Ch. 10: Mortal Combat
At the doors of his opponent's office, Ryo kicked them down! There stood Giovanni, pointing a gun at Ryo's left shoulder and fired once. Ryo winced in pain as he realized what was in that gun, "Armor-piercing incendiary rounds!" But he got up again; he acted to pretend to be in pain!
Ash stood from behind him and pounded him hard on the hip, Ryo shouted, "WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR, SON?" Ash answered, I'll end this war finally! And I'll do it by killing your strongest opponent yet for you!"
Giovanni said while turning around from him, "Defeat me? What a laugh. I know you very well, Ash Ketchum." As if it was no surprise to him at all, somehow he knew another Ash was there, behind him!
Giovanni closed his eyes and grinned to himself, "Hello, Ash." Another Ash appears in the background from above Giovanni's head. "You don't know remember me? Allow me to refresh your history. I am Giovanni Bosserge, head of the Team Rocket Empire, leader of the World Domination Regime, king of the world. Our families have some history, yours and mine."
Ryo gets up grunts out, "You've killed Valgris my own brother." Giovanni directed his grin at Ryo, "You two brought my mother to her own destruction. I had to make you suffer, but no, out of the twin brothers, you survived the poisoning almost 17 years ago today." Ash, the real Ash, stood forward to Giovanni and said, "That's why you're going to die."
Giovanni looked at Ash and asked, "Did you remember the last thing when you entered that Tunnel of Infinite Darkness? I, too, entered that tunnel, many times and now I have no heart, so I feel no joy, no sorrow, no fear, no love. I am now hallow, and I will live forever." Ash gives a hearty chuckle, "Now this will be an even match; since we are both bitten by the same Aura Beast."
Giovanni smirked, "Then let this be our mortal combat!" Giovanni's fingernails turned black and extended into razor-sharp claws, his eyes' pupils turned from small and round into vertical pupils like a cat, thin white fur erupted from his red business suit, his ears changed in position and shape, a ruby charm formed onto his forehead, and soon a brown tail was formed; poking from his rear end! Now Giovanni is a humanoid Persian!
Ash scoffed and said, "Yes, do lets." Ash's fingernails turned black and extended into razor-sharp claws, white hair began to sprout from his face, his teeth lengthened and sharpened into fangs, thick white fur erupted from his black battle outfit, his ears changed in position and shape (like that of InuYasha), a blood-colored comets streaked across his left cheek, and soon a long golden tail was formed; poking from his rear end! Now Giovanni is an unusual werewolf-like creature!
Giovanni roared out, "You do know what you're risking, don't you?" Ash growled, "If it's anything to try to kill you once and for all." Ash charged into Giovanni, but before Giovanni had a chance to block, Ash jumped above the block and dug his claws into the back Giovanni's neck!
At his last breath, Giovanni shouted, "Charm Beam!" A red beam of light charged from Giovanni's charm and went right through Ash's chest! Ash coughed out, "Destiny Bond." Giovanni felt worse as he changed back into a human; finally he died. Ash turned into an unharmed human dressed in nothing, save for his torn pants and underwear, crying on the ground.
Desert Rose
/ I dream of rain /
/ I dream of gardens in the desert sand /
/ I wake in vain /
/ I dream of love as time runs through my hand /
/ I dream of fire /
/ Those dreams that tie two hearts that will never die /
/ And near the flames /
/ The shadows play in the shape of the man's desire /
/ This desert rose /
/ Whose shadow bears the secret promise /
/ This desert flower /
/ No sweet perfume that would torture you more than this /
/ And now she turns /
/ This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams /
/ This fire burns /
/ I realize that nothing's, as it seems /
/ I dream of rain /
/ I dream of gardens in the desert sand /
/ I wake in vain /
/ I dream of love as time runs through my hand /
/ I dream of rain /
/ I lift my gaze to empty skies above /
/ I close my eyes /
/ The rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of love /
/ I dream of rain /
/ I dream of gardens in the desert sand /
/ I wake in vain /
/ I dream of love as time runs through my hand /
/ Sweet desert rose /
/ Whose shadow bears the secret promise /
/ This desert flower /
/ No sweet perfume that would torture you more than this /
/ Sweet desert rose /
/ This memory of hidden hearts and souls /
/ This desert flower /
/ This rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of love /
The Ash copies gathered around, one of them removed their facemasks to reveal her true identity; Duplica. She coyly said, "I guess he didn't fall for that." Ash continued to cry, Duplica asks, "Why the long face, Ashy-boy?"
Everywhere around the world, across the universe, Pokémon are losing their powers and are disintegrating into nothingness! Ash explains, "For releasing too much power and using it into killing one who got consumed by the darkness of the Tunnel of Infinite Darkness for too long and too much, I've risked the Pokémon across the universe and beyond!"
