"You mortals and your 'Science'.

How you amuse me so with all your fancy names and extensively detailed expositions…

So why is it, with all your fancy words, funny shaped charts, and detailed explanations…

That you cannot cure stupidity?"

[?]

Reality blurred with fantasy, she saw the twisted smile of the horrible creature turn into someone she trusted with her life.

"You will always be a failure. Just give up already."

She knew it wasn't him, it wasn't his voice, his usual brave and confident voice.

That didn't stop the tears from coming nor the pain stabbing through her heart.

[?]

Episode 24: Festival of Ruin Part 2

The air tasted sour, bitter, just breathing it made her lungs lurch in disgust.

The girl and the stranger made their way past the old, forgotten cemetery in the dead of night. However, the girl was starting to regret her decision, the more so when she gulped at the sight of an ancient and ruined church.

She entered through the door and saw the ruined pillars, the tears on the ceiling, the broken and dust pews or benches. And the dim, grime filled windows that were obviously once stained with beautiful colors that light up under the sun, but were now faded and dull and showed only added into the darkness of the area.

Then she saw them, standing across broken archways and pillars, looking down on her like a small Rattata. They were all covered in mysterious cloaks, all radiating with something inhuman…

"And who…" A voice called out—if one could call it a voice. The base sound of it sounded human, but the voice was raspy, yet it sounded like it penetrated one's ears and chilled the mind.

"Have you brought before us…?" It came from the one in front of them, the one sitting on the broken tabernacle as if it was some kind of king's throne. He looked to be relaxing on top of it, as if he believed himself to be far above others.

She didn't know she was trembling at his mere image.

The person who brought her in, strode forward, uncaring of the inhuman voice and the prying three other pairs of what she thought were human eyes staring hard at her, and spoke out. "She shall be my vassal, and I promised her and her partners The Gift."

"Gift!?"

Screeched one of the smaller hooded figures standing on top of a cracked archway on the girl's left. The shriek of the voice made it sound like she was another girl around her age, but there was anger prevailing within her rants. "You call this a gift!? It's a curse!"

"A curse that reveals the truth about this world."

Another, more monotone voice spoke out, from a different hooded figure. His voice sounded without passion in it.

But then, what he had said had caused the girl to say something in turn.

"Truth?"

She clasped her mouth with her hands.

The four of them turned to her at her question. She realized that she may have said something taboo amongst these four.

The one sitting on the false throne stood up. And asked her simply,

"Tell me, Girl, which false god do you believe in?"

[Present Time]

The teams all made their way towards their two destinations, tensions ran high and temporary alliances had been made.

Wes and N were making their way towards the town hall. It was the place where all hostages were in currently and where Anto was told to go to.

However, their destination already had valiant souls trying their best to handle the situation.

"Of all the rotten luck; three Gym leaders, one Elite Four, and two Champions…" The man behind a Raikou metal mask drawled as he rubbed the back of his Team Plasma Hood.

"Code: Warden!" The other fake team members said as they retreated backward, some of their Pokémon being injured.

"So you must be one of the higher ups." Alder stated almost monotonously.

"And one of the Champions is pissed at me… brilliant." Warden looked over to his Medicham who just shrugged his shoulders.

"Well that's one way to put it. But how about putting it in this perspective, you ruined a peaceful, gathering event and twisted it into scaring thousands, probably millions of people with the hostage situation, and further traumatizing more by shooting one of those hostages right in front of my face." His fists clenched and the usual calm smile was replaced with a solemn frown. "You are going to pay for your crimes."

There was shiver going up all the fake Team Plasma Members as they heard the usually gentle and laid-back Champion turn vicious.

"Yeah yeah."

Warden nonchalantly shrugged it the not-so subtle threat off as five more of his Pokémon came out, a Pinsir, a Blaziken, an Ampharos, a Slowbro, and a Sableye. However, all of them were wearing a pendant except for the Medicham which was wearing a turban with his gem in the turban.

"Those gems!" Valarie cried out as she and all her Fairy Pokémon looked surprised.

