Episode 38: The madness of men and demons Part 1.
[Extra: The Endless Stories.]
By now, everyone knows the story of the Two Heroes in Unova. How they, along with a mighty dragon, saved the world until the heroes bickered and separated the dragon.
With this in mind, has anyone ever asked how they became heroes?
Funny enough, the secret story has been passed down by a ancient family line in Sinnoh that died out a hundred years back. I don't know how a family in Sinnoh came to this story, but none the less it portrays how the brothers and Dragon became heroes.
When the stars were still young, something fell into the world. This object from the sky was a being of malevolence, power, and destruction. Kingdoms fell that were in its path, people's sanities broke as they bore witness to the creature's form.
… I'm boring you aren't I? It's a fairly basic story honestly. There was a big bad monster and the heroes defeated it. A tale as old as stories themselves…
Right?
But here's where reality kicks in. According to the old story, the heroes did not defeat the monster. They sealed it away just like how the dragons slumbered after their heroes passed on.
In other words: it's still alive. It's still here.
And I know what exactly that creature is, and what horrors it can do to us all. My entire life has been dedicated to making sure it stays sealed up… and if the unthinkable happens when it gets unleashed back into the world…
Everyone knows many legends and stories, but there are some that are better left forgotten.
[…]
When the group finally left the Icirrus City Gym after Byrcen patched Anto up from the 'victory hug', Jamie asked, "Does anyone find it weird how quickly Anto got this badge compared to the others?"
"Did you have to point that out?" Anto placed his seventh badge into his case while he was walking out with them. "I've been wondering why traveling was so smooth when the previous Mistralton Gym Leader to just drop us off in the next city over. But I didn't say anything to tempt fate."
"… I've really got to watch what I say around you don't I?" Jamie recalled all the times so far when actually saying something did tempt the Cosmos to change life situations like a cartoon.
It was then a large amount of people were seen passing by the gym. Curious, Wes called out to wards the nearest one.
"Huh? Oh! You guys must be travelers so you wouldn't know, but there's been this rich Company that's been excavating the nearby Dragon Ruins and it's now opened to the public! Their grand opening is today!"
"The Tower is open to the public?!" Benga screamed out in shock. He fondly recalled all the stories of the closed off and mysterious tower by his grandfather several times and was always interested to visit the place.
The person nodded before explaining that the rich company decided to restore some of the ancient Unova culture. He further explained for the past three months they've been working around the ruins and have just recently opened up. Today was their grand opening.
"Whoa cool! Come on guys! Let's go!" Benga excitedly spoke out as the bystander went towards the ruins.
"Hmm, it would be interesting to see the sights." Jamie offered.
"Hold up. Am I the only one noticing the Donphan in the room?" Everyone looked towards Anto. "Who wants to bet that this "Rich Company" is Dimension Enterprise?"
…
"What about them?" Benga tilted his head in confusion.
"Oh gosh we never explained it to you did I? Well you see—"
"—and that is when I also learned to give up forever on afternoon TV Drama from Johto." Anto finished explaining to Benga as they all came back into the Pokémon Center.
Benga stared contemplatively for a second before pointing a hand up and opening his mouth. "I don't think that just because Dimension Enterprise is a sponsor to what your Pokémon watch, it means that you should hate it."
"That's what they want you to think! I swear Felipe and Luara's relationship is a symbol of my life struggles!"
"Wow Anto! You're so paranoid! I can't even over think things like you can!" Benga admitted in awe.
"I'm not crazy!"
"Mute, don't be so crazy. It's scaring the normal people." Wes offhandedly mentioned, making the mute stare at his older friend.
The five of them were in one of the free Pokémon center rooms that were given to them. In total there were four, but Benga strangely said that he would sleep outside instead no matter how cold or bad the weather was.
"Sorry Benga, but we can't go anywhere near that place if any of those higher up monsters are there as well which is more than likely." White spoke out as well.
Jamie, behind everyone's back, pulled her sleeve harder.
Wes then sat up from the bed he was sitting on. "Actually, do you think we can go?"
"Why?" When the mute asked this, he didn't seem surprised like everyone else. Instead he was curious since his mind worked faster than he thought, realizing that there was probably a reason why Wes offered this in the first place.
