Episode 32: Even Heroes need Heroes
[Some nights ago…]
"It's been a while since I've been here… sorta." Anto spoke out loud as he started walking down what looked to be an endless church corridor. No matter how far he looked, he could only see an endless and regal red carpet in front of him with almost an infinite amount of benches that were beside the elongated carpet. The ceiling was filled with beautiful rainbow window mosaics that gave the illusion of rainbow light cascading down on his path.
It was starkly different from his last dream world for sure.
As he kept walking, he noticed something hop in front of his path. It was the same as all of his other dream Guardians, beings made of pure stars and space like the night sky, but unlike the Ursaring and Noctowl, whose sizes were greater than usual; this very much smaller and strange Bunnleby stood in its path and tilted his head as it looked to Anto.
Knowing about his previous talk with Hoopa, Anto kneeled down towards the small cosmic Pokémon that was twitching his nose.
"Um Hey."
"…"
"I… I have so many questions. … Will you answer them for me?"
The cosmic protector shook his widdle~ (little) head.
"Why?" Anto asked but was a little hurt. "Aren't you here to protect me?"
The strange dream being nodded their head this time.
"Wait you are? But… what are you protecting me from?"
Suddenly, the light around the church corridor started to die quickly and sounds of shattering glass came from behind him.
Anto snapped his head back, already noticing the Bunnelby was standing like a vanguard to protect him from something. He briefly looked back to notice that the small creature was no longer in front of him, but now behind him. The small little creature had moved faster than the boy could move his neck. However, he did not pay attention to that. Rather, he saw that at the very edge of his sight… there was something dark among all the light.
And it was coming closing in very fast.
The light started fading in the distance, followed by shattered windows and benches being tossed aside by an invisible and violent wind. As it came closer, Anto noticed three pale glows heading towards his direction.
"Run!"
The amnesiac didn't need a second to think about how the Guardian spoke out and ran as quickly as he could in the opposite direction. He heard the sounds of some kind of epic battle with lights and inhuman cries coming from behind him.
But he could not turn around and look back; he was too scared to even see what was going on.
At this point, he saw a familiar Ring appear in front of his path and out of the ring came Hoopa.
"Yeesh! Stay still will… you… aww crap! Hurry up meat bag! Hurry it up right now!" From relief then slowly into fear, the strange Ghost and Psychic Pokémon commanded the boy to run faster straight towards his opened ring.
At this, Anto swore he heard the sound of glass shattering even faster with darkness appearing in the corner of his eyes. That was more than enough incentive for him to run faster and dive into Hoopa's ring.
"OOF!" The brown eyed boy yelled as he suddenly found himself landing on something… rather soft. He opened his eyes to find himself in an eerily familiar theater.
"OK…" Hoopa appeared on a theater seat beside the dreaming boy who was really gasping for breath. "I'm starting to see what they are protecting you from."
"What was that!?" Anto threw his hands out in shock. Whatever that thing was, it tried to get him!
"I don't have any idea myself, but if I had to guess, I think it's the creator of this special Dimension. … It's weird though." The Ring Legendary spoke out thoughtfully as he placed a hand on his chin contemplatively.
"What's weird?"
The green eyed Pokémon looked towards the main stage of the theater, where there was nothing but a lonely spot light shining on the center of the stage. "It's complicated to explain, but basically, that being is not what I expected it to be."
"Huh?"
The dimensional Pokémon sighed. "Trust me, when you've been dimension hopping as long as I have, you gain a twentieth (20th) sense for these kinds of things—literally. I know you humans have the potential for six senses maximum sadly, but that's not the point. The point is that the being here doesn't feel 'Complete'."
"Complete?"
"Yeah… hmm… I think we're getting closer to the center of this dimension. This layer… it feels… more solid…" Hoopa expressed as he looked around.
"… But why does this place feel so very familiar?"
The small legendary's eyes widened as he heard those words. "Familiar? Oh, wait. You're time is up again."
At the sound of the little Pokémon's disappointment, the black haired boy looked down at himself to see he was becoming transparent.
"Well… see ya soon."
"Stop giving me so much trouble, Human!"
Even when dreaming, he still had to deal with troublesome Pokémon. "You make it sound like I'm doing it on purpose."
With that, the telepath signed off with a two finger salute and woke back up from his sleep.
The young Amnesiac admitted that so far in his (new) life, he has seen many a strange things in a very short span of time.
Among those strange things, he could definitely count this as one of the beautiful moments in his life.
"Wow… look at this place!" The telepathic boy wandered around the Charge Stone cave, it was like a boy entering a new world of wonder and excitement. He could see the electricity cackle between floating giant blue rocks and how they levitated around like magic.
"I've never seen flying rocks here before!" Jamie admitted as she looked around the place.
"Well you obviously haven't seen a lot of Stealth Rock users, trust me. Is it just me or are they popping up more and more as time goes on?" Wes commented in but was also really taking in the exotic scenery. The only thing Orre had going for them was an island and a volcano, which you could easily find in every other Region. The rest was just sand. It wasn't that impressive.
"Chargestone Cave is one of the most electrical charged places, if not the most electrically charged place in the world. Geologists state that the cave is filled with magnetic minerals that change all their molecular electrons to protons to neutrons sporadically to defy the gravitational pull of the planet." White explained as she walked ahead of the three.
"Wow. That sounded waaayy too sciency." Wes commented to the white cap wearing girl as his Espeon trailed behind him.
"Well you learn about this place quickly in show business. It's the one place in the Region you can't film since the high magnetism levels pretty much messes with any mechanical instrument…" White took out a Poké Ball. "But this place is also one of the few places in the world that…" She threw out the red and white sphere for her Magneton to appear. In a bright flash of light, the Pokémon evolved into a Magnezone from the electrical current of the area.