Warden moved his sleeve and armed his gauntlet.

"Everyone, get ready." He simply said.

Then his gauntlet beeped to life.

"Six Mega Stones Detected. Activate Evolution?"

"Yes." Warden raised his gauntlet above his head.

"Priming… launching all six Key Waves…"

"Do not let him activate that machine!" Valarie cried out before six rainbow pulses exploded out from Warden's gauntlet, making six bright lights shine like a miniature sun.

N, and his group stopped as they saw something akin to rainbows shooting out from the Town City Hall. They all had to cover their eyes from the flash bang before it quickly died down.

Suddenly, as soon as the lights died down, the building started getting destroyed from the inside as more shrieks and screams were heard. Some Pokémon, some human.

"Why is it when we're supposed to have the advantage, like have two champions, three gymleaders, and an Elite Four member, life screws you over and turns the tables so easily?" Jamie complained as he thought that maybe going with Team Plasma and working with more than several elite League members, they would have had a chance to beat a bunch of fake posers.

But with the obvious look from the building… not likely.

"Well we're not changing anything standing here." Wes told them before heading first towards the others.

The outside Parking lot of the Nimbasa City Radio tower was turned into a battlefield as Pokémon attacks and charred metal went flying everywhere.

"Move out of the way!" One false Team Plasma members shouted as a group of them ducked away from a Leaf Tornado from an angry White.

"OK, she looks pissed." Ruby noted with his Swampert and Gardevoir out.

To be honest this all could have been much worse, they weren't losing which was good, and there were a lot of skilled and talented Trainers fighting to take back the Radio Tower. But the thing was that their enemies were very competent. In a one on one they must have realized that the trainers storming them all had better Pokémon and had enough experience to take on the best of them.

However, the enemies were absolutely not slouches. They were very coordinated, like a well oiled machine. They all paired up with a partner that had a Teleport move while some of the others hunkered back. What they pulled off were something akin to guerilla tactics. They would teleport to one side of their enemy, while the other used his non-dark Pokémon to attack. Sometimes they would succeed or sometimes they would be parried by their enemy's ally, either way, after the attempt they would back off and the teleporter would get them out of the way.

While this was going on, the grunts at the back bombarded their opponents with heavy artillery with many long ranged attacks, making it almost impossible for this team to reach the Radio Station.

"For a bunch of fakers, these guys are insanely annoying!" Sebastian cried out before he commanded his Leafeon to parry a Machoke before the fighting type was teleported out by a Kirlia. That left Lucario open to be drenched by a far Brine attack.

"Ugh, we can't fight like this!" Sapphire complained. "Just push through their barricade!" She pointed at the sealed doors a bunch of fakers were protecting.

Everyone agreed, and soon tried to make their way towards the main doors despite all the heavy fire.

However, Aster looked up to the sky and saw something falling from the tower.

"Everyone back!" She yelled by pointing to something massive going to fall right on top of them.

The group split up from the thing that fell with a deafening crash and earth shaking landing. As the dust settled down, a giant figure's shadow loomed inside the dust cloud.

"Hail and welcome, bro'thas and sistas!" The voice called out as the fog died down, revealing a man sitting on top of a fierce looking and shiny Aggron's shoulder. He stood out from all the imposters with an iron mask that looked similar to Suicune's face.

"Where's my mom, you monster!?" White yelled out angrily.

"Mom?" Majus scratched his head and jumped off his Aggron's shoulder. A Beedrill flew beside down beside him and a Banette came out of the shadow of the Aggron. Following that, a Gengar materialized on Majus's opposite side of the beedrill, while a Gallade teleported in front of him, ready to defend his master.

A smile crossed his lips as out came a Gengar from thin air then a Pidgeot flew down and a Gallade teleported instantly beside him.

"Oh. I think you be mis understandin something." He said as he subtly pressed buttons on his gauntlet.

Wes and N barged through the door where the League members and their partners all looked battered up and tired.