"Don't you think it's kind of weird? Dimension Enterprise is all about transport and rather mundane things no one thinks twice about, but suddenly they have a major opening in archeology? Their obviously up to something," Wes pointed out. "I know it's risky, but maybe we can find out what they're doing here?"
"Are you kidding!? They know what Anto looks like! We'd be spotted instantly if we were anywhere within their sights!" White threw out her arm.
"… Wait, Wes does have a point though. Right now we are on the defensive, but what if this is a chance to at least gain some more information on what they're planning?" Anto looked to White. "I know it's a risk, but what if we can sneak in without them noticing?"
Benga looked towards Jamie. "Why not wear a disguise then?" He plainly offered.
They all turned to the flame haired teen. "I mean they know you, Anto, but why not just wear a disguise. Isn't White from an Actor Studio or something? She could know some make up skills. Jamie can help out to since make up is usually a girl thing." He pointed to Jamie with his thumb.
White and Anto blinked several times.
'Well that's one way of revealing a secret.' The boy from Orre thought to himself.
"Wait, Jamie is a girl!?" White cried out along with Anto.
Jamie just stared hard at Benga.
"Now that you mention it, Jamie is rather well kept and clean for a guy…" White put a hand on her chin as she recalled how nice his—her hair was every morning. "Why didn't you tell us you were a girl!?"
"I… I wasn't trying to hide it?" Jamie spoke out. "I never really had the need to correct people in my gender because I didn't mind."
"Really?" Anto was still processing Jamie as a girl. He was spending all this time… with a nother girl he thought was a dude this whole time. "Hey wait a second, didn't I remove my shirt once in front of you when Kryx accidentally set fire to one of my shirts?"
Jamie flushed red. "I-I looked away."
"See!?" Benga exclaimed ignoring the thought process of Anto who just realized he near stripped in front of a girl. "If we want to get into the ruins and see what we're up against, we're going to have to go incognito!"
"Why are you so excited about this?" Wes asked the newcomer.
"Are you kidding me!? Going in disguise and going through enemy lines?! We're going to go all spy code on their collective butts! Ooh! Let's. Make. CODENAMES. From now on call me "Flaming TalonFlame"!" Benga excitedly jumped up and down.
"We are not going in code names!" Jamie spoke out.
"You shall be "Gender Confusion"!" Benga went on and pointed to Jamie.
"Are you even listening to me!?" The girl disguised as a boy spoke out.
White put a palm in her face. "Suddenly, I miss Black."
"Anto shall be known as "Cosmic Bull's-Eye"!"
"I refuse to be known as that!"
[Later…]
After much, much persuasion and a lot of makeup tricks White picked up from working with actors and prop directors, she was able to pull off five new disguises with wigs and new clothes.
Unfortunately for Anto, White had only two male disguises left and thanks to a game of "Not it" guess what he was left with?
What if I were to tell you short skirts were dangerously comfortable to the mute despite it being chilly. (Though with how hard he was blushing, the cold air didn't seem to affect him as much.)
"Why me?" Anto isolated his psychic voice only to the 'others' beside him as they made their way towards the grand public opening of the Spiral Dragon Tower.
The disguise he was wearing gave him the appearance of a teenage fashionista with shoulder length red hair wig styled like a pony tail while wearing a pink flower comb. He had to wear some contacts to make his plain looking amber eyes look like blue sea orbs and the clothes he was wearing where actually some of White's and Jamie's clothes.
…
He was almost impressed and surprised he could actually fit into women's clothes, but was more disturbed with the fact he was lean enough to fit into them in the first place.
There was also this strange familiarity to this, as if he had worn women's clothes before. (He begged to whatever being up there that it was a part of his previous school and theater life where he acted as a woman on the stage.)
Arceus dang it, he was never going to live this day down was he?
What was worse was the fact that this disguise was supposed to make people lay low.
The wolf whistles and the heads turning where something he should not be impressed with.
"We should turn back. Perhaps White had the right idea after all." Anto told them.
Wes, garbed in completely different attire that made him look like a hippe with an afro (complete with rainbow peace sign shirts and strange bell jeans), swung his arm around Anto with a huge jerk grin. "Come on Sister Anita, we don't get out to enjoy the wondrous gifts of mother earth maaaannnn~."
"I know you're doing this just to spite me, Wes."
"There is no such thing as spite, sister, but the government's brainwashing power known as 'So-ci-ya-taeh', making us hate one another without reason! Let the love fill you, sister!"
