ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 65 - Recovery and Redemption.
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2nd Disclaimer: This is not beta read so yeh.
BEEP… BEEP… BEEP…
It had been a solid 13 or 14 hours since the group left Zossie alone to perform the extraction of the neurotoxin's the flowed within Lusamine.
Lillie had fallen asleep in the chair she laid in with her head resting on the sleepy but awake Ash. Poipole slept on his lap curled up into a ball.
Nanu had to leave temporarily to go deal with something on Ula'Ula and Gladion had to attend something which he didn't explain about but just said it was important.
The young President sat in a chair within the room where Dawn was.
"So, Ash is here. Right now." Dawn questioned.
Gladion just nodded as he gave an agitated body poser.
Dawn picked up on this and had to ask.
"You okay?" She questioned.
Gladion just sighed as he lowered his head slightly.
"Yeah just…"
"Just what?"
"My mother might be coming out of her coma." He explained.
Dawn's eyes widened.
"That's great isn't it?" She said but then saw the conflicted look on his face.
"Yeah but it's been 3 years since she was last awake and let's say we didn't exactly finish on parting terms." Gladion muttered.
"She wasn't herself though. From what you've told me before the Nihilego incident, she sounded like a really caring person." Dawn countered.
Gladion shrugged his shoulders.
"I guess but that was a long time ago."
Dawn ran her hand through her hair.
"Any who, I am going to have a shower." She said as she grabbed her stuff for the shower and locked the door behind her.
Gladion groaned as he ran his fingers through his hair.
Zossie sat down on a chair and was starting to fall asleep.
She hadn't had a break since starting and was starting to feel the effects.
She wiped the sweat that dripped down her forehead as she looked at the container filled with black sludge that was being sucked out of the lifeless body of Lusamine.
Well, almost lifeless…
The former president's left hand began to twitch as Zossie was fully woken up at the sight of movement.
It soon stopped twitching but the whole hand began to move as it slowly clenched up.
Zossie pulled the curtain to side which startled Ash, resulting in Lillie waking up and Poipole falling on to the ground.
The small Ultra Beast began to cry as he was still only a baby as Ash cradled him and shook him slightly which stopped the crying. Once the poison pin pokemon had stopped, Ash returned him back into his pokeball.
"We have movement!" Zossie told them.
An Aether employee was sent to retrieve Gladion who broke into a sprint.
Panting his way into the room, he saw Ash hold Lillie who gave a conflicted look of concern but happiness and Zossie standing by the now closed curtain.
"I have extracted about 95% of the neurotoxins that Nihilego left. The other 5% that is still lurking inside wasn't extractable without the help of senior assistance but isn't considered deadly anymore so at worse, it will only cause extreme headaches." Zossie explained.
"You mean?" Gladion stuttered.
"She is showing signs of motion but isn't full awake yet, but I'd say in half an hour after the first movement, we might have her conscious maybe. It's just a waiting game now." Zossie explained as she sat down.
"There will be drawbacks of course so don't expect her to be perfect just like that." She continued.
"Thank you Zossie." Lillie said with tears starting to flow out.
Zossie scratched her head sheepishly.
"It's the least I could do after what Dulse did." Zossie explained.
Gladion had a question that was playing in his mind.
He wasn't sure if now was the best time to ask but it was going to torture him if he didn't.
"Zossie?" Gladion said out loud.
"Hmm? Yes?" She responded.
"Do you know what the Blinding One is?"
Zossie heard this and skipped a heartbeat.
"T-The Blinding what?" She stuttered. "Uh, what is that?"
Gladion could see through her lies but decided now was not the time especially after what she had just done.
"Doesn't matter." Gladion followed up, dropping the topic.
As he finished that, there was a small muffling sound coming from behind the curtains.
Zossie slid them across fully and sat down next to Lusamine as everyone crowded around.
An Aether employee was sent to retrieve Wicke and Faba who both soon arrived.
