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Yelps sounded on the room, as a large man got shoved harshly against the partition at the side of his desk. "I will ask you one last time. Where are they?!" Brendan shouted, his voice carrying a fierce tone so loud and menacing that scared everyone around him.

"I-I told you… I don't know what you're talking about." Tabitha tried to shove Brendan's hands away, but instead, he was pushed again; this time a pained grunt coming from him as his left side scratched at the corner of his desk. "Please… I'm telling the truth. Team Magma doesn't exist anymore… I'm living an honest life now."

The chubby tall man is now a scientist working at the Weather Institute of Route 119, as he said, it has been a long time since he wore his red clothing set, going now with more neutral colors, sometimes even a navy blue shirt, much to his distaste... However, his words are falling on deaf ears, Brendan is not buying his story or making any effort to believe him.

"Tabitha, you would never truly turn your back to that life. Once, you said to me that Team Magma was everything to you, now you want me to believe that is over?" Brendan snarled, his fingers pressing, even more, its hold on the man's shirt. "You will never be anything else but Tabitha from Team Magma. And I know that you're involved with this new organization."

"I swear to you, I know nothing of this… My days as a criminal are over." Tabitha responded nervously.

"LIAR!" Brendan's roar echoed inside the room. Not only Tabitha but also four other scientists yelped in fear.

"Young man, I ask of you to calm down your temper. Please." A grizzled bald scientist stepped forward, placing one of his hands on Brendan's shoulders. "I can vouch for Tabitha. He is a serious worker and he has been with us for years now. Whatever you suspect him of doing, he is not guilty."

With a dissatisfied growl, Brendan pushed Tabitha forward, finally released his grip on the poor man's shirt. He then turned around and glared to the man behind him. "You vouch for him?" Brendan asked with a scowl. "Do you know what he has done in the past, what he almost accomplished?"

"I do." The senior scientist replied with a solemn expression. "And I also know that you stopped him. I was here when you showed up and scattered them away." His voice seemed to have an effect on the youngster's mood, his scowl slowly fading away. "You saved us and you saved him too. If he has a new life now, is because you were there."

"I am really telling the truth… I know nothing of this Team Rainbow Rocket." Tabitha said with a calm voice. He stood up next to Brendan and adjusted the collar of his shirt. "And for what I saw on the news, they are bad news… Very bad news." The chubby man casually walked away, looking for shelter behind his senior's back. "You should stay away from them."

"Stay away?... STAY AWAY?!" Brendan's voice exploded ever so loudly again, his glare practically piercing through the senior scientist, completely fixated on Tabitha's face. Just as before, his chest flared up, an intense feeling burning inside of him and together with this irate turmoil of emotion, the strange glow came back alive on his left eye. "I will destroy them!"

Tabitha stepped away from the cover of the bald man's back. His mouth opening more at each step, but it is not a reaction out of fear, no is more of a shocking realization. 'That symbol… No way.' Tabitha swallowed the hesitation that was stuck on his throat and stepped closer to Brendan again. "Kid… What they have done to you?" He waited for any response, but the young Champion only stood there, looking at him, seamlessly with no clear answer to give. "Look, I said before that I have no connection to any group anymore… but you are somewhat right." Tabitha pulled a little electronic equipment from one of his pockets and showed it to him. "I could not just forget Team Magma, not entirely… Therefore, I kept a camera always running on our abandoned headquarters, just for memory sake, a stupid thing really. But…"

With a loud and uncomfortable sigh, Brendan made clear how impatience he is, prompting the chubby man to get to the point.

"A month or so ago, I got a response from our old alarm." Tabitha pressed a button, showing a static image of a man, dressed in full black, taking down the camera. "I have a strong belief, that this new group took over our old base. Hey! Don't do-"

That was it; Brendan needed no more than this. After getting a location, he stormed out of the room with no ceremonies nor any apologies for the scene he has just done.

"Why didn't you give him that information before he started to press you against the wall?" The bald senior gave a questioning look to the chubby man.

"You saw the look in his eyes, right?" Tabitha frowned, somewhat regretting showing that image to the young trainer. "I would like to hope that he will not make a mistake, but… He is already making one." Tabitha fell on his chair; he carefully searched for something on his other pocket, pulled out an old photo from some old friends of his. 'Maxxie, our mistake is still active out there. Now that kid is cursed with Groudon just like we were.'