The place looked tattered and destroyed, with several walls already beaten, blasted, and busted. Most of the league members were there except Fatina, who was in the far corner standing between the hostages and some of the fake Plasma members.

"Great, more of you." Warden said.

"Reinforcements?!" Marshal looked surprised as he looked at N and the people behind him.

"We're actually here to help you guys." Arran said as he and several of his Pokémon prepared themselves in front of the six Megas and the army behind them.

"And now the real Team Plasma is here. Great—just fantastic." Warden complained as he put a plam to rub the bridge of his nose.

Wes stepped forward. "If it's too much for yah, yah could just surrender and give us back Anto and the hostages."

"Hahahahahahahaha!" Warden suddenly burst into laughter, making everyone stare at him strangely.

"Oh! Oh! I needed that laugh." Warden gasped as he wiped his eyes.

Wes opened his mouth to ask—

"What do you mean misunderstand something?" Summer demanded Majus as his Pokémon drew closer to him.

He pointed to White.

"See that girl's mother? She ain't here."

"Then where is he?" Wes asked, his Pokémon all wary as both sides faced down each other. He then asked,

"Is she with the other Hostages in the Town Hall? Did you trap her with Anto?" Summer stared down Majus.

"Ha ha. No to the kid and President being in the Radio Tower," Warden smugly smiled. "But you were right in guessing those two important figures are in the same place."

"That doesn't make any sense!" Tracey stepped forward towards Summer with his Scizor close behind him.

"You told him to go to the Town Hall! We were all there… Unless…"

Then realization spread across his face.

"It was the XTransceivers, wasn't it!?" Emerald shouted as he pointed to the watch on their wrists. "You took control of the Camera Bots, didn't you? It wasn't too hard to control those too! You must have activated Anto's and made him change course while every thought he was going in one direction!" He pointed accusingly at a now scowling Warden.

Majus smiled deflated.

"I be guessin bein with Professor Oak long enough is bound to give ya some smarts…" He told Tracey.

But then Warden's smile returned just as quickly. "So Watson and Sherlock, where's Waldo?"

Everyone grew silent at that.

"Are you saying that all of this!?" Marshal pointed over to the other hostages. "Was just a distraction!?"

Warden didn't move. "I'll let you decide that one for yourself. Now, shall we continue this battle?"

His Mega Pokémon itched back into fighting stances.

[Where he was...]

Anto read the instructions on his re opened XTransciver. The moment he got out of sight of his friends, the watch came to life and commanded him to take a different direction. He would have ignored it, if it weren't for the fact the woman came up and silently ordered him to follow the new location.

To his surprise, Anto found out he was heading towards the amusement park of Nimbasa City.

He looked up to the Ferris Wheel, then he saw her, The Woman standing on top of one of the carts with a gun in her hand. But inside the cart were two people: Mrs. Akio and Hilda.

Anto was surprised at that, especially when Mrs. Akio looked to the boy below with worry. She looked to say something, but for some reason, no words came out of the cart.

Inquisitor jumped off the top of the Ferris Wheel. From behind one of the buildings, a speedy figure came in and swept her off the air. Anto shielded his eyes as the wind came straight towards his face, but as it died down, he noticed a fierce looking Flygon staring him down with the scary woman standing right beside the dragon.

The woman reached out for Anto.

"Wait!" Anto mentally screamed, surprising the woman and making her flinch. "What do you want from me!?"

Inquisitor stared hard at Anto. "No… you already reached telepathy levels!?" Her Flygon tensed and she pointed her pistol towards the boy. "That would have only manifested after 50 years!"

Anto raised his hands and stepped back, only to trip and fall on his back.

From the top of the Ferris Wheel, Mrs. Akio slammed on the windows desperately as she felt as if she just saw her son about to get shot.

Flygon tensed, before coming in front of Inquisitor and shielding her from an electrical blast.

While that happened, Anto was surprised to see Sentinel appear right beside him and whisk him away from the spot with Phantom Force.

"No!" Inquisitor cried out as Subject 5 vanished. She quickly took out a remote and the gates to the Amusement park closed and locked themselves. Actually, gates shot up all throughout the amusement park and started glowing in activation.

