{Author's notes.}
Hey folks this chapter is going to be a little different from the others, and I'm sorry for this one taking a bit long. I have more popular stories I also enjoy writing. And there are the other stories I need to heavily work on.
The POV Jumps around a bit, and I'm going to try and cut down on the third POV for this chapter since I kind of want to explore other characters as well.
Another note is that this chapter is slight filler-ish so there maybe some strange attempt at making jokes by poking at some rather obscure things.
Hope you enjoy it.
Episode 16 Anto (Jones) and the Temple of Boom!
They say no one will hear you scream… in certain scenarios created by villains… or in space.
But for Anto, no one ever hears him scream because he's mute.
It's a shame too. His scream would be heard easily since as of now he was being chased by a large boulder while running down a bobby trapped, underground, millennia year old ruin while holding a strange hat and a whip all while holding a rather priceless looking artifact.
If one was not completely sane, they could hear a very familiar song play in the background that was quite familiar to that famous adventurer/professor/treasure hunter with catchy music.
How this all happened… well…
{Takezo POV}
He had always instructed me the same motions.
"A master who has practiced one swing a thousand times is stronger than a master who has only practiced a multitude of fighting moves once."
I hadn't originally understood what that saying meant. But in time, I realized that with each swing, be it practice or real battle, it improved my stance, speed, and power greatly as opposed to using a new technique the first time where it would be flimsy and poor.
With this in mind, I do what I was instructed to do… up… down… right… left… block… up… down… right… left… block…
I continued my stances while sensing Ohko stare at me.
"By the way, Tak," I suppose that is far more preferable than him addressing me as 'Sword dude' all the time. "Watcha doing?"
I felt Sentinel, originally eating some human bagels, turn his head toward me after Ohko asked his question. "Yeah, what exactly are you doing with that stick?" He echoed.
"It's called bushido. A martial form created by humans on how to wield a blade…" I answered back as I continued my stances.
"Boo-She-Dough?" Sen and Ohko repeated as they tilted their heads.
"Close enough." I replied as I continued.
"Huh, where did you learn that?" Wartortle asked me as he eyed my stances carefully. "I was forced to watch countless screens of fighting forms, yet your movements seem more natural, and you're not even a fighting type."
"I learned how to pick up a blade the moment I was born. As for your comment on my typing, I was also taught that just because we are born to do certain things, doesn't necessarily mean we are restricted to what our body limits." I returned his question.
"So where did you learn all those things?" Ohko questioned.
A surge of memories filled me as soon as he finished, of a time that felt simpler than right now. "I learned it from someone I met before meeting all of you." I swung my blade once more, my body being accustomed to such movements as if they were second a nature to me.
I sensed Umbreon turn the corner. "Hey party, we got word from our taller, bipedal servants that we're going to leave soon, so be ready."
Sen, despite lacking an actual face, expressed confusion. "Why are you calling them servants?"
"They give us free food all the time don't they? And hey, you don't see us cleaning their poop."
That… is a unique way to see it.
Everyone makes their way while I practice my stances for one more cycle before leaving.
Wait, I do believe it is time I started practicing that…
{Summer POV}
"This next route leads to a desert…" Tracey repeated as we stood in front of the gate before Route 4.
"I've been in a desert my whole life. Sand storms are bad, but I've seen much worse." Wes stated as he readied his visor. He even had Umbreon and Espeon out. It was weird to almost have them see a raging sand storm be the equivalent of a snow day to the Orreians. I mean, I really have trouble cleaning myself after that one mission in the desert…
"Aww, I thought for a second it would be those yummy cones and bagels we ate before coming here…" Flow spoke as I carried her in my arms. Pokémon Rangers aren't allowed Poké balls, but we are allowed more than several Pokémon partners. Which reminds me… I haven't seen my Staraptor in so long. I hope Ben's taking good care of him. I miss sailing the blue skies on his back…
"I think your thinking of desserts, not desert." I told her.
"What's the difference? They sound the same."
Err how exactly do I explain our language phonetics to a Pokémon? "Well… ah! For desserts or sweets, you can spell it Stressed backwards!"
Everyone suddenly looked at me weirdly.
"That sounds depressing," Wes noted. "Where did you hear that from?"
"It's not depressing! It's clever! My mom told me that so I wouldn't eat too much sweets!"
Why are Tracey and Anto looking at me like that? It really did work!