A blue dot is cutting right pass through the clean clouds at high speed, leaving its mark like a little trail of white following on its path; at least that is what everyone at Route 127 can see. Flying above the clouds, going as fast as he can go, Salamence is silently flapping his wings at full speed, with Zinnia sat on his back, they both are scanning the entire region in search of the young champion.

With each little island she looks and finds nothing, Zinnia gives two quick glances to her PokéNav. She is waiting for something, any message or reply, but after several minutes of constantly checking, nothing came. "Brendan, where are you?" She tightened the hold of her hands on Salamence's back, making his blue scales stands with the attrition.

The blue dragon slowed his flight, raising his body suddenly and forcing his trainer to wrap her arms around his neck so she would not fall.

"Salamence, hey! What's wrong?" Her voice coming out muffled by his hispid skin, as she barely got room to breathe with her face glued on his back.

With a soft growl, the dragon got back on his normal gliding position. He then growled once more, pointing to an insanely bright spot shining brighter than the sunlight itself on the other side of the sea.

"What's that light? Aarhg, it's so bright." She pulled the back part of her shirt, trying to shield her eyes from the blinding light, but even through the fabric of her cloth, she could still see that shining spot. Luckily the brightness died off in seconds, however, a storm of rumbling noises took its places. A large explosion of water erupted from that spot and then the earth itself rose up, large spirals coming from the sea, dotting the blue ocean with massive spirals of rock and dirt.

Zinnia stared at the scene, her eyes not believing what just transpired. The beach area next to Lilycove has transformed into a mess of water and stones, with more spirals of earth surging at each passing moments and violent roars coming all the way from that far location. 'I have never seen anything like that... Who or what is creating all that chaos?' She felt a light tug on her chest, an ill-feeling coming to life as she realized an undeniable truth. Whatever is happening on that place, Brendan is there and he is in the middle of it.

Following the already unsettling things happening down on the sea, the sun itself began to shine as bright as ever. The light almost blinding anyone looking to the sky and the heat raising like never before. Salamence growled loudly, shaking his head from left to right, averting his gaze away from the monstrous ball of fire on the sky. Zinnia lowered her body, resting her chest against Salamence's large back, she then tapped her dragon on his neck, slowly caressing his scale with the tip of her fingers.

"Calm down, I'm here with you." Her soft whisper having a great effect on the blue dragon, who stopped its agitated behavior after hearing her soothing voice. "We have to go down there; I need to be there." She shook his long neck, making the Pokémon look at her. "Salamence, it's okay to be scared, but I need you."

With a low groaning sound, Salamence looked down to the insanity happening at the Lilycove and then raised his head onto the sun's direction. Any Pokémon can be scared of strange or dangerous situations, even a large and imposing Pokémon like Salamence, but the bond between him and his trainer is stronger than his fear. With a loud and courageous roar, Salamence flapped his wings, tilting the tip of his head down and diving at full speed into the direction of these menacing sounds.

'Brendan, we're coming for you.' Zinnia held closely to her Pokémon partner, doing her best to no get pushed out by the lashing winds that are making her hair and clothes swing wildly with its force. 'Please, stay safe.'

For the days he has spent together with them, putting it lightly, a unique companion he is stuck with. Silver always dreaded every moment of it. It's not because he hates Ethan or because Ethan drains his patience like no one. No, the reason he is hatting so much their time together is for the amount of attention he gets from others just for being next to this guy. Always flirting, smiling or being way too friendly with strangers, things the red-haired himself has never done once in his life. And yet, despite always wishing for silence and serenity in his days. Silver finds himself right at this moment overly annoyed with Ethan's recent mood.

"Is something wrong with your food?" The red-haired asked with a grumpy tone. He then took another bite of his own meal, impressing the people around them on the restaurant with his educated table manners.

"No. It's quite good." Ethan responded dryly, using his fork to play with his food but showing little interest in eating itself.

Again, Silver felt his blood pressure going bad because of this man. A cheerful and easygoing Ethan is hard to handle, but a moody and disheartened Ethan is even worse. From the past days, he had to get used to all the noise and excitement around himself. Now things are just cold and depressing, even during lunch a time where Ethan is always the loudest.

