ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 68 - Ultra Ruins: The decay of a world.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
Disclaimer 2: Any countries used in this chapter are used for story telling purposes.
"Hawa…What?" Lillie questioned the name Dulse said.
"An alternate world parallel to yours. Only difference is that they weren't blessed with the power of creatures that can blow fire or spit acid. No, instead they had things called animals and they had to do it the hard way." Dulse explained as he pulled out a device.
Zossie remained in a frozen state as she where she was and her connection to this world.
A projection appeared as images flashed along the screen.
"This is a bad idea…" He muttered to himself.
"What happened here?" Ash asked.
"Ever wonder what nuclear fallout was like? Congratulations, you are now standing and breathing inside of one!" Dulse told them.
The three humans looked around in the nightmare like landscape as everything was so familiar but not at the same time.
"And yes. With parallel words, you DID have counterparts, but they are dead now." Dulse told them again.
It was a kick in the gut to Ash and Gladion as Lillie gave a more freaked out look than before. Dulse noticed the reaction.
"Relax princesses. The fallout happened 350 years ago. There is no telling how they died." Dulse explained.
He glanced over to Zossie who was trying to remain calm, but he could see through the cracks that appeared in her confident look.
"We should get moving. There are no telling what cannibals are out there looking at us like food." Dulse explained.
They began to move along what appeared to be the main street.
"So, you said a nuclear fallout? But how did it happen?" Lillie questioned.
Before Dulse could responded, Zossie pipped up.
"A biological experiment gone horribly wrong…" Zossie muttered.
"You've been reading about this place, haven't you?" Dulse snarled as Zossie flinched.
"I-I-I'm sorry… I was just curious…" Zossie mumbled, on the verge of tears.
"Remember what I said early about her parents, yeah." Dulse whispered to Ash.
Ash put two and two together and figured out that this was where Zossie's mother was attacked and resulted in her getting pregnant.
"Maybe… I could find him?" Zossie mumbled again.
"The people here are no longer civil, and you know that!" Dulse ranted at her.
Zossie sighed slightly.
"So, what was this biological experiment?" Ash continued to ask.
Dulse sighed and cursed under his breathe.
"Only senior members of the Ultra Recon Squad are allowed to enter this hellhole, so I don't know how desperate this distress call was for Phyco to call shots on not taking you four back so whatever you hear, stays here." Dulse explained as he pulled out a device.
He pressed a button as a holographic map appeared, zooming in on a familiar looking landscape.
"Is that Unova?" Gladion stuttered.
Dulse groaned yet again.
"Parallel world. The 'Unova' of this world is known as New York City based in a country called America. A bomb was set off there by terrorists causing outrage among the government. Every attempt they made to get back at them resulted in failure. The third world war was on the verge of becoming a reality." Dulse told them. "The government then came up with the idea of creating a super weapon…"
"A super weapon?" The Kanto native questioned.
Dulse nodded.
"This island which we are on is the counterpart to Melemele Island in your world. We are on the remains of Oahu Island. Anyways, the American government set up a top-secret base underneath the Oahu nuclear powerplant and formed disgusting like experiments on animals which included injecting nuclear waste in their bloodstream, doing torture methods to enhance endurance and fights between other test subjects. Ultimately, nothing survived, and everything died to their disappointment." Dulse explained.
Lillie was hold Ash's hand as the story gave her the creeps.
"The American government knew that the war was coming to them as they had been tipped off on an attack but had no clue when. That's when it landed." Dulse continued.
"It?" Gladion said.
"A meteor that would have been travelling 10's of 1000's of years crash landed in a barren land in a neighbouring country known as Mexico. The Americans were the first to react and retrieved the remains of the meteor. They are all paranoid over alien life however what they found they were not expecting in the slightest." Dulse started. "An answer is what they found."
He paused and then continued with the other four noticing a bit of resistance on his face.
"There was bacteria living instead of it 4 times stronger than any form of nuclear substance found this earth. They did wear hazmat suits, so it did prevent killing them from the radiation. Anyways, they did further research into the bacteria. Basic substances were found except for one which was the powerhouse. It was nothing like they had ever seen before…" Dulse explained as the holographic screen showed a picture of the bacteria.
"They managed to extract it and inject it into a poor animal called a monkey, picture a Mankey or a Passimian for example. Combined with a dose of the toxic waste coming in. The poor creature lost all it's fur as it's skin turned a hard black. It was weak and barely alive, but they had done it. Their super weapon was alive and functioning."