Anto would have put a threatening leer if he wasn't as red as a Daramnitan's behind. Wes was just milking this character of his.
"We came this far, it would be kind of a waste to leave now, but we will be extra careful." White spoke out as she dressed up as a blond ace trainer. Oh she gets the normal one, doesn't she?
"KYAAAHHH~!"
Anto turned his head. "And then there's this guy."
Benga's costume was another 1-80 turn. Instead of the hyperactive, wild child, he was now dressed in a suit with his wild and unruly hair swept back into a man pony tail. He picked up a fall handkerchief and smiled pretty towards a flustered girl.
"Madame? I believe this is yours." He spoke out in a deceptively suave and British accent.
The girls around sophisticated man squealed again. The girl who Benga was handing back her handkerchief actually fell down from a light head, but then Benga caught her from falling, wrapping his arms around her like a delicate flower.
"Ahh… that is not good miss. It's not good to wander out in such cold weather. I suggest going back home and taking a nice rest." He spoke softly.
The girls around him were so enamored by debonair Benga. The girl in his arms promptly fainted.
"… I hate my life." Anto spoke out as Benga handled the girl away with grace and poise…
Of a gentleman! (TM)
Benga looked over towards Anto and Wes and walked up to him.
"Are you alright, Anita?"
At this point he missed the fake name Cosmic Bull's-eye.
Suddenly Anto heard growling and at the corner of his fake blue eyes he noticed all the girls growling at him.
Girls are really, really scary.
The amnesiac who was currently cross dressing felt Wes' arm wrap around him. "Don't worry brother Agneb, our Cosmic Bull's-eye here is just feeling the cold air." Dang it Wes, is he still sore about Anto crashing his hover bike!?
"It's good to see you watching out for her… 'Anti-Capitalism'!" Benga saluted coolly—
'Don't say such a twisted thing with a straight and cool face you idiot!' Anto thought to himself inwardly as Benga was still using code names here and there.
"Guys! We have to hurry up! There's a large crowd gathering at the new entrance to the Ruins!"
The four looked towards Jamie, who instead of… her… usual get up, she was wearing winter clothes while wearing a short blue hair wig. She honestly looked like a real girl, and she was kinda pretty…
Thank Arceus for small mercies. The last thing Anto needed was Takezo's commentary.
The five gathered near a large crowd that was near a main entrance with two stages on the side. On the right, one man was finishing about a brief recap of the history and how they received permission from the town mayor to do this.
"But before we finally open up the ruins, may I introduce to you our CEO, Sied Dimension!"
The group's eyes widened. The CEO of the company was here?
The crowd cheered as a fairly young man in his late thirties walked out into the stage. He was a tall and muscular man with violet hair which was kind of surprising since they were not expecting him to look so buff or young.
"Hello everyone. I would like to welcome you all to the opening of the Dragonspiral Tower, an ancient ruin created long ago for some mysterious reason lost to most historians. Dimension Enterprise has always been a silent company in the background and we usually take pride in helping others create their dreams by helping distribute items and manufacturing the building blocks for their success."
Then his purple colored irises looked to the crowd…
And directly locked eyes with Anto.
The boy disguised as a girl quickly put a hand on his head.
"Ant—Anita, what's wrong?" White quickly spoke out.
"We need to leave. Now!" Anto clutched his chest and the clothes he was wearing hard. An uneasy feeling came up to him.
"But how about we open up the ruins now shall we? Ah! You there! Girl with red hair at the back with a white designer jacket!"
The group paled as the crowd all looked towards them.
"Come on over, lucky lady! You've been chosen to cut the ribbon and let everyone into the ruins!" Sied spoke out in an excited manner.
Anto shook his head and stepped back.
"Come on don't be shy, let's give her a hand for the girl, show her we care!"
At his voice the crowd started applauding, cheering for the girl to go up to the stage.
"Anto, some guards have slowly surrounded us." Wes whispered to his ear secretly.
The disguised boy glanced around, noticing the subtle movements of people wearing suited uniforms closing in.
"I am an idiot. Sorry guys…" Anto spoke out before… hugging Wes? And then making his way, making the crowd cheer wildly…
Jamie then shook her head and ran up to Anto, locking her arm around his before walking up.
"I can't let you go alone." She told him.
Surprisingly Jamie was allowed into the stage as the crowd cheered. Anto felt light headed the more he came closer to the CEO.
