ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 28 - The real beast
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
After hearing someone call his name during the early hours of the morning, Ash refused to go back to sleep.
Who did he hope it was? Who is left to call on him? Lill-
"STOP Ash! Don't think about her…" he mumbled to himself.
The door opened to his and Hau's room as Lana walked in to the room.
"Ash? Are you okay?" she asked.
"No…" Ash snapped.
Lana sighed as she came and sat next to him on his bed while Hau snored away.
"I'm a failure Lana, let's face it." Ash grunted.
"Listen to me! You just managed to beat the strongest person on Akala Island yesterday! Your Stufful managed to survive a Z-move from the Kahuna's strongest Pokemon! That strength to continue fighting had to rub off his trainer!" Lana told the kanto born.
Ash sighed.
"I probably didn't handle the situation with Lillie as well as I should of… And we did make the promise of always being honest with each other…" Ash explained.
"You weren't to know if this Gladion fellow was Lillies brother."
"But I should have."
At this point, Hau started to groggily wake up.
"Ugh… What time is it?" Hau asked.
"Go back to sleep." Ash snapped.
"Okay…" Hau muttered and fell straight back asleep.
"Ash. What Lillie said about you being a failure was probably just all in the heat of the moment. She was relieved that her brother is still alive and in Alola, but took the anger of his absence out on you." Lana tried to explain.
"Well, she is going to in a giant shock when they reunite. Whatever Lillie might have remembered of him is completely gone." Ash explained.
Lana could see that this wasn't working and sighed.
"It's no use moping about it. Just try to get some sleep." Lana asked as she left the room.
Ash groaned and fell on to his pillow.
Elsewhere inside the heart of Konikoni city, was a bench of men and women in white shirts and shorts with a weird triangular symbol on the back of their uniform.
In front of them was 5 humans all wearing the same uniform. Theirs was a large white lab coat and a white and orange helmet with the front covered completely in think orange glass which hid their faces.
Finally standing in the middle was an old man with the same lab coat but wore green goggles instead.
"Mr. Faba sir, we will investigate the ruins of conflict first thing in the morning sir!" one of the lesser looking members said.
"And we'll get the trial goers!" two more said.
"I will attend as well. We must make sure they come to the paradise otherwise a very angry president is going to fire all our arses! Understood?" the man known as Faba told the group.
"YES SIR!" they all said and went off to their retrospective jobs except for the ones that were assisting Faba as they had to wait for the morning.
Watching in the shadows was none other than Gladion as his head tracked one of the higher ups. Once the employee in the lab coat had split off from the rest, he felt someone grab him into a headlock and drag him into an alleyway.
A couple of minutes, a figure walked out of the alleyway with the same clothing on except was slightly shorter as he adjusted little pieces here and there, otherwise it was unnoticeable.
"Operation Beast Killer is on the moves…" Gladion thought to himself as he walked off to where he was staying to wait for the morning.
(The next morning.)
Ash had stayed up all night as Hau finally woke up.
"Morning." Hau said casually.
Ash just snarled at him.
"Oh right."
They each got ready for breakfast while also backing their stuff to depart to Ula'Ula Island.
Lana was in the kitchen already, making some toast.
"Hey." Was all she said to the duo.
"Morning." Hau said as Ash sat down and was slowly falling asleep.
"You didn't get any sleep last night now did you?" Lana asked.
"Well, I look like shit, I feel like shit and after yesterday events, the world is nothing but shit." Ash moaned while yawning. Lana just sighed.
There was a knock at the door which turned in to a rapid beat.
"I'm coming! I'm coming!" Lana yelled as she opened the door to find Kiawe and Mallow.
"You'll never believe who is in town!" Kiawe said as Mallow hid behind him slightly, still shaken up about what happened yesterday being her fault.
"Who?" Lana said confused, gaining a very uninterested and unmotivated Ash focus plus Hau as well.
"The Aether foundation!" Kiawe told her as Lana's jaw dropped.
"Whoa!? Did you just say the Aether Foundation is in town?!" Hau asked.
"The what?" Ash muttered.
"They are like real life superheroes. Saving Pokemon from bad guys like team skull or poachers!" Hau explained. Ash grunted again.