Lillie and Gladion were the closes other than Zossie as their mother's arm began to roll over.
There was a slight twitch to her head as he rolled to the left and then back straight as her eyes slithered open, so slow it felt like eternity.
Lillie covered her mouth and nearly collapsed but Ash caught her.
Gladion felt his eyes water up slightly but shook it off.
It was a small grunt at first as she left her hand up, shaking all over the place.
For the first time in three years, they heard Lusamine speak.
"L-L-Li-Lill-ie…" She croaked with a broken voice.
Her youngest child came closer as Lusamine's raising hand touched her check.
"W-w-when d-d-di-d you-u beco-ome so beautiful…?" Lusamine asked as Lillie clutched on to her mother with a hug that looked like she would never let go of. The blonde could be heard crying into her mother's chest.
Ash notified Hau, Olivia and Nanu about the news with the three of them heading to the Aether foundation straight away. Professor Kukui, his wife Burnet and Samson Oak were told as well.
"Ahem. She is still very weak… She needs her rested but should be able to make a full conversation in due time." Zossie explained.
Lillie didn't want to let go, afraid Lusamine would return back to how she was but knew she had to go. At least for now.
The four of them left Lusamine to rest as they decided to get something to eat.
As a gift, Zossie was allowed to eat as much as she wanted.
Gladion wanted to discuss with her about some of the Ultra Beast profiles.
"And Poipole? We don't have any recorded data on this thing?" Gladion questioned as he pointed to the troublesome, purple Pokemon.
"Ash. If you haven't figured it out, it was Dulse and I that gave you the egg for Poipole." Zossie told the Champion of Alola.
Ash nodded.
"The reason you have nothing on Poipole as it is exclusive to our world, Ultra Megalopolis. The three spikes shoot out both sticky goo or just straight toxic for greater effect but causes fatigue on the poor fellow." Zossie explained as she patted Ash's Ultra Beast.
"For an Ultra Beast, it's rather friendly and small." Lillie commented.
"Remind me which UB's you have seen?" Zossie asked.
"Since the outbreak three years ago, we have recorded sightings of Nihilego, Buzzwole, Pheromosa which we have in captivity, Xurkitree, Renterba and Spirvenen." Gladion told the ginger.
"Officer Nanu encounter the Ultra Beast, Guzzlord 18ish years ago as well." Lillie contributed.
Zossie nodded.
"Right… So, the deal with Poipole is that it has the power to do something no other discoverable Ultra Beast has." Zossie said, leaving them on a cliff hanger to guess.
"Which is?"
"Poipole is the only known full blood Ultra Beast to evolve." Zossie announced as she pulled out a high-tech tablet. "It evolves into another Ultra Beast known as Naganadel."
The beast on display had features like it's pre-evolution but also had bits that were new. Poipole's head became a tail like stinger with the tube-like bits becoming more needle like. It's chest area was small with now having fully grown arms. On the shoulders were more of the needle like stingers. Two large dragon like wings spawned out of the back. Its head retained the bright blow neon glowing eyes but had pincers that covered the mouth area and the back of the head stuck out far.
"Isn't Cosmog an Ultra Beast though?" Lillie questioned as she thought about Nebby.
"Well yes… Hence why for Poipole and Naganadel, I used the term full blood. The Cosmog line consisting of Cosmoem, Solgaleo and Lunala are considered Ultra Beasts but due to the amount of time they had to develop on the many different earths, we class them as halflings." Zossie told them about the real terminology. "Many can consider Poipole to be a starter in our world."
That dawned on Ash to ask.
"What can you tell us about your world?"
Zossie stopped eating and gagged which caught everyone off guard.
"Oh shit. You okay?" Ash shouted in concern.
Zossie nodded.
"Y-Yeah. Sorry, just was thinking on what I can even say about it…" Zossie stressed.
"A world without light." Gladion muttered.