Wes started cackling like a mad man—which by the way makes him look stupid. "Oh and you wonder why I keep calling you a nerd." He laughed as he, Tracey and his two Eons made their way to Route 4.
Inner peace Summer… Inner Peace… find your happy place, a place where you can smother Wes in his sleep—wait, no I must find a better way to express my feelings to people I dislike. Like Ben does! He always tries to help people, and if Red Eyes and Blues Eyes were any indication, they become great people when shown kindness… well kinda. But they're definitely better than Wes!
I felt a tap on my shoulder and saw Anto giving me a nervous smile.
"You ok?"
"I'm so getting back at him..." I gritted before correcting myself. I sighed then placed on my goggles. Then I also placed some of the free goggles for Pokémon and trainers the Route 4 gate hands out on Flow since I couldn't use a Poké Ball.
Anto placed on his own goggles while bringing Lily out then giving her one.
"Huh. Anto, why are you letting Lily out?"
"Paranoia. Ever since I was attacked by a clown, keeping someone out tends to really help one's chances of not being kidnapped by a multibillion dollar corporation."
"Also, he said that it was technically my turn to walk around freely for a while. … Sucks that it's timed with me having to brace a sandstorm. Can I switch with Sen?" Lily asked.
Anto sighed before walking back up to the counter lady and asking for another spare… well he would have done that if he didn't forget he was mute and that the psychic link was only to the four of us.
"Sir? … May I help you?"
The loud noise of Anto face palming himself sounded pretty painful, especially with that echo... and the way he's rubbing his head…
[Later…]
"Does anyone else find this weird?" Sentinel asked as he held out the goggles out in the storm. "For some reason, when I put these goggles on during this storm, I'm fine. But when I remove it, suddenly I feel buffeted every few seconds. I don't even have eyes anymore!"
He does have a point… I mean you'd think as a ghost type, he would just phase through the storm or something, I mean they can phase through normal and fighting attacks, but how come they can't phase through dust if they can phase through walls?
"You don't have ears either, yet you can hear us just fine."
"Not the point, Anti-Labcoat," Sen apparently called Anto. "How the heck am I even using these in the first place!?"
"I'm more surprised you seem to be questioning that. I'd thought you would know more about yourself than… well the rest of us."
"The only thing I learned was how to hurt people. Never really focused on anything else—you know? The whole, undying rage and hatred to all those around me sort of prevented me from paying attention to the back of my own hand."
I actually winced when he talked about such a cruel time, but apparently Anto took it in stride. "Well admitting you have an anger management problem is the first step to getting rid of it." Anto wryly stated.
Sentinel summoned a Shadow Claw "I find getting rid of the source of anger a much better form of relief."
"Well in society, what you just said is a really big No-No. Don't do that."
As I watched the two talking back and forth, I realized something…
Was Anto trying to rehabilitate a blood hungry Pokémon? It was actually kind of strange how… accustomed Anto was to dealing with Sen who actually seemed a little… twitchy. While he didn't exactly have his memories, she did know that in most movies at least that amnesia doesn't do much in actually changing a person's character. If that was still true in real life, Anto is a rather strange boy character wise in taking this all in stride and seemingly enjoying this…
Suddenly the storm seemed to get stronger… wait a sec—why is it getting even worse!?
"…uys!" I barely hear Tracey's voice! What's going on! I-I can't even see Anto and Sentinel anymore!
I honestly thought things couldn't get any worse, but the sudden earthquake beneath my feet made things so much worse.
The last thing I felt was falling down, clutching Flow in my arms as much I could as the ground beneath us suddenly failed.
{3rd Person POV}
"Hey! Wake up! Come on Anti, wake up!"
Anto felt his head throb for some reason. Slowly, he got up and noticed everything was rather dark, he only saw a little light because Sen's ghost flame was dimly lighting the area.
"W-what happened?" Anto asked as he got up.
"The ground beneath us opened up after an Earthquake move."
Anto snapped himself together at what Sen said. "Wait, a Pokémon did that?"
Sen grinded his fangs angrily. "Trust me, Anti, almost every move in existence was used on me to get me knocked down. I can recognize a natural and a move Earthquake from a mile away. I also saw that Sandstorm pick up, it was also a Sandstorm move added into the natural one."
"Who did that?" Anto asked as he dusted himself off.