"Heroes huh? Boy they sure must get appreciated when they help out." Ash said with a heavy load of sarcasm.
"We should go see them! What you guys say?" Lana asked the two boys.
"I'm down for it!"
"Whatever…"
The two boys finished up and followed the three to the city centre. Ash didn't even bother to give Mallow any attention.
Olivia was already there and was talking to an oldish man. He wore a large lab coat with green goggles. He had a short hair more towards the back of his head and had a little goatee. Around him were men and women in white shorts and shorts with white hats as well, looking at Pokemon from trainers or just talking to people in general.
Olivia noticed the group of 5.
"Ah! You guys are here." Olivia said happily.
The man turned to the group and took an instant interest in Ash.
"Hmm, Who might these young adults be?" the man asked.
"These three are trial captains." Olivia said pointing at the trio.
"Hiya. I'm Lana."
"Kiawe."
"I'm Mallow…" Mallow said as she heard Ash grunt.
"And those two?"
"I'm Hau."
"… Ash."
"They took on the grand trial yesterday and successfully won." Olivia told the man.
"Without being rude sir. Who might you be?" Hau asked.
"Oh! Apologises. My name is Faba, the branch chief of the Aether foundation." Faba explained. "I was just explaining to Miss Olivia here about something that caught the foundations attention
"Attention?" Kiawe asked.
"Yes, indeed. Eherm, Aether's lovely and charming president has been at war with the vile leader of Team Skull, Guzma. We have been locked in battle with them to insure the pokemon of Alola is able to stay safe. When we heard they were in Konikoni city and were defeated including Guzma, we had to find the heroes. And here they are." Faba told them all. "So our president has decided to award you all with a weekend at the Aether foundation.
The others all talked in excitement but Ash continued to be a grump.
"Say? Would you like to bring along a sixth member? More the merry!" Faba suggested.
Everyone looked at each. Lana finally spoke up.
"It's fine. Just us."
Faba nodded.
"Very well we depart in an hour…" he told them, turning away and leaving with a displeased look.
"I've heard about some great things about the Aether foundation!" Kiawe said.
Hau was going to talk to them all until Ash pulled him aside.
"Huh?" Hau blurted.
"We should leave." Ash said bluntly.
"What? Why!?" Hau moaned.
"I'm getting some bad vibes from him. Especially how he wondered if we wanted to bring a sixth member. Why not just ask Olivia?" Ash explained.
Hau raised an eyebrow.
"Ash. Your overthinking this. Aether has been around for decades now! They are like the most loved people in Alola besides the Kahuna's." Hau told him. "Besides, after the little Lillie fiasco, you could use a weekend off!"
Ash sighed.
"Maybe you're right. But if I notice anything…" Ash muttered.
They five of them got on the ship and got to their seats which was on the deck top floor. They saw all the employees board the ship including some with weird helmets on their heads. One of them was rather behind and was the last to board.
The boat set sail as they distanced themselves from Akala Island.
Down on the bottom were the staff were, one of the scientists popped off to the toilet. Locking the door, he took of the helmet to wipe the sweat off.
"Never understood how they could wear these things all day…" Gladion complained. He shook his head and put it back on. "We are doing this Null… Operation Beast killer."
Gladion left the bathroom and walked about to act normal.
Kiawe was sitting next to Ash as he looked out over the ocean, seeing many aquatic Pokemon jumping and swimming through the ocean.
"Sometimes you just wish life was as simple as that huh?" Kiawe commented.
"Yeah I guess."
"Do you have any idea where Lillie might have gone to." Kiawe asked.
"No clue. I'll contact the professor to see if she stormed off there." Ash replied.
Ash decided to try and take a small nap before he had to go through whatever bullshit this place had installed.
"Ash… wake up!" a voice called out to Ash as he slowly woke up.
"Uhuh?"
"Ash look!" Hau called out.
Groaning from still being half asleep, Ash got up and looked over to the side to see something that actually got him interested.
A giant silver complex was built right in the middle of the ocean.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for coming to visit the Aether Paradise! We will be docking soon, so please make sure you are seated!" a woman over the intercom explained.
Ash and Hau went to their seats and waited for the ship to dock. Another voice over told them it was time to leave the boat.
