Chapter One
"Sui!"
"Rai!"
"Tei!"
The three legendary dogs tackled Mechavian, and the Aeroblast disappeared. Giovanni leaped in and swiped with his claws again, using his Slash attack.
"MECHAAAAAA!" the steel bird screeched, throwing the legendaries off it. Raikou managed to land on its feet about twenty feet away, a long slash along its side. Suicune slid on its back in the dirt, finally stopping and then it slowly stood up. Entei, unfortunately, had hit a tree and was instantly unconscious. Giovanni was lucky enough that he had been a Persian, otherwise he wouldn't have landed right and would have died for sure.
"ZAAAAAP!"
"ARRRRR!"
"MOLLLLLT!"
The three legendary birds fired their specialized attacks. Articuno's Icebeam froze the fire on Mechavian's left wing. Moltres' Flamethrower melted the steel ridges along Mechavian's tail. Zapdos' Thunder attack electrocuted Mechavian, paralyzing it.
Ho-oh screeched, and used a Sacred Fire attack. The Mechavian vanished into a cloud of smoke.
"GGGGGIIIIIAAAAAAAA!" Lugia yelled, and a bright blue beam lanced out of its eyes into the smoke. There was another metallic screech that let everyone know that the Psybeam had hit home.
Ash thought everything was under control. This was it. Mechavian was finally defeated.
Or was it?
Suddenly there was a flare of bright red and yellow fire, and it swept out across everything in a wave. The remaining two legendary dogs were knocked out by the force of it, and the main three legendary birds crashed to the ground. Ho-oh staggered, and screamed in pain.
Ash felt the raging inferno bite into him, burning away feathers and skin. He howled through his beak, a strange haunting sound. He instinctively surrounded himself by a cyclone of water. Lugia was doing the same.
Gary, who was the closest to the fireball, was tossed backwards by the force of the blast. He panicked and stopped levitating, but it didn't matter anyway. He slammed into a tree, and immediately everything went dark.
Misty and Jessie managed to surround themselves and many of the nearby spirits with a shield of some sort, protecting James as well. But many Battle Demons and Battle Angels alike were destroyed by the raging fireball that Mechavian was launching. So were most of the trainers in Brock's group.
"MMMMMEEEEEEEECCCCCCHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA!"
The steel bird, burning even brighter than before, streaked out of the smoke. Fully recovered from the supposively destructive blasts, it was assulting the Viridian Force again!
The fire stopped, and Ash dropped his water shield. As the tornado disappeared, he could see the destruction in a huge circle all around the area. The entire forest and part of the city had been demolished in the force of Mechavian's attack. Most of the trainers from Brock's group were dead, but no one could see where Brock had gone. He had either escaped the attack or had been completely annihilated.
Ash, this has to stop! Mewtwo yelled as he appeared next to him. That Mechavian creature is too powerful, even as strong as I!
A blackened Pidgeot stumbled up to the two legendaries. It looked up at Ash and coughed. Wow, Mechavian sure packs one heck of a punch, don't it? the Pidgeot said.
It was Tracey. Somehow, he had survived the attack with minor injuries. Minor being relative, of course. As they looked around, all the survivors were glad that they hadn't been unluckier than they were.
Ash looked at Mechavian, which was staring back at him. Suddenly he felt a click in his mind, and voluntarily switched to human form. But before he could even *think* about moving, he focused on something else and made another "wish."
Mechavian about fainted, when it found itself face-to-face with another legendary bird. Ash grinned at him around his clamp-like beak and his wings flared.
"MECHAVIAN!" Ash screeched.
Chapter Two
'Anything I've seen long enough...' Ash thought. 'I can become whatever Pokémon I've seen before, as long as I hear that mental click...'
*FLASH!
I stood on the top of the hill, staring down into a pool of water. There was a brightly-glowing blue doglike Pokémon standing on a small island. It turned and looked at me, and time seemed to stand still. There was a ticking sound in the back of my mind, and then time moved forward again. The creature bounded off into the woods, out of sight...
FLASH!
The fire dog Pokémon roared, the evil look in its eyes scaring me a little. Even though I was on the back of a Charizard, I felt unsecure.
Entei stared into my eyes, and the battle seemed to stop. A sound of roaring wind this time, and then time resumed and so did the battle...
FLASH!
Brock, Misty and I were running from a storm. The rain was already pouring, so we took shelter under a large rock.