Sentinel and Anto popped out of the attack and ended up near the gym entrance.

Anto looked up, and was surprised once more to see Takezo, Ohko, and Lily as well as Sentinel all together here.

"Guys!? H-How did you get here? How did you find me?"

Lily motioned to Takezo before taking out her Poké Ball and handing it back to Anto. "Takezo helped us out and filled us in something was happening and you had to leave us to save another person."

"As soon as we heard that, we chased after you while everybody was surrounded by floating circles. No way we were leaving ya alone boss." Ohko tossed his Great Ball back to Anto for the boy to catch.

The young boy was just shocked at how his Pokémon would be willing to risk their lives for him. "… You guys… really went through all that for me? Why?"

"You meant what you said about friends being too stupid to know what being abandoned meant."

Sentinel worded weirdly before putting his Dusk Ball in Anto's hands along with the other two.

"I… want to live by those words. And I don't want you to leave us."

For the first time, Anto felt Sentinel's ghost fire… turn warm for a second.

"There you are!"

Takezo and all the others jump in front of Anto as they all saw Inquisitor turn the corner with her own batch of Pokémon.

The high agent stared observantly at Sentinel.

"A Delta Charmeleon? Those appear in the Torren Region, don't they?"

Anto stared cautiously at the woman as more Pokémon came out besides the Flygon such as a Stunfisk, Meganium, Milotic, Cacturne, and Eevee.

She fixed her mask and started typing something in her gauntlet.

"Did you know that the Torren Region is a very unique Region? Not only are they one of the very few regions in the world with Delta Pokémon, but… they also have their own signature Mega Evolutions that no other Pokémon can do."

Anto paled at where his mind was going with this. He looked to all of her six Pokémon, he thought those Pokémon didn't have a mega evolution!

"Torren Region Pokémon have their own separate branch of Mega Evolutions, only Pokémon from that Region can Mega Evolve differently. For example, if you bring a specific Mega Stone—say Flygonite—and use it on a Flygon that isn't from the Torren Region, it won't work. Though it's a good thing my all of my partners are from the Torren Region…"

Anto stood up, gulping as he saw all six Pokémon bring up a Mega Stone in their person.

"Guys… get ready for the fight of your life!" Anto told his four Pokémon then stood up as he said it.

Then all six of the Pokémon were bathed in a rainbow light.

All Pokémon were radically different from what he expected them to be.

As the light died down, the boy paled at the sight of all six opposing Pokémon evolving to an even further state of power.

The one that stood out the most was Mega Flygon. Towering even taller than before, the massive dragon type now truly looked like a real and fierce dragon along the likes of Salamance and Hydreigon. It now had four wings and now looked similar to a much more powerful dragon like Yanma. It's tail end became sharper while it's length was increased and now had three rings attached to it. His neck was extended and the rest of his body grew more bug like for some reason. It was if it was now a Dragon bug type rather than the usual ground and dragon. Still, it's ruby piercing eyes at it stared at all of them made his enemies shiver.

And that was only one of five other horrible monstrosities!

Mega Stunfisk, the usual normal and funny looking Pokémon, was no longer retaining almost any semblance of its previous evolution. It was almost like a different Pokémon entirely with it now having eerie yellow claws, spikes protruding out of his body, and a sinister face where that simple oblivious look had once been. Electricity cackled all over its body, making all the normal lights in the immediate vicinity flicker then eventually burst at the overwhelming power at its mere presence.

Mega Milotic was a beautiful and awe filled sight. If one thought Milotic was beautiful before, it's mega Evolution in the Torren Region dwarfed all normal ones. The scales of the Milotic were no longer the usual red and blue, but now a beautiful array of rainbow scales that fanned into a gorgeous tail of bright neon colors with white. Despite its stunning beauty with every small movement, the light around the Pokémon was bright enough to seemingly hurt Sentinel by just looking at the creature.