"Then what?" Ash followed in.
Dulse remained silent as the three humans could see the look of fear on his face.
"A few weeks later and once the weapon had stabilized, it killed anything that was thrown in it's cage. And ate every last piece regardless how long it took. It further mutated to the point it had claws and Fluro blue eyes. Then the attack happened…"
"The attack that was planned but they didn't know when?" Lillie said.
Dulse nodded.
"They invaded Oahu island and took everyone prisoner. The American government got word and the third world war began. But what those foolish invaders didn't know of the monster lurking under that powerplant. They entered, killed all those inside and curiosity got the best of them and well, cost them their lives. On word of the chances of the nuclear meltdown, the invaders fled the island and American warships and planes evacuated as many as they could from the doomed island. Well, everything but the monster they had created."
Ash, Lillie and Gladion could tell the story was nearing its climax. Zossie stood, still zoned out about where they were.
"The war raged on. Despite all the back talk of nuclear doom, neither of the major powerhouses had the balls to nuke the other. The monster however, continued to mutate as it had access to all the nuclear waste in the powerplant. Its skin became armour like with its arms splitting into two, growing horns and its mouth on its face starting to seal shut as one on its chest opened up to reveal dagger like teeth. It grew significantly in size as well. At that point, it had given birth to more creatures like it that developed further than its mother did. The American government had no idea what they had done. They had created their own demise." Dulse announced.
"The war ended, and everything seemed fine and peachy. Then they decided to head back to Oahu Island and see if anything could be salvaged. All they found was doom and terror. Their own creation had become a species and attacked on sight. Despite the now over grown mouth located on their chest, they walked along the ocean floor. How they didn't drown? Don't ask me. Basically, just the sense of radiation drew them to nuclear powerplants across the globe, resulting in a nuclear disaster. There was nothing the humans could do to stop it. Not form of weapon they had could kill what they had created."
"Natural selection happened, and they fled to another planet in the solar system. Though humans still live here, many have returned to primal like states. Kill or be killed." Dulse told them.
"Now you may have figured it out already, but I'll cut to the spoilers if not. The bacteria found in the meteor is a key piece found within the DNA of any creature with the ability, beast boost. In other words, the humans created their very own Ultra Beast AKA UB-05: Glutton, Guzzlord."
Ash, Lillie and Gladion all perked up upon hearing the UB's name.
"You are familiar with the carnivore?" Dulse questioned.
"Yeah. One was found on our earth many years ago and killed our friends family… But you said it couldn't be killed by weapons? How did Phyco and Soliera kill that one all those years ago?" Lillie asked.
Dulse bit down on his lip.
"Spoiler: They didn't. You don't need to tell them I said that. Thankfully, your world has Pokemon that can stand up against Guzzlord."
"But there was a cave painting in the middle of nowhere showing Guzzlo-"Gladion started.
"Endless realities. Answer to everything." Dulse mumbled as he turned around. "We're here."
They stood outside what was the remains of the trainer school.
The door opened for a man in a black hazmat suit to walk out that was customized like Guzzlord.
"Hey! Hey! So glad you could make it! Thanks for the quick response!" The man said as he raced towards them.
"What can we do for you Sir?" Dulse questioned.
"Well… You see we think Mr. Glutton has done something to the water. We all of a sudden have no fresh water and well, you know! You need water to live and all! Oh! Who is this lot Mr. Recon man?" The man in the hazmat suit questioned.
"Fellow members… Of the Ultra Recon Squad." Dulse muttered in reluctance.
They all introduced themselves as the Hazmat suit welcomed them to the apocalyptic world.
"You can call me Greg! You see, not all of us have gone insane but we still wear these in case if Mr. Glutton goes on another radiation quest! Anywho, the water pipe should be about 2KMs from here. Just watch out for Mr. Glutton. It's in a bad mood from reports." The man in the hazmat suit named Greg explained.
"Let's go." Dulse commanded.
"What kind of nuclear fallout name is Greg?" Lillie whispered to Ash.
"What were you expecting? Something like Shadowdagger?" Ash teased. Lillie gave an annoyed look as they progress on.
They travelled for a further 15 minutes in the broken like world with there guard on high alert.
While travelling along, they found a large footprint imprinted into the ground. It was fresh as it had no dried away.