With a long sigh, Silver put the silverware down and rubbed the left temple of his head. "Care to explain your recent behavior?" He looked at his companion's eyes, something that made Ethan look away from him. "Ethan?"

"I… don't feel so good." He said back frowning, but still gazing away from the red-haired young man.

"Why didn't you say so before?" Silver slid his dishes away, waving for a waitress to come over. "We can go find a hotel to stay until you're feeling better."

"I don't feel ill, is something else." Ethan said quietly, running a ran over his chest.

A happy looking waitress stopped next to their table. "Would you like anything else?" She asked looking to Ethan but rapidly glanced over to Silver, after being ignored by the raven-haired man.

"Just the bill, if you please." Silver gave a simple nod to her, but also barely paid any attention to the woman; who sadly walked away towards the register. "Again, can you be a bit more specific? I can't guess what is going inside your head." He hissed with a slight frown.

Ethan finally locked his eyes into Silver's, the seriousness in his face making the red-haired get even more uneasy and slightly flustered. "It's just… I have this really bad feeling that is making my chest hurt." With a firm tug of his chest, Ethan looked at his rival with a certain exasperation showing in his eyes. "Is the same feeling I had when Lugia escaped from his prison."

"That insane story of yours that Ho-Oh talked with you and asked you to stop Lugia?" Silver said with a sarcastic smirk, he was more than ready to point at Ethan and laugh his socks off. However, that serious look coming from Ethan, that intense gaze of his is too much to bear, it easily won over the red-haired once more, this time he is the one to avoid his eyes to the side with a thin red line on his face.

"Ho-Oh gave me a lot more than just a mission. You believe it or not, doesn't matter to me." Ethan scoffed angrily. "My gift… that's it!" He said out loudly, bending his torso over the table and grabbing Silver's left arm. "I'm not the only one, I always knew that but… I never thought about it in that way."

One more thing on the list of, What Ethan does that irritates Silver; the casual touching. That is what Silver would like to say, but he can't, not now at least. The red-haired shuffled uncomfortably in his chair, practically turning his entire body to the side, but strangely enough making an effort to not move his left arm from its position, making his own position on his chair a very strange and painful one "Wha-What are you going about?" He puffed and pulled the collar of his shirt, a drop of sweat running down on his neck. "Is it me or this place just got a lot hotter all of a sudden?"

"Are you hot?" Ethan asked with a large smirk on his lips. "I think I know the reason for that."

"R-reason? There is no reason, this place just got warmer. I see nothing more than that…" He pulled the collar of his shirt again, sounding suspiciously nervous and defensive.

"If I had to take a guess… Then I will say; that is at fault." Ethan pointed to the large window at the side of their table. He gritted his teeth and jumped out of his seat, dashing as fast as possible to the exit.

Silver, who was still feeling a bit dazed, slowly looked to the window. "What the…?" The clouds dyed with a dark orange color; the sun itself is burning too brightly as if a fireball is spinning out of control on the sky. Startled by the scene, Silver jumped out of his seat and before going after his partner, he dropped a very big amount of money on the table. "You can keep the change." He yelled as he bashed the doors open and walked outside.

A big crowd is already forming outside on the city's streets, some people are gossiping while others are outright screaming in panic with the situation. The red-haired young Pokémon trainer stepped outside the family restaurant and throwing himself at this mess of people, having a very hard time to spot a certain someone.

"Silver, over here!" Ethan shouted from the top of Lugia's back. The legendary bird standing tall and mighty amongst the crowd.

Silver gave a soft slap on his forehead for not seeing that huge Pokémon right away, he hastily pushed his way around the bystanders and stopped next to Lugia. "I never saw the sun doing something like that. Do you have any idea?"

"Yeah, get up here." Ethan carefully slid down to Lugia's left leg, reaching out to Silver with one hand.

Another new and unthinkable situation for the red-haired, he has never ridden with a Legendary Pokémon before and he was quite all right with that. In addition, the possible first one being Lugia is a big aggravating detail for him as well.

"Silver! Get up." Ethan shouted, nodding down to his extended hand.