"Wow. It feels so much nicer to not be one mind sharing three bodies stuck together." The Magnezone moved around before moving towards White. The pony tailed girl lovingly rubbed her new steel and electric type.
"It's really a shame you can't film anything here. The set itself is straight out of a fantasy land." White explained before walking.
"You really are into film aren't you White?" Jamie asked as the group trotted along.
"Well yeah, I had Rickman Alan's and Wills Bruce autograph signed when I was in the set of "Dying Really Hard"."
"No way, you were actually there? Weren't you like really young that time?" Wes pointed out.
"My mom is pretty much a big movie business titan. She has some hand in all of the classics. Though she always did want to try one film in here. It's really a shame since technology couldn't really get through to this beautiful place."
At this point, the amnesiac of the group brought out Ohko and Kryx from his person.
"Whoa! Everything is blue!" Was the first thing Ohko seemed to notice in a gravity defying cave.
"A natural gravity field!" Kryx looked like her eyes were actually metamorphing into stars of wonder. "I will go through every nook and cranny until I find out what makes this place tick!" Two weird orb like machines appeared before the little alien disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Jamie stared at the place the little psychic was previously. "Anto what was that for?"
"You know that trouble follows me around." Anto spoke out as he looked around cautiously.
Jamie seemed to recognize what the young trainer was saying and left it at that.
The last time they had said that Anto was over reacting, he got abducted by Aliens. Needless to say, trouble and misfortune were like love obsessed stalkers when it came to the young teen.
So it came to only a little surprise when the cave started shaking.
"I didn't do that I swear!" Kryx teleported back with two damaged looking orbiters."… But I wish I did!"
"Kryx, what's going on!?" The young boy askedas the shaking seemingly got worse.
It was at this point the stalagmites from above broke off and started falling into our party.
"Kryx, Psychic!""Espeon, Psychic!" Anto and Wes cried out, making their psychic Pokémon hold in place a dozen or so falling rocks on their party. However, the earth quake did not stop as electricity shout out wildly from the magnetic rocks.
Kryx was unfortunately in between two very charged boulders and when they floated close, Kryx was shocked by a sudden high voltage.
"Kryx!?" Anto yelled as he ran after her. Espeon was forced to suddenly carry even Kryx's load and found things even heavier.
"Everyone move!" Wes screamed to them.
If that wasn't bad enough a crack opened up right beneath Espeon's hind leg causing him to lose concentration and slip back.
Everyone panicked as the boulders all started to fall on them. Ohko and Magneton, being the only other Pokémon out, readied to try to defend the others, but they only had enough time to stop a few of them.
"NEVER FEAR, SUPER NUT IS HERE!"
Like a silver bullet, something smashed through much of the larger rocks, causing them to explode and shatter into smaller and more harmless stones. This allowed Magneton and Ohko to power up and hit the rest of the dangerous falling boulders.
As the shaking finally came down, Anto rose back up, recalling Kryx back into her Primer Ball, before giving a very very suspicious look.
"What in the name of all deities that hate me was that?" The boy spoke as he started walking towards the direction of where the silver and somewhat green blur trailed off to.
Everyone followed in suit, gathering their bearings and seeing other than Kryx and Espeon accidentally tripping up, they were all fine.
There was a cloud of smoke coming from the wall where the strange blur object crashed after being catapulted in blurring speeds.
"… I'm sorry, what do you mean, "All deities that hate me"?" Jamie paused and looked over to Anto, making White and Wes look at him strangely for the very odd choice of words.
"I am 100 percent convinced I was some kind of evil god in my past life and after my defeat, a piece of my soul was trapped in this boy's body and now is the cosmic equivalent of an epic slap stick comedy for my former enemies on above to enjoy to their hearts content as they feed on the cosmic equivalent of super snacking chocolate."
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Jamie was very hesitant to speak out again. "That was very… wow…" That was really the best anyone could react to that.
"I had a lot of time to think last night."
White then recalled something about the boy before they began their journey here. "Did you get sleep last night—"
"I didn't."
Kryx had decided she wanted to try out her new Dream Analyzer Helmet and placed it on Anto's head before he fell asleep without his notice last night.
The helmet would have been a success if it didn't ironically keep Anto up awake the night before.
"Hey, White, do you know any fancy Therapists?" Wes whispered to the movie girl.
Before White could check her phone, a sound came from the dust cloud as it started settling down.
"N-not to worry citizens! I, Super Nut, have saved the day once more!"
What stumbled out of the crater was a particular Ferrothorn who was wearing a torn up and very old looking bed sheet worn like a cape, and there was a torn up and worn out scarf with holes on it tied up to his face to look like a mask. As the wind fluttered, he looked like something like that of a super hero.
"So I'm just going to say it right now: Anto is officially a magnet for the screwy Pokémon." Espeon noted out loud.
What was not noted out loud was the fact that everyone thought Super Nut was not a viable super hero name. The only thing that it had going for it was that it sorta did make sense since this looked to be one of those super nut cases.
"I'd like to think of it more along the lines of screwy living beings, not just mon."
The Ferrothorn jumped on top of a boulder where his 'cape' was still fluttering in the wind despite not there being any moving air in the cave currently.
"No need to thank and praise me citizens! I am just doing my sacred heroic duties!" he then glanced away heroically, glancing into the beyond wistfully in a dramatic pose with his vine and steel arms.
"We weren't." "Yo, what's a citizen?" Espeon and Ohko spoke at the same time with the psychic saying the former sentence and the fighting type the latter.
Anto pointed to the evolved steel and grass type. "OK so is anyone going to ask why that Ferrothorn is wearing a mask, a cape, and is pretending to be a super hero?"
"GASP!?" The Ferrothorn shouted the word gasp in utter disbelief and shock. "How did you know my secret identity!?"