Sure, they had dealt with Ultra Beasts before but from hearing the story from Dulse and the personal story from Nanu, Ash, Lillie and Gladion were scared as shit.
"We're here." Dulse mentioned as saw a well kept looking gate… Well, what once was a well looked gate until something came along and ate a chuck out.
"Be careful and try to not make too much noise…" Zossie explained with a scared look on her face.
Dulse was the first to investigate.
"How could something so big hide in plain sight…" Lillie muttered as the air seemed to be thicker here as the tension grew.
"I don't have Silvally on me in case we do run into…" Gladion responded as if this was planned.
Ash stiffened up when he mentioned his partner as he still did have Poipole on him.
Little did they know, from within the building, a pair of blue eyes glared down at them.
Dulse kneeled to the ground and the issue was found straight away as part of the pipe was missing and will most likely remain missing.
There however, was saliva covered on the parts of the pipe that were not eaten. As gross as it was, Dulse placed his finger on it and felt the warmth as he stiffened up slightly.
It was warm…
Very warm.
Dulse quickly turned around.
"We have to leave now!" Dulse told them.
"But what about Greg!" Zossie questioned.
"I don't give a flying fuck about Greg when our own lives are at stake!" Dulse shouted as a large rumble sound occurred.
It was soon followed up with an eerily silence.
"What the hell was that…" Ash muttered.
"An earthquake?" Lillie stuttered in fear as she gripped on to his hand tighter than before.
Dulse gulped as he turned back around to the broken pipe but to his horror… Was now covered in more saliva…
His eyes flickered in shock as he slowly looked upwards.
And he was now face to face with the thing they were avoiding…
Guzzlord.
The others caught on as one of the four arms Guzzlord had smashed the side of the building, so it could easily jump down as it smashed into the ground in front of Dulse.
"Oh fuc-"
"GUEZZZZZZZZHHH-ZZTTT!" It roared as the mouth on its chest widened.
"RUN!" Dulse yelled as he broke into sprint with the others ahead of him.
Despite not being the fastest being, Guzzlord was naturally slow however, thanks to it's size, it was able to keep up thanks to its large strides.
It ripped an old tree out of the ground and threw it right at its fleeing prey.
It however, misjudged the throw and instead landed in front of them, smashing into pieces.
"We got to get back to the jets!" Gladion yelled as Guzzlord roared again.
This time, it grabbed a large boulder and threw it into the air, missing on purpose to block their path.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck!" Ash cursed as he looked to the left, seeing a small road that lead back to the city. "This way!"
The five travelled down the path which was too narrow for Guzzlord to go down. It stopped in front of the boulder it threw and ate it in one go, continuing its pursuit of its dinner.
The five entered the city in a blistering pace hoping that they had lost the large Ultra Beast.
Instead they were greeted by an unpleasant surprise.
Men dressed in rags and tribal like tattoos surrounded the group of 5 with guns, all screaming different things.
"Get on the fucking ground!" One shouted.
"Fresh meat!" Another hissed at them.
"Go for a run. I dare yah! I love when my prey goes running!"
"O-oh you two are pretty! Especially you blonde, I think you'll make a good fuck slave!" One rambled at Zossie and primarily Lillie with the man holding his hand out to try and touch Lillie.
Ash noticed this and shoved him out to the ground but in result, another shot in him the shoulder as he yelped in agonising pain.
"ASH!" Lillie screamed in fear as Ash fell to the ground, clutching his shoulder with blood covering the formerly white suit.
The perverted old man got up and gave Lillie a dirty grin.
"Well, where were we?" He chuckled as he approached Lillie closer.
However, before he could lay his filthy hands on her, Guzzlord smashed through a building and used heavy slam on the ground, sending everyone to the ground.
The men that ambushed Ash and co got up and began to fire at the Ultra Beast which did nothing to it. During this time, the 5 began to flee as who appeared to be the bandit's leader noticed.
He lined up his weapon at Lillie, ready to pull the trigger until he was smacked in the back by Guzzlord and sent flying there way.
"DUCK!" Gladion yelled as they dropped to the ground with the bandit slamming into the front of a car.
"P-pl-plea-please! H-help!" He cried as he groaned in pain but Ash and co just ran for it.
Guzzlord came over and picked up the car with it's two claw like hands with it's actual hand grabbing the leader of the bandits.
He watched his crew run in fear as he screamed out pleas for help.