"Gah… fine." Still hating the idea, Silver grabbed his hand and jumped on top of Lugia together with Ethan. "We are we going?" He carefully sat down, holding into one of Lugia's large blue feathers.

Ethan, on the other hand, climbed back to Lugia's upper back placing one of his hands on the Pokémon's neck. As he adjusted himself on his position, he glanced backward, looking directly at Silver. "I think is time for us to meet Hoenn's guardian."

"Graaah! Why are we wasting our time hiding?" Raz shouted in anger, his mood has been somewhat worse than what already is since Giovanni gave the order for everyone to stay put and inside their base.

Ever since their last operation, most of the top heads of Team Rainbow Rocket have gathered inside their usual meeting room, Giovanni himself asked for all of them to stay there and wait for his orders, and most of them complied to his command. One of the seats, however, remains empty with Rush being nowhere in sight, for the past day he has been strangely absent and reclusive.

"Honey, please stay quiet for a moment." Leyla said with a disinterested sigh. "Your dumbness is showing."

"What did you say to me?!" The large man growled, bashing his hands on the desk in front of him.

"Hahaha, he really is dumb." Scarlet said giggling happily. "We are here for a reason, your thick skull. I doubt the boss would hold you in here just o piss you off, or us for seeing your ugly mug."

Vein after vein popped on Raz's arms and some on his forehead, a very thin and fragile little line was the only restraint holding himself and his rage back. "I don't get it… after all that buzz and hard work to reveal ourselves on a live transmission. Why should we keep our head low? What reason is there?"

The busty woman casually walked next to the raven-haired man, tapping him on his shoulder. "Josh, would you care to explain to us?" She blew the words at him with a sweet tone but received just a cold glare in return.

"You clearly know the reason, why ask me?" Josh replied back, harshly brushing her hand away.

"It's clear that some of us are still confused." She looked at Raz. "And It would ease my mind hearing it from you."

"Ahh… fine." His sigh was way longer and dreary of what it usually is, his reactions making Leyla very frustrated with him. "Master Giovanni is expecting a guest to start the next phase. Until then, we should stay here and wait."

"Hm… like I thought." Leyla nodded a little satisfied grin showing on her lips. "You think he will come?" She looked at Josh waiting for his response and he only shrugged, turning his attention away from the rest of the group.

"This shitty guest better comes over fast, If I have to stay another hour staring at this wall, I will lose my shit." Raz sat on a large padded chair, throwing his arms in the air in exasperation.

As the silence was setting in once again, the sound of rushed footsteps and agitated voices breakout from the hallway outside. Before any of the enforcers could make a move to see what is happening, a frantic Grunt barged in, panting and gasping, her face showing a look of shock that unsettled even the most hard-hearted of the officers.

"W-w-w-we have a problem!" The tall woman, clad in black, shouted from the top of her lungs.

"Huhuh, you look quite scared. What is the matter?" With a spark of interest in her eyes, the blond beauty walked closer to the grunt, making the poor tall woman blush and get even more nervous for being so close to her.

"A m-monster is heading our way!" The grunt shouted again, her legs and arms shaking like green leaves. "S-Sorry ma'am, I have to tell the boss." She gave a quick salutation and bolted away from the room, almost tripping and falling flat on her face.

"Monster?… Did she lose her shit too? I knew holding everyone inside would be bad." Raz shook her head, lamenting for the poor state of mind of that female Grunt.

The two female enforcers looked at the muscled man, a look of disbelief showing in their eyes. "Geez, you are dumb... is not even funny anymore." Scarlet said with a frown and Leyla just shook her head in silence.

"What was that?!" Raz roar loudly, bashing his hands again on the table.

Josh, who was pouting and sadly staring at the wall for what has been a day, suddenly jumped out of his chair, a large and evil smirk glued on his face. "So, he has guts after all." The young raven-haired trainer walked over the big monitor on the wall and turned it on. The black screen quickly lighting up, showing a clear image of the beach outside.

"Is that… walking?" Scarlet pointed to the screen, more precisely to a massive mountain of red that is slowly approaching the end of the beach closest to their base.

"Yes, it is." Josh said with a genuine smile, creeping everyone out. "Our guest has finally arrived."