"I didn't see." Sen shrugged. "While we were falling, I had to figure out a way to save you. I couldn't levitate like most ghost Pokémon, but I could still phase through the ground and enter the shadows. As soon as I grabbed you, I had to phase us both into the shadows before coming back up here. Pretty much destroyed the momentum with that."
"Good thinking."Anto thought, but then checked his body, he felt slightly tingly all over his body. Turning into shadows must have done something to him.
Then Anto sighed as he tried to look around, but to his dismay, he couldn't see anything beyond the dimly lit area by Sen's ghost flames.
Anto thought for a second and took out his three other Pokémon.
"It's night already?" Ohko asked.
"To be honest, I don't know…" Anto answered before briefly explaining everyone what happened and where they were. "Look at the ground beneath us; it's stone. And it doesn't feel like an underground cave, so I don't really know where to go or where the others are…"
Takezo glanced around. "This cave… it looks man made, but older…"
Anto perked up at what Takezo said. "An old, man-made cave? Wait a sec I remember the Attendant at the Route 4 gate saying there were ancient Ruins nearby Route 4. We must be there! I remember there being an exit and entrance back to the surface but…" Anto glanced back at Takezo. "Wait, how did you see the room around you?"
Takezo motioned to his eyes. "Perhaps it goes back to my species, but I appear to have a sharper sense of sight. This place does not look dark too me at all, and I can see quite fine."
"Ahh, think you can lead us out then?"
"That should not be a problem. Simply follow me; I see a path up ahead." Takezo started off and walked ahead of everyone.
As they kept walking they all started to see another pair of lights in the distance, it was dim, but it didn't look like sunlight nor could it be since the sandstorm shouldn't have let up yet even if there was a Pokémon manipulating it.
As they got closer though, Anto's group was surprised to see a torch lit room. Anto briefly wondered if all these fire were set recently since he was surprised fires could actually last this long underground. Nevertheless, he was actually able to see the strange ruins in better light.
For one, he actually was right, he was in the Desert Resort where travelers would stop by, or at least the ruin part. He saw the walls had a lot of strange symbols and glyphs depicting people and Pokémon of old. He seemed to notice the Sun was a rather constant symbol among the ruins along with some kind of line of people doing something weird.
The bad news was that he was obviously in the part where no one had reached yet due to the amazing lack of traces of living beings being here.
"Well at least now I can see better." Anto exclaimed as he looked around to see any way out of this single path.
"Huh, are those people depicting a dance?" Lily asked as she stared at the line of people. It was then Anto realized they weren't a line of people but an instruction that showed movements step by step.
"I kind of wonder who they were. By the look of all the suns in the picture they must have really worshiped the sun."
"Why would they worship the sun? I mean, I like it as much as anybody, but I'm not gonna grovel on my knees." Sen asked.
"Culture is different. Who knows what they believe at those times?"
Ohko pointed right behind Anto. "Why don't ya ask him?"
Everyone snapped their heads towards where Ohko was pointing.
"WAH!?" Anto yelped as he staggered back a bit.
There was a freaking skeleton splattered right behind of all, it didn't looks like an ancient skeleton, it looked like the skeleton of some foolish adventurer that got trapped here—a fate Anto might be sharing soon if he didn't get out!
"Ohko that is a skeleton. That poor man is dead." Takezo told him.
Ohko shrugged then motioned to their Dragon Ghost ally. "So? Isn't it the same with Sen here?"
It was then Anto realized that He had been walking right next to an undead-dragon-skeleton unnerved, but a real skeleton had just almost scared his pants. Dang, he was a weird kid.
"Hey! I'm not dead! … I think…" Sen wondered unsurely.
"Aren't all Ghost Pokémon undead?" Lily asked.
"But… I was born like this…" Sen added in. "So was I born… undead?"
Deciding to stop this train of thought, Takezo spoke out. "I hate to sound disrespectful, but perhaps we can take the belongings of this person. We'd probably put more use to whatever he has left than… he." Takezo noted.
Anto sighed but he had to agree with what Takezo said. He just hoped he wouldn't be cursed or whatever for rummaging for his stuff. Carefully making sure that the skeleton wasn't going to jump him somehow, Anto found the following items:
A familiar looking adventurer hat that despite its dust, still looked to be in good condition; dusting that off and placing it on his head for the fun of it, Anto looked at the next item which was a whip.
…
The last item looked to be some kind of gold slab.
