Chapter 35

The Ark: part 4- Treachery

Earth 63, 2049, 6:09 PM

Alex's POV

"You have no chance to survive… surrender and I'll…." I cut Ethan off, the cave shaking as rocks fell from above. It was clear that the quakes were getting worse.

"Shut up, let's just do this" I yelled as I summoned a bone rush and charged at him. Energy bone met blade as we clashed. I stared him down as he tried to overpower me.

Ethan relented and jumped back, unleashing black energy waves that I barely dodged. I allowed my bone rush to dissolve and rushed at him again. I channeled more aura into my paws, a glowing blue fire swirling around them.

Ethan swinged his blade at my neck but thanks to a Lucario's shorter height I ducked and drove a power-up punch into his gut.

Ethan's mouth opened as the air was forced out of his lungs. He staggered back and fell to one knee, but after an audible growl regained his footing and held his sword in a more defensive stance above his head.

"You'll regret that," he threatened.

"You talk too much" I replied as I formed an aura sphere and blasted it at him, he was ready however and sliced the aura sphere in half, the ball of energy's halfs flew past him and exploded.

Ethan sheathed his sword on his side and gripped the handle firmly."Let's see how fast you are" he mentioned as he rushed forward.

I was ready to block the blade with my hand spike, but Ethan caught me by surprise as he stopped short and threw a flash bang grenade. He covered his eyes before I could react as my world turned white, the sensitive ears of the Lucario ringing.

I felt the movement of air as Ethan slashed me, I dodged on instinct but I could feel his blade graze me. I had to focus, doing my best to tone everything out, the sound, the light and the pain of my wound. I projected my aura outward. A flash bang point blank with a Lucario's eyes could cause even a whole minute of blindness, that was precious time I didn't have.

I felt the dreadlock like organs on my head rise, and surely enough I got a view of the cave, it was all black besides Ethan's aura, that was all I needed to fight.

I dodged everything he tried, with his emotions raised I knew his next moves before he did. I waited for an opening before side stepping and giving him a power-up punch to the face.

My eyes finally returned as Ethan rubbed his cheek, spitting blood as he sheathed his sword again.

"You always had to be better than me, I wanted to be better, so I became better until I couldn't get any further, then Colress gave me the power to surpass you!" He shouted as my wound closed thanks to my healing factor.

The trench around the ark was filled with lava, the volcano underneath the island was gaining power at an incredible rate.

"You can't surpass me, because I have something that you'll never have, something that you can't just make in a lab!" I stated as I activated my mega stone. The cream fur around my chest became longer, and my thighs slimmed down. More spikes appeared on the back of its paws, as they turned crimson. Spikes also developed on both of my feet, which were crimson too.. My aura-sensing appendages grow longer, and two of them were tipped in crimson as they ran down my back. The black "mask" on my face gained strips down my head.

As my aura exploded around me I yelled "I have conviction!"

I conjured a bone rush as I sprinted at him, I was moving so fast that I could barely comprehend the distance between us. I broke the bone rush in half, using each of them as a tonfa. I slashed again and again as Ethan struggled to keep up blocking, and then he made a fatal mistake, he attempted to block wide with his sword parallel to the ground. With a feral scream I hit the sword with both bones and shattered it into three pieces.

Ethan gasped as I delivered a final power-up punch in his chest and sent him flying back. He barely caught the edge of the bridge.

As the lava churned below Ethan looked up at me as I stood over him. Despite all his training and bravado, he had lost.

With final defiant scowl he said "you have no idea what you're up against"

I summoned an aura sphere in my hands, preparing to smash it directly in his face.

"There are some things far more frightening than death" he warned before letting go of the ledge, plummeting into the lava below.

I shook my head and ran down the path, my mega evolution would give me the speed I needed to get out.

Earth 63, 2049, 6:24 PM

Kelly's POV

I tasted fresh as Calrok exited the cave just ahead of us. I shifted into a Raikou and tacked him, just as I pinned him however he vanished into thin air. I should've known, he was leading us astray with an illusion the entire time.

An Allegiance VTOL landed just as I returned to human form. The hatch opened revealing a squad of Allegiance soldiers leveling their rifles at us, just as I registered the threat the deafening bang of a magnum pistol hit my ears. All five if the soldiers fell to the ground with a single hole in the back of their heads, revealing Agent Laswell holstering a white Allegiance commando pistol.

"We have to hurry!" She yelled with a motion of her hand.

"Why should we trust you after THAT!" Nixillum demanded.

"If she wanted to kill us she would've left us to the firing squad" Alveri admitted.

I didn't have time to think about her actions, she looked at us dead in the eyes and said "your dad is being set up, the biggest threat has been used our noses the whole time!"

Earth 63, 2049

6:26 PM

3rd person POV

As Calrok exited the cave he laughed, those kids had fallen for his illusion even easier than anticipated. He was in the clear!

However he wasn't paying attention to the sounds of a Pokémon's rapid steps behind him. Before he even thought to turn around he felt a stabbing pain from behind. He coughed up blood as his illusion bursted, he looked down to see a bone rush impaling him through the chest. The Green Latios fell to the ground, even with a legendary Pokémon's healing factor he was too injured to stay aloft.

He acted without thinking, teleporting away with the watch in his clawed arm, leaving the canister holding the brain behind.

Alex fell to his knees as his mega evolution dissolved, he had pushed the form to its limits with how long he had to maintain his speed.

He returned to his human form and staggered forward, picking up the canister next to the puddle of blood his opponent had left behind.

He gave a sigh of relief as an Allegiance VTOL landed, revealing General Castle with a squad of soldiers.

"Is that the sample?" Castle yelled over the roar of the engines.

"I got it Castle" Alex assured.

"Good, that's one less loose end" Castle remarked as he drew his magnum and shot Alex dead in the chest. Alex fell to the ground, too exhausted to move. All he could do was look up in shock as Castle put a final bullet between his eyes.

Castle holstered his pistol and grabbed the sample as his soldiers retrieved gas cans from the plane. In the distance, the island's center collapsed into the sea leaving nothing but a ring of land behind.

Castle lit a cigar as his soldiers coated Alex's body with gasoline. He puffed it once before flicking it at the ground, setting Alex on fire with no remorse on his eyes.

He twirled his index finger in the air, ordering his soldiers back before taking off in the VTOL.

Alex Mason, the hero who single handedly defeated Cipher's leader over two decades ago, was dead….

Author's note- Im happy to inform you that the entire story is complete. I will post half of the chapters today and the other half tomorrow.