"Ha! Hahaha, now we are talking." Raz jumped from his seat. "All of you punks better stay out of this. Now is my time to have some fun." The large man felt more than happy to stomp his way out of this cramped room and to meet this monstrous mountain coming for them.

"Welp, I guess now we don't need to pick someone to go there." Said Leyla, feeling somewhat relieved for this.

"I know that Raz is crazy and all that, but will he be okay against that?" Scarlet looked at the screen again, feeling goosebumps from just looking at that giant thing. "Josh?" She then looked at the other enforcer, who is fixated on the monitor.

"If Rush's little show had so much effect on that boy for him to come after us like that…" With a wicked grin, Josh looked towards Scarlet, the cold look in his eyes making her skin crawl with uneasiness. "Hah, Raz is as good as dead."

Heavy stomps marked the sand on Lilycove beach, Thunderclaps echoed in the air despite the clear sky, by this point any bystander or curious person has already fled in fear for the red and black giant monster. The only person left on the scene is an enraged young man with long brown hairs, he is walking side by side with the legendary Pókemon, both him and his colossal partner staring fiercely to the hidden cave entrance at the sea right in front of them.

"Yo! I think you walked far enough." A bald and heavily muscular appeared from the cave, he is proudly standing on top of an enormous Tyranitar, who is casually swimming out of the shallow waters. "Sorry to burst your bubble kid, but you won't be passing by me. Not that this huge friend of ours would be able to, he doesn't look like a swimmer to me."

Groudon's yellow eyes are locked on Raz, low growls escaping his mouth from time to time. The legendary red beast looked down to Brendan, his arms swinging back and forward with impatience.

"Go." Was the only command coming out of Brendan but it was enough.

A deep and loud roar stormed out from the red menace, its rough voice affecting everything next to him, the water began to wobble, the cave structure shaking as if was about to collapse, even the earth itself bowed down to the might of Groudon's roar. Then he stepped forward, taking his heavy and massive left foot out of the sand and going to the water. However, he didn't sink; his large body staid on the same height as before. The red-monstrous Pokémon continued walking but his body never sunk down into the water, instead, the rocky floor of the sea raised itself in round platforms to meet Groudon's feet.

"Oi, oi. What kind of ability is that?" Raz felt a lump on his throat, even his fearless person felt a bit of nerve getting into his head. "So, the scary big Pokémon is afraid of water? Then I will see you drowning right in front of me!" Raz grabbed one Poké-Ball and tossed it on the sea. Water splashed everywhere; huge grey tentacles flew from bellow grasping all around Groudon's large body. "Tentacruel, drop his rocky ass down in the water!" Following the bald trainer's exalted words, the aquatic Pokémon bolted itself out of the water and completely wrapping his limps onto his opponent, with large shoves and tackles with his heavy body, the blue-squid began a relentless assault trying to do as his master commanded and drop Groudon on the sea.

Groudon tried to break away from the tentacles' grasps, but every time he pulled one away, two others took its place, making even harder to push the squid away from him.

"Grab his body, not his limps!" Brendan shouted from the beach.

With a soft turn of his head, Groudon gave a simple glance to Brendan acknowledging his words. However, before doing what his trainer said, he dropped his head lower and opened his mouth, with a powerful clench of his jaw he bit three limbs of the blue squid together with a single bite and ripped them away with a swing of his head. Tentacruel shrieked in pain, clenching its tentacles with even more force around the legendary Pokémon until Groudon used his right claw to grab the aquatic Pokémon on his head and pulled it away from him.

Tentacruel squirmed wildly, its blue blood dripping down from the severed limbs, drops of it flying all around with the movements of the tentacles trying to get another grip on Groudon. The red beast roar once more, this time even louder and ferocious. With no mercy in his eyes, the legendary Pokémon flung the squid around, throwing it at incredible speed and force against the inside wall of the cave.

"Tentacruel!" Raz yelled, reaching with his right hand onto the cave's direction. "You red freak… You will pay for-" A heavy pillar of stone ascended from the bottom of the sea, hitting Tyranitar from bellow, tossing both him and his trainer onto the air and down to the water again.

As the bald man swan back to the surface, he found himself directly in front of Groudon, with three large round platforms surround the Pokémon. From behind the red beast, Brendan came forward, he kneeled next to the water and grabbing Raz by his wet clothes.