Zossie nodded.
"Seems Phyco and Soliera shared some information already. Truth is that we are a welcoming world." Zossie told them.
"What do you mean?" Lillie asked.
"Well, one part of the Ultra Recon Squad is to be always on the lookout for fallers and then bring them to safety." Zossie told them but with a pale look.
Lillie looked at the time and excused herself from the table.
She didn't give a reason for leaving but they all knew where she was going.
"Hmm. It's be nearly 45 minutes… We should be able to get some more from Lusamine." Zossie told them.
"Give them a few minutes together." Ash told Gladion and Zossie.
Lillie opened the door and closed it behind, taking a sigh in the process. She entered into the room hidden behind the medical curtains as Lusamine rolled her head at her youngest child.
"Li-Lillie…" Lusamine muttered with a broken voice that hadn't been heard in 3 years.
"Mother…" Lillie muttered back as she tried to hold back multiple emotions of happiness, sadness and angry all at the same time.
She sat down next to her.
Lusamine looked at her.
She was beautiful…
"How… How much do you remember?" Lillie asked.
Lusamine thoughts were still a blur.
But she remembered one thing very clearly.
(Three years ago,…)
"Mother… Ple-"Lillie started only to be stopped.
"DO NOT CALL ME THAT! All I ever did was give you two love and what was best! And this!? This is how you repay me!?" she screamed at her daughter. "I wish you were both never born!"
"P-pew…" Nebby cried which Lillie heard.
Lusamine looked to the side and gasped.
"L-Lillie I- "Lusamine muttered but her face was soon connected by a slap to the face by Lillie.
Lillie was crying.
"D-do you know how much? How much pain and suffering Gladion and I went through?!" Lillie yelled, finally expressing her thoughts to her mother, knowing now she was no longer herself and not Nihilego.
Lusamine turned to her youngest child and realised what she did.
"You didn't have to do what you did… We could have found him together!" Lillie told her, calming down from her outburst she just had.
Ash, Gladion and Zossie walked in.
"Gla-Gladion…" Lusamine muttered but felt his sharp cold glare down her spine.
"Lusamine." He responded.
Ash and Zossie looked at each other as a family feud was about to occur and neither wanted direct involvement unless they had too.
"Lillie. Gladion. I-I-I want y-"Lusamine tried to talk but coughed heavily.
"Ms. Lusamine. You need to relax. The toll of the neurotoxin extraction is still effecting your body." Zossie added.
"I love you both… I was doing what I thought was best…" Lusamine explained.
Her memories of being trapped behind the cage Nihilego create in her mind was all crawling back…
Including how this all started.
"Father didn't die in a science accident, did he?" Gladion questioned.
Lusamine didn't know what to say.
"We know about the Ultra Beasts." Lillie told her.
Lusamine turned her head towards Zossie.
"It was the one they call 'The Blinding one'…" Lusamine claimed.
Ash, Lillie and Gladion turned to a terrified looking Zossie who stepped back.
She began to breath heavily and panic.
"Zossie! Zossie! Zossie! Calm down!" Ash told the young girl.
Zossie gagged in her mouth due to the stress she placed herself under.
"You do know what the blinding one is, don't you?" Gladion questioned the ginger.
"Pl-Please! Don't say that name!" Zossie cried as she pulled down on her braids with all her strength.
Ash grabbed her to prevent her from doing any more harm to herself.
"We have a file…" Lusamine muttered. "Hidden in the wall."
Ash and Gladion placed Lusamine into a wheelchair and took her old office which now belonged to Gladion.
Zossie and Lillie stood to the side while Lusamine was placed in the middle.
"There… behind the bookshelf." She explained, raising her hand shakily and pointing.
The two males moved the bookcase and behind, you could see a part of the wall that had been tampered with.
Ash released Greninja who cut a nice sized hole in the wall as his trainer pulled out two, very old and dusty files.