"Ooo. Shiny. What is that?" Sen looked glanced toward the item.
"Dunno." Anto saw his reflection on the slab as he wiped of the dust. "I wonder where this came from?"
"I don't know, but we should probably keep moving." Takezo reminded them.
The five made their way, but the more they kept moving, the more the ruins around them looked fresher, more preserved. But as the same time, the cold around them felt colder.
It came to the point they had reached a dead end… and some kind of altar.
There was a pedestal that held an item that seemed of great importance.
"What is that?" Lily asked hypnotically as she stared at the item enshrined in front of a large sun symbol.
Anto seemed rather excited since he recognized the object. "Wow! Lily this is a Sun Stone! You can evolve with it!"
"Really? Then what are you waiting for?!"
Anto went up and took the untouched object of worship off the ancient altar.
He tossed the Stone to Lily and in a bright flash of light she evolved and grew into a Liligant.
"Wow!" Lily twirled in her new body. "This feels so much better—oh, I think I know a bunch of new moves now." She exclaimed as she placed her hand on her head.
"Glad you like it." Anto thought out happily. Maybe he could try out new fusion moves with Lily.
Ohko also seemed quite pumped. "Wow! Tight! Ya just grew taller!" Then he looked to Anto. "You too boss!"
"Eh?" Everyone else reacted to Ohko's odd comment.
"Ohko, what do you mean I grew up? I'm still the same."
Ohko pointed behind him. "But you're taller than that pedestal now."
Everyone snapped their heads behind Anto. It wasn't that Anto grew taller; it was the pedestal that was sinking.
A loud clicking noise echoed through the ruins as the pedestal sunk completely into the ground.
"Oh lord it's booby trapped!" Anto exclaimed as the wall behind the pedestal opened up. The ground shook violently and from the shadows, a large boulder was rolling towards them!
{Recommended Music: Indiana Jones Theme Song (Dooo itttt!)}
"AAAHHHH!" Everyone screamed as they ran away from the boulder.
The walls ahead of them also started to move! And a large wall descended from above and prevented them from escaping back from where they entered.
The group did notice that a new path way opened up, but it looked like it went even further below the surface. However, since they didn't have any other choice, they all ran down the new path, but the Boulder still chased after them!
"I can't believe it was booby trapped! Why didn't I see that coming!?" Anto cried out as he ran as fast as he could. Seriously, how unlucky could he get!?
"Wait! I just realized something!" Sen shouted out as he ran with them.
"What is it!?" Anto asked hurriedly.
"I'm a ghost, I can just phase through that." Sen calmly explained before stopping and allowing himself to phase through the speeding boulder.
"WHAT!? HEY! WHAT ABOUT US!?" Anto cried out. Man, he felt like he just got betrayed by his lifelong friend for almost no apparent reason!
Anto's other Pokémon looked at each other.
"Do not worry Anto, I believe I am small enough to squeeze through the corners and not get hit by the boulder—I'll go get Sen." Takezo quickly said before Anto could even react, and slid into a corner to slip by the boulder.
"TAKEZO!? WHHHYYY!?"
Lily understanding her new body better, executed a rather mean plan. "Anto, thanks for teaching me how to use Magical Leaf!"
Lily suddenly summoned a bunch of leaves in front of them, and the moment Lily stepped on it; it catapulted her over the boulder and into safety
"THE HECK!?" Anto cried out. Weren't these guys supposed to be his friends?! Why did they freaking ditch him?!
"Don't worry Boss!" Anto almost felt like crying at Ohko's loyalty. "I got yo baAAAAACCCCKKKKkkk…."
Did… did Ohko just fall down a trap hole?
Anto shed a single tear before running all alone about to be probably crushed by a fast moving boulder.
Anto looked ahead and saw the path ahead of him looked like it was destroyed and there was a huge gaping hole in the path. However, there was this left over boulder protruding out of the wall.
An insane idea formed in Anto's head.
Anto got out the whip as he got closer to the abyss. With every ounce of his strength he had left, he ran even faster before jumping off the ledge.
Time slowed down as Anto flicked the whip towards the protruding rock.
The Whip raced toward the rock and as it got closer, Anto's smile only grew wider.
Then the whip cracked at the rock and it shattered into a million pieces.
Anto had made a horrible face much like a straight man from an anime comedy before gravity started to catch up with him.
"Magical Leaf!"