"It was obvious!" Everyone except Ohko shouted out.
"He's a Ferrothorn!?" The one armed Sawk cried in surprise. They all ignored him though.
The Ferrothorn jumped back down with flair to his landing. "Citizens, it is of the highest imperative that my secret identity remains intact for the safety of my friends and family. I must ask you to keep it a secret, for the great good!"
"Well I'm a thief, so I personally don't care and the greater good doesn't fit my style," Wes spoke out, but the Ferrothorn didn't seem to care. "Then again, what can I gain from telling someone that a Ferrothorn in a strange identity crisis costume that he's a Ferrothorn?"
"Thank you fellow Heroes! But now I must be off!" It looked as if the Ferrothorn didn't even listen to a word Wes said. Suddenly he brought back one of his tentacle vines before snapping it like a whip. Amazingly everyone stepped back as they saw the vine stretch out all the way across to the ceiling of the cave.
"Is that Power Whip?" Jamie asked in awe since she never saw that Grass move used like that before.
"My home is in Grave Danger! And I must shoulder the fate of the World to save it! TRADEMARK CATCH PHRASE!" The Grass type screamed as he jumped with his two other vine feet, letting the third one stretch out and pull him away like a launched rubber band.
"Wow, is he Web Slinging? Just like the hero, Galvantula Man?" Wes looked on as the Ferrothorn disappeared in the distance of the cave, using his Power Whips to sling his claws across the cave much like an iconic hero.
It was at this point, White looked towards the rest of them. "Did anyone notice that he also said, his home was in great danger?"
"Hey! You guys!?" The party turned around to seek a fully evolved Eelektross slithering fast towards them. "D-Did you… huff… gimme a sec… did you guys see a Ferrothorn—"
Everyone pointed towards the direction the vine slinger went towards.
"Why does he never wait for me?" The Eelektross sighed.
Before the electric type could move, Anto quickly got his attention. "Wait one second. That weird Ferrothorn said something really weird about how this place was in danger? What is that all about?"
The floating electric type blinked several times. "Oh wow, a talking human! I've never seen one of you before! Oh, but yeah. The earthquakes have been really bad lately… but even worse there's the bottom of the cave."
"What's at the bottom of the cave?" Jamie walked up before glancing to where the super hero wannabe left.
"The electricity and magnetism is… I think it's all gathering for some reason in one condensed area. All of us are steel and electric Pokémon and the moment we get even close, we get pulled towards it. I would have been trapped if it was for that Ferrothorn's quick thinking."
"What do you mean by gathering? How can magnetism gather together?" White looked confused.
"We don't know, but it's really dangerous. Some of our younger ones almost got caught in its pull, we've been trying to evacuate everyone towards the surface."
"Then, we have to help!" White called out.
"I'm sorry what?" Wes stated in confusion.
Jamie looked towards the Orre Thief. "Wes, they're in trouble! We gotta help them out!"
"Do we have to?" The two girls gave him a glare, when he looked to Anto, the mute just shrugged his shoulders.
"Hey don't look at me." He then raised up his hands like a defensive measure, he was not getting in the way of White and Jamie.
"Thanks." The Snagger sarcastically noted.
"Good it's decided. Eelektross, we can help you!" White declared.
"Oh wow really? Thanks! Follow me!" The electric type spoke out before making his way in front of the group.
The floating electric Pokémon lead the group of four downward. However, they were walking down a rather narrow edge that just so happened to loom over a very deep chasm. Unfortunately, since it was so narrow, the group had to recall all of their Pokémon. For some reason, White's new Magnezone was starting to have trouble moving around and Eelektross quickly explained that unless you were acclimated to the growing magnetic field like the native Pokémon here, Steel and Electric type Pokémon would have a problem moving here.
While being led, Jamie and Wes slowed down behind Anto and White.
"Jamie." The Snagger called out softly between them. "Why didn't you lie to us about your gender?"
The Kalos native winced. "I-I didn't lie exactly. I just didn't tell anyone my gender…"
"It really sounds like your hiding something." The former team Snaggem member pushed on before sighing. "Look, I'm not good at this whole socializing thing."
That was obvious, but the female brunette let the blue cloaked boy go on.
"But what I'm trying to say is that I'm worried and if you need help, I'll give some. I do owe you for helping me out with my dad's pocket watch after all." He spoke calmly before glancing down the chasm and breaking eye contact.
Jamie felt touched about that, she really did. Was that why Wes hadn't said anything to both White and Anto?
"Listen…"
Unfortunately for her, the ground started shaking immediately and it was worse than before.
"Wahh!? AAAHHH!?" White yelled as she suddenly lost balance and teetered off the edge of the path!
"White!" Anto screamed and acted quickly, grabbing her hand as she fell, but immediately noticed the step he took towards her was suddenly breaking. The Amnesiac thought fast, pulling up White as much as he could and bringing her towards Eelektross who was also reaching for her. As the electric Pokémon grabbed her other hand, the ground beneath the black haired boy collapsed and he ended up falling instead of White.
"Anto!" Everyone else yelled. They all reached for the Pokémon of their choice, but the ground shook hard again, causing them to trip up.
Anto reached for Lily's Poké Ball but found out something as he pressed the sphere as he started falling. The Poké Balls weren't working!
The young teen turned around as he fell, panicking quite hard as he started gaining velocity—
"Never Fear! Super Nut is here!"
The mute saw a green vine somehow wrap around him quickly before he felt himself get jerked hard towards the side. He opened his eyes quickly to see that he was swinging at a new speed but no longer falling to his doom.
When the trainer looked at the vine carrying him, he recognized it and the voice belonging to the Ferrothorn dressed in a poor hero get up.
The steel and grass type boldly declared, "Not to worry mam! The hero always saves the damsel in distress!"