They all sat down as he threw them on a table.
In the left one, was various sketches and doodles of Cosmog including one of the small cloud opening an ultra-wormhole.
"After the Guzzlord incident, Cosmog soon was found wandering the wilds, poor and hungry. Aether being Aether took it in, but we soon noticed the unusual energy levels. Compared them to the Ultra Beast and yeh. We theorise that Cosmog was the reason Guzzlord was ported in to our world." Lusamine explained.
The other file had in big bold writing: THE BLINDING ONE
Ash opened it slowly and the sketches weren't as detailed as Cosmog's but had live pictures of a black crystal-like monster.
"The Blinding one." Ash read out loud.
"You can look at that picture all you like but I would like to explain what really happened in there." Lusamine said.
She closed her eyes and everything that happened that fateful day.
Before she could start, there was knock at their door.
Kukui, Burnet, Samson Oak, Hau, Nanu and Olivia all entered the room to find the awakened Lusamine.
"Ms Lusamine!" Hau said out loud.
Nanu closed the door and like Gladion, glared at the women.
Lusamine was in shock in everyone that came to see her.
Ash caught them up to speed and Lusamine began her tale.
(Years ago…)
Mohn and a few scientists were in a secured room with Cosmog in it as well.
"Pew?" Cosmog said curiously but was soon gifted a treat from Mohn.
Lusamine was standing behind a locked door in a room with more scientists. She had a phone to report to her husband on the status.
"Okay. You ready?" Lusamine questioned.
"Let's do it" Mohn responded.
Lusamine placed the phone down.
"Began the vacuum effect!" Lusamine called out.
Two suction cups attached to the side of the Cosmog as it looked confused.
"Shh! It's going to be fine, just tickles!" Mohn told the cloud like Pokemon as it vibrated on the side.
Cosmog laughed at the tickling feeling as Mohn stepped back and allowed the machine to do its job.
"We have 70 percent love!" Lusamine told Mohn.
"Right! Excellent Began the vapour driver!" Mohn said back to his wife.
"Commence the vapour driver!" Lusamine repeated as a multiple buttons and switches were flicked.
Two sticks began to blast electric energy towards one another as a small crack began to form.
Mohn looked at it in awe.
The Ultra Wormhole began to form but he soon heard Cosmog panting.
"Turn it off. Cosmog has had enough."
Lusamine gave out the instruction as the machines were all shut down.
Mohn grabbed a bunch of the treats Cosmog liked as the little pokemon ate away.
"Good job!" Mohn told it as it looked happily.
A scientist was typing away at a keyboard as she heard a button beeping.
"What the?" She muttered as the button beeped.
She checked the machine and saw it was set to zero.
However, soon after that another began to flash followed by another two going off.
Everything that was just turned off suddenly turned back on as the whole room began to shack.
"Mohn! What's going on!?" Lusamine shouted through the phone.
"No clue! Mohn muttered as the sirens went off and with them also flashing a violent red.
He soon saw a scared look on Cosmogs face.
Bolts of electricity flung around the sky as another crack occurred and formed an ultra-wormhole but a much bigger one than before.
However, it soon turned black as a crystal-like monster floated out of it.
Its whole body was crystal like with large hands but small thin arms. Same could be said for the legs as they were just as thin as the arms. It's faces consisted of many colours as they all glowed from dark to dim.
"LIZTLZITLIZI-ZZZTTT!"
The monster roared as dark winds filled the room, sending anything loose including all the humans inside to go flying into the wall.
Mohn as the first to get up.
"MOHN! GET OUT OF THERE!" Lusamine screamed as everything technology wise was going haywire.
Mohn searched for Cosmog as he saw the monster looking right at it.
Mohn raced over to the gas like Pokemon.
"MOHN! MOHN!" Lusamine screamed as she ran to the door to open it up, but it wouldn't budge.
