Chapter 46

Judgement Day: Part 2- Reckonings

Earth 97, 2050, 9:59 AM

3rd person POV

Without warning Giovanni unleashed a massive beam of crimson light, The team dove out of the way as the beam but Alveri wasn't quite fast enough, he was head dead on, draining his life force and petrifying him instantly. Lucina could only scream as he dissolved into a pile of ashes.

Lucina was in too much shock to dodge the second ray, Nixillium acted without thinking and shoved her away, taking the beam himself as meeting the same fate as Alveri.

Z went wide eyed, but the rage faded almost instantly. He warped Lucina and the Mason twins behind a steel panel about half a mile away in the wreckage, they were in no condition to fight, but he was.

"COME OUT AND FACE ME" Giovanni roared.

Out of the field of wreckage, a lone figure appeared, one Giovanni hadn't seen in almost two years. He scoffed and asked "the Zoroark from earth 62, not running away this time?"

Z shook his head and said "no, I'm not gonna give you the satisfaction of that, I'm going to take you on like I should've done last time, going all out with everything I have left"

"And what exactly will be different from our last bout?" Giovanni asked, not intimidated in the slightest.

"Because there's no one else around to get hurt but you" Z announced as a symbol appeared at his feet, he tapped into his heritage for the first time in years, a red aura of energy forming around him as he mane turned snow white and his eyes blood red. He was now using the full extent of his Darkrai half. Small cracks formed on his skin, around his arms, legs and especially his chest. A hole in the center that was pouring with energy.

Z fired a black ball of energy at Giovanni, the Yveltal made no effort to dodge the attack as a normal dark void would be easy to absorb, but this was no ordinary dark void. As it hit him he was consumed by a black force field forming around him. While Z's Illusions were normally nothing more than visual tricks, his legendary pokemon DNA allowed him to create illusions that could cause physical harm like Connor's could if was using his full power. It was more akin to a pocket dimension now, and it was a space where he could bend the rules of reality to his liking. Z vanished into a puff of smoke as he followed Giovanni into his illusion.

Giovanni looked around, wildly flapping his wings, now floating in a black void, he could feel an intense pressure in his skull. The sheer power of this illusion would drive anyone without a legendary pokemon's mental defense insane instantly. Needless to say he was intimidated.

"WHERE ARE YOU" Giovanni demanded, he was answered by a demonic laugh and shadowy clones of Z grabbing his wings and pinning him to an invisible floor. Before he could get a full sense of the situation, 6 massive spikes of black crystal impaled him in the wings tail and chest. The Yveltal screeched, illusion or not the pain was real!

"DIE" Z announced as two massive zoroark hands the sizes of an SUV appeared above him and began to clamp down.

Giovanni mustered a massive amount of energy, creating a shockwave that disintegrated the massive hands and the spikes still stabbing him. The void around him began to crack and finally shattered like glass, he realized that he was back in the debris field, Z standing about 20 feet in front of him. He bit back on the pain as he saw his wounds regenerating and closing at a very slow pace, his healing factor was being overtaxed. Giovanni was shocked, Z's illusion had nearly killed him!

Givanni had to end this now, that had been far too close for comfort, Z charged at him again and again, his painful slashing far too fast. As he landed form his final slash, Giovanni noticed it, Z was breathing hard despite having not taken a single hit. It was clear that this level of power was far too strenuous to maintain for long.

Giovanni fired another oblivion wing at half power, then fired a second one immediately after launching his opponent back. Z landed hard on his back, the remainder of the team was a few feet to left, still hidden behind the panel. Z turned to his friends, trying to tell them to run, but he didn't have a chance

Giovanni unleashed another oblivion wing, the crimson beam of energy consuming Z in a vortex of shadow energy, Z would soon be overwhelmed and petrified, the remainder of the team was launched always as Kelly saw the vortex swirling around Z.

"NO!" Kelly cried.

"Hump, pathetic" Giovanni mocked, the Zoroark's last gasp had failed. However Giovanni hadn't realized that he had just made a fatal mistake. He had underestimated his opponent's willpower. The energy around Z began to condense as it grew smaller until Z was visible again.

"I REFUSE TO LOSE" Z screamed as the smoke cleared. His white mane glowing brighter as crimson fire swirled around him. Giovanni had inadvertently recharged his opponent. He hadn't considered that Z may have been able to absorb the attack.

Z fell on all fours, his claws creating scorch marks as he dug his hands into the ground. More cracks were forming in his skin, his crimson shadow energy pouring out of the wounds with even greater intensity. A murderous fury appeared in his eyes as he yelled "CHARGE"

His aura exploded into a cloud of energy around him, creating a 20 foot crater and blowing rocks away from him. The energy surged as it formed an avatar in the shape of a Zoroark's head with a trail of energy behind it.

Giovanni held his wings together and began charging the most powerful attack he had ever used. The energy ball was almost three times the size of his standard oblivion wing.

"This is it, Z is putting everything he has left into this attack" Charlie realized.

Z's avatar rocketed towards Giovanni with him inside. A massive trench being created behind him. Giovanni unleashed his full power with a horrid screech.

The avatar met the beam halfway between them, however much to Giovanni's horror the beam simply dissipated as Z charged though it. The Yveltal tried to fly back but he couldn't have hoped to be fast enough.

"Ahhhhhhh" Giovanni could only scream as Z's avatar collided with him. The resulting blast completely vaporized the Pokémon of destruction in a blood red explosion of energy.

Z stood alone in the massive crater he had formed, the aura around him dissipating. He simply said "you lose" before collapsing. The cracks in his skin stopped glowing as he fainted, a hissing steam emitting from his skin.

"He did it," Charlie said in disbelief.

Lucina ran out and grabbed Z's smoking body, the use of his last attack had very nearly killed him as well, his heartbeat was faint and Lucina was doubtful if she could keep him alive without a full medical lab and a healing pod. She focused her psychic energy into a heal pulse beam as an explosion went off a mile away, a purple laser shooting into the sky as the light began to intensify. The Mason twins gave each other a determined look and took each other's hand.

Kelly gave lucina a nod and said "stay here and keep him alive, we'll face what's over there, together" Luncina was in no position to argue, she turned her attention back to Z and began pumping as much healing power as she had into him.

The Mason twins then began to walk towards the opening portal, they would fight Giratina with everything they had left...

Author's Note- Z's final attack was inspired by my favorite Naruto character's final attack. As for Nixillium and Alveri, their deaths were meant ot be sudden and jarring, that's how they were for the other characters so that was the whole point.