The body builder business man welcomed them. "Hello and you two are?"
"I'm Jaycelyn! And this is my sister, Anita!" Jamie quickly spoke out. "S-Sorry but my sister isn't feeling quite well and she doesn't speak."
Some of the crowd started mumbling.
Sied smiled kindly. "I see, you are such a loyal sister aren't you? And they both look quite pretty don't they, so of course they are related." Some people cheered as Sied lightly changed the tone.
"Now then, I present to you two the giant scissors before opening up the ruins held by our very own Simon Baker!"
Baker?
The group thought to themselves. Wasn't that the last name of the family Anto met in Mistralton City!? The one whose dead son's body was stolen!?
"Dad?"
Jamie looked to Anto as the word escaped from his mind. It was soft, but the boy was shocked.
An old man around his later forties waved humbly as he walked towards the ladies with a pair of giant scissors.
"Now don't let this fool you. This is the most impractical scissor ever made. Don't ever try to cut paper objects near your window with this—your paranoid neighbors will continually call the police and claim you're a homicidal maniac with a giant cutting fetish."
Jamie laughed at the surreal yet straight faced way Simon baker described that little tidbit.
"Ahh see! A girl is more beautiful with a smile!" Simon spoke out with his brown eyes before looking towards Anto. "And you…" He trailed off as his face fell and looked closer at the boy in disguise.
"A-Anita?" Jamie elbowed the boy and made him step back nervously.
"Oh um sorry miss. It's just that you," He trailed off and his voice became softer. "Remind me of someone dear to me." He gave the large, silly scissors to the cross dresser.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Out the count of three everyone!" Sied cried out as he raised a hand.
One!
Benga, Wes, and White started moving.
Two!
Jamie looked worriedly towards Anto as he stepped away from Simon…
Three!
The boy cut the ribbon and at that moment he felt something pause.
(1 /\/\ 1_ /\/\ 0 5 + + }{ 3 8 3…) = I am almost there…
"And the ruins are now open to the public!" The crowd cheered wildly.
"A-Alright, now w-we have to go, my sister isn't feeling that well…" Jamie spoke out as she tried to get Anto out of there.
"Why leave? It would be a shame not to go in. It's a beautiful place and we tried out best not to move anything while trying to make it a safe place… as much as possible. Life always finds a way to screw one over." Simon spoke out kindly.
"I-It's OK, Mr. Baker. We'll just go later."
"If your sister isn't feeling well, we have a nursing tent just around the corner." Sied described.
Jamie inwardly cursed. "N-No we couldn't bother you."
"Mam, it's our job as hosts to take care of our customers." Sied described with a calm smile. "Why don't I lead you two over? Simon, take care of some of the press here." He spoke as he lightly showed them the way away from the moving crowd.
This wasn't looking good.
( [ 0 /\/\ 3 + 0 /\/\ 3…) =Come to me…
And Anto was still feeling his head ringing.
"HOW DARE YOU DESECRATE HOLY GROUND!"
The sound of a booming voice, made everyone look back to where a large group of Team Plasama members had gathered around. Anto recognized the one speaking; he was that one guy next to Clay after he fell on that Ghetsis character the second time. Everyone's attention was turned over to them and Team Plasma and that's when Anto had an idea.
He quickly scanned the area, but found out more guards were coming over towards them after Sied tried to lead them away. They surrounded both he and Jamie all except around…
"Now, run!" Anto mentally told her as he grabbed her hand and ran into the ruins through the stunned crowd into the ruins.
As he briefly looked back, he saw Sied try to reach out and seemingly look surprised and frustrated as he left—which meant that he did know about him somehow!
"You do not deserve the glory of Pokémon! Team Plasma, Liberate!" One of the Six Sages screamed out as the Pokémon surrounding team Plasma started attacking the people. Sied cursed and commanded his security team to evacuate the civilians before throwing out a shiny green Dragonite.
Wes and the others saw this battle commence as the crowd stated panicking and they quickly slipped away behind a now emptied booth.
Wes removed his wig and wiped off the makeup hiding his face. "Well, for once I think Anto's horrible luck is working in our favor. We gotta get him and Jamie out of here."
"But they ran into the Ruins before the battle started," White removed her wig and started letting lose her hair. "How are we going to get there through all this fighting?"