If Mega Molitic was beautiful, Mega Cacturne was horrific. Just like Mega Stunfisk, the Pokémon became far scarier than he was previously. For one, his entire color tone became much darker than usual, then all of its needles grew and turned charcoal black. It's hat also turned black and seemingly became pointier.

Mega Meganium was another towering titan among the enemy team, the flower or petals that once surrounded her changed into a vivid, pink orchid. Her antennas now had these ends that you would normally see on an orchid. Her body looked more jungle like with wild leaves growing out, much like the more primal wilds had grown across her body.

Last, but in no way least was the Mega Eevee. The least noticeable fact about Mega Eevee was that it's color scheme was swapped. All of the fur area that should have been chocolaty brown was now crème white, and the areas that were white were now brown. It was also slight more fluffy looking with its fur becoming more ruffled out and puffy. But the staggering thing about Mega Eevee were the floating, different colored stones circling around the small creature that made one think about a lesser version of the mighty Arceus, but none the less powerful in its own right.

{Author Notes: Alright. Six fan-made mega evolutions are going to be a drawl on to describe and write. This is already long enough with the fighting all over Nimbasa City, so I'm going to have to cut down on these, but the good news is that there is a site that has all six of the fan made mega evolution pictures in one place. I STRONGLY suggest looking it up if you want an idea of the enemy six mega evolutions and keep it in your tabs since I plan to use more of them.

Here's the site, just remove the '()' and remove the spaces:
(http) : / / (wiki) . p –insurgence Mega _ Evolution # Unofficial
They will be around the bottom or mid section of the page and shouldn't be too hard to find.}

They all tensed at the sight of Six powerful opponents all bursting with power and surrounding them.

Not only were they outnumbered, but they were out classed.

"They…" Takezo actually seemed to gulp as he gripped his blade tighter. "They all have the same presence as the Absol that attacked us…"

That made Anto's heart sink. That one Absol nearly killed him, now he had to deal with Six of these things?

To be honest, he was scared, frightened even, but for some reason he found himself calming down faster. Perhaps from all of that time being used to all of these bad things happening, he started to build immunity for all this horrible, bad luck, and maybe he was learning to roll with the punches.

Either way, his sense of dread was dying out quickly, but all his mind could come up was how screwed over they were.

All she did was point towards him and his Pokémon.

"Take him down, hard."

And everything went from bad to worse in seconds.

With almost amazing and uncanny speed, somehow, Cacturne almost looked to will himself over to Ohko and back hand him with a Needle Arm, slamming the fighting type into the gym through the locked door. The dark type didn't even look like he moved his legs, rather it looked as if the ground was dragging him along at twisted speeds, but the speed and movement he showed, followed by the unsettling smile as he slowly turned his neck at the others, made him wrought fear into his enemies.

They all ran after Ohko, and away from Mega Cacturne, hiding in the refuge inside the de powered gym filled with Roller coasters. They picked up Ohko, who slowly got back up from the blow.

Then Mega Milotic slithered through the wall first.

"Lily, Energy Ball!"

Not wasting time, The Shiny launched a grass type move on the beautiful creature and it exploded on impact.

However, a glowing light coming from the smoke and Lily was shocked by an invisible force and fell to her knees.

Anto was shocked, it didn't look like move that just hurt Lily, it was too instant, too reactive. It must have been some kind of ability that reflected damage back at the user. Well that was unfair!

The walls were then ripped apart and were forced open by psychic energy, revealing an Espeon among the ranks. As the boulders were dropped to make room for the other Mega Pokémon, the Espeon turned back into Mega Eevee in a flash of pink light. This signified that Mega Eevee can transform and access all of its evolutions interchangeably, a very frightening ability.

"Hypnosis!" Anto tried again, maybe by at least momentarily inflicting status aliments.

Takezo aimed for a hypnosis blast at the Meganium, but then the psychic beams quickly hit a rainbow shield that appeared between the attack and the mega and quickly reflected the attack back towards Takezo. The nimble normal type ducked and closed his eyes, avoiding the beam that was actually mean for his opponent.