The group went on to the pier to find Faba waiting for them with another woman.
She wore the same lab coat except it was smaller plus she was wearing a purple turtle neck sweater underneath. She wore large purple glasses and her hair was all puffed up and stylised.
"Everyone, I would like to introduce you to Wicke, the Aether foundation's assistant branch chief to yours truly!" Faba explained.
Wicke waved at the group.
"Greeting to you all and welcome to the Aether paradise, home to the Aether foundation!" Wicke explained.
"Wicke, will look after you for the rest of your stay." Faba explained as he began to walk off.
"Huh? Wait where are you going?" Lana questioned Faba.
"Hmm, I got adult things to take care. Ciao!" Faba told them.
"Don't worry about Mr. Faba, he can be a bit of a grump sometimes!" Wicke told them. "Well, shall we?" she said again but this pointing at the building.
Wicke escorted them inside the giant building to see many of the Aether employees walking around, giving tours to tourists or just with Pokemon in general.
"Our president is very thankful for your fight against team skull. She will talk to you all personally at a later point!" Wicke explained.
"So, what is the deal with Team Skull?" Ash asked.
"Oh? You not from Alola?"
"I come from Kanto." Ash told her with great pain inside of him.
"Ah! I see! Well, Team skull's grunts just tend to be annoying and wreak stuff around the towns and cities. Casual thief stuff. But then there is their leader… Guzma." Wicke said with a worried look.
"Who I successfully beat!" Hau bragged.
"Not to burst a bubble or anything, but I highly doubt Guzma was going at his full potential…" Wicke said with a nervous grin.
"What?" everyone blurted out.
"We saw the footage of Master Hau's and Guzma's battle and he was definitely holding back. His Golisopod alone can hold its own against 5 of our best battlers here at Aether. Such a waste in talent." Wicke explained as she opened a room. "This way please!"
Everyone walked in with Hau looked rather dejected after hearing that his win against Guzma was because he wasn't taking it seriously.
"Right! So, the left-hand side is the rooms for Ms. Mallow and Ms. Lana. And the rooms on the right-hand side is for Master Ash, Master Kiawe and Master Hau. Please settle in and meet me at the end of this hallway in 10 minutes!" Wicke explained as each of them went into their own personal room.
Ash walked in and saw a flat screen TV, a spa pool, a king size bed, a pool table, a mini buffet, an aquarium with small water type Pokemon living inside. He sat down on the bed and felt how soft it was.
10 minutes passed by and everyone met Wicke right where she said too.
"Alright! Now that you all got a feel to your rooms, I'll show you some of our 24-hour facilities!"
Wicke took them to a new hallway which had a glass preview mirror on the wall.
"Inside of here is our training centre with simulation modules so you can challenge yourself or just see if your skills are at the point where you want them to be at in pretty much any situation!" Wicke told them as Ash gained a great amount of interest in it.
"Just further up is our massage and spa area for some of Alola's best massages! As the president is treating you, it is unlimited access for the weekend." Wicke explained.
"And now for the grand jewel of the Aether foundation!" Wicke announced as she pushed open a door.
Everyone's eyes widened as they saw a giant green field of grass with built pathway over top.
"Our safety enclosure!" Wicke said as she walked up the stairs. "Here we look after injured Pokemon or wild ones that have been abused by trainers but primarily team Skull."
All five of them were in awe at the sight of the place.
Wicke kept walking as she someone that peaked her interest.
"If you may please continue to follow me!" Wicke asked politely.
The group continued to follow Wicke until they came to a stop where there was two aether employees and a woman.
She was tall but that was probably due to her high heels. She had long blonde straightened hair with a normal tone of skin colour. She wore a sleeveless shirt that merged down into a skirt that finished just at her knees. She wore black and white legging underneath. Just above her breasts was diamond like crystal connecting to the shirt.
"Please, make sure that Pokemon is showered with lots of love." The woman told the two aether employees.
"Yes, Madam President!" they said before walking off. The woman turned to see Wicke with a group of teenagers.
"Ah! Wicke! I see our guests of honour has arrived!" she said as Wicke signalled at the five to move forward slightly. "Welcome to the Aether Paradise, home to any Pokemon that is in need of a home! I am the president for the Aether foundation! But please! Just call me Lusamine!" the lady known as Lusamine explained.