"Uhh guys?" Benga was barely spotting the battle from where he was. "We might wanna act fast; our distraction isn't lasting as long as we thought."
"What are you talking about—oh. Oh…" White paled as she and Wes raised their heads cautiously above the booth.
The green Dragonite was absolutely destroying all the Team Plasma Pokémon. Heck—the guards were all so focused on actually evacuating the bystanders that they didn't need to worry about their boss. It looks like the CEO wasn't just a body builder, but one hell of a trainer!
"What are you all doing!? It's just one Pokémon!?" The sixth sage, Zinzolin as he was known, screamed out loud as he looked towards the Intimidating Dragonite who was staring down at him with a glare unlike from his species. "Weavile, show them how it's done! Use Ice Shard!"
The Weavile laced its claws with ice and within an instant, shot himself to the emerald Dragonite with insane speed.
Weavile unleashed the attack—on nothing but air!?
"W-What!?" Zinzolin and The three hiding in the booth were shocked. One second Dragonite was clearly there, but suddenly it's as if he shifted right over to the side of Weavile, with his fist already cackling with electricity.
The green Dragonite quickly hammered the ice and dark type down hard with the thunder punch, making him crash into the ground with a boom.
"Did you even see him move?! What was that!?" White shout whispered towards the two.
"I-I don't know, I thought for sure that attack would hit, but somehow, he not only dodged it but counter attacked instantly! Th-there's no way there's a move or skill that can do that!" Benga spoke out. "Heck, I'm not even sure that was Aura, Psychic, or any other above average power! What was that!?"
"Guys, focus! The CEO obviously has something really big up his sleeve, but we need to leave, preferably with Anto!" Wes calmed them both before reaching into his pocket and taking out a familiar Premier Ball.
"Isn't that?" White trailed off.
Benga snapped his fingers. "Oh so that's why Anto hugged you! I didn't even notice him slip that in!"
"It his sleight of hand could use some work, but I'm proud of him none the less." Wes quipped before opening up Kryx's container.
The psychic type came out while wearing a lab coat and goggles while psychically holding two test tubes with a green liquid and an orange liquid.
"Steady… steady…" She didn't seem to notice everything around her as she started tilting the green test tube towards the orange one.
"Kryx!" Benga cried out, causing the psychic type to lose focus and drop the compounds into the ground.
Everyone watched as the tubes cracked into the ground and the orange liquid burned into the snow. As for the green liquid, it suddenly formed into a miniature blob like creature with tentacles and five eyes.
"Haha! I'm free! The world shall bleed at my forthcoming! MWAHAHAHAHA!" The blob shouted out in a very tiny and squeaky voice before slipping past out of the booth.
Kryx blinked before looking back at the others. "Hey guys, where's Anto?"
White, seeing the whole thing pointed back towards where the blob left. "Umm Kryx? What was that?"
"One of my experiments. Don't worry about it though; his compound is highly volatile to oxygen, so he shouldn't be anyone's problem in about—"
There was a loud explosion and more people screaming coming from the escape route the small blob left from.
"OH GOSH ANOTHER EXPLOSION!? NO ONE WAS EVEN FIGHTING THERE!"
…
Wes looked to the psychic type. "Kryx, we need you to get Anto and Jamie and bring them back here." Wes calmly said while choosing to ignore everything else going on in the background.
The scientist Pokémon telekinetically moved up her goggles and got a Nintendo 3DS looking object out of her lab pockets. "Okie Dokie! Let me just get my tracker to pin point him and… huh…"
"Huh? What huh? And is that a 3DS? Crap did I forget to remove my chrager from the plug?" Benga looked down as he tried to recall if he did such a thing.
"Well according to my tracker, he's on his way to the top of that tower but I can't teleport in." Kryx started pressing something along the bottom screen with a stylus.
"Why?" White looked back to see Team Plasma losing more of their allies against the "army of one" Dragonite.
"There are some psionic disrupters placed all over the tower. I can't teleport in to the building. Not only that, my tracker is picking some odd interference with all those storm clouds up there at the top of the tower. I'm even picking up a really weird signal. … But it might be possible for me to disable some of those disruptors from the inside and teleport them out…" The alien explained.
"Of course it's not going to be easy…" Wes spoke out. "And Team Plasma is getting their butts kicked by just one person."