With a disgusted scowl in his face, Brendan pulled the man closer to him, a surprising feat considering how large Raz is and the fact that he is lifting the man with just one arm. "You brought so much chaos and destruction, the pain you caused the people of Hoenn, people that I know." The young champion snarled, his fingers wrinkling the shirt around them; his left eyes burning even more brightly with a strange red glow. "YOU will pay for that."

"Hah, I ain't scared of you, kid. People like you, the sissy good-doers type, are all talk and no action." With a defying smirk, Raz used his knees to pull himself onto the platform, never tearing his eyes away from Brendan. "Go on, make me pay. Let me see if you have the guts for it." The foul-mouthed man, tilted his head to the side, being very careful so his opponent would not notice his intentions.

"You're looking at the wrong direction." Brendan flicked two fingers right between Raz's eyebrows. "Your friend is right there." He forcefully held the man's head and turned his face to the right.

Raz's smug acting deflated away, his entire face cooling down to a shocked stated. "You sick fuck…" His lips quivered in pain, a tiny glittering spot appearing at the corner of his eyes with the glimpse of the awful sight of his long-dated partner. Raz's immense Tyranitar was squished between to large pillars of rock, with only his head and one arm sticking out of that mess. The Pokémon is completely still, not showing any sights of consciousness or breathing; at this distance is impossible to say if he is alive or not.

"That doesn't look very all talk to me. You ain't scared yet?" Brendan yanked his head back, forcing him to stare into his eyes. "I don't give a shit, your words or your reactions, they don't matter to me." Brendan's eyes are bland and unfocused, while he is looking at Raz at the same time he is like he isn't seeing anything at all. His face kept changing from a depressed frown, to a enrage scowl and then to hysterical grin, never settling in one expression. "I… the only thing I… Hah, haha. You should never have come to Hoenn and that will be your last mistake."

"Then, that would be my mistake and not his." A deep voice sounded from the cave entrance. A tall and elegant man, dressed in a black and grey suit is standing at the edge of the metallic floor of the base while looking at the other two.

"B-Boss!" Raz gasped, looking away in shame of his swift defeat.

"Boss?!" Brendan shot a glare at the distant man.

"My name is Giovanni. I am the leader and mastermind behind Team Rainbow Rocket." Giovanni did a short polite bow with his head, holding his right arm close to his body. From this distance is difficult to point what, but Brendan can see that he is holding a small white object in his hands.

"Then you! You are responsible for-"

"That is right; I am responsible for everything and the one who orchestrated those past events." Raising his voice is a rare thing for this man, but when he does, he silences anyone in front of him even an enraged man like Brendan is right now. "So, if you don't mind. Let go of my subordinate and I will give you all the attention you want from me."

"Attention?! You think I'm doing this for your attention?" Brendan spat angrily. His anger skyrocketing out of proportion, but also making him lose any interest in Raz. With no care in his action, the young trainer tossed the bald man to his left side, out of the stone platform. Groudon and Brendan both began to walk forward again, moving at a steady pace towards the Cave and Giovanni; another path of stone pillars raising in front of them.

"That's it? You will snarl, growl and attack." Giovanni scoffed, shaking his head in disappointment. "Go on ahead, Brendan. Destroy everyone in your path, but you will find no answers on that."

'How does he know my name?' Brendan stopped, his legendary Pokémon doing the same. The pair stopped no more than a few meters away from Giovanni, close enough to see the man's features clearly and burn this image inside his head. "Why? You talk about answers, then WHY?! Why did you attack Rustboro? Why bring so much chaos to Hoenn?"

A short laugh came from the imposing man, his eyes showing no fear or sway over Brendan's agitated words or the monster standing at his side. "Why you ask? I imagine you're wondering a line of thought like: Is because I'm special, I'm weak or I'm strong?. Boy, don't think so highly of yourself or your region for that matter." Giovanni began to walk on the edge of the platform, going from left to right. "Just consider yourself and the people around you, lucky and blessed. Hoenn received a gift from beyond the sky, yet… You wasted something so grand with your recklessness."