Anto quickly recognized that ability. He had seen it when Tracey used Sleeping Powder on the Absol. That was Magic Bounce. Did all of her Pokémon really have her bases covered?

His concentration broke when he saw both Mega Stunfisk and Mega Flygon both gathering energy to attack. For Mega Stunfisk, a large, overwhelming orb of electricity was gathering and cackling it's it's long slithery hand claws while for Mega Flygon, his wings seemed to coail and the rings around it's tial seemed to be glowing all up to its neck.

"Lily! Shield us! Everything you've got on it!"

The grass type complied quickly trying to cover all five of them in a dome of Magic Leaf.

However, Flygon unleashed his attack a concentrated scream that seemed to be magnified and pointed towards the dome and Stunfisk unleashed a massive Thunderbolt attack that had pretty much doubled in both power and intensity.

From the trapped Ferris wheel, Mrs. Akio, paling in horror while taking care of Hilda, she looked in despair as she saw two powerfully unleashed attacks towards Anto. Seeing the building explode made her heart sink and her stomach drop. She watched in horror, before trying to take care of Hilda with the aftershocks of such powerful attacks.

The destructive force blasted through the pitiful dome and blasted it through the wall opposite side of the gym.

Inquisitor simply looked at the gauntlet. "Hmmm… a powerful Liligant. Had she not even tried to defend them, they all would have died from that. Still, it's near impossible to get back up again from something like that. But if it's the Seed…"

She and her Pokémon walked casually over the destruction and debris of the Nimbasa City Gym, electricity sparked out and dust covered broken large metal coasters, but still they moved as if all that destruction was nothing to them.

Things had gotten from bad to worse in seconds. The Mega Pokémon of Warden were amazingly resilient and powerful.

Despite literally having two champions, two gym leaders, an Elite Four member, the Leader of Team Plasma, Wes just hated how underpowered they were to the Faker's battle strategy.

The lesser peons of Team Plasma were sent to get the hostages out while battling some of the other members.

Yet was annoying was the fact that the fakers were way too coordinated. They were teleporting all over the place and making sure his attack wouldn't get it.

They all had their Pokémon out. It should have been easier, yet that didn't stop Mega Pinsir from body checking Wallace's Milotic through several pillars with just a simple Double Edge attack, didn't stop Accelegor, Alder's partner, from getting out sped and knocked out hard with a Blaze Kick from the inhumanly fast Mega Blaziken.

Mega Medicham was like a one man army, taking on several Pokémon at the same time with the ability to have six fists.

Mega Slowbro, while looking silly, was never impossible to damage, it was as if that thing had impenetrable armor.

Mega Sabelye was deceptive and annoying as freak. Blasting very quick Confuse Rays and Will-O-Wisp to any enemy he could see.

Mega Ampharos had amazing power behind her, blasting away at support that would have come from the other gym leaders.

Wes gritted his teeth, they were losing, losing bad. They couldn't land decisive blows and were taking a lot of hit themselves.

Then a thought occurred to him. Dark Types were immune or could cancel out psychic energy.

He had three.

It was a long shot, but—

"Wes, look out!"

Emerald's scream made the boy from Orre turn around, only to see Warden with an empowered Leaf Blade on his gauntlet swing at him. Wes barely dodged, but the swipe made a tear on his right arm, forcing the Snagger to clutch it from bleeding too much.

"If there is any constellation in all this," Warden stalked with his blade empowered. Wes's Pokémon all stood between the masked man and their trainer, but they looked tired from the other fighting.

Warden continued on, putting the blade above his head as if ready to strike. "It's that I can actually kill you this time."

He lunged at the boy.

Majus on the other hand had it far too easy.

He mega evolved all of his Pokémon and then proceeded to do something rather easy.

"Mega Banette, use Mirror Coat into the shape of a Disco Ball!"

Those last two words made every hero pause and process what he was saying.

"Did he just say Disco Ball?" Pearl asked as he and his Luxray, Raylord, avoided an aimed Charge Beam at them.

With the speed of its Prankster Ability, Multiple Mirror Coat attacks were piled up and condensed into such a sphere.