Benga also decided to sneak a peek, but then all three, and Kryx, ducked as the saw two team Plasma members be thrown into their booth and crash into some boxes.
Wes was the first to speak up as he eyed the two unconscious grunts. "… Someone speak up right now because I have a plan and I really, really hate it."
[Back with Anto]
Anto and Jamie ran into the Ruins, passing by the large dusty walls, the water flooding the bottom ruins, and reaching the end of the room where a "Do not Enter" sign was kicked away from a bunch of stairs.
"Well we can't go back out there. We'll have to try to find something up there." Jamie spoke before she and Anto ran up the ruins.
"Isn't it strange though? Why is Team Plasma here? I thought they were obsessed over the dragon of legend here in Unova?" Jamie wondered out loud.
Anto was glad that odd feeling he had awhile ago was lessened, but there was this tiny part of his brain that tickled him about being here.
"W-Wow! This place keeps going up!" Jamie spoke out as they both looked up and saw how high this tower actually went.
( + \_/ 8 /\/ 8 0 \_/ /\/ |] ) = Turn around.
Anto felt this odd urge to face behind him—his eyes widened. "Jamie, get down!"
{Very Highly recommended music: Antti Martikainen - From the Fields of Gallia}
The boy in a skirt tackled the girl as a sniper round just hit the wall where Anto's head would have been.
"W-What?!" Jamie yelped as she saw the bullet crack the old walls with smoke coming off the hole.
"Fire another load! Hurry!" The distance voices screamed, prompting the two to get back up.
"Super Nut, Protect!" Anto removed his wig and threw out the Ultra Ball as out appeared the caped Ferrothorn with a green forcefield to deflect three sniper rounds.
To Jamie's horror, she saw the three masked people from the Music Festival! Only this time they were wearing strange armor and sleek suits but were armed with Sniper Rifles all aiming at her and Anto!
The girl felt a vine coil around her as Super Nut grabbed both Anto and Jamie with one vine and Power Whip(ed) away as soon as his barrier fell.
The masked agents sent their own Pokémon out, the Torren Region Mega Flygon, the Mega Pinsir, and Mega Gengar. The female agent stepped on her Mega Flygon to fly after them while the Mega Pinsir grabbed the Caucasian man with short blue hair then the Mega Gengar made the man with dark skin and dreadlocks fade into the shadows before the giant shadow trailed fast after Jamie and Anto.
"Jamie, your Pokémon—now!"
The owner of the Mega Pinsir aimed the rifle towards Anto's head, but Super Nut stretched ahead and swung to the side and launched himself upward, dodging live rounds as they all descended higher.
Mega Flygon swooped in from the side, unleashing a devastating Dragon Pulse while Super Nut was mid air.
"Golruk, Power Up Punch!" Jamie screamed as she placed a recently opened Poké Ball back into her belt. The Powerful Ghost type appeared and punched the beam heading towards them, allowing Super Nut to move on, but the Mega's attack overwhelmed the ghost type, blasting him to phase through the walls.
"Golruk!" Jamie cried for her Pokémon while Anto fidgeted for his Pokémon despite being pulled up faster by Super Nut's vine swinging and climbing upward.
The two fliers came together, both their snipers aiming again with a clear shot at Anto who threw out the Dusk Ball into their path before catching it as they moved up faster.
The agents both fired.
"Phantom Force!"
Sentinel grabbed onto Anto's hand mid air and brought all of them into the dark dimension of the Phantom Force.
-Oh Gosh!- Jamie's voice sounded strange in this distorted dimension.
Anto tried to described as they all kept going up. -Right you've never been—-
-No, they're still following us!- Jamie pointed downward where a white shadow popped up, revealing Mega Gengar and the Raikou masked agent with his rifle pointed right at Anto.
-They can follow us even here!?- Anto yelled as he was suddenly tossed into the air by Super Nut to avoid another bullet. Sentinel jumped out of Anto's arms and fired a Shadow Ball at the Pursuers before Mega Banette came out and fire a dozen Will-o-Wisps to counter the attack. Sentinel moved through the dimension and brought them all back to the ruins where The Suicuine and Entei masked agents pointed their rifles back at them as they went towards the next floor.
"Hey—is that!?" Jamie couldn't finish as they climbed up to see a large group of Team Plasma members and one of the Seven Sages of Team Plasma in this floor.
And all of them looked back at the two teens.