"Aww man that was a close one. Thanks a lot—Wait, you think, I'm a girl!?" Anto telepathically shouted at the still swinging evolved Pokémon.
"You aren't?" Super Nut looked genuinely confused.
"NO!"
"But I overheard you saying trouble follows you around, and maidens are always in trouble!"
"That is a demeaning and sexist clichéeeeEEH!? Watch out for that—"
BAM!
Unfortunately, Super Steel was so dumbfounded at the fact Anto was not a girl that he didn't see the magnetic rock that was in the way of his swinging path and crashed face first into it with the plain brown eyed boy.
"… I'm Okay!" Ferrothorn pushed himself away thus unknowingly making both him and Knoll swing back the opposite direction.
"Aww god, everything is spinning…" Anto spoke out as he felt his head ringing.
"Aaaannnnttoooo!?"
The walking trouble magnet quickly shook his head and tried to point his vision upward towards the direction of the familiar voice. "White?" He spoke as he saw a familiar falling figure coming his way. "… White!? Ferrothorn, get her!"
"But I need both of my vines to support us!"
There was no time to lose then. "Fine, just get me closer to her!"
White was falling fast, yet when she saw Anto and the Ferrothorn from awhile ago, she screamed out the unlucky boy's name. Somehow, the boy who was mostly likely to die horribly in their group and the more than likely nut job of a Ferrothorn were the only ones going to somehow save her from falling into a dark chasm of death.
… Oh crap.
"Never Fear! Super Nut is her—"
"Must you always say that!?" Anto interrupted the evolved Pokémon as he launched himself with Anto towards White. With nothing much to lose, Anto braced himself and grabbed White by the waist as they were flung up and landed on a nearby ledge. … Or rather dropped and crashed on a nearby ledge.
Anto groaned as he opened his eyes he noticed a flustered red face and gorgeous blue eyes staring right back at him.
And the fact his lips was locked with hers…
"OHMYGOSHSORRY!" Anto screamed as he got off White with his face so red you could say it was glowing.
"I-It's fine. Y-You didn't mean it…" White tried to calm herself as she broke eye contact and looked back at the chasm. With the way her heart was beating you could swear it was beating rapidly more than when she was falling to her death.
There was also the odd fact he tasted like blueberry—she should stop thinking about it.
"I wasn't expecting that I swear! I am so sorry!" Anto's face was really beet red by now as he tried his best not think about how soft her lips were.
"I-It's f-fine really! You still saved my life, so thank you…" White spoke out while trying to dust some of the dirt off her hair.
Change the subject! Change the freaking subject! "So how did you fall!?" Anto mentally shouted, desperate to get his mind out of this awkward moment.
"The shaking got worse and then Jamie and Wes were starting to fall—why were they lagging behind us so much I wonder—so Eelektross floated towards them and dove after them, but then another boulder fell from the ceiling and destroyed the path and separated me from them and I ended up falling then I tried to open up my Poké Ball but the magnetic interference was preventing it from working, but then I saw you and asked for your help, so here we are right now!" White spoke rapidly.
The young trainer nodded his head once and shouted quite loudly, "I'm glad you're safe!"
"I'm also glad we're safe!"
"Owww…" White and Anto saw the wannabe super hero Pokémon was getting his bearings back and staggering towards the two of them. "And thus another life saved thanks to Super Nut! Victory Hug!" The Pokémon with the Iron Barbs ability screamed out before coiling the two humans quickly and embracing them in a group hug.
They both screamed in pain. (Except Anto because he's mute. Duh!)
[Later.]
"Why are we heading downward instead of back up?" White asked as Ferrothorn was leading the two further down into the chasm.
"Because there's one more person down here! And as a hero I cannot leave a person behind!" The grass and steel dual type proclaimed as he started walking down.
The mute rolled his eyes, but White suddenly stopped in her tracks. The amnesiac suddenly seemed worried and asked. "What's wrong?"
"Anto… I understood him."
"Yeah? So?"
"Espeon isn't here and Kryx is still recovering. How is he able to understand me, and I able to understand him?"
The male trainer quickly had his eyes opened before he noticed Ferrothorn nonchalantly walking downward as if he couldn't hear this conversation. "I… I think this is me…" The boy spoke out.
"You have the power to translate between Pokémon and human language?" The vice president of the BW Company asked with disbelief.
"It happened before technically. I used to rely on the psychic Pokémon to translate for me, but then I started doing that myself. I think the ability that allows me to talk to Pokémon and others… is evolving."
The blue eyed girl looked ahead. "We'll talk about this later, Ferrothorn is walking up ahead."
As she passed him by, the jacket wearing boy wondered what exactly was this ability if it could change and evolve without him noticing. What did that mean anyway?
"… Ferrothorn—I mean… Super… Nut." Oh Arceus why was he doing that?
"Yes, Damoiseau in distress?"
"Damoiseau in distress?" The movie buff gave a small smile at the slight play at words.
"Wait is that a male version of Damsel?" The mute's face fell when White confirmed his suspicions. "Ignoring that for now, how exactly do you know that there's anyone left? We heard from Electross that you two moved everyone to safer grounds when he was trying to show us what was wrong."
The Pokémon jumped a gap on their path before landing on the bottom floor. "That's the thing; I think a fellow citizen of life has been accidentally causing our home to tremble."
White and Anto looked at each other. "What?" They both repeated as they followed the wannabe super hero.
"I think it's best if I just show everyone. Careful, being close enough to even see it causes problems." Ferrothorn strangely worded before walking along.
As the two followed, they started to notice a loud humming sound that was getting progressively louder and louder. Not to mention, cackle of electricity around them started getting progressively more and more active.
Despite these growing signs, the three found themselves at the center of the Chargestone Cave's problem.