Anto then found himself by carried by a pile of magical leaves. He turned his head back to where he was originally and saw Sen, Takezo, and Lily waiting at the edge.
Rather than bringing him to them, Lily summoned more leaves for the three of them and motioned them across the abyss where the boulder already fell.
When they got across, Anto was in tears. "Why did you guys abandon me!?" Did he not just make a rather epic speech about not abandoning someone recently?
"We didn't abandon you per say… we simply positioned ourselves differently to help you." Takezo rephrased, which made the other two nodded their heads vigorously in agreement.
"You guys are jerks. At least Ohko didn't abandon me! … On purpose."
Sen looked around. "Where is the blue guy anyway?"
"A trap door opened underneath him! I'm worried where he could be right now…"
"We'll have to just keep faith that he can handle himself. He is one of our best fighters after all. In the meantime, we must be careful. If Ohko really did fall through a pit trap there may be more traps ahead of us—"
Takezo was interrupted by a loud thud sound coming from the ground ahead of them.
The ground shook several times before it started to crack. After a rather powerful shake, a familiar blue fist broke out of the ground before and made a hole appear. Ohko climbed out and saw everyone just fine.
"Yo folks!" He happily said as he got himself out of the hole. "You ain't dead!"
However, when he made one step towards them, the ground beneath him gave way and made a loud click noise, as if he had just activated a switch.
Anto shook his head in disbelief that this was happening. "That's just not fair…"
The walls beside them opened up to reveal countless holes that shot out spears! One of them came dangerously close to impaling Anto.
Suddenly even more spears shot out and the five had to start moving to avoid being impaled.
"What did I ever do to deserve this!?" Anto whined in complete honesty as he ducked and bobbed from the spears going approximately one hundred miles per hour.
[Later… (You can also end the music here if you want.)]
Anto, along with his four Pokémon, found themselves gasping for breath.
Somehow, after getting out of the hallway of spears, they had stumbled onto a room where there were these huge statues of Darmanitans that shot out flamethrowers, but then they went out of the frying pan and into a sealed room where they (Except Sen really) almost drowned until Ohko broke the wall by smashing it in one blow, yet ended up in another hallway with a collapsing floor and had to out run gravity…
And lastly they had just gotten out of another hallway with a giant boulder chasing them again with spears launching from all sides of the walls with occasional flame throwers mixed in that had much deadlier pitfalls, giant blade pendulums, and elaborate and intricate traps that involve pieces of the wall crushing on top of them if one of them stepped on a sun symbol.
… It's a freaking miracle they are all alive right now.
"I… I can't believe I'm alive…" Sen did not notice that statement did not completely fit with him. He also didn't care, and he also did not notice that there were several Spears that were impaled to his back, but he also didn't care about those. "I never thought I'd say this, but I miss the lab."
Lily was sprawled on the floor panting for air. "I might join you for that offer…"
"We must at least be thankful we survived that…" Takezo gasped heavily.
"The worst part is that I have a nasty feeling this isn't even over… hold still Sen," Anto weakly mentioned before trying to pull out one of the spears.
The previous three groaned at the thought of going through something like that again.
Well…
"WOOHOO! THAT WAS AWSOME!" Ohko, despite having taers and holes on his cloak, seemed rather excited and pumped. "Let's do all that again!"
"Ohko stop somehow making things worse." Lily weakly demanded.
"And please stop moving, you might activate another trap—" A loud clicking noise was heard. "DANG IT OHKO!"
"Wasn't me I swear!" Ohko held his hand out in defense.
The wall suddenly opened up. Everyone tensed, especially when they heard sounds coming from the door and a shine of light come out from the darkness.
"Anto!? There you are!" Summer, putting off the light from the capture styler attached to her wrist, came out from the opening in the wall with flow following close to her.
"Summer?" Anto repeated in shock before everyone sighed in relief that it wasn't another trap.
"Oh here's where you were," Anto saw Wes and Tracey step out from behind the doorway.
"Nice hat." Wes added more as Anto realized he never removed the thing from his head.
"Anto are you alright? You all look terrible!" Tracey worryingly asked.
"We freaking went through a stupid amount of booby traps to get here!" Anto complained to them.
At that, all of the others stared back at Anto with wide eyes.
"This place has traps!?" Summer asked in disbelief.
"Wait, didn't you guys cross any traps while you've been under here?" Sen asked as he tried to remove another spear.