"Intruders! Stop them! Lord N is in the middle of the Awakening!" At this new Sage's command, all the Grunts aimed right for Super Nut as he kept climbing higher with Sentinel using Shadow Sneak to phase into the wall and catch up with them.
"N?" Anto repeated the letter of the familiar person he knew despite narrowly missing over a dozen attack all aimed at Super Nut and them.
It was then that the two agents, now with in the wall flying right beside them, came up and noticed Team Plasma attacking their prey.
Their presence was also immediately noticed by the group of wannabe cultists.
"It's them! Those are the masked bandits that besmirched our name! Get them!" The Sage screamed as now the intruders were forgotten in favor of their enemies, blasts of power shot all through out the walls and echoed through out the floor they were all in.
Jamie sighed in relief as the attacks all lessened and focused more on the two agents, but then Super Nut suddenly started dropping out of the wall! Everyone looked up and saw a Mega Blaziken coming at insane speed towards them with his entire body ablaze.
Jamie and Anto threw out their next Pokémon. "Ohko!"/"Fletchinder!"
The two Pokémon came out, and Sentinel jumped in with them to attack and counter the charging Mega Blaziken.
The collision knocked them towards the floor, but Anto and Jamie threw out their remaining Pokémon.
Lily was given the command and quickly summoned a pile of Magical Leaves to catch Super Nut, Takezo, and Sylveon as they all landed nearby some Team plasma Grunts.
"Hey! You aren't supposed to be here—why are you wearing a skirt?" One of the grunts asked Anto.
Ignoring how he was in a life or death situation wearing questionable clothes, Anto looked up quickly. "Thank you for the advice, but that goes for you too!" He projected as he quickly helped Jamie up and ran away.
Before the Team Plasma grunts could react, Ohko was thrown down at them and knocked them off their feet.
"Anto, look! Stairs that lead further up!" Jamie pointed to the large spiral staircase nearby them.
"How freaking tall is this place!?" Anto cried out as they started running up the stairs. Takezo stopped and looked behind them—
CLANG!
—before parrying a spike that was dangerously close to piercing Anto's face. The normal type followed through and knocked away the Mega Cacturne's spiked arm before unsheathing his second blade and kicking him off the stairs back on to the battle field.
"Anto, where is Kryx?" Takezo spoke as he readied his Choice Scarf around his right bokken. They all ran up the stairs.
"I gave her Poké Ball to Wes in case we needed saving. What's taking them so long!?"
[With Wes…]
"Arceus, I feel like a tool." Wes spoke out as he walked briskly towards Team Plasma with Elektross floating beside him.
"But this surprisingly comfortable for some reason." Benga spoke out as he and Wes were dressed in Team Plasma uniforms they took from the unconscious people.
"R-Retreat!" Zinzolin cried out as the green Dragonite body checked three Pokémon in one move.
"Go sir!" Wes lied as he called out to him. "We'll cover your escape!"
"Got it!" Zinzolin nodded before realizing he had never seen those two boys before… bah who cares, they weren't going to lose anymore to that monster of a dragon type. Its power was eerily amazing! Not only that, they were only tasked to distract and liberate as much as they could while Lord N made his preparations with the team that infiltrated the tower during this distraction.
Wes and Benga jumped away as the Dragonite punched the ground they were standing in previously.
"This kind of makes thing easier…" Wes threw out the rest of his Pokémon, revealing Espeon, Umbreon, Delta Wartorlte, and even Zwelious.
Benga threw out his Pokémon, Ferland the shiny Garchomp and a Volcarona named Rei.
"Poké Balls?" Sied walked up leisurely behind his Pokémon towards the two. "You two aren't Team Plasma, are you?"
"Oh please do you think we'd wear this ridiculous get up on purpose?" Wes spoke out as he removed his hood. "Honestly, the only reason I thought we would wear this was because I thought they'd stay longer. Why can't plans ever work?"
"Ah, I know you. You're one of the trainers during the Music Festival—Wes right? Now that makes more sense why you're here." His eyes narrowed as he processed together why Wes and the other were standing before him.
For a minute, both Benga and Wes felt a chill in the air.
"We want Anto back, so excuse us as we get past you to get him." Wes motioned.
"I apologize, but you have no idea what you two boys are getting into." Sied finished as his Dragonite spread out his wings and flew straight towards a 1 vs 7 without an ounce of hesitation.