"Woah! You are the President here!? Wow, you're not even that much older than us!" Hau mentioned.
Lusamine giggled slightly.
"Oh, you sweet boy!" Lusamine chirped. "I guess I managed to sustain my looks from my youth! I'm 47."
The room went a little silent for a split second.
"Oh, only 47… Wait what?" Hau blurted as Lusamine and Wicke laughed.
Lusamine stopped laughing and cleared her throat.
"Please! Don't be shy to use our facilities or just go around petting Pokemon, they love company! Anyone that is fighting against Team Skull is a friend of the Aether Foundation!" Lusamine explained.
Just as she said that, an employee walked into the room.
"Madam President! Ms. Wicke! The tremors have increased slightly more."
"Tremors?" Ash asked.
Lusamine nodded.
"Yes, we are unsure what is the cause of this but it is probably just mother nature! If you'd excuse me!" Lusamine said as she walked with the employee.
"Well, you are free to go do what you want till dinner!" Wicke told them as she walked off.
Ash headed the same way as he wanted to go train. As he walked into the hallway, he and Wicke were passed by a few scientists heading into an elevator.
"What's down there?" Ash asked Wicke.
"Oh them. Uh, they just work on ensure the pillars that hold up the aether foundation is stable." Wicke told him and left quickly.
Ash didn't believe her but he couldn't be bothered at the time and decided to go to training centre.
Elsewhere, in a room that was now locked from the inside was Gladion. He released his four Pokemon as they looked around where they were. Type: Null was the first to figure it out much to his disliking. He could sense the unease raditating off of his trainer.
"Alright… At midnight tonight, we break into the labs and find the remaining pieces of Project BEAST KILLER then get the hell out of here. If anything goes wrong, we will leave asap." Gladion explained as each of his Pokemon nodded but Type: Null.
Gladion gave him a sad look.
"Null, it will be fine. I won't let them touch you ever again!" He told his masked Pokemon. Type: Null grunted but rubbed his head against Gladion in a sign of affection. Gladion sighed and patted him.
"Torracat, fire fang! Salandit, sludge bomb! Bewear, hammer arm! Dartrix, leafage!" Ash commanded as his Pokemon fought against the computer simulations.
Torracat latched himself into the shoulder of the simulation and then threw it at wall.
Salandit's one slowly faded away as it perished under the influence of the sludge bomb.
Bewear took out multiple due to his new fond size and swung around with hammer arm.
Dartrix flung his razor-sharp leaves at each other than ran past and towards him.
Ash kept the same determined look. Sure he didn't trust the Aether foundation, but he did have to admit, he admired their training facilities.
"Bewear! Behind you and use brutal swing!"
The bears arm glowed black as he swung around and slammed a punching bag that was flying towards him. The force was powerful enough to rip the bag apart.
"Torracat! Salandit! Inferno overdrive!" Ash shouted and pointed at the Z move corner.
The two fire types used the Z-move and were panting now.
"Dartrix! Target practise!"
Target's surrounded Dartrix, but the bird fired at them only missing like 5 darts.
There was a knock at the door as a butler walked in.
"Master Ash, dinner is ready and President Lusamine would like to speak with you." He told Ash, who groaned loudly in response.
He just wanted to train and train.
Ash followed the butler to where everyone else was eating with Lusamine and Wicke.
"Ah! Ash, so nice of you to join us! Please take a seat and don't be shy to eat as much as you want!" Lusamine said to Ash, who was down on the eat as much part."
Elsewhere…
"SIR! The barrier to breaking apart!" a scientist shouted as everyone crowded around him. Faba slowly walked towards him.
"Much longer must we wait?" Faba asked.
"Roughly 11 o clock tonight sir! We will finally remake contact!"
Faba just smirked.
"Excellent. 11 year we have waited for its return, Symbiont will be ours tonight!"
Meanwhile…
"So, I must firstly congratulate you two on your success in the trial challenge so far!" Lusamine said to Ash and Hau. "And being trial captain must be pressurising on such young adults, truly a remarkable job you are doing."
"Thanks!" the three trial captains said to Lusamine.
"Thank miss Lusamine!" Hau said as well while Ash just ate while looking at Lusamine.