Nick & Maze looked at their Growlithe and Snowolf, because both Pokémon fell to the ground, dead. Maze cried out, "They're dead." Nick howled out a sad lone wolf in tears! Ash looked at everyone and apologized, "I'm sorry. I'm not the Ash Ketchum you once knew, I only wish I never had to risk it. But, I lost control."
My immortal
/ I'm so tired of being here /
/ Suppressed by all my childish fears /
/ And if you have to leave /
/ I wish that you would just leave /
/ 'Cause your presence still lingers here /
/ And it won't leave me alone /
/ These wounds won't seem to heal /
/ This pain is just too real /
/ There's just too much that time cannot erase /
/ When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears /
/ When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears /
/ I held your hand through all of these years /
/ But you still have /
/ All of me /
/ You used to captivate me /
/ By your resonating light /
/ Now I'm bound by the life you left behind /
/ Your face it haunts /
/ My once pleasant dreams /
/ Your voice it chased away /
/ All the sanity in me /
/ These wounds won't seem to heal /
/ This pain is just too real /
/ There's just too much that time cannot erase /
/ When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears /
/ When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears /
/ I held your hand through all of these years /
/ But you still have /
/ All of me /
/ I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone /
/ And though your still with me /
/ I've been alone all along /
/ When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears /
/ When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears /
/ I held your hand through all of these years /
/ But you still have /
/ All of me /
Hours past… during that time, people made grave markers for the fallen Pokémon. Ash finished making a shrine for his very first Pokémon; Pikachu. Even though the war is over, a great tragedy just followed. Ryo didn't want medical attention at all, he went to his son, "Ash, you should've let me kill Giovanni." Ash kept silent. "I've got a secret that I haven't told you as well; I'm also a victim of the Tunnel of Infinite Darkness. Auroros and I in there made a deal, for me to be immortal."
Ash said, "But you're not immortal." Ryo said, "All this unhappiness has just awakened a new Pokémon within me." Ash asked, "What?" Ryo tore open his gun wound and what crawled out of it is a slimy ball of bluish-grey smooth tentacles! It began to grow bigger and bigger! As Ash tried to pull on his father, his father weakly said, "No Pokémon is an ordinary creature, they were once powerful spirits that were looking for friends, and they were given physical bodies with unlimited possibilities. This is Rasputox." Then in his son's arms, he died.
Ash ran outside and into Misty, she noticed something, "Ash, your superhuman strength, it's gone." Ash said, "It's been gone since I've wasted all of my Infinite Darkness energy." As Misty saw Rasputox come crawling out, she asked, "What is that?" Ash answered, "A Pokémon called Rasputox, it kept my father alive after all these years so he could kill Giovanni himself."
Ash's Poké Cell chimed, "Information receiving on Rasputox, completed." Ash commanded it, "Dexter, give me complete information."
Dexter (his Pokédex has been transferred into a Poké Cell some time ago) explained the information on Rasputox, starting with the dragon-shaped rainbow-colored Pokémon that's pre-evolved from Rasputox. "Auroros, the aura dragon Pokémon of the dragon & dark variety. This Pokémon hides in dark tunnels, is capable for living for millennia, and reaches a gigantic size as it grows. It is usually nested in cold, dank, and dark environment to hatch instantly and breed. Its methods of strengthening, aside itself, lies many in its own aura. To all those who are strong-hearted, those exposed to its aura becomes incredibly more powerful."
Onto Rasputox, Dexter continued, "Rasputox, the tentacle Pokémon of the dark & poison variety. It is evolved from an unusual Pokémon called Auroros. Rasputox was currently unknown on Earth. However, ancient legends identify the species as a force of chaos and destruction. The legends say that is a behemoth sent by the Pokémon gods to test the strong. Its power surpasses even Mewtwo's. It can sense evil, neutral, and good by all different ways of feeling, smelling, tasting, hearing, and seeing. Capable of shrinking down to the size of a cell, it can infest itself into the body of a dead creature and turn it into an immortal super-creature for a promised purpose, if that purpose is fulfilled without the need of that creature, Rasputox will go crazy."
Ash then realizes what he has done to make this happen, "I've killed Giovanni, not my dad, at the cost of all the Pokémon in the world in ignoring them, I've caused them to go extinct, except for the Pokémon Gods and Rasputox! Forcing Rasputox out of my dad and going insane!"
Brock thought of something, "Ash, was this Auroros creature that creature in the Tunnel of Infinite Darkness?" Ash nervously nodded.
Misty cowered behind Ash, "What are we going to do?"
People went trigger-happy on Rasputox, but no bullet or blast was effective against him!
Nick shouted at the others, "Rasputox is an ancient Pokémon, shooting him won't work against him!" Gary asked, "What can we do? Thanks to Ash, all Pokémon but their gods are extinct!"