The monster slammed its hand down on the body of Mohn, crushing him and Cosmog as the black creature snatched them up.
"MOHN!" Lusamine continued to scream with hot tears dripping down her face as machines began to catch on fire.
A few of the scientists grabbed Lusamine to pull her back.
"NO! LET ME GO! MOHN!" She whaled.
With the little energy he had left, he placed his phone next to his head as the monster watched him do so as if it understood.
"Lu-Lusamine…" Mohn muttered.
She was crying on the ground and had the phone next to her head, prepared to run towards the door again.
"I lov-"
Before he could finish the sentence, he and Cosmog were thrown into the Ultra Wormhole as the black crystal monster formed a ball of light and multiple blasts occurred out of it, shredding the door and wall apart and causing the machines to explode into flames.
Lusamine was forced back by the blast as her ears rang with noises being distorted from every direction.
She looked up and saw the monster was gone and so was the wormhole.
"N-n-n-no. No! No! N-n-no! No! NO! NOOOO!" She screamed in absolute pain, collapsing on the ground and mentally breaking down.
"Ms. Aether?"
"DON'T FUCKING TOUCH ME!" She yelled in emotional pain and cried on the ground, gasping and gagging at every thought that the love of her life was gone.
(Now)
"That thing was not an Ultra Beast. From our original observation on Guzzlord, it was wild and raw. This thing the Ultra Recon Squad call the blinding one came there on a mission."
"How can you be so sure it was the blinding one?" Nanu questioned.
Lusamine looked at the papers.
"This here. These are the energy lengths of the crystal found within 10 Carrot Hill. Now, these are the ones from the lab… Near identical, except the lab is slightly weaker but that could have just been due to the destruction that happened. It came for the Cosmog."
"So, you are saying that thing could have appeared at any time when I had Nebby?" Lillie asked.
Lusamine nodded.
"I-I was desperate and selfish… I just wanted my Mohn back in my life… A Nihilego found it's way here and the rest is history… With no progress in finding your father." Lusamine chocked up.
Gladion and Lillie looked at each other.
This was a different side of Lusamine they hadn't seen in many years.
Kukui looked at the date of the blinding one's and caught his attention, leaving a shocked look on his face.
Burnet saw this and gave a concerned look
"Hey Ash. Remember that story I told your about mine and Guzma's past." Kukui questioned.
"Uh, yeah?"
"This thing. That's the black thing I saw flying in the sky." Kukui told Ash.
"Is it a Pokemon though? Or a UB?" Hau questioned.
"I don't know… But it sounds like a threat." Ash announced.
The rest of the night played out as Zossie remained with Lusamine to tend to her in case of any drawbacks from the extraction.
Ash and Lillie stayed the night at the foundation.
Ash was fast asleep while Lillie was rolling around in hers
The void was dark and empty as Lillie found herself trapped thanks to some sort of dark rope.
"Hello?" Lillie called out, but the only response was her own echo.
She wanted to panic and looked around to see nothing but the Moon in the sky.
It was hypnotising, and she shook herself out of it to turn and find Nebby there.
"NEBBY!" Lillie shouted out.
"Lillie?" Nebby responded but as she said that, a black flash occurred from the sky.
The moon distorted away as the thing that was in the photos appeared.
It hovered above Nebby as it flew in closer to the legendary.
"Neb-Nebby! Nebby move!? NEBBY!?" Lillie screamed as the Lunala was in a petrified state as the blinding one reached out and grabbed the ghost/psychic type, with her body exploding into light.
Lillie jolted up from there.
She didn't wake up Ash…
But that felt so real..
She raced outside to see the moon still there.
Lillie sighed.
She was about to go back inside when she could hear Gladion talking to someone through the window not to far away from deck she had.
"I don't know." Gladion said.
"Listen. Just be careful alright? A female responded back.
The young president groaned in annoyance.
"And what Ash and your sister?" The Female questioned.
