Chapter 8 - Showdown on Mt. Moon

The three members of The Try Force sailed on the King of Red Lions for about a day and a half on their way from Sinnoh to Kanto. Link and Scor fought over the simplest things and it was all Zelda could do to keep them from going at each other's throats.

Once they reached Kanto, they could see Mt. Moon in the distance. "Well, there it is." Scorbunny commented.

"How far away is it?" asked Zelda.

"Too far." Link said. "Let's get going."

Once they were at Mt. Moon, Link spotted Jigglypuff standing in front of the entrance.

"What do you guys think? Is that Jigglypuff friendly?" he asked.

"It is 2019." said Scorbunny. "You shouldn't judge a person just based on what they look like."
"So that's why everything is so advanced, we're two hundred and sixty three years into the future!"

"Oh. You are? I would've guessed more like 23 years, at most. I may suck at math." said Scor. "Now, about that Jigglypuff, whose gender I can not identify. Since we have no way of knowing if he or she is evil or not, we have no choice but to go up to him or her and hope he or she isn't."

Link and Zelda shrugged.

The three heroes walked up to Jigglypuff. Once they were close enough, Jigglypuff jumped towards Zelda and grabbed her face. Jigglypuff then used Double Slap repeatedly.

Scor jumped up and pulled Jigglypuff off of Zelda. He fell down to the ground and dropped her behind him. "So, are you a boy or a girl?" he asked the Normal type.

Jigglypuff then suddenly began to use Sing. Not the Illumination movie, the Pokémon move.

"Jigglypuff! Jiggly-lypuff!" she sang. Zelda and Scorbunny fell asleep, but Link was able to avoid Jigglypuff's attack.

"Why are you attacking us?"

"Ganondorf's enemies are a shiny Totodile and Kirlia. Although, I just realized one of you is a Gardevoir and even if that weren't the case, I shouldn't assume it was you anyway. Especially since he never mentioned a Scorbunny."

"Are you working for Ganondorf?"

"Yes."

"But why? He's evil. He wanted to destroy my homeland to bring back his, he might want to do the same to your world!"

Jiggs looked at the ground while she tried to think of a response. She couldn't think of one, so she decided to just attack Link by using Pound. She then used Sing again, this time putting Link to sleep.

A couple hours later, Link awoke along with Zelda and Scor.

"Alright." they heard Jigglypuff say, drawing their attention to her. "I've been thinking it over, and you're right, Totodile."

"I am? About Ganondorf?"

"Yes. So, if you'll take me, I would like to join your side."

"Yay!" Scor cheered. "The Try Force grows!"

"And to answer your earlier question, I'm a girl."

"In that case, would you like to go see a movie with me some time? You're hot."

Jigglypuff used Double Slap on Scorbunny.

"I deserved that." he stated.

A few minutes later, the group reached the top of Mt. Moon, where Ganondorf was talking to Mewtwo.
Link simply stopped in his tracks when he realized that Ganondorf had also been transformed into a Pokémon.
Ganondorf was now a large, bipedal, dinosaurian Pokémon with a green, armor-like hide covering his body. He had two pairs of pointed teeth: one in the upper jaw and one in the lower. Several spikes of varying size protrude from the back of its head, neck, and shoulders. Both sides of his chest, the center of his back, and his knees had two triangular holes. There was a gray, diamond-shaped patch of scales covering his belly, and a smaller one on his back. He had three claws on his feet and hands. A ring of spikes surrounded the tip of his tail. On top of all of this, Ganondorf still had that red hair of his, though it was more like a mane now, and his red eyes seemed to be on fire.

"Spec yeah! A TYRANITAR!" Scor shouted. "Oh, wait. He's the bad guy, so that's bad."
Said Pokémon in question slowly turned to face the group, though his gaze was focused on Link.
"So. You show yourself at last, Hero of Winds."
Link heistated, then took a step forwards.
"If you do this you're going to do harm to this world, think again!"
Ganondorf started to laugh, trying to breathe.
"Do you really think you can still stop me? I have an entire army at my beck and call! Jigglypuff, get him!"
"...If you say so." Jigglypuff sarcastically responded before beginning to fight Mewtwo.