At that, all other lower peons backed off into the safety of the radio tower.

"What the heck is he doing with that?" Aster asked as she stared at the Banette concentrating on making his orb more intricate.

"Let's not him do whatever he's going to do, Charizard, Fire Blast!" Sebastian cried as his starter came inhaled deeply.

"Too late!" Majus cried as Banette tossed it into the air and the rest of his Pokémon except Mega Gengar looked away from the thing.

"Use Hypnosis!" Majus cried while closing his eyes.

Mega Gengar instantly attacked the crystallized ball with twin beams… that quickly exploded and scattered all throughout the area hitting pretty much everyone in the area, which were only the heroes.

However, some beams missed and some trainers were smart enough to avoid their hits, but it was too late, their numbers had been greatly incapacitated.

Majus smiled, looking at the greatly reduced numbers in front of him before sicking the rest of his Pokémon.

'You are so gullible.' A cold voice echoed in his mind, adding to the numbing pain.

His ears were ringing…

He couldn't see…

He felt heat burning his skin, smoke covering his lungs, and a strange numbing pain in his left arm…

Anto was sure it wasn't supposed to bend that way.

Coming his way, he could see it, a woman pointing a gun, wearing an iron Entei mask stalking slowly towards him. He saw six other of his Pokémon separating, seeing Takezo be stomped on by the Meganium, Lily being picked up then strangled by Mega Milotic, Ohko being stepped on the head by Mega Cacturne.

Sentinel being gripped tightly by Mega Stunfisk's claws.

Anto couldn't help but remember what had happened. Remember what he had caused because he resisted. He should have surrendered, if to spare all these people.

He could only tear up in his sorry state, not only from pain, but of failure. "I'm sorry… I'm so, so sorry… This is all my fault. I… I didn't know this would happen. I'm so sorry guys, I'm so sorry."

Visions of him being alone somewhere came t his mind, the same heartache, betrayal, and hopelessness. He had felt something akin to this before, but without the physical pain. He didn't care now. It was all over.

All of his Pokémon woke up at that, then all of them struggled to free themselves as Inquisitor made her way towards Anto.

Lily screamed. "Anto! Don't you dare! Don't give up on us now!"

"I'm sorry… I can't… it hurts so much…"

"Anto! … I never got to tell her that she was wrong!" Lily screamed, out loud, distracting Inquisitor for a second and making her look at the Pokémon. "The reason I always wanted to meet one of the swords of justice was to tell them they were wrong! A long time ago, I accidentally started a fire by messing with a human's car, it exploded in the forest, but the human of that car shielded me from severe burns! When he tried to bring us out, The sword of justice killed him! Saying that he was horrible for starting this fire, then she whisked me away to safety! I was too stunned and horrified and a good person got killed because of me—"

"Milotic, shut her up." Inquisitor said, finally tired of all that screaming that Liligant was doing.

Lily still continued despite Milotic crushing her body. "I'm not doing that again! I don't want to watch in silence as someone kind dies because of me again! Live Anto! Please don't die!"

Takezo yelled out as well. "She's right Anto! I will not stand and lose another person precious to me! I made that mistake last time! I want to be with you, I enjoy traveling with you despite all of your short comings. I will not stand here… and let her kill you!"

"Shut them up!"

"We won't give up!" Sentinel trashed under Mega Stunfisk's grip.

"We ain't gonna let them! We gonna choose to be with ya, boss!" Ohko gripped and started moving as well.

Hearing them all suffer, hearing them all strive so hard for him…

They would really go so far… for an unlucky mute amnesiac like him? For someone so insignificant?

... No one... has ever done that for him before...

Anto, moving against all numbing pain and struggling greatly to get back up, "Then I… Then I…"

His mind poured visions and sounds of cruel laughter, and showed a vision of a blurry girl. Their laughter pierced his heart for reasons he couldn't explain. The voice came back into his mind, the one telling him that this was all his fault that he was making everything worse by struggling, by living. That he should just eat dust and let this all end, then maybe she would spare his Pokémon, his friends...