Guzzlord devoured the car in one go as it was torn apart in its mouth.
Ash, Lillie, Gladion, Dulse and Zossie kept running but the direction they ran in leader to a broken bridge that was above the ocean.
"Shit, fuck, fuck, fuck!" Dulse cursed multiple times as they had to listen to the man yelling.
Zossie turned away in fear as the rest saw Guzzlord simply throw the man into its mouth as his pleas was silenced. His body was torn up and was obliterated from existence just like that.
The dark dragon Ultra Beast returned it attention to Ash and co as it charged towards them.
Dulse was trying to make an emergency call to Phyco while Zossie and Lillie broke down in tears, holding one another as the Ultra Beast roared at them with the intention to kill. Gladion paled and prayed for a miracle.
Ash had just frozen up as he closed his eyes.
"The Ultra Beast…"
He opened his eyes again in quick succession as he remembered the other part the voice from his dream told him.
He scurried around in his pocket to find the pokeball.
"What are you doing!?" Dulse roared as he saw Ash pull out the pokeball with Guzzlord very close now.
"GUEEEZZZZZZ-ZZTTT!"
"Worth a shot…" Ash muttered as he summoned Poipole out,
"Poi-zzt?" Poipole said confused.
The small Ultra Beast turned around and saw Guzzlord charging. He could instantly smell him.
"Poi-poi-zzt!" Poipole said while waving his arms as Guzzlord stopped at a heap.
"GUEZ-ZZT?"
Guzzlord sniffed at Poipole who showed no sign of fear but instead a look of happiness.
"Poipo-zzt!" Poipole explained that they are not bad.
Guzzlord stopped all the grumbling and growling as it appeared it gave a look of shock.
"GUZ-ZZT…"
Guzzlord gave a whining like roar as Poipole gave a surprised look.
Dulse, Zossie, Gladion and Lillie were blown back as Ash who was clutching on to his wounded shoulder, kept a cautious stance.
"Pol-zzt!" Poipole said happily as he flew over to Ash and took his treat bag. Normally he would retaliate but the fact they weren't eaten yet and Poipole was stopping this, he was going to let it slide.
Poipole pulled out a rainbow-like bean and threw it into Guzzlords mouth.
Guzzlord felt a burst of flavours inside of its mouth as it became completely relaxed and all its anger had passed. It turned around and began to walk off.
Before leaving fully though, it saw one of the bandits on top of a pile of cars getting up. Not helping itself, it slapped the bandit into the side of a building, splatting it in a blood mess as the large Ultra Beast walked off.
They waited a few minutes before Poipole turned around with a smirk.
"I don't know what you said but it worked…" Ash told his Ultra Beast.
Dulse had a blaring look of anger on his face.
"Look. You said not to take any Pokemon, but we were going into a world with monsters. Besides, Poipole is an Ultra Beast!" Ash told him.
As mad as Dulse was, he sighed and let it go.
"Were alive and that's what matters." Gladion announced.
"If my studies are correct, Ultra Beasts can sense other Ultra Beasts. That Guzzlord with the species being a man made one might of never encounter another UB. Like animal instincts." Zossie explained.
The 5 returned back to the location of Greg and explained what happened.
"You really calmed down Mr. Glutton? Hey! Good job. We can handle the pipeage from here! Thanks for everything!" Greg said to the 5.
"Um…" Lillie muttered as everyone turned to her. "I'd like to ask somethings if that's alright…"
"Oh, sure! What can I tell you?"
"Guzzlord is a lonely being, maybe that's the reason of its anger?"
Greg shrugged his shoulders.
"I always assumed it was just because it was hungry." Grey responded.
"This placed is never going to be the same. Many colours that have been described I have never seen and probs never will see. With Mr. Glutton around, I doubt it will ever change." Greg explained with a sigh.
"Thanks for everything." Dulse said as they left with one of Greg's colleagues walking in. They couldn't see behind his hazmat suit, but he had his focus fully on Zossie.
They all departed back for Ultra Megalopolis as Greg got back to work.
(Ultra-Megalopolis)
Ash was taken straight to the doctors and with the high advanced technology, the bullet wound was healed in the snap of a fingers.
Ash quickly re-joined the rest who was with Phyco and Soliera.
"Normally I would scold you Ash for breaking extreme Ultra Recon Squad protocols but due to the fact it got you out alive, I will let it slide." Phyco told them.