Guilt hits Ash worse than any bullet he has felt before.
Rasputox speaks to them all, "Pokémon will return, for they were originally spirits who needed friends. Then you humans granted them the power to transubstantiate and materialize into living creatures with powers beyond normal understanding, then the new times been reborn. You are nothing but descendants of space travelers from eons ago."
Ash sighs, "I wish that you're right. I wish Pikachu was still here." A faint voice replied, "Ash." Ash says, "That almost sounds like him." The faint voice said, "It is me, Ash buddy!"
Ash turned around and found a semi-transparent Pikachu floating before him! As Ash went to touch his first Pokémon's spirit form, he quickly materialized into existence again! Ash cried, "Pikachu!" Pikachu cried with him, "Pika-Pi!" ("Ash buddy!")
Everyone began to see all Pokémon reappear into existence! Rasputox roared into the air, "Rasputox!" ("Destroy me, destroy me now!") Meowth (who reappeared beside Jessie & James) asked, "Why should we destroy ya?" Mewtwo came along and telepathically asked, "Especially when you prove yourself as the strengthener of the strong-hearted such as this young man?" Rasputox growled, "If you won't attack, then I will destroy you all myself until I overexert myself! Tentacle Flurry!" Rasputox swung all of his tentacles around, continuously, hoping to hit someone until someone gets the guts to destroy him!
Nick said to the heavens, "Forgive me." He looked at his Growlithe (who returned to him) and shouted, "Poké-Form!" Growlithe growled and turned into a ball of red light that fits into his palm, and Nick shouted, "Power Control!" As he placed the ball of light into his hair-band sword… the ball of light remained and gained canine eyes and a mouth with canine teeth and ears! The light extended and merged his nick's whole right arm, which is wielding the hair-band sword weapon!
Nick attacked with fury, finally making scars upon Rasputox's hide. But moments later, each scratch was greeted with a regeneration effect. Everyone attacked all they've got against Rasputox, but it's not enough! Ash is left to take care of this.
Ash looked at Pikachu and shouted, "Poké-Form!" Pikachu growled and turned into a yellow ball of light that fits into Ash's palm, and Ash shouted, "DNA Unity!" As he placed the ball of light into his chest… his complexion turned a golden color, his eyes turned into the same form as a wolf's, his hair exploded into a thick dark-gold mane of hair (he's like Inu-Yasha now, only has a bit more of a Pikachu likeness).
Pikachu-Ash then looked at his Charizard, Feraligatr, Sceptile, Torkoal, & Swellow and shouted, ""Poké-Form!" The five selected growled and turned into five balls of colored lights that fit into his palm, and he shouted, "Power Control!" As he placed the balls of light onto his body… Torkoal has become a left arm shield gauntlet; Charizard became upper torso armor with shoulder pads; Feraligatr became the lower torso and leg armor; Sceptile became a sword weapon-equipped gauntlet; and Swellow turned into a large blue cape!
Pikachu-Ash said, "I'll try to save the day." Rasputox tried to slam some of its biggest tentacles into Ash's new form, but at an astonishing surprise, Pikachu-Ash vanished at the blink of an eye before he was hit and he reappeared at the other side of him.
Pikachu-Ash boldly shouted, "I want you… to join the fight!"
Misty knew what to do. Her brother, Marty, came along with her. May followed Gary into battle against Rasputox!
Nick shouted, "Focus on your bond with your Pokémon and your friendship together and you can perform any Fusenergy moves!"
Marty fused himself with his Kyogre and became a humanoid Kyogre with long angelic seaweed green hair in gleaming blue armor! Misty fused with her brother's Koropokkia perfectly, becoming a red-haired Koropokkia! May fused with her Beautifly, gained a beautiful pair of wings on her back, and morphed her battle clothes into a skimpy yellow bikini outfit! Gary became one with his Rhydon and turned into a powerful living battle tank on two feet! Other people did the same thing!
Every attack they unleashed on Rasputox was surprisingly effective, but not for long before he could pull himself together!
Jessie (who has her body combined with her Dustox and wielding a bullwhip formed from her Seviper and a shield formed from her Wobbuffet) snarled, "This Rasputox is simply the most powerful and rarest Pokémon in the world, if we were still Team Rocket, we could've gone after this one instead of Pikachu!" James (who has his body combined with his pet Growlithe, wearing a charm necklace formed from his Chimecho, and wielding a morning star formed from his Cacturne) landed beside his partner, "No kidding, he regenerates and recovers at high speed." Meowth (who gained a humanoid form (a rather handsome-looking humanoid being with cat ears and long flowing white & brown hair) from his friendship with Jessie and James) said, "Rasputox can't be invincible!"