There was a giant, purple electrical crystal that was zapping the ground over and over. Unlike the gaint blue crystals in the cave, this one was easily the size of a two story building and was blasting electricity like a powerful electric Pokémon left and right.
One bolt was heading right towards the three until Super Steel stepped forward and activated a Protect move to repel the blast.
"Whoa. Thanks!" White and Anto expressed their gratitude. "What's with that purple crystal?"
"It just suddenly appeared one day and started causing earth quakes and spikes in magnetic pulls, You have no idea how many times I had to shock myself to match the same charge as this thing so I wouldn't get magnetized."
The crystal continued to zap around the area, some reach a little close to the trio than they wanted and made them instinctively close together.
Anto looked at the center of the giant purple crystal… he swore he thought he saw a figure inside…
Helpme…
Where did… what was that?
"Did any of you hear that?" Anto asked as he looked around.
"What? No?"
"Besides the electricity? No I haven't." Super Nut called out while keeping the force field up. "But this only confirms it! I knew there was some poor person here!"
It was at this moment, the ground shook again, but something was different. It didn't quite feel like an earthquake this time.
"What was that!?" White screamed before the ground behind them burst open. To their surprise, a giant green and black snake like creature appeared before them and trapped them between the Purple Crystal and the strange creature.
Anto had his mind flash with information. "Z-Zygarde!? What's a Kalos Legendary Pokémon doing all the way in Unova!?"
"That thing's a Pokémon!?" White screamed out in shock she was looking at her PokéDex but her national dex was unable to identify the Pokémon in front of her.
^*&%$#%$!*&^#(*&…
The mysterious Legendary Pokémon of ground and Dragon started scanning the area before the Purple Crystal started humming and shooting a rather impressive bolt of purple electricity towards the dual legendary.
Even though it was part ground, for some reason the electricity seemed to actually be affecting it! the green, hexagon like plates all over the Pokémon were starting to change from the original color to purple.
"I really REALLY don't like the look of that!" Anto screamed psionically as he brought his hands to his head.
The shock finally stopped attacking the legendary Pokémon. However, all of its green parts were still purple and smoke was coming off it. As it turned his head back towards the three… it's main two eyes glowed red.
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It preformed some kind of foreign noise before charging right for Super Steel's Force Field!
The impact threw away and separated the three making them slam into the wall across the other side. Ferrothorn was conscious enough to shoot out a large bunch of Leech Seeds to rapidly grow plants that softened the landing of both humans. It still hurt a lot however.
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Anto slowly got back up and noticed the super hero standing in front of both him and White standing between the legendary and them.
"Hurry! Go there's another pathway out if you go just to the right of this wall! Take your friend and leave!"
"What about you!?"
"A hero never leaves someone in need!" The hero declared loudly and with far more iron conviction as he stared down at the legendary Pokémon. "Besides with the power of my Super Cape, I will be invincible!"
Wait what?
"Anto, come on! We don't have Pokémon!" White got back up and tried to help out Anto.
"We can't just leave him here!"
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Zygarde made another roar with unrecognizable sounds before looking to gather energy.
"Go! I'll hold him off!" Ferrothorn shot out a large amount of floating boulders, signaling he knew Stealth Rocks then he used two Power Whips to snap two of his vines in such a way he looked to be positioning himself to sling shot himself to the corrupted legendary which is exactly what he did. Zygrade was body tackled right into his face, causing his beam to misfire and hit some of the rocks higher up.
"Anto we need to go now!" White screamed as she grabbed Anto's wrist and started running off with the hesitant boy.
Still he looked back seeing the fight between the evolved Pokémon with the Legendary. However, despite the fact he landed a clean hit, the legendary didn't even look phased from the damage of the steel type and quickly launched a Dragon Pulse on the super hero when it was trying to get to higher ground.
The attack knocked the Pokémon back, and burned his mask and cape off.
"No!" Anto screamed as he ran back towards the Pokémon.
"Anto!?" White shrieked as she saw Anto run back towards the crystal.
Zygarde turned back towards the two human and prepared another Dragon Pulse attack.
"Oh snap." Anto and White quickly ducked for cover in the surrounding rocks. The beam of dragonic energy trailed to where they were and then was dragged upward. The upper walls gave way and blocked off the exit out of the cave.
"He's just a stubborn as Black!" White screamed to herself before checking out of her cover. Zyrgarde spotted her and this time started covering himself in dragonic energy. "Uh oh!"
Anto spotted White getting up and running away in the opposite direction. He panicked as he saw Zygarde locking sights on the Vice President and he quickly decided to get to Super Steel and wake him up since he was their only way out.
"Hey wake up! Wake up! We need your help now more than ever!" Anto pointed his voice towards the Ferrothorn as the earth shook violently again. The mute couldn't understand though, he seemed to actually be still conscious, so why wasn't he moving?!
He ran up to the fallen Pokémon, trying see what was wrong, but then he noticed something. The Pokémon was shivering, he was putting his vines over him like he was trying to duck and cover from something.
He was afraid wasn't he?
But how? He looked so previously brave a while a go!
The amnesiac placed a hand on him. "Hey what's wron—"
The moment he touched the Ferrothorn's head, a vision came to him. A really strong vision that almost looked like a memory…
It was the Chargestone cave again, but this time, it looked bigger for some reason.
There was a little Ferroseed hopping and rolling along the floor. Suddenly, a rock fell down beside it and he quickly panicked and hopped behind a rock for safety. He shivered in fear as he looked back only to see a tiny rock.
However, as he turned back he saw all the other children Pokémon pointing and laughing at him.
"Hahaha! ScaredyPurrlion! ScaredyPurrlion!" They jeered coldly.
