Chapter 44

Ascension: Part 5- Exodus

Earth 97, 2050, 8:32 AM

3rd person POV

As the dome began to push past 80,000 feet the team was about to the door of the reactor room. They had encountered plenty of soldiers, but assumed the massive steel door was the only defence the reactor needed. The Mason twins gave each other a nod and blasted the door controls. Once it was cut off from the power grid, they held out their arms and drained all the electricity. The reactor room was massive, it was a series of catwalks leading to a central control station, below was a seemingly bottomless pit with glowing flashes of energy in the abyss, seemingly coming from electrical generators and fuel rods far below.

On the center platform Colress was working at a console, he didn't seem remotely concerned at the massive energy beam in the center of the reactor room or the intruders behind him.

"You made it, took you long enough" he said as he pressed a button on the console, a massive tube of metal came down out of the roof and surrounded the energy beam. Then another tube and another, the reactor was now sealed behind nearly ten inches of super tangible titanium.

"NO" Z screamed, they were so close and had come up short.

"Your resolve is impressive, wearying and obnoxious but impressive" Colress admitted.

"Your opening that or we're tearing your limbs off one after another" Aliveri threatened.

Colress laughed and said "do we need to get that visceral and barbaric, i've activated failsafe omega, my password and retinal scan cannot do anything down here if I wanted to now, only bridge can access it"

"I take it your gonna step aside peacefully then?" Kelly asked

Colress sighed and said "no, as curious as i am to see if you could prevail over Calrok and Giovanni, i'm afraid he's given me orders to terminate you by any means necessary"

"Oh yea, you and what army?" NixIllium scoffed, not intimidated by the lone scientist.

On cue the extra blast doors behind us closed, then Charlie and Kelly's doppelgangers ran in as the remaining blast doors sealed behind him. Finally two figures in robes and masks resembling frozen human faces appeared next to Colress in a purple flash.

"No need for stubley anymore, lose the robes" Colress ordered.

The creatures three orbed fingers threw their masks off as their robes disintegrated in purple flashes of energy. They looked like Mewtwo but they were larger and bulkier than normal. The horns on their head were longer and extended from V-shaped ridges on their forehead. Additionally, the horns on their heads were pointed and curved upward. They had h two tubes behind its neck, their eyes were light blue, they also had large, purple growths over their shoulders that looked like wrestling padds. Their torso was smooth and small compared to their long, bulky limbs, and a Y-shaped line connected the collar and underbelly. The biggest thing of notice was a massive white crystal with a blue and pink mega evolution sigil growing out of their shoulder.

"Impressive aren't they? Thanks to the implanted crystal in their embryos they were able to be born as their mega forms" Colress explained.

Then a massive blast was heard, Colress opened his tablet and frowned, he turned it off and shook his head, clearly annoyed by what he had seen.

"Ghetsis was truly as idiotic as I though, all that power and he killed himself trying to fuse both his Zekrom and Reshiram DNA togeather, it seems your Latios friend is far more formidable then Giovanni wanted to admit" Coless confessed

"He won?' Z asked, relieved at the news.

"Yes, but that will be your final victory today, execute" Colress ordered.

The Mason twins shifted as their doppelgangers tackled them in their raikou forms, plummeting off the catwalk and smashing through a wall a ways down.

Nixillium mega evolved and shot a dark pulse, pursuing the Mewtwo as it flew back. Alveri's eyes glowed as a tornado of red and black energy swirled around him. The dragon dance boosting his attack and speed as he dodged a ice punch from a Mewtwo. The mewtwo then began to swing rapidly, Alveri's boosted speed allowing him to dodge ice punch after ice punch as he grazed his opponent with cuts from his axe blades.

Colress gave a facepalm as Z walked up to him, dropping his illusion as his signature crimson shadow energy swirled around his claws.

"Must i do everything myself, what's the point of having bodyguards if they run off to fight others instead of making them come to you!" Colress groaned as he transformed into a legendary pokemon neither Connor or Z had seen aside from descriptions and myths. It looked like an alien made out of red and blue rubber with tentacles for arms.

"The pokemon that fell from space, Deoxys" Z muttered.

"Indeed, I felt as it versatile forms and psychic powers suited me" his voice now telepathic as Deoxys lacked a mouth.

