "He will give you all details you're asking for. Follow me." Walking in a direction, he led Alain to the top of Prism Tower, where Lysandre stood.
"Lysandre?"
"Ah, there you are Alain." The evil mastermind turned to his left. "It seems you've caught up with Marecosyx. Such a shame, being broken by his former friends leading on with a wild goose chase of his life's work for 25 years. Let's see them laughing now when this is all done. Look at it. Isn't it exquisite? Thanks to you, the system is complete. The world will be at peace, just as I have worked toward. Behold as this ugly world disappear thanks to Zygarde. It represents all our anger and rage."
"But you're hurting innocent people! How is that considered good?! You said you'd protect us!"
"Just because I said us, I didn't mean 'all' of us. Only those that appreciate high standards of living will live on in this new world order. The poor and middle class have no place for their hunger and greed are bottomless." It was then that a green and black dog appeared before Zygarde. "Oh, so you've arrived Z-1." The two Pokemon growled at each other, trying to communicate before both traded two Dragon Pulses, before Z-1 was blasted away and reverted back into Squishy as it fell down to the ground. "Well, that was pointless. Anyway, what do you think?"
"Lysandre, it's just as you said. You have to be strong to protect the world. Is this what you meant all along?"
"Well duh? I mean, look at me? Did you honestly think someone who looks and sounds like me could actually be benevolent? Only Ash and his group realized. Along with that, you speak about protecting. What do you want to protect most of all? Allow me to either bring it with me to my new world, or take it away so that you're no longer distracted. If it's a tomorrow worse than today, than you have nothing worth protecting." Alain growled, feeling betrayed. Marecosyx received word in a ear piece attached to his ear and grinned.
"All preparations are complete."
"Excellent." From a higher floor, Ash rose up his hands and feet trapped in floating orbs, along with his Pokemon. Reaching the base of Prisim Tower, the three teens tried to enter, but a Focus Blast pushed them all back as they yelled from the force, falling onto their backs. It was Exdiox and his Mega Alakazam.
"My apologies, but I can't allow you to step any further than this. Outsiders are not allowed."
Ash was waking up from his shock induced slumber, and realized that he was trapped.
"Huh? What's... happening? Where's Monica?" He tried to move with grunts of effort, but his limbs wouldn't budge. "Ev-everyone!" He cried out when he noticed his Pokemon.
"Hello Ash." The trainer looked down to see Lysandre.
"What's going on?! Let us go!"
"Pardon me for the rough treatment, but I knew you wouldn't go down quietly, and most likely beat my members with your top tier team, so this was necessary."
"Alain, what's-wait, is that you Professor Sycamore?"
"I'm not him anymore. Now it's Marecosyx. But rejoice Ash. I thought you were special, and I was right."
"You have been chosen to lead my people into a new world." Lysandre chuckled malevolently. It was then that Squishy started flying up again, gathering even more cores and became more than just a canine. This time, turning into the same snake that the red Zygarde was.
"Ah, now there's Z-1 Zygarde."
"Wait, so Squishy and Zygarde are the same thing?" Ash asked. The two halves of a legendary Pokemon leaped at each other, ready to clash.
A/N: Sorry for the long wait for an update. I was preoccupied with my Fixing story and I'm not hearing from my idea guy so I decided to come back.