"A gift from beyond the sky?" Brendan's anger was subdued for a moment, a genuine confusion appearing on his expression. "What are you going on about? The only thing we received from the sky was the-"

"Exactly. Heh, like the records states, you were there… And you killed it." Giovanni stopped right in the middle of his ongoing path, his eyes staring at Brendan, measuring his reaction.

"Deoxys?! You came to Hoenn because of that?" Brendan's shock faded away, his scowl returning to his face. "I can't believe you killed and hurt so many for something that doesn't even exist anymore."

"A mutable and ever-changing DNA virus, learning and adapting at an extreme speed. It learned how to be a Pokémon from a simple glimpse of the thing you rode into space." Giovanni smirked triumphantly, resting one hand on his hips. "Say, Brendan. How did we create a second you?"

"No… that is- I saw it die." Brendan swung his left hand in the air, angrily denying his own thoughts. "Deoxys became nothing right in front of my eyes. How did you find it?"

A raging earthquake came to life, surging out of nowhere, taking down more than half of Groudon stone pillars, leaving him and his trainer stranded into a circular island of his platforms. While the conversation was happening between those two, Raz quietly made his way back to the cave, barely making in time before the sea became an unstable mess of waves.

"I can still take him, Boss." Gasping and sweating, the bald and muscular enforcer poised himself in front of his master, taking one of his hands into his pockets.

"That won't be necessary." Giovanni tapped his underling on his shoulder, giving him a stern look. "Go inside and help the others evacuate to our special vehicle."

"But, Boss!"

"Enough! Just go." This time Giovanni glared at him, showing no leniency on his words.

Still conflicted about his orders, Raz only looked down at his own feet, clenching his hands in disappointment and annoyance. However, he quickly obeyed his master, dashing inside the trembling cave.

"I guess this is enough answer for one day." Said the headmaster with a cocky grin. "Until we meet another time." He bowed a second time, this one carrying a more mocking tone to it.

"Like hell, you will escape." Brendan growled. "I WILL NEVER LET YOU ESCAPE!" He shouted so loud that his voice echoed all the way inside the cave, going as far as the first floor of the base. Groudon reacted to his voice, dropping his head low and marching at full speed towards the suited man.

"Boy, you didn't even notice that I pressed this button minutes ago." Giovanni dangled the little white device on his hand, then tossing the thing on the sea. "I've already won." With a simple wave of his hand, the Leader of Rainbow Rocket turned his back to Brendan and walked inside the cave, vanishing into the darkness.

A tiny dark spot appeared on the water, a small shadow approaching from the bottom of the sea. This silhouette became larger and larger, tide waves rising as far ceiling of this grotto, rocks falling down, the walls getting loser with cracks appearing throughout its surface. A muffled, strange and deep cry erupted from the sea, bursting a large bubble of sound from bellow, a curtain of water rose higher and larger than Groudon, from behind this watery mask, a second cry came, this time a terrifying roar, as loud as a thunder.

"What the- Aaarrgh!" A tidal force pushed forward, washing everything away. Groudon lost his footing and fell on the water. Brendan got hit directly by the wave, getting himself carried with brute force all the way back to the soaked sands of the beach.

Kyogre, the Blue Legendary Pokémon from the deep, raised itself from the waters once again, bashing at full force at the downed Groudon. The impact of this violent hit created another massive wave that came washing everything in its path, hitting Brendan once again and dragging him back to the sea.

'Where… Am I?' The crushing weight of the salty water pressed down onto Brendan, pulling him down onto the sea floor. 'I'm drowning? Why can't I move?' He tried his best to swim, to move even one arm or leg. But his body refused to obey him.

'Rage, anger, POWER!' A malicious voice sounded inside his head, a foreign sensation and yet a familiar one at the same time.

'Who are you?' Brendan opened his eyes, the salt water hurting, and prickling but he refused to close them again. A red blurred figure flashing at the corner of his vision, forcing him to move his head. Groudon is lying at his side, glaring at him with his yellow eyes.

'I remember the feeling… So do you.' The voice invaded his thoughts once again. 'Hate them, kill them. Tear your fears away.'

'Groudon? I can understand you… How?' Brendan can swim, he can barely move his head to look at the red titan, yet his right arm freely moved down, acting on its own. His fingers browsed down on his pocket, wrapping themselves around an orb, a warm, burning hot orb. With a gentle move of his limb, Brendan posed the red orb right in front of his face, his eyes glued to the bright red Symbol on the center.