She caught Ash staring at her.
"Is something the matter Ash?" Lusamine asked.
Ash wiped his face and placed down his fork.
"Without being rude, do you have any children?" Ash asked with caution. Everyone just looked at him.
"It's fine as I'm sure you would like to know more about me. No, I don't have any children. I'm single as my husband passed away now just little over a decade ago." Lusamine explained as Ash jaw dropped as he was not expecting that answer. "Now out of curiosity, why do you ask?"
Ash sighed as he felt like he had to tell the truth…
Even though he still didn't know if he should trust her or not.
"I have a friend that looks similar to you but must just be a coincidence." Ash explained.
"Oh? Who is she?" Lusamine asked.
"Her name is Lillie." Ash said clearly as the others talked among themselves. Lusamine didn't even move a muscle.
"No, sorry. I don't know a Lillie." She said and continued to eat.
Ash just continued to eat with not being satisfied from the answer.
Once dinner finished, everyone departed off to do their own things as Ash returned to the training facility. Hau joined him later with a burning question in his mind.
"Torracat take down on Dartrix! Dartrix, use wing attack!"
The two middle evolutions collided with the moves and bounced back.
"Hey, Ash?" Hau called out as he walked in the room. Ash turned around to the Melemele island native.
"Oh, hey Hau. Bewear, hammer arm again!" Ash shouted as the bear smashed some simulations.
"I just wanted to ask what that was all about?" Hau asked innocently.
"What was all about?"
"That question about Lillie?"
Ash sighed.
"I still don't trust this place. Lusamine looks too similar to Lillie." Ash told his travel partner.
"But she said she didn't know a Lillie?"
"Hau, there is a thing called lying!" Ash told him. "As soon as we get the chance, we are leaving!"
Hau groaned.
"Just think about over this okay? I'm going to sleep."
Ash sighed and went back to focusing on his pokemon.
A few hours later…
A bunch of scientists were stocking into an elevator with Gladion included as his plan was no going into full effect.
It took a few moments to get down, but they got to the very bottom of the aether foundation as they all went their own ways.
Looking around to the others, he walked to a closed door and pressed the stolen key card he got when he stole the uniform. The door opened as he entered and tip toed into the hallway. Look over the edge, they were a few meters above the water.
He stood outside a door with tinted windows as he released his Weavile and Golbat.
Pressing the key card on the door scanner, the door opened as other scientists looked at the intruder.
"Hey! Who are yo-" one shouted as Weavile fired a ice-beam at him and Golbat used body slam on the other two.
Gladion closed the door and removed the helmet and released both Riolu and Type: Null. He locked the door as he closed the curtains on the windows.
"Strip them and stuff them in the closet." Gladion told Weavile and Golbat. "Riolu, search for these coloured disc's. Null, just relax."
Everyone nodded as they went work with Gladion helping remove the clothing to prevent any form of contact.
Riolu searched into the desk, looking into every corner he could find.
The three scientists were stuffed into the closet as Weavile freezed the door shut as the trio helped Riolu look.
Type: Null looked at the room and had minor flashbacks…
"SHOCK IT!"
"TYPE: FULL! STOP!"
"I WILL NOT LET MY WORKERS DIE FOR THIS MONSTER!"
Null sighed as he looked Gladion, the only one that ever believed in him…
Gladion placed his hand on the handle of a safe to see it was locked. He grunted.
"Riolu, rip off this door." Gladion told the Sinnoh Pokemon
He nodded and grabbed on to the door and with a few pulls managed to successfully rip it clean off.
Gladions eyes widened as he found exactly what he was looking for.
"The memories and the key…" he muttered.
As he went in to reach, the ground began to shake as he fell backwards with the sirens going off.
Type: Null got up growling.
"What's going on?" Gladion shouted out as he returned Golbat and Riolu. Weavile collected the content inside the safe and placed it into a bag as Gladion returned him.
"Null… Is it?"
Everyone that was asleep was now up in dressing gowns as Ash and his Pokemon stepped outside the training room.
"What's going on!?" Mallow called out.
"WARNING! Evacuate to the safe zone! WARNING! Evacuate to the safe zone!" The siren went off over and over again.