I scanned the darkness, and saw the outline of a strange doglike creature watching me back. A bolt of lightning lit up behind it, casting the black shadow across the ground.
The trio is complete, a voice said, and there was the sound of booming thunder. I felt dizzy for a second, then forced it back. Nothing had happened, and the creature was gone anyway...
FLASH!
Riding on the back of Lugia, feeling the wind whip through my hair, I felt a strange sensation. As if once again, time had halted. I heard four clicks as the trio of birds flew slowly in front of me, and most of Lugia's head filled my vision. I was getting annoyed, this was the FOURTH time something like this had happened to me! But what if it was important somehow? What if...
FLASH!*
Ash looked at Mechavian. The memories had played in less than a second, but he had seen each in exact detail. Somehow, whenenver he had seen those Pokémon he had scanned their forms and taken them into himself. The power had been waiting, locked up until he had figured out how to use it.
The last memory, the one with Lugia. Had he scanned the forms of all four birds at once? How could he do that anyway?
Mechavian screeched to the remaining Battle Demons, in another order to attack!
'No time to wonder,' Ash reprimanded himself, then Tackled Mechavian. It sqwawked in surprise, going down hard on its back.
In a split second, Ash took in the status of the battle. Left on the Mechavian assult force there were about twenty Battle Demons and five dark Pokémon, and of course the steel bird itself. On the Viridian Force they had Mewtwo, the two Mew spirits, Myamoto, Misty, Jessie, James, Tracey, three more Battle Angels, Giovanni, Pikachu, and two legendary birds. Ho-oh was badly burned though, and so was Tracey. All of Brock's trainees had been killed, as well as many of the spirits. The legendary trios of dogs and birds had been knocked out, and so had Gary. Brock himself was nowhere to be seen.
Mechavian bit Ash's right wing, ignoring the flames. He screamed and thrashed, but Mechavian's clamp-like beak held on tight.
Ash's wings flared up, and the fire rammed right into Mechavian's face. Now it was the steel bird's turn to scream, but it wouldn't let go.
Ash! Lugia yelled, going into a dive towards Mechavian.
"Mewmew!" Gary's Mew yelled, streaking off into the woods towards its fallen master.
"MEW!" Myamoto's Mew shouted for it to stop, but it wouldn't.
EVERYONE GET BACK! a booming psychic voice shouted from the direction of where Gary's Mew had gone. IT'S ABOUT TO BE PALLET TOWN ALL OVER AGAIN!
Everyone on Ash's team instantly hit the dirt, and the legendary Pokémon surrounded themselves with their own elemental shields. Ash had just enough time to throw Mechavian off him and duck behind a rock when a huge white explosion came from what was left of the woods.
Mechavian screamed in the intense pain as the psychic explosion plowed into it. It could feel its steel feathers melting under the terrible heat, and its metal ridges caught fire!
It screamed again as another wave of white overtook it. All the Battle Demons dissolved into the blast of psychic power.
Misty and Jessie had quickly gathered the remaining spirits and humans, and were projecting a shield around them all. Lugia was trying to shield the legendary creatures, and Mewtwo was helping. Ash could only duck behind the huge rock and hope it wouldn't break.
Finally the white fire died, and everyone looked in shock and the lump of melted steel that had once been Mechavian.
Chapter Three
For a long moment, no one moved. Then Ash began to laugh. That set the two Mews off, and soon everyone was laughing.
We did it! Ash crowed. We *did it*!
A group of Gym Leaders, arriving too late, ran up. They looked mad that the battle was over already, meaning they wouldn't get the chance to fight the Rocket-engineered legendary.
Brock was with them. He looked like he'd been on the recieving end of a Flamethrower, but other than that he was fine.
Tracey, still a Pidgeot, switched back to human after a moment and immediately began to sketch everything he could remember. This only made the Mews laugh harder, which in turn made everyone else barely able to stand all the humor in the air.
"James!"
Jessie dropped into James' arms from the sky, and he caught her as she solidified into a living human being again. She had paid back the evil she had caused in Pallet Town, and had earned her life back. They hugged each other fiercely, which made Meowth's eyes water with tears of joy for his reunited companions. Myamoto smiled, then she and her Mew faded away into the Spirit World again.
An utterly exhausted Gary stepped out of the focus of the white blast, the last vestiges of psychic power rippling around him. His Mew abruptly stopped laughing and bolted for its master, becoming more and more real the entire time. When it reached Gary, it was all the way Mew and no longer a spirit. Gary smiled and stroked the Mew's soft fur, then set it on its favorite spot on his right shoulder.