'Hate them!'

'I hate… this.'

'Destroy them!'

'They will pay.'

'I WILL RIP THEM APART!' – 'I WILL TEAR THEM APART!'

From the red orb, a blinding light erupted engulfing everything thing in its warm. The sea itself exploded, water, vapor, fire; everything flew to all sides. The land began to retort and change, massive pillars of stone erupted from bellow dotting the entire place with large and tall towers made of nothing but wet earth.

From the cave entrance to the edge of the beach, there was no water anymore. All of if evaporated to the sky, creating a violent smokescreen of steam. A blackened thundering clap sounded everywhere, from the clean white smoke; a massive, berserk and ever burning Primal Groudon flew out onto Kyogre. Using his black teeth, Groudon bit Kyogre on his left large fin, shoving his large claws the molten monster raised his hated rival in the air and swung it in the air tossing Kyogre violently into one of the giant towers of stone.

Moving like an insane creature, way too fast to his size. Groudon jumped on top of Kyogre another time, grasping the other legendary before it could enter the deep sea again. One fast swipe crossed Kyogre's back, and then another one came from below hitting it on its face. Losing himself on his own rage, Groudon opened his mouth and raised his arms, not noticing that he let his opponent get away by doing this. Fire and lava ran down from his mouth, a monstrous roar stormed from between his teeth announcing the impending disaster that was about to happen. A wave of fire or more like a beam of lava flew from the dark mouth of Groudon, the unleashed a tiny size of a cataclysm right in front of him, disfiguring the scenery even further.

As the smoke vanished away, revealing the aftermath of this terrible attack, Kyogre was nowhere in sight. Only darkened stone and earth stand where the aquatic legendary once was. This only served to enrage Groudon even further; the irate creature turned its anger to the closest thing, smashing his claws into one tower and then going to another, making another path of destruction, but this time not aimlessly. He slashed and destroyed in his path towards the already ruined cave.

The sea fought back the scorching heat, wave after wave of water crashing against Groudon, returning the area around him to the closest thing possible to what used to be before.

'What I'm doing…' From the first outburst of power after Groudon sudden transformation, Brendan raised right into the air standing on top of an emerging pillar. His arms are shaking, his legs can barely hold his weight and his left eye is hurt, burning like a living fire, the faint glow from before has now become a bright red beacon 'This is… me?" He looked down at his own hands; terrified, ecstatic, and angered. His own mind losing its self to senseless anger he cannot even understand.

"BREEENDAAAN!" A surly yell came from the edge of the beach. A young man with tea-green hair is standing there, looking at Brendan with a disgusted face.

"Wally…" Brendan's confusion melted away, but the anger stayed.

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Kersplunk chapter 13 . Apr 25 – Yeah, I really liked Toby too. It was very fun to write about him, and is hard to know who will end up as the next Champion... Only time can tell. Yeah Omega Ruby was the game I played. So, I went with Groudon instead of Kyogre. And of course the Pokémon on the tube is not Sub Zero… is something far worse and dangerous… I will reveal it on the response right below.

The Prototype chapter 13 . Apr 25 – You fool! You activated my trap card. By summoning the name of Lord Cena, the Ultimate, you accidently called forth his greatest nemesis and strongest enemy in the universe... The powerful, evil and always perfect: The Flying Dutchman. The Flying Dutchman is the strongest fighter and a perfect being, and because of that, he has no evolution. His only known attack is the flying kick paired with a mean stare… no one has survived that.

Guest chapter 11 . May 8 – Thank you for the feedback, I appreciate you taking your time to comment about the story and discuss it. First I will say that I understand you, and I somewhat agree, Brendan is not only the protagonist but also the Pokémon League Champion, but if I made him overpowered it would be a tad bit boring wouldn't it? Moreover, to his defense, the only fight he has lost, it was not even a fight to begin with he was ambushed from behind, and that one with Rush he had just Ekkisu with him. Anyway. I get you frustration, but I also have to say that I cannot follow the game's logic and power level, because that is not really interesting, at least not for me. Again thank you for leaving your thoughts, I appreciate.