Tracey looked to him. "We've been traveling for a while, but we've never ran across any traps…"
Anto, along with Lily and Takezo, had this tick and twitch under their right eyes. (Since Ohko thought it was fun and Sentinel lacked eye lids.)
"Oh man you guys missed out! It was hecka fun!" Ohko jubilantly dismissed.
If Anto had a voice right now, you would hear him do some kind of pitiful version of both laughing and crying at the same time, but he's mute so it just looked like he was chocking on air—which in his case, he wouldn't be surprised if something like that happened to him.
[Several Minutes later]
The group caught Anto up to speed about how they were all scattered throughout here, but Summer was able to spot Wes, and then Tracey after a while.
Anto revealed that he grave robbed someone about the whip, hat, and ancient slab, much to the horror of Tracey and Summer, but to the amusement of Wes.
Now that they were all together, they all decided to get out of here. (And make sure the slab is turned over to a museum or researcher/archeologist, much to the dismay of Wes for thinking he could sell it off to the black market.)
However, as they traveled there was a peculiar thing he noticed about how the group was walking. Summer was walking slightly ahead of the group and Wes was trailing behind them. It almost looked like the two were… avoiding each other.
Anto nudged Tracey before putting finger on his mouth to keep quiet. Wes seemingly was looking at the ruins, while Summer was glancing ahead. Anto didn't even communicate telepathically and just made hand signs silently.
"What's with them?" He asked silently and subtly with his hand motions.
Tracey shrugged his shoulders. He also didn't know, but both he and Anto noticed something definetly happened between the two.
"Do we ask?" Anto quickly motioned.
Tracey shook his head. If he learned anything from the arguments from Ash and Misty, it was to let things be handled by themselves.
"Ah."
The human males all turned to Summer.
"Look!" She pointed ahead. There was some kind of opening that lead to an even greater chamber. But what stuck out the most was that there looked to be researcher equipment seemingly studying some of the glyphs on the wall.
"Looks like there was someone here!" Tracey called out.
"Who the heck are you kids!?" A different, and older voice called out.
Everyone turned towards the voice. Summer automatically started explaining things before looking completely, "Excuse me sir, but—KYYYAAAAHHH!" She shrieked as she covered her eyes and blushed furiously.
Tracey and Anto gawked at the man in front of him.
Wes… "Uhh… why are you only wearing your boxers?" He asked hesitantly.
"To really feel the air of history! It's basic Archeology!"
"No it's not!" All of them yelled. Anto even added in mentally, but the man didn't notice.
"Ugh, it's university all over again…" The very strange Archeologist sighed before looking at Anto. "Nice hat by the way."
The man actually decided to wear more proper attire in adventuring. However, it didn't matter what he wore, as long as he wore something over his body.
The man introduced himself as Professor Enjos Andiani, an archeologist trying to discover the secrets of the left over civilization here in the desert Resort. He had a very… eccentric… personality in learning the mysteries of the past, but Tracey confirmed that his research was very professional.
Since the group had finally found a man willing to take them up, they were in no hurry and decided to listen to Enjos' brief summary of what he was doing. This ruin talked about a very powerful warlord and conqueror approximately 3000 years ago. The thing about this place is that it's supposed to be his ancient fort/castle that has withered away over the course of time.
The five humans and Flow were all sitting on a desk with snacks and some drinks Enjos kindly prepared.
"Now, as you can see, this giant room we seem to be in is actually some kind of altar," He then points over to a large wall where he set up several spot lights over. "There is some kind of missing slab in the wall there that seems to unlock something, but I've been searching for months now and I have no idea where this slab could be!"
The group then turned their heads to Anto, who blinked twice and noticed everyone looking at him.
Anto puts his hand over his mouth as if pretending to cough before taking out the Slab he looted from a corpse—what a respectful kid.
"That's it!" Enjos cried out in joy. "That's what I'm looking for! Can I have it please!?" He asked like an excited child.
"As long as you don't strip again, yes." Anto handed it over to him.
"Oh yes! I won't! Finally!" Enjos cried before taking the slab and running up to his set.
Flow stared at Anto with wide eyes. "Anto, did you just connect to him?"
"What?" He asked. "Oh yeah. Oops, I've been so used to you guys, I think I did it automatically."
Flow shook her head. "That's the thing: I didn't connect you to him. You spoke telepathically into his mind yourself."
"What?" Summer asked in disbelief.