Giovanni helped a Nurse Joy revive the legendary creatures, and before you could say "Venusaur" they were all disappeared. Every one except Lugia, Mewtwo, and Gary's Mew.
"Ash!" Misty yelled in her true voice as she landed on the ground about thirty feet away from him. Her coloring became brighter, her sword vanished and she was no longer transparent. She ran towards Ash, her feet flying across the ground almost exactly like when she had been a spirit.
Ash changed back to human just in time to catch the excited girl, and out of the blue she kissed him. He kissed her back, not even noticing that he was standing on his own.
Ash and Misty's kiss was interrupted by a rather loud cry of "Pikapi!" and suddenly Ash had an ecstatic yellow mouse on his right shoulder.
Well done, Lugia said. Ash looked up to see the silvery bird towering over him, smiling at the corners of its beak. We have defeated another evil in the world of Pokémon.
Mewtwo was looking a bit forlorn, out of place. He shot Ash an apologetic look, then Teleported away to his valley. Ash watched him go. 'Probably feeling nervous with all the humans around,' he figured. 'Oh well. He'll be back. I just know it.'
I must be going as well, Lugia said as he flapped his wings and took off. I hope to see you again, although I hope it will be under better circumstances than this meeting.
Ash laughed. "Me too. See ya later, Lugia!"
The group of trainers looked around at the complete destruction around them. Most of Viridian City was gone, and all of the forest had burned down. The only building left standing anywhere around was, ironically, Oak's new laboratory. Completely untouched.
That's when Ash noticed a small green fairy creature hovering above the lab roof. It was just dropping a shield of some sort from around Oak's lab. It looked up at the astonished trainer, winked, and disappeared.
"Come on, kiddo," Misty said, tugging on Ash's hat brim. "We've got some work to do."
A/N: Well, it's almost over! The epilogue will be up shortly, which will lead into the next story in the End Of The Line miniseries! I have absolutely no idea how long this saga will be, but the second book is already in the works. Please R&R, and stick around so you don't miss the conclusion to The End Of The Line book 1!
"Sui!"
"Rai!"
"Tei!"
The three legendary dogs tackled Mechavian, and the Aeroblast disappeared. Giovanni leaped in and swiped with his claws again, using his Slash attack.
"MECHAAAAAA!" the steel bird screeched, throwing the legendaries off it. Raikou managed to land on its feet about twenty feet away, a long slash along its side. Suicune slid on its back in the dirt, finally stopping and then it slowly stood up. Entei, unfortunately, had hit a tree and was instantly unconscious. Giovanni was lucky enough that he had been a Persian, otherwise he wouldn't have landed right and would have died for sure.
"ZAAAAAP!"
"ARRRRR!"
"MOLLLLLT!"
The three legendary birds fired their specialized attacks. Articuno's Icebeam froze the fire on Mechavian's left wing. Moltres' Flamethrower melted the steel ridges along Mechavian's tail. Zapdos' Thunder attack electrocuted Mechavian, paralyzing it.
Ho-oh screeched, and used a Sacred Fire attack. The Mechavian vanished into a cloud of smoke.
"GGGGGIIIIIAAAAAAAA!" Lugia yelled, and a bright blue beam lanced out of its eyes into the smoke. There was another metallic screech that let everyone know that the Psybeam had hit home.
Ash thought everything was under control. This was it. Mechavian was finally defeated.
Or was it?
Suddenly there was a flare of bright red and yellow fire, and it swept out across everything in a wave. The remaining two legendary dogs were knocked out by the force of it, and the main three legendary birds crashed to the ground. Ho-oh staggered, and screamed in pain.
Ash felt the raging inferno bite into him, burning away feathers and skin. He howled through his beak, a strange haunting sound. He instinctively surrounded himself by a cyclone of water. Lugia was doing the same.
Gary, who was the closest to the fireball, was tossed backwards by the force of the blast. He panicked and stopped levitating, but it didn't matter anyway. He slammed into a tree, and immediately everything went dark.
Misty and Jessie managed to surround themselves and many of the nearby spirits with a shield of some sort, protecting James as well. But many Battle Demons and Battle Angels alike were destroyed by the raging fireball that Mechavian was launching. So were most of the trainers in Brock's group.
"MMMMMEEEEEEEECCCCCCHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA!"
The steel bird, burning even brighter than before, streaked out of the smoke. Fully recovered from the supposively destructive blasts, it was assulting the Viridian Force again!
The fire stopped, and Ash dropped his water shield. As the tornado disappeared, he could see the destruction in a huge circle all around the area. The entire forest and part of the city had been demolished in the force of Mechavian's attack. Most of the trainers from Brock's group were dead, but no one could see where Brock had gone. He had either escaped the attack or had been completely annihilated.
Ash, this has to stop! Mewtwo yelled as he appeared next to him. That Mechavian creature is too powerful, even as strong as I!
A blackened Pidgeot stumbled up to the two legendaries. It looked up at Ash and coughed. Wow, Mechavian sure packs one heck of a punch, don't it? the Pidgeot said.
It was Tracey. Somehow, he had survived the attack with minor injuries. Minor being relative, of course. As they looked around, all the survivors were glad that they hadn't been unluckier than they were.
Ash looked at Mechavian, which was staring back at him. Suddenly he felt a click in his mind, and voluntarily switched to human form. But before he could even *think* about moving, he focused on something else and made another "wish."
Mechavian about fainted, when it found itself face-to-face with another legendary bird. Ash grinned at him around his clamp-like beak and his wings flared.
"MECHAVIAN!" Ash screeched.
Chapter Two
'Anything I've seen long enough...' Ash thought. 'I can become whatever Pokémon I've seen before, as long as I hear that mental click...'
*FLASH!
I stood on the top of the hill, staring down into a pool of water. There was a brightly-glowing blue doglike Pokémon standing on a small island. It turned and looked at me, and time seemed to stand still. There was a ticking sound in the back of my mind, and then time moved forward again. The creature bounded off into the woods, out of sight...
FLASH!
The fire dog Pokémon roared, the evil look in its eyes scaring me a little. Even though I was on the back of a Charizard, I felt unsecure.
Entei stared into my eyes, and the battle seemed to stop. A sound of roaring wind this time, and then time resumed and so did the battle...
FLASH!
Brock, Misty and I were running from a storm. The rain was already pouring, so we took shelter under a large rock.
I scanned the darkness, and saw the outline of a strange doglike creature watching me back. A bolt of lightning lit up behind it, casting the black shadow across the ground.
The trio is complete, a voice said, and there was the sound of booming thunder. I felt dizzy for a second, then forced it back. Nothing had happened, and the creature was gone anyway...
FLASH!
Riding on the back of Lugia, feeling the wind whip through my hair, I felt a strange sensation. As if once again, time had halted. I heard four clicks as the trio of birds flew slowly in front of me, and most of Lugia's head filled my vision. I was getting annoyed, this was the FOURTH time something like this had happened to me! But what if it was important somehow? What if...
FLASH!*
Ash looked at Mechavian. The memories had played in less than a second, but he had seen each in exact detail. Somehow, whenenver he had seen those Pokémon he had scanned their forms and taken them into himself. The power had been waiting, locked up until he had figured out how to use it.
The last memory, the one with Lugia. Had he scanned the forms of all four birds at once? How could he do that anyway?
Mechavian screeched to the remaining Battle Demons, in another order to attack!
'No time to wonder,' Ash reprimanded himself, then Tackled Mechavian. It sqwawked in surprise, going down hard on its back.
In a split second, Ash took in the status of the battle. Left on the Mechavian assult force there were about twenty Battle Demons and five dark Pokémon, and of course the steel bird itself. On the Viridian Force they had Mewtwo, the two Mew spirits, Myamoto, Misty, Jessie, James, Tracey, three more Battle Angels, Giovanni, Pikachu, and two legendary birds. Ho-oh was badly burned though, and so was Tracey. All of Brock's trainees had been killed, as well as many of the spirits. The legendary trios of dogs and birds had been knocked out, and so had Gary. Brock himself was nowhere to be seen.
Mechavian bit Ash's right wing, ignoring the flames. He screamed and thrashed, but Mechavian's clamp-like beak held on tight.
Ash's wings flared up, and the fire rammed right into Mechavian's face. Now it was the steel bird's turn to scream, but it wouldn't let go.
Ash! Lugia yelled, going into a dive towards Mechavian.
"Mewmew!" Gary's Mew yelled, streaking off into the woods towards its fallen master.