This caught Lillie's attention as she listened in carefully.
"Listen. They can't know you are here alright? I don't want anything to start between you three. The girl Zossie will be able to extract the Spirvenen toxins out of you." Gladion told the girl.
There was a pause of silence till the girl said something.
"I hope you are right." She said.
Gladion smirked.
"When haven't I been." He laughed showing some signs of happiness.
"You should get some sleep." She told Lillie's older brother.
The light was soon turned off as Lillie raced back inside and to the bed.
After her realistic dream, she wasn't getting back to sleep but now she was curious who her brother was talking too…
She sighed but at the end of the day…
They got there mother back. The real Lusamine.
Authors: (SIGH) I swear each time as of late when I say I hope to return to faster uploads they keep getting distant apart.
These first few chapters are meant to be shorter but idk why takes so long to write.
So be prepared when i get into the move longer based ones.
But yes, Lusamine is back to normal and the truth behind her husband and Lillie and Gladion's father is revealed.
Things are now going to heat up as Ash and Co now have seen images of the Blinding one.
And yeh. Again, i want to apologise for the lack of uploads but as I've said many times: I will not ever give up on this story. Why do all this work to just not upload. It will see out the end and hope all you guys and gals are there at the end.
But onto the questions
QUESTIONS
Will Ash's Mimikyu get Mimikyu Z-Move?
Yes
Will their be a sequel to this where Ash goes back to another region. I hope so ;-;
At this point and time, I do not know. Depends what Gen 8 provides but I don't see away for it continuing with the ending I have planned.
So, Dulse's psychopathic behavior is a big part of the plot?
Yes and you'll see why. I didn't make his crazy for no reason and it is good reasons.
What happened to Rotom?
He's around somewhere. I won't lie: One of the worst implemented features in USUM. Just doesn't shut up
Considering the backstory given about Necrozma and his forms in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, assuming is the god of the Ultra Space, if something happened to Necromza, what kind of worst case scenario you will think happen?
I would say if Necrozma was to die (Well Necro does mean Death), everything would continue on. Necrozma probably hadn't gone Ultra in like 100's of years who is the real threat. And shown when Ultra Necrozma is defeated, it falls apart as if it is dying but everything has returned back to normal.
Let's assume we are gonna have another legendary Pokémon in the main game series will be a villain for a new game like they've done with Necrozma, what kind of backstory do you want to have?
Idk tbh. Necrozma was for sort of the villian but not at the same time. Sure, the world is grave danger cuz it stole the light but it stole the light of our world due to the selfishness of the ancestors of the Ultra Recon Squad. Like anything (Human, animals, plants) it was just doing what it had to do to survive.
Legendary for a villain. I cant see the original Gen 8 legends being evil but probs back to find them but maybe in Diamond and Pearl Remakes, Dialga and Palkia could overwhelm Cyrus and begin to cause the world to fade away but force him to still feel emotions.
I am going to guess Illima's girlfriend is Mina, because it was stated that they knew each other before the events of Sun and Moon game.
Uh, think it is said in one of the early chapters.
I really like you got Ash's Kalos pokemon back and the two new members but what happened to Gallade because you didn't mention him at his house
Most likely I just forgot lmao
Will Ash get a special bond with any of his other Pokemon (like Mimikyu)
Probably not, no.
And for what DeadlyNinja said (I am not going to put the whole thing cuz easy word count upping lmao): I couldn't have put it any better myself. I don't mind discussions or you guys answering each others questions while posting them to get answered.
But when it's just asking for an update: I have said many times before, I will update and am not abandoning the story. Every. Why would I after getting over 2500 reviews and over 1000 favs and follows. Why would I just drop it? I've just kind of given up deleting reviews that just ask that question cuz just not worth the effort.
SO yeah, thanks to the peeps that have mentioned that I will upload eventually, you know who you are.
And that is all for now.
So as always, review, suggest or PM me. Spectre out.