The little Ferroseed teared up and ran away. He couldn't help it. He was so scared of everything. He didn't have any friends or family. He was always so scared of everything…
One day, he found something strange on the floor. It looked like a magazine or human book. The fearful Ferroseed seemed frightened at the object lying on the floor and stood three feet away from it. But he something on the cover that looked strange: a human with a weird blanket on his back. Slowly, and very very carefully, the small little Pokémon finally came onto the book. It was comic book about Hero Man, a super hero that saved people who was in need. He didn't understand the words and text, and he had a lot of trouble trying to turn pages until he evolved (Until he found some tricks he could use with his leech seed to help him turn the pages) but he noticed the main character, a man who looked to be scared of everything find a magical cape that turned him into a super hero with a mask.
The art spoke volumes to the young impressionable Pokémon. This coward like him found a magic cape and turned into a super hero! He fell in love with the idea with the hero having so many friends, so much powers, and never being alone anymore…
So when he finally evolved, Ferrothorn… 'procured'… what he thought was the Cape of Power from a laundry clothes line from the nearby city. He tied it around his body and felt the power coming out of him.
With the power of the cape, and eventually making a cool mask, Ferrothorn became the self proclaimed hero of justice! Protecting the innocent and saving lives! A name with epic awesomeness! Super Nut!
And he would never be afraid of anything again as long as he had his cape.
But now his cape was gone.
"I don't have my powers anymore! We're doom! I don't know what to do…" The Ferrothorn was near tears and he shivered and covered himself with his vines. He seemed to have this idea that he was a Hero as long as he had the cape…
Anto didn't know what that was, but he had seen why Ferrothorn was so frozen with fear. What could he do? He was placing his heroic deeds on the fact he had a torn up blanket and never on himself…
"Ferrothorn! Listen to me, it was never the cape! You did those things! You really are a hero!"
"No I'm not! I'm a no-good ScaredyPurrlion without my Super Cape! I'm sorry! I didn't want to trap you here!" He started sobbing and crying.
Anto had to think fast, It looked like White had lost Zygarde in the cover, but it wouldn't be long before he would turn around and look at them.
…!?
An idea came across Anto quickly as he took off his jacket and wrapped it over Ferrothorn. "Well then it's time to give you another Super Cape."
"Are you an idiot? This is just your jacket! It's not a Super Cape!" The Ferrothorn shouted, getting the attention of the Dual Type Legendary.
The Amnesiac really hopped this would work, so suppressing all fear, he inhaled and smiled kindly towards Ferrothorn. "It's not. It's a Super Jacket and it's got an even better super power than any Super Cape."
"A… better super power?"
White looked back and saw Zygarde heading towards Ferrothorn and Anto. Why was he out in the open!? Ugghhh! He is really starting to get on her nerves like Black! She quickly got a stone and threw it at the Dragon type, catching his attention again before hiding behind a rock.
Back with the two, Anto smiled and nodded. He was also glad that White was giving him more time with this. If it wasn't so awkward between them, he would kiss her again. Key word was 'awkward'. "Yeah it's one of the best super powers out there! You see this jacket has the power to bring out one's special power."
Ferrothorn sniffed, but stopped crying.
"We all have our own very special power deep within all of us. And this jacket here has the power to bring it out, but we gotta believe we can do it ourselves. Look at how that Jacket is fluttering! It means you've got the greatest inner power in the entire world!"
"R-Really?"
"It's enough to save us all and it's way better than some simple Super Cape… but in order for the power to work, I have to remove the Super Jacket…"
"W-Why?" Ferrothorn took a step back in shock.
Anto raised a hand carefully and spoke gently as he could.
"The Super Jacket has the power to bring out one's greatest potential, but for it to work best, the person has to believe in themselves and not the jacket or else the power won't work."
"Then I can't use this! I hate myself!"
"How can you hate yourself when you've got so much power? You have shown yourself worthy of the Super Cape! Don't tell me the amazing Super Nut is backing down?"
"I'm not Super Nut, I'm just a coward!" He screamed, catching the attention of Zygrade once more before White threw another stone at the Legendary. This made the dragon type start firing Dragon Pulses near White's area.
Anto knew he had to hurry. "Ferrothorn, listen to me, you're more than just what you think you are. I believe you are the greatest hero in the world! And the bravest and heroic person I know!" Ferrothorn looked into Anto's eyes, they were filled with hesitation, but they were running out of time."Now I'm going to remove the jacket, and the true hero within you will finally awaken…."
Anto slowly reached for his jacket again, Ferrothron took one step back… before stepping forward towards Anto again as he took off his jacket off the steel and grass type.
"I-I don't feel different!" Ferrothorn cried out.
"But you are. You just need to believe in yourself." Anto was honestly putting his all of his faith into Ferrothorn. He really did see the great potential in him from the few times they met before hand; he needed for the Pokémon to realize that himself.
"ANTO LOOK OUT!" White's voice broke the moment as the two looked over to see the corrupted Legendary firing a Dragon Pulse right at them.
The Amnesiac covered himself by instinct, fearing the worse.
To his surprise, besides the shaking, he thought his death would be a little more painful. When he opened his eyes, he saw Ferrothorn was now defending him with another Protect barrier.
"YOU DID IT!" Anto shouted in excitement. To be honest, he really thought he was goner there.
"I… I did! OH MY ARCEUS I DID! I REALLY DO HAVE THE POWER! SUPER NUT HAS RETURNED! EVIL DOERS BEWARE! WEAK AND BULLIED REJOICE! FOR THE GREAT HERO HAS RETURNED… thanks to his friend." Ferrothron excitedly shouted with the same heroic pride when they first met, but there was something far more genuine in his words and at his last sentence, he calmed down and smiled wide and gratefully at Anto.
Zygarde flared with Dragonic energy and unleashed an Outrage attack on the barrier again. But this time, Ferrothorn wrapped a vine around Anto and Power Whipped onto to a high rock floating from his Stealth Rock attack. He grabbed the two of them out of the path of the Pokémon before landing to where White was hiding.