"MEW!" Myamoto's Mew shouted for it to stop, but it wouldn't.
EVERYONE GET BACK! a booming psychic voice shouted from the direction of where Gary's Mew had gone. IT'S ABOUT TO BE PALLET TOWN ALL OVER AGAIN!
Everyone on Ash's team instantly hit the dirt, and the legendary Pokémon surrounded themselves with their own elemental shields. Ash had just enough time to throw Mechavian off him and duck behind a rock when a huge white explosion came from what was left of the woods.
Mechavian screamed in the intense pain as the psychic explosion plowed into it. It could feel its steel feathers melting under the terrible heat, and its metal ridges caught fire!
It screamed again as another wave of white overtook it. All the Battle Demons dissolved into the blast of psychic power.
Misty and Jessie had quickly gathered the remaining spirits and humans, and were projecting a shield around them all. Lugia was trying to shield the legendary creatures, and Mewtwo was helping. Ash could only duck behind the huge rock and hope it wouldn't break.
Finally the white fire died, and everyone looked in shock and the lump of melted steel that had once been Mechavian.
Chapter Three
For a long moment, no one moved. Then Ash began to laugh. That set the two Mews off, and soon everyone was laughing.
We did it! Ash crowed. We *did it*!
A group of Gym Leaders, arriving too late, ran up. They looked mad that the battle was over already, meaning they wouldn't get the chance to fight the Rocket-engineered legendary.
Brock was with them. He looked like he'd been on the recieving end of a Flamethrower, but other than that he was fine.
Tracey, still a Pidgeot, switched back to human after a moment and immediately began to sketch everything he could remember. This only made the Mews laugh harder, which in turn made everyone else barely able to stand all the humor in the air.
"James!"
Jessie dropped into James' arms from the sky, and he caught her as she solidified into a living human being again. She had paid back the evil she had caused in Pallet Town, and had earned her life back. They hugged each other fiercely, which made Meowth's eyes water with tears of joy for his reunited companions. Myamoto smiled, then she and her Mew faded away into the Spirit World again.
An utterly exhausted Gary stepped out of the focus of the white blast, the last vestiges of psychic power rippling around him. His Mew abruptly stopped laughing and bolted for its master, becoming more and more real the entire time. When it reached Gary, it was all the way Mew and no longer a spirit. Gary smiled and stroked the Mew's soft fur, then set it on its favorite spot on his right shoulder.
Giovanni helped a Nurse Joy revive the legendary creatures, and before you could say "Venusaur" they were all disappeared. Every one except Lugia, Mewtwo, and Gary's Mew.
"Ash!" Misty yelled in her true voice as she landed on the ground about thirty feet away from him. Her coloring became brighter, her sword vanished and she was no longer transparent. She ran towards Ash, her feet flying across the ground almost exactly like when she had been a spirit.
Ash changed back to human just in time to catch the excited girl, and out of the blue she kissed him. He kissed her back, not even noticing that he was standing on his own.
Ash and Misty's kiss was interrupted by a rather loud cry of "Pikapi!" and suddenly Ash had an ecstatic yellow mouse on his right shoulder.
Well done, Lugia said. Ash looked up to see the silvery bird towering over him, smiling at the corners of its beak. We have defeated another evil in the world of Pokémon.
Mewtwo was looking a bit forlorn, out of place. He shot Ash an apologetic look, then Teleported away to his valley. Ash watched him go. 'Probably feeling nervous with all the humans around,' he figured. 'Oh well. He'll be back. I just know it.'
I must be going as well, Lugia said as he flapped his wings and took off. I hope to see you again, although I hope it will be under better circumstances than this meeting.
Ash laughed. "Me too. See ya later, Lugia!"
The group of trainers looked around at the complete destruction around them. Most of Viridian City was gone, and all of the forest had burned down. The only building left standing anywhere around was, ironically, Oak's new laboratory. Completely untouched.
That's when Ash noticed a small green fairy creature hovering above the lab roof. It was just dropping a shield of some sort from around Oak's lab. It looked up at the astonished trainer, winked, and disappeared.
"Come on, kiddo," Misty said, tugging on Ash's hat brim. "We've got some work to do."
A/N: Well, it's almost over! The epilogue will be up shortly, which will lead into the next story in the End Of The Line miniseries! I have absolutely no idea how long this saga will be, but the second book is already in the works. Please R&R, and stick around so you don't miss the conclusion to The End Of The Line book 1!