"What do you think you're doing?!" Ganondorf shouted.

"I'm on Link's side now."

"Whatever. I don't need you anyway. I can kill you just as easily without any assistance."
Link grinned and motioned to Scor.
"That, is where you're wrong."
The four Time Gears blazed with light as they were brought out into the open and Ganondorf looked curious.
"...What…"
"These are the Time Gears! You hid them around this world in order to stop us, and we found them!"
"...I...I did no such thing. I have never even heard of these...Time Gears until now. But they do sound interesting..."
Link faltered and took a step backwards, as Ganondorf grinned and motioned to the floating creature nearby.
Mewtwo's eyes flashed purple and blasted Jigglypuff away, then flew towards Link.

However, before Mewtwo could do anything, another Pokémon appeared.
It was Dusclops, now Dusknoir. "King of Evil, I have come for my revenge!"

"...And you are?"
"The Dusclops you threw off this mountain. I evolved into Dusknoir and I have returned for revenge."
Link noticed that Dusknoir was staring at Zelda and Scor - the Time Gears.
"At last, my chance for redemption! I know how to use the Time Gears, I can teach you and we can rule the world!"
The Dark Pokémon rushed over to Scor and Zelda, but Link leapt in front of them and received a sickening blow by Dark Pulse.

Dusknoir was standing over him, blocking out the moon.
"You are very lucky to still be alive. The Gardevoir was taken. You will not find her here. Ganondorf told me to stay here until you awakened. So, here I am, and here you are. What are you going to do about your current predicament, I wonder?"

"Wha...what? I don't understand." responded Link, still not fully awake.
"It has been five hours since I hit you with Dark Pulse. Ganondorf instructed me to finish you off once you awoke, but I wonder if it would have been better to have done so right after you collapsed…."
Link scrambled to his feet and darted backwards as Dusknoir started to head towards him.

He hit a wall of some sort, he was trapped, there was nowhere for him to go. Dusknoir pulled his arm back, ready to strike - that light again.
Link's Harmony Scarf was glowing, and, a few seconds later, he evolved.

A muscular blue scaled hand closed around Dusknoir's throat.
"Where. Is. She?!" Link demanded, his blue eyes on fire for once.

"I refuse to tell you. Ganon told me to keep…"

"YOU SAID YOU WANTED REVENGE! HOW DID YOU GO BACK TO HIS SIDE SO QUICKLY?!" he roared, sending spittle in Dusknoir's face as he shook him violently. "You better Faring tell me where Zelda is or I swear to Hylia I'm gonna beat the ever loving Din out of you!"
"...I….Don't….know….wheresheis."
Link simply stood there for a minute, then roared, held Dusknoir over his head, then slammed him into the ground, then started to attack him.
Blood soon covered the Feraligatr but he didn't notice. If he did, he didn't care.

His vision went red at some point and when it came back, Dusknoir was barely alive, let alone awake, and very, very injured.
"Mer…..cy….."
"Why." It wasn't a question.
"Uhh...I don't know. Because I want to live?"

"Wrong answer." Link said. He was about to use Hydro Pump, but was interrupted.

"Wait! Ganondorf fled some time ago with the Time Gears."
Dusknoir swallowed.
"And….her…"

"See? Was that so hard?"
"...There….Is another Time Gear….He has not found it yet."
The one in the Clearing.
"Yes...You know which one, don't you?"

"...I do."

It was silent for a bit, then Link decided to speak what was on his mind.
"In the clearing, I...had a vision. It was of you attacking Zelda and I. Do you know what the vision...ah…."
"It depicted a future event, did it not?"
"Yes."
"Then I know what it is. You have an ability known as the Dimensional Scream, which allows the user to see visions of the past or future when touching something or someone related to that vision."

"How does it work? Can I choose when I have a vision or does it happen at complete random?"
"It is random."
Link began to feel as if he was shrinking again, becoming younger, and the way Dusknoir was looking at him. Whatever happened next was not going to be good.