"Are you sure?" Tracey added in. If Flow was right, then that would mean Anto's power would be… evolving?
Flow nodded. "Anto I think you linked to him yourself."
Before anyone else could add into that, a loud sound came from the direction Enjos left.
As soon as the slab was placed in, the ground started to shake. Everyone quickly got up and followed after Enjos.
There looked to be some kind of glow in the runes and they kept going upward, making more runes and symbols above it glow gold until it reached the large Sun symbol where it started to crack.
Wes and Anto acted quickly, both bringing out Espeon and Lily. "Espeon Reflect!/Lily, Magical Leaf shield!" They both cried.
The two Pokémon complied as the light grew even brighter from the sun and it ended up exploding in a fierce blast.
The two Pokémon were able to shield everyone else from the blast, but as the blast died down, Wes readied his other Pokémon. Anto and the others followed his example and all of their Pokémon got ready.
"At last…" A powerful voice echoed through the chamber, out of the sun a giant Volcarona appeared to them like a being from the great beyond. It's very presence lit up the dark ruin as if it was its own personal sun.
Its eyes glanced down on all of them before him, either ants or subjects that's all he saw before him.
"I awaken. Bow, your god ascends." The power in his voice seemed like something even beyond that of Aura or Psychic communication. For almost everyone, they actually had half a mind to bow down.
"What's a god?" Ohko quickly asked making everyone but Enjos look at him questioningly.
"I think it's something…" One of Zwelious' heads started. "… That has to do something with being able to bark a lot." The other head finished.
Before Anto could even start to question that, he felt a large power gathering up from the large Fire/Bug type.
"Everyone, counter with your own attack!" Wes barked hurriedly.
Everyone that could launched their own long range attack at the large ancient Pokémon.
Volcarona scoffed. "Be purified."
He then unleashed a devastating energy to face all the Pokémon's attacks.
[Outside on the surface…]
Some tourists and adventurers were looking around the Desert Resort. The surface ruins were old and faded, but they were still enough to capture people's interest.
However, a large burst of flames shot out of the ground like a geyser, surprising everyone and all wild Pokémon in the area. The pillar of flame was so powerful it even stopped the raging sand storm around with a single blast.
As the pillar died down, they all saw a giant shadow cast from the sun. The ground beneath it revealed a large hole that seemed to go deep underground. And the sand around it crystallized and turned glass like, which sparkled under the sunlight.
Suddenly the giant Pokémon stretched out its wings and created a flash bang almost making a second sun appear in the dessert, but the flash quickly died down and the mysterious creature was gone.
Among the crowd, a man with a rather intimidating Tyranitar smiled.
"Welcome back old friend."
[Back in the ruins below…]
"Is… *Cough* is everyone alright?" Wes asked as the dust settled and the sunlight came back in."
Everyone responded with some kind of groan or grunt.
"I think we're all OK, a little de winded, but OK," Tracey spoke out. "I hate to see what would have happened if we all didn't counter that attack with fusion moves..."
Wes looked to Summer, and she seemed to already guess that look. "If you're wondering, that Pokémon is a Volcarona basically a powerful bug and fire type, but that one was gigantic and probably a really ancient Pokémon."
"You're right." They all looked to Enojs, "If my studies here are any indication, the civilization here was under the rule of a powerful man and his Pokémon, Volcarona who was believed to be a sun god at that age. They were only stopped but not defeated by one of the two heroes of Unova that was with Reshiram or Zekrom, but they slightly point to Reshiram.
Anto looked up to the huge hole in the ceiling with Takezo. "But where did it go just now?"
Takezo gripped his blade. "I have an ominous feeling about this."
{Author Notes}
Sorry for taking a bit longer than usual. But here's the next chapter for P:ABA! It's the prelude to the massive event coming up in Nimbasa city and I can't wait to start it out. For those that sent OCs, now is the time and I am so sorry for taking so long!
Also, what exactly happened between Summer and Wes? Who knows? But I figured I'd get to that later!
Nothing like friends betraying you in the middle of a classic movie scenario of a boulder about to crush you… *Sniff* I promised myself I wouldn't cry…
And there is a lot of meta breaking in this chapter. Even for meta people didn't even know there was!
Even Also-er, this is pretty much the only chapter before we head to Nimbasa City! For those of you that submitted OCs, welcome to the crazy adventure that is this story! OMG!