Mallow and Lana held each other as Ash towards them.
"I told you this place was funny!?" Ash yelled at a half asleep Hau.
Wicke slammed through the door at the end of the hallway.
"THIS WAY!" she yelled as the tremor got worse.
"WHAT'S HAPPENING?" Kiawe yelled as he and Ash shielded the two girls.
"I don't know!" Wicke yelled back as everyone entered the Pokemon zoo area. Lusamine was standing with a few employees as many were trying to calm down the unsettled Pokemon.
"Oh! Thank goodness! You are alright!" Lusamine said to the group and then turned to Wicke. "Where is Faba?"
"I'm unaware of his location madam President!" Wicke said as the tremor started to get worse but suddenly stopped.
As bright light flashed behind Lusamine as she turned around. Everyone moved back as they looked at the light slowly turning onto a portal, a portal Ash recognised very familiarly.
Out of it, was see through creature. It had a bubble top head almost like a hat with star designs on it. It had no face and had tentacles sprouting out at different lengths. Being slightly blue, it was crystal clear to see through.
"Brrr-Brrr-Brrrtzzzz"
"What… What is it?" Mallow questioned out loud.
"I don't know…" Hau responded back to his cousin.
"Did you… Did you come from another world?" Lusamine called out.
"Brrr-Brrr-Brrttzzzzzt"
Ash stood in complete and outer horror as it brought back memories of the pallet town attack.
But confirmed his worst fear…
There were more of these things out there…
The creature swayed side to side slightly.
An aether employee stepped forward slightly and Ash widened his eyes at the sight.
"NO! Stop!" he yelled afraid of what might happen.
"What is he doing!" Mallow shouted as the employee reached towards the creature.
(Play the Ultra Beast theme.)
One of the tentacles on the creature glowed purple as it thrusted forward at the Aether member and jabbed him in the side with him falling to the ground shaking.
His skin grew paler and made unhuman sounds as he got up.
The employee turned around with his pupils glowing purple, with crack like scars running out of his eyes down to the bottom as he growled intensely.
The creature lifted its tentacle up and pointed at all the humans as the employee charged at them.
Ash nodded at Bewear who swung at the employee, who successfully dodged the swing.
The employee hit Bewear, causing him to wince in pain. Ash was stunned he managed to dodge and even effect Bewear.
The creature glowed and formed a few glowing rocks and threw it towards everyone. Hau called out Raichu who used protect with the rocks colliding into the shield.
It's tentacles glowed purple again but this time, a sphere was formed as it released a powerful sludge bomb.
"MOVE!" Ash yelled as everyone jumped out of the way. When the toxic ball hit the ground, it melted straight through the metal.
Meanwhile, Bewear was fighting the aether employee that had suddenly gained some form of super strength after being attacked by the creature.
Bewear used hammer arm, flinging the man back into a wall but got up again.
"HeLp PlEase!" The man tried to speak as Bewear hit him again with Hammer arm. Landing on the ground, he saw a pole sticking out of the surface.
He smirked and ripped it out of where it was and turned to Bewear.
Gladion was meanwhile surrounded by about 10 Aether employees. He had Type: Null behind him as they were backed up to a wall.
"Well, well, well boy! I didn't think you had the balls to even return here with my prize science experiment!" Faba taunted.
Gladion growled.
"You know nothing about NULL!" he shouted.
"I was the lead scientist. I know more than you ever will! That thing is nothing more than a failed attempt at a larger picture!" Faba shouted. "So, we can do this nicely and you hand over what you stole…"
Gladion turned to his Pokemon before clutching his fist
"Never! I will never give you Null! He is alive, not some object you can just throw away if it's not right! Null has emotions! Regardless of what you say, I will not give up my best friend! Not without a fight!" Gladion yelled at the Aether higher up.
"That monster is an it boy, not a he! It was made to do one thing and one thing alone. Kill." Faba told him.
"Not anymore!"
Faba laughed.
"Do you think the 'power of friendship' is going to free it from the power constricted helmet? Haha, that thing has no heart."
Once Faba stopped laughing, he turned to the employee next to him
"Hehehe, pity. Kill him with our old treatments we used for his mutant dog." Faba said coldly.
"But Sir! He is… He is…!" one of the employees with a gun mumbled.