"What the heck were you doing standing there!?" White screamed. "Do you have any idea how many times his attacks almost hit me!?"
"Sorry! Sorry!" Anto spoke out.
"Can we please get out of here now!?"
"Not without saving them!" Super Nut declared as Zygrade shook off crashing into a wall when he missed them.
"How!?" White asked. "We gotta leave, maybe come back again to help them when we're ready!?"
As soon as she said this, the Giant Purple Crystal started shaking violently and gathering more and more energy as well as shoot some out.
"Oh come on!" The movie buff complained.
Anto looked to see that Zygrade was in still in Outrage mode, and an idea came to him. "Nut, I have an idea! We have to move now though! I'll point where!"
The idea was sent quickly and Ferrothorn grabbed both kids with his vines before whipping himself towards a seemingly random flying Stealth Rock.
Zygrade saw them and charged right for them.
"Anto, this better work!" The blue eyed girl complained.
"I hope it does too!"
Super Nut saw Zygarde charging right for them with uncanny speed. "Now!?"
"Not yet!"
"Now?!"
"Just a little…" The charging Pokémon was closing in very quickly!
"Anto!?"
"Now!" Ferrothorn quickly Power Whipped to a another location and brought the two kids with him, making the Dragon type crash through the floating rock… and slam into the Crystal while being full of raw dragon energy!
"Protect!" The amnesiac called out as the dust cloud and shock waves came immediately after them and swallowed them whole.
Then a green vine shot out of the smoke and a metal claw gripped into a flying boulder. Ferrothorn brought White and Anto out of the smoke higher up in the air.
"Did… did that work?" The female looked at the smoke that was starting to rise away from them.
"I think it did." The young male trainer spoke out as they looked over to the smoke, but couldn't see a thing.
"You all have my thanks."
A voice appeared in all of their heads that wasn't Anto's. Before anyone could react, a giant purple creature just instantly appeared in front of them.
"No way… Mewtwo?" Anto spoke out in awe in front of the legendary Artificial Pokémon. White took her PokéDex again but just like with Zygarde, it couldn't identify this Pokémon.
The large psychic, bipedal, and almost feline like Pokémon nodded in confirmation, but raised a brow as he did so. "You know me, human?"
"I… I don't know. I think I do?"
Mewtwo tried to read his mind, but for some reason there was something blocking his powers from reading the boy's mind fully. He was curious as to why he couldn't read his mind, but then…
"I'm glad to see your safe and sound! All in a day's work with Super Nut!" Ferrothron proudly declared.
"Yes… I suppose that's right. I must thank you all for saving me from that imprisonment." Or perhaps he was far more drained than he realized if he couldn't read that boy… or in fact the other Pokémon and the female human as well.
"Wait imprisonment? Who did that to you?" White asked.
"… Even I do not know who he truly was…" Mewtwo explained mysteriously.
"Uhh come again?"
Mew two shook his head. "He was the reason I came to Unova in the first place, I sensed something all the way from even Mt. Q… where I was from, then when I came here I saw… it is best not to mention now. Still, I didn't know my prison would even attract and corrupt a Zygarde all the way from Kalos."
"What ever happened to that guy?" Ferrothorn asked.
"He is fine. It seems that he has gone back to his home region now that my prison is no longer destabilizing the magnetic hold this place has."
"I'm kind of curious about this guy who could seal and corrupt two legendaries! Who is he?" White asked with honest worry.
"… I do not know myself, yet… you boy." Anto perked up as he saw Mewtwo look to him. "I sensed that you could still hear me in my prison, it may be a long shot, but I have this sneaking suspicion that there is a reason you could still hear me. There is a possibility you might be connected with That Man."
"That… that doesn't sound too good. … Can we get out of this cave now? I'm worried about Wes, Jamie, and that Eelektross."
Mewtwo unfolded his arms and closed his eyes. "In that case, let me help. I do owe you a favor. …" His eyes snapped open with psychic energy and then in a blink of an eye, the three of them were gone.
When they were gone, Mewtwo placed a hand on his chest. "I am far weaker than I imagined to be… what kind of power was that?"
"What. The. Heck?" Wes spoke out as he, his Espeon, Jamie, Eelektross, White, Ferrothorn, and Anto found themselves at the outskirts of Mistralton City.
"How—Anto what happened!?" Jamie looked over to the stupefied boy.
"Well… I think we met two legendary Pokémon and one of them brought us all here."
The other two humans blinked as they absorbed that really underwhelming sentence.
"Something tells me you just gave us the short version." Wes raised his brow. They knew Anto well enough to know there was soooo much more to what he had just said.
"He did. It's really long." White assured them as she removed her cap to wipe her forehead.
"And thus, another page of adventure added to the epic tales of Super Nut!" The grass and steel type boldly declared that made everyone look at him weirdly. "But now it's time for a new chapter to begin! The Amazing Tales of Super Nut and his new sidekick, Danger Damoiseau!" The super hero pointed towards Anto.
"I'm sorry what?" The amnesiac asked in stupor before Ferrothorn wrapped a vine quickly around him. "Wait—" Not matter how fast he said that, it was never meant to finish.
"Come Danger Damoiseau! We have the innocent to protect! TRADEMARK CATCH PHRASE!" The Ferrothorn suddenly shot out a bunch of Stealth Rocks and quickly Power Whipped two of them before launching both Anto and the super hero faster towards the city.
"Wait no! SttoooOOOOOOOOPPPPpppppp…." Anto's telepathic cry faded into the distance as he was shot up and yanked up from the ground and trailed along the sky as if he was shot out of a giant sling shot.
There was a distant sound of something crashing loudly and smoke rising to the sky.