Benga and Wes saw the Dragonite clash with Ferland, before being pushed back and crashing into several booths.
Wes sweat dropped and glanced towards the tower. 'White, you better hurry!'
[…]
Back in the tower,chaos was rampant as Inquisitor, Majus, and Warden were fighting back against the legion of grunts and one of the Seven Sages. Amongst all the quick and sudden movements to avoid a dozen or so attack, while counter attacking herself, Inquisitor noticed the boy and girl running up the stairs.
"Subject 5 is reaching higher ground. We need to detain him quickly!" Inquisitor spoke out with urgency before Mega Flygon unleashed a powerful Dragon Pulse to knock out a Liepard thinking it could hit them.
"Go Inquisitor! Majus and I can handle this!" Warden cried out as he and his Mega Pinsir and Mega Medicham descended on the group of Team Plasma members with Majus and his ghost Megas close behind them.
Inquisitor and her Mega Flygon chased after the group of Pokémon, but then the Torren Region Mega stopped as a large fist barely hit it, revealing Golurk returning into the fray and holding Inquisitor and Mega Flygon off.
She pointed her rifle at the ghost type. "You have no idea what you are doing do you?"
All of Anto's Pokémon and Jamie's, except Golurk, had caught up and climbed up to the very top of the stairs where they were now noticed a huge hole at the roof, and revealing it to be very foggy and cloudy.
To Anto's surprise, he swore he saw someone in the center of the highest floor.
… "N?"
The green haired boy and his Pokémon turned back towards the boy. It was then they noticed a large intimidating black dragon right behind the teen.
"Not the one I was expecting… but nonetheless this Pokémon you see before you is Zekrom, the legendary dragon of Ideals! And he has chosen me as his hero! With this, I am one step closer to achievi—"
"I have no time for this! N, we need to get out of here fast!" Anto cried as he and Jamie ran up towards him. But all of N's Pokémon, including Zekrom, growled at the mute.
"Are you so daft as to—… why are you wearing girls clothes?" N paused as he noticed the skirt Anto was wearing. He surely wasn't expecting, nor was this situation in the realm of his calculations, when one of the two potential trainers standing in his way to come to him at his most triumphant hour in girl clothes.
Even in a life and death situation, Anto can't catch a break can he?
"It's a long story, but right now we need to get out of here!" Anto told him with great urgency.
"GAAAHHHH!?" something flew up from the ground, revealing that it was Jamie's Golurk, who looked terribly injured and promptly fainted as he landed back down.
"Ah! Golurk!" Jamie, her Sylveon, and her Fletchinder all went towards her strong Pokémon.
"What's going on? … What is happening beneath us?" N asked as he started to hear the loud sounds of battling below him.
Zekrom's eyes sharpened and power started cackling towards his body as if to prepare for something.
Suddenly, Mega Flygon broke through the floor in an instant, surprising all those there. Then all of her Megas charged right for them with a powerful battle cry.
Anto and Jamie's Pokémon charged in as well to meet them head on.
Inquisitor aimed the Sniper rifle the second while everyone was about to battle towards Anto… ?
She tilted it away from Anto…
…Then fired.
Anto's mind raced faster than it ever did before. That angle would miss him for sure, so who—
He tilted his head at the widening and fearful eyes of N as the bullet came closer and closer.
Takezo was dueling against the Mega Cacturne.
Ohko was taking on the Mega Milotic.
Lily was handling the Mega Meganium to notice.
Sentinel was fighting against the Torren Region Mega Eevee.
Super Nut was already shielding against the Mega Stunfisk.
None of his Pokémon were prepared to stop that bullet in anyway. N would…
There was only one move left.
BANG!
…
Crimson blood spilt on ancient stone…
"A-A-A-AAANNNNTTTOOOOO!?" Jamie shrieked in absolute horror.
Everyone stared in shock except Inquisitor.
They all saw Anto… getting shot in the head for pushing N out of the way of the bullet…
{Author Notes?}
Do you hear it?
It rumbles deep within the confines of its prison… a spark has come to its long listless and lifeless body.
A faint glow of purple glows in the unending darkness.
Ancient ties are pulled and stretched after millenniums of stillness.
Its dreamless sleep is coming to an end.
Soon… very soon…
These chains shall break and he shall be free once more…
And this time, there is no dragon legend to stop it.