"I don't care what he once was. Point is, he stole something from us very, very important."
Gladion was tasered as he dropped to the ground in pain as Type: Null watched in fear as he remembers being tasered himself.
"AHHHRGH!" Gladion cried as the tasering stopped.
He was then pelted with sharp small beads, stinging on impact.
"Pepper spray him."
"Sir! Isn't that going a bit over the top!?"
"Hmm, if he loves my creation soooo much, he should experience what it went through!"
Long distance pepper spray guns fired the liquid at Gladion, who yelled in pain.
Type: Null realised he had to do something.
He closed his eyes.
"I want to help!" a younger Gladion told the ferial beast.
"Eat this!" Gladion said as Null munched on a berry. At the time, it was the best thing he had ever eaten.
"Go pokeball!" Gladion shouted as a pokeball captured a Zubat.
"Alright Null! We did it!" Gladion said as he ruffed the mane of Type: Null, who looked pleased with himself.
"Use Breakneck Blitz!" Ash commanded as Dartrix flew at a rapid pace with a giant dust cloud being left behind.
Gladion smiled.
"Time to show our true power Null! GIGA IMPACT!" Gladion yelled as Type: Null charged at the income Dartrix.
The two collided as they pushed each other back and forward.
Type: Null stood his ground as he was proving the stronger of the two despite Dartrix using a Z-move.
The bird was tiring as he could continue as the force of giga impact proved to be superior as Dartrix lost composure and felt the full force of the attack and landed in front of Ash out cold.
"Never! Null is alive! Null has emotions! Regardless of what you say, I will not give up my best friend! Not without a fight!" Gladion yelled at the Aether higher up.
Type: Null opened his eyes up as they glowed red with a small crack appearing out of the corner on the eye slot.
"GRRRRUGH!" Type: Null roared as the stone axe like structure on top began to shatter.
Faba watched in fear.
"Im-Impossible! Escort me out NOW!" Faba yelled as he and two employees dashed off, leaving 6 to deal with Type: Null and Gladion.
Gladion looked up panting as he saw the helmet on Type: Null was breaking apart.
A black ball appeared in front of Type: Null and used Hyper beam to destroy the structure above to block them off.
Type: Null rushed to Gladion as he got up slightly.
"Null…"
"Grrr…llly!" he grunted as more and more pieces fell off the helmet.
"L-let's go…" Gladion muttered as he dragged himself on to Type: Null.
"Torracat, flamethrower!"
The fire cat released the beam of flames but the creature that appeared out of the portal used what appeared to be protect. The fire hit the protect and once Torracat was done, the creature turned the protect inside out in to a small bubble with some fire inside of it. It flung towards Torracat as it created a mini explosion that see closures on fire.
Lusamine stood with Mallow, Lana and Wicke as they watched the boys do everything in there power to fight this thing.
She displayed a small smirk before returning to a state of worry.
"Brrr-Brrr-Brrttzzzzzt"
"Turtonator! Dragon rage!" Kiawe yelled.
The fire dragon blasted out the violet flames as the creature used stone edge to block the attack, with the sharp stones breaking off.
Said broken stones began to glow blue as they were directed at Turtonator. It was a direct hit he landed on his back out cold.
The employee swung the pole as Bewear many times, but having both a size advantage and real strength, the bear managed to catch the pole and rip it out of his hands before throwing it at the creature like a javelin. The pink and black Pokemon charged up his paws and slammed the human with brick break.
The creature turned to where he landed.
"Thunderbolt!"
"Flamethrower!"
Raichu and Torracat both released the power attacks as they manage to hit the being while it was distracted.
The creature squealed in pain as the employee began to change from a deep white to see Grey. He passed out on to the ground as Bewear retrained him just in case.
"Brrr-Brrr-Brrttzzzzzt"
It glowed blue before disappearing with a loud warping sound.
"What the fuck was that thing?!" Mallow screamed as they approached Ash, Hau and Kiawe.
"That was an Ultra Beast." Lusamine announced.
"Did you say Ultra Beast!?" Hau asked.
"A what beast?" Lana blurted.
"Extremely rare but very powerful and dangerous creatures. Aether has sworen to protect Alola from them all in theory of course. I never believe the day I would get to see one…" Lusamine explained as she glared at Ash.