"Sooo… what exactly did happen?" Wes turned to White as they started hearing the closing in sounds of sirens.
"I'll explain on our way… but what about you, Eelektross?" The blue eyed girl looked towards the Electric type.
"Well… you all did save my home. But honestly? I've really got nothing better to do," He then looked towards Wes and Espeon. "Mind if I just follow you guys?"
"Sure thing," Wes spoke out as he threw a Ultra Ball at the fully evolved Pokémon and caught him easily. "At least now I have an electric type to my many dark types and one psychic." He spoke as he picked up Eelektross' new ball.
Jamie looked back towards the city that had even more loud siren noises that could be heard from where they were. "Uh guys? What about Anto?"
{Author Notes}
I'm sure he's fine Jamie, you know those main characters in comedy based stories: they're near impossible to kill under normal (And Unlikely) means!
Meet Anto's Sixth partner! The Super Hero, Super Nut, The Ferrothorn! And with this, Anto has a full party of Pokémon! Woot! Way to go bro!
Can anybody say super hero team up? (Imagine Sentinel, Kryx, Ohko, and Super Nut posing Power Ranger Style with Lily face palming in the back ground and Takezo staring on with an unreadable face. Now imagine Anto as he walks in to find out four masked Pokémon have been ironically terrorizing the people of the city. … And they all trace it back to him. [Not only that, imagine them doing this every time they're in a new city/town] Anto: DANG IT GUYS!)
Anywho, who was it that sealed up (a) Mewtwo all the way in Chargestone cave and what was that person doing there!? What exactly is in the center of Anto's Dream Dimensions he and Hoopa are obviously getting closer to? Is Anto's power evolving? Will there actually be romance in this story!? (Well I already know, but I'm asking you so you have something to think about later on.)
A slight bit on that. I've been reading a few other OC adventure stories and I've always noticed something when it comes to a trainer having power. I notice that it usually makes the trainer stronger, to the point where it looks like they themselves can fight and be on par with powerful beings.
I don't have anything against this, but I have seen a lot of this. So, Anto has power, but if you pay close attention, it's never related to combat.
Anto has gained a new power in helping other people understand Pokémon and vice versa, yet there is also a new power where he has the potential to look into other people's memories. I kind of based my power into adding more into the characters of others.
Speaking of potential, with a new member, comes new fighting and battle style! Have you noticed Super Nut's style? It's based of Spider Man's way of web slinging. Power Whip to launch himself like the web and the Flying Rocks of Stealth Rocks are used for him to grapple around like Batman (LEGO MOVIE HYPE!) and Spider Man (And sometimes Link). Just like the others, he's going to have a very diverse style of fighting I can't wait to show you all.
This chapter was obviously longer than I expected, but I like how it turned out so far.
Next time on Pokémon: Anto's bizarre Adventure! The most unbelievable thing is happening!
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Anto: … M… Mom?
That's all you're getting! Thanks for reading!
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He opened his violet hued eyed slowly as he sat on top of Dragonspiral Tower in a meditative state.
"Mewtwo has escaped."
At this moment, a Gallade with a different color swap stepped out of the shadows. Instead of green he was red at the top, instead of white, he was black, and as for the triangle in his chest, it was the color white, along with the top curved fin on top of his head.
The strange colored Gallade walked up and bowed with one knee down.
"My lord. Allow this one servant to make a guess for your sudden movement: did a certain someone help with the escape with Mewtwo?" The Gallade spoke calmly as he kept his head and knee down.
"Yes. I sense him; he is coming closer. … It's only a matter of time until he comes here and undo what has long been erased…"
"We are simply waiting on the others, my lord. The other three should be making their way here soon, but I believe this… Team Plasma has been spotted scanning this place as well."
"Let them. For the seal to weaken, both Stones must absorb the essence locked within once they step into this tower. Once that is done, it shall finally be time for the Seed to grow and be nurtured."
"My lord, what about Dimension Enterprise? By now they surely realize the boy is heading here. We've already detected their forces across Icirrus City in the guise of a fund raiser event."
The violet eyed man under the hood laughed. "Are they actually using the idea that they destroyed in Nimbasa? That is not subtle in the slightest."
"People do like the idea of free money, my lord."
"You know what I like!? I definitely like to bring the pain!" A crazed and hungry voice came out of the darkness. Much like the Gallade, there was a Lucario with different colors than that of its shiny and normal version. This Lucario was actually a deep violet instead of blue, and had orange colors instead of its usual black areas. As for the color of its chest fur, it was colored silver with his spikes colored deep crimson. Needless to say this Pokémon was incredible jarring to look at.
The strange colored Lucario brought his fists together with enflamed violet Aura. "Just send me out there so I can kill them all!"
"You'll have to wait on that. By the time I send you, you will probably shed enough blood to fill the three great lakes of Sinnoh." The robed and hooded man stood up, and signaled to the Gallade to stand back up.
"Oh that sounds glorious! Thanks boss!"
"Still, some precautions will not harm us in the long run. Comb through the tower once more and check to see if our seal breakers could be spotted by anyone passing by. Also, try and make an extra escape route if necessary."
"Yes my lord." "You got it boss." The two fighting types disappeared in an instant.
The Robed man looked towards the sky.
"Soon... We shall all be free, and all lies will die." He walked to a large hole in wall and stared at the endless sea in the distance."What is your next move, oh descendant of Gul'xan?"
{One more Announcement.}
On April 16 2015, someone posted one of his first Pokémon Fanfiction, "The Flames Of Revolution" here in fanfiction./net and I reviewed it the first time I saw it come out by absolute chance.
I didn't expect to become friends with that writer who help me out and made me feel better overall.
Thanks MangoLimePie.
Let's hope that this year, crazier and epic adventures are just waiting right around the corner.