At that statement he unleashed a massive shockwave that nearly threw Z into the abyss below.

"Is that the best you got" Z replied sarcastically as he steadied his footing.

"An interesting question" Colress replied as the purple gem like core in his chest glowed, changing his body, the blue stripes on his legs were no longer segmented and ran the entire length of the leg and there was now a large spike on each knee. Two pairs of whip-like tentacles with pointed tips, one reddish-orange and one blue, replace his previous coiled, blunted tentacles. The protrusions on his head were now triangular with an additional one extending from the top of its head. Most of its reddish-orange skin has receded, revealing a striated, black chest and abdomen.

Z gulped and said "me and my big mouth"

Earth 97, 2050, 8:49 AM

Kelly's POV

"What is your deal!" I demanded as Charlie knocked his counterpart back.

"Humans hate us, why do you protect them? '' Kathleen responded as she fired an electro ball that I easily deflected.

"Because we ARE humans" Charlie yelled as he panted, it was clear that our counterparts were as strong and as well trained as us, it was more of a game of endurance than a fight now.

"No were not" Kathleen roared, her voice sounded as if she had said that many times before.

Charlie's counterpart slammed his front paw and said "forget it Kathy, they're idiots who protect the people they have to hide from and get excluded by. There's no point reasoning with lunatics like them"

That did it, I charged at them and rammed her head on, flinging her through the hole in the wall that we had arrived in. Kyle's doppelganger blasted me back and dove after her, shifting back to human as he narrowly grabbed the ledge, leaving him holding a Raikou by the tail over the abyss. She couldn't shift back as her tail would disappear, his hand began to slip, I offered mine to save him, I couldn't let him die. No matter what they had done they were completely defenceless.

"Put our sqable aside, let me help you save your sister!" I yelled, hoping to get through to him.

In response, he spat in my face and said "go to hell" refusing to give in to reason.

I could only gasp as he fell into the abyss, nearly vomiting as i heard a horrid snapping sound far below…

Earth 97, 2050, 9:02 AM

Z's POV

As Colress returned to his human form, he fell to his knees panting heavily.

"Impressive, most impressive" he admitted as the rest of the team arrived, tired but victorious.

Colress took one look at the group and said "it seems the odds have turned against me, i'm interested to see if you succeed, Giovanni and Giratina's powers are far beyond mine but im confident it will be a close match regardless"

"Shut up and open the reactor" I barked, tired of his rambling.

"Like I said, I can't deactivate the lockdown, but if you wish to keep going take the keycard at my workstation to the elevator over there" he explained as he pointed to a sealed door with a card reader on it.

"What's the catch?" I asked, suspicious.

"The catch is you'll be facing whatever Giovanni has guarding the bridge, you've peaked my curiosity so Im giving you the means to get to the fight" he confessed.

In a purple flash he vanished and reappeared at the reactor controls. He took a thumb drive out of the console and a massive metallic canister near his chair.

"I'll be taking my designs and DNA samples and taking my leave" he exclaimed before opening a multicolored portal and vanishing along with it.

"What just happened?" Charlie asked, struggling to keep up with what had occured.

"Don't know, don't care, let's move" Kelly said as she waved the keycard in her hand.

As the elevator opened we were greeted by Connor's evil twin in his human guise. He laughed and said "you beat Colress, how annoyingly predictable"

"We beat him and we'll beat you too" I stated firmly.

"Oh please, you don't have the slightest hope of getting to the bridge as long as im…." he was cut off as Connor materialized in front of him and said "let's take this outside"

Before I could get a good look to see if Connor was injured he tackled Calrok and turned intangible, disappearing into the wall as they passed through the hull and left the dome.

"Did Connor just toss him into space?" Charlie asked.

"No, were in the upper atmosphere but not in orbit yet, Connor took him out of the picture so we could get to Giovanni" I guessed.

The intercom blared to life as it said "atmospheric exit in T-minus 1 minute"

The Mason twins gave a determined look at each other and overloaded the door, opening the blast doors revealing the bridge technicians working frantically as Giovanni stared at the window, the earth's curve appearing in front of him.

"I see you've made it all the way up here" Giovanni scoffed as he turned to face us.

He laughed and said "you're just in time to see the comet arrive and greet my master as he returns!"

Author's Note- Next begins the final 4 chapters, Judgment day.