Bewear appeared with the poisoned employee.
"Thank you Bewear." Lusamine said as she gave the bear a treat with two employees taking the former possessed one away.
"What will happen to him?" Kiawe asked.
"I don't know… We will send him to the best hospital in the world to hopefully cure him. I think it would be best if you depart tomorrow, I don't want any of you to get hurt if that happens again." Lusamine told them.
One by one, they left until it was just Ash and Lusamine.
"Is there something the matter?" Lusamine asked in a tired tone.
"…"
"…No." he said as he left for his room.
Lusamine smirked as she began to laugh to herself.
Gladion had successfully made it to Ula'Ula island thanks to stealing a boat that was not occupied.
He released Weavile, Riolu and Golbat to see Type: Null and the remains of the helmet.
Gladion sighed.
"This is it… This key will free you Null…" Gladion told him.
Null already felt a massive spike in power as he managed to destroy some of the helmet which managed to allow them to escape.
"Null. I don't know if you will be the same or not but… Are you ready?" Gladion asked nervously.
Null nodded.
Gladion inserted the key and heard a loud click.
The helmet shattered as Type: Null grew in size slightly with his mane going silver and his face now appearing to be more canine like with three large spikes pointing out of where the stone axe structure was.
Type: Null growled uncontrollably as he approached Gladion growling.
"Null? NULL!?" Gladion shouted in panic as Weavile, Riolu and Golbat got ready to attack if they had to.
Type: Null dashed at Gladion, pouncing on him to force him on the ground to… give his face one large lick.
"Vali!" he barked as he continued to lick Gladion.
Gladion sighed in relief as he rubbed the mane of his first Pokemon.
"Everyone meet… Erm, Type: Full? No, no! You need a new name! A name for a new you!" Gladion announced as he thought about the choices.
His mane turned from grey to silver and he had been the perfect partner for Gladion.
"Silvartner?" Gladion said out loud. "No…"
He fought about it more and changed partner to ally as it sprung the perfect name.
"Silvally. Yeah, Silvally!" Gladion said as his brand new Silvally licked him again.
Lusamine left the elevator and entered a room with the aether employee that was possessed had been strapped down to a table with needles and tubes entering his body.
"Your blasted child nearly killed me!" Faba hissed.
Lusamine turned to him with zero emotions on her face.
"I don't have any children and you know that. Real children would love their mother till the day she dies!" Lusamine announced. "Give me a report on Symbiont's poison!"
"Madam president. This is unreal! The chart on the left is the poison levels of a Muk and a Garbador, the one on the right is Symbiont. Its poisons are 20 times stronger than two of the most toxic Pokemon currently found!" a scientist explained.
"My perfect beast little toxins are deadly then?" Lusamine laughed.
"It seemed it triggered a massive adrenaline rush causing him to bypass human strength as if he was being controlled by symbiont. I have no clue why he would even offer to be sacrificed like that…"
"Because I asked him too. He would be remembered as a hero." Lusamine told him.
"This is what amazes me… We have extracted as much poison as possible and have discovered he no longer as form of emotion as you can see from the drop in this chart right here!"
Lusamine grabbed the paper and smiled.
"Oh my precious little Ultra Beast… What an interesting character you are…"
Authors note: Well a lot happened in here. A rather jumpy chapter that grew longer than what I expected it too...
First look at UB-01: Symbiont.
Type: Null has evolved into Silvally (if you are wondering why a key is involved, plot :P)
Ash is now training harder and harder.
Also I want to thank everyone that reviewed the Greninja chapter. I was actually low key nervous how the reception would be taken with the whole Serena attack. Lmao, got messages saying she should have suffered worse. It will come.
NOW! SOMETHING I NEED TO ADDRESS! I have received messages and a review or two asking about USUM (Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon). If I will include anything in this story.
Right now, I do not know but realistically the answer should be yes.
My prediction is that we will get some form of info BEFORE July the 12th 2017. Due to Corocoro and how Gamefreak want to beat them to announcing NEWS. If we don't, then Corocoro is the next source.
SO yeah. I don't think anything else is needed to be said. So review, suggest or PM me. Spectre out!