Pikachu-Ash suggested, "Maybe there's something inside of him that's making him so feral!" Koropokkia-Misty floated beside him and said, "You're not thinking of going inside of Rasputox, aren't you?" Pikachu-Ash answered, "I have to. Before I go in that true Tunnel of Infinite Darkness, I'll always think of you, Misty. Because I love you."
Gary asks Ash, "Are you going to be... okay? Alone?" Ash scoffs, "How hard can it be?"
Pikachu-Ash stood before Rasputox and shouted, "Come and get me, Rasputox!"
Rasputox's body extended into a new form: a large, hairy worm. Only each of the stands of hair is really a tentacle. One of the tentacles grabbed onto Pikachu-Ash's body and pulled it towards its circular mouth lined with sharp triangular fangs!
Kyogre-Marty said, "This is going to hurt; even though Ash ain't me!"
So you wanna be a master of Pokémon?
Understand the secrets and have some fun
So you wanna be a master of Pokémon?
Do you have the skills to be number one?
(NUMBER ONE!)
(Let's do it!)
I wanna take the ultimate step, have the courage to be bold
(Pokémon)
To risk it all and I could get the lessons that I hold
I wanna go where no one's been
Far beyond the crowd
(Pokémon)
(Yeah!)
To learn the way to take command
And use the power that's in my hand!
We all live in a Pokémon World
(Pokémon World)
I wanna be the greatest master of them all
We all live in a Pokémon World
Put myself to the test and be better than all the rest
(Yeah, come on boy!)
Everyday along the way, I will be prepared
(I will be prepared)
For every challenge I will gain the knowledge to be dared
In my heart there's no doubt of who I wanna be
Right here standing strong
(Right now next to me)
I will be risking in my destiny
The greatest master of Pokémon!
We all live in a Pokémon World
(Pokémon World)
I wanna be the greatest master of them all
(Master of them all)
We all live in a Pokémon World
Put myself to the test and be better than all the rest
So you wanna be a master of Pokémon?
Understand the secrets and have some fun
So you wanna be a master of Pokémon?
Do you have the skills to be Number One?
We all live in a Pokémon World
(Pokémon World)
I wanna be the greatest master of them all
(Master of them all)
We all live in a Pokémon World
Put myself to the test and be better than all the rest
We all live in a Pokémon World
(Pokémon World)
I wanna be the greatest master of them all
(Master of them all)
We all live in a Pokémon World
Put myself to the test and be better than all the rest
With the power that's in my hand
POKÉMON!
From within Rasputox, Pikachu-Ash could surprisingly still breath. As he felt himself hit the stomach of the Poké-monster, he saw someone he never thought he could see again: his father and his Uncle Valgris (who looks a lot like Ryo only he has longer hair).
Pikachu-Ash asked, "What should I do? Are you the problem with Rasputox?" Valgris answered, "No, I've got a question." Ash said, "Shoot." Valgris riddled Ash, "What destroys darkness?" Ash thought it over and figured it out, "Light! I need to use a light variety of Pokémon attack!"
Ryo nodded, "And all your friends' attempts were futile, only a light-type attack can truly destroy Rasputox's sickness. For that is what he lacked, not friendship."
As the spirits disappear, Pikachu-Ash knew what to do. He placed his hands together and shouted, "Flash!" An orb of bright white light formed in his hands and it illuminated through the creature! Ash shouted, "Solar Slash!" A blade of light formed in Ash's hand and he used it to cut through the heart of Rasputox!
On the outside, Rasputox illuminated and evolved into a small crystalline bird with black and white feathers as big as a crow. But Ash was nowhere to be seen.
Misty, changing back to normal, cried, "Now we've lost all of them!"
FLASH! Ash, hasn't changed back yet, fell from the sky beside the new bird Pokémon. As he landed on his butt… he got up and said, "That's gonna be sore in the morning." He saw the new Pokémon and greeted it, "Hello, Necrow." The Pokémon cawed out, "Necrow." ("Thank you.")
Ash changed back into the one human and six Pokémon he once was. He pulled out Dexter and it said, "Necrow, the crow Pokémon of the dark & light variety. Legend has it that when people die, Necrow takes their souls to the lands beyond. But sometimes, a great sadness is carried with it. And sometimes the Necrow and put that soul back to set things right."
Ash said, "Necrow was sick as Rasputox for centuries, and needed someone to destroy him because he wanted to be cured but couldn't find it. Now that he's cured, he's a normal Pokémon again." Necrow snatched one of Ash's Poké Balls and went inside it!
Misty asked, "Is this the end of the war?" Ash smiles, "Now it is. Misty, will you marry me?" Misty hugs him and says, "Yes!"
TO BE CONTINUED…
(Please give me ideas for the next chapter, for it's going to be their wedding chapter!)