Inquisitor pointed the gun quickly again.

'No…'

'No!'

Anto defied all of this, his friends were still calling out to him, still desperately trying to help him even though they know it would cause them pain. Were Pokémon really that loyal? He was sure he treated them kindly, but why were they willing to go so far for him?

But that wasn't it. If these wonderful, amazing, and beautiful Pokémon would fight so hard for him…

He was going to do the same for them!

"I choose to be with you guys as well!" He snapped open his eyes back at Inquisitor, burning with defiance.

"The Orders were clear: Kill, subject 5."

She aimed for his face pulled the trigger.

But too little too late, the bullet flew…

Right into a petal pointing itself towards the bullet! The bullet smashed into the Petal, but a powerful force made it stop the bullet just millimeters right between Anto's eyes.

Inquisitor turned to where Lily was wrapped under Milotic's grip. "Ice beam! Stop her from doing that again!"

At the same time, Anto snapped his head at the opposite direction. "Now, Ohko! Elbow his leg!"

His fighting type complied quickly, using his elbow to slam away Mega Cacturne's foot on him before kicking him in the chin.

Anto quickly moved. "Sen bite his claws then escape and Kick Milotic with a shadow Sneak! Ohko, throw Cacturne at Meganium!"

His Pokémon moved at the same time, Ohko, with his herculean strength, caught Cacturne and threw him at Meganium, the same time Sentinel bit hard on Stunfisk's claws and disappeared into the shadows before launching himself and kicking Milotic in the face and freeing Lily at the same time with Takezo.

Inquisitor panicked at the hysteria and tired again to shoot Anto, by pointing the pistol at him, but this time, a wooden blade was thrown forcing her to miss her shot and hit the area where there was nothing there but debris.

The blade flew from the bounce being caught by a jumping Patrat who landed skillfully between her and Anto, blade pointing at her and a fierce looking sword stance ready.

Sentinel jumped from behind the shadows and to Anto's front right, snarling hard and claws sharpened.

Ohko jumped towards Anto's front left, willing to stand by his trainer and to fight hard against crazy odds.

Lily, slid towards Anto's left side, magical leaves all scattered and prepared behind her and her friends that were all pointed towards Inquisitor and her six mega Pokémon.

Inquisitor was shocked. This was impossible. How could four measly, strange Pokémon, and a young, broken armed trainer be causing her this much trouble!? She had Six Mega Pokémon in her command and the highest tech at her disposal!

Anto, breathed deeply, before standing tall and glaring right back at Inquisitor's red eyes behind her mask.

"Tell whoever sent you this!" Anto mentally stated with new vigor in his mental speaking. He pointed his good hand towards here defiantly. "This 'Subject 5' is fighting back!"

It was a bold declaration coming from a boy who was injured along with weakened, injured, and outnumbered Pokémon to fight against much stronger and healthier Mega Pokémon under a highly skilled agent equipped with state of the art technology.

It was crazy!

Stupid!

Foolish!

Bizarre even!

Yet…

The way his simple amber eyes stared down the impossibly strong opponents down…

You could almost say, he was destined to prove them all wrong.

{Author notes}

Hey guys! I got great news! I joined up a new free writing site called 'Inkitt'. It's pretty cool since it does more than just let me write Fanfiction.

It might actually help me in starting a career in writing! (Fingers are crossed.)

Anyway, I'm moving copies of my major works over there. Though, it's going to be re-edited a lot, because I corrected some paragraph structure, grammar, and it has to actually look like a real novel, so there are going to be less notes unless I make them into something like separate chapters all together, to make the books more organized than here.

I hope you guys can support me there too! I'm still PhantomGalaxy13 over there, so whoo for original names!

I would appreciate it if you guys would still show some support over there as well as over here. you don't need to review or anything, just take a peak and see if you like their style of presenting stories rather than Fanfiction.

Thanks for reading, and hopefully the next chapter will come out soonish as well so we can finally get on with this!

Thanks for reading!