Ash nodded.
He didn't agree totally with the protocol but thankfully it was nothing more than that.
"Guzzlord is a violent species in a violent world. The humans of that world drove themselves to the broken state they are." Soliera explained.
"It was rather disturbing." Lillie made mention of her thoughts.
Dulse stayed silent as did Zossie. Dulse was silent due to not wanting to piss of Phyco while Zossie was still suffering some shock from the whole event due to her dark connection with the Ultra Ruins.
"I believe that it is time you are to return home! If I am not mistaken, you have a world championship to attend?" Phyco announced which snapped Zossie out of her day dream.
Ash nodded.
"Well, we pass on our thankfulness from our President. He will be up most happy with the result!" Phyco told them.
Zossie found a flow of sadness.
"Wait!" She screamed without thinking.
Everyone turned to her as she froze up.
"Yes Zossie?" Soliera asked the young girl.
"I uh… Um, shouldn't we go back to help the potential attack from Necrozma?" Zossie suggested which caught everyone on surprise.
Dulse remained silent, secluded in thought.
Phyco picked up that she just wanted to spend more time with the humans.
He sighed.
"No." He announced, shattering the gingers heart and soul.
Ash, Lillie and Gladion caught on with what she was trying to do. Despite their rocky start, they had grown to like the young girl a lot. Dulse was still a figure to be concerned about.
"We are going to require you here for a further mission and- "Phyco started.
"What about the Traitor?" Dulse blurted in.
Phyco stopped instantly as he and Soliera gave an aggressive look.
"Traitor?" Lillie questioned.
"It is nothi- "
"He is no where near nothing and is closer to Necrozma than us! He killed his partner without any care at all!" Dulse snapped. "Besides, I liked Blue."
"Phyco. It is true that he resides on there world…" Soliera said to her superior.
"Who is this traitor?" Gladion followed up.
"He betrayed us and took a critical piece of equipment in order to track down Necrozma, so we can stop it once and for all. Except he plans to use Necrozma for his own deeds." Phyco reluctantly explained before giving up. "Fine! You may go with the humans but to work and observe anything related to the Traitor!"
Phyco turned to Ash.
"You two don't get along which is obvious." Phyco claimed whilst jolting his eyes at Ash and Dulse. "But you have your own traitor issues correct Ash?"
Ash just nodded.
"Dulse can be of great service to you then. You are dismissed and good luck." Phyco said before saluting and walking off.
"Guess we are stuck with you lot." Dulse muttered, regretting his decision to speak up. But he couldn't help but crack a small smile when seeing the joy on Zossie's face.
"I spy with my little eyes, is that a smile?" Ash joked.
"I will hurt you and make it look like an accident." Dulse hissed in a sudden mood swing as the 5 prepared to return back to earth.
(Ultra-Ruins)
The people that lived inside the same building as Greg had noticed a strange difference in how he acted.
"Hey you alright?" One of his colleagues questioned.
Greg just nodded.
"Wild that those kids aren't dead. Did they say how they did it?" He questioned again.
Greg flinched at the hearing of the word 'kids'.
"No. No they didn't, I don't believe!" Greg snapped slightly.
"You sure you alright?"
Greg just sighed.
"The ginger. The small girl one. She looked so familiar, but I can't put my hand on it!" Greg pondered.
His colleague pondered over it too.
"You know that secret we kept?"
Greg froze.
"Yeah?"
"She looks like that one Ultra Squad person you fucked."
Greg continued to remain frozen as he looked out the window.
"Nonsense… It can't be."
Authors note: This is one I've been wanting to do since we found out about Guzzlords world.
In this case I decided instead of Alola, make it our world instead. America was chosen just because one) Hawaii is a state of America and two) It's just the easiest to tell.
Ash and friends have now learned of the traitor. Wonder who this might be?
And yeh not much left to say.
Oh wait.
Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee. (Ngl, I nearly forgot about writing about this XD)
I'm sure some of you are wondering my opinion about the games: I don't have one yet. I play GO regularly still so it doesnt bother me about the GO features. I'm not going to judge a game I have less than 3 minutes of game play from.
This is now I just the gap year but I'd like to go back to 2015: The year of Pokemon Z! The year Zygarde was to shine! Oh wait. Instead we got Super Mystery Dungeon which don't get me wrong I loved but it's the fact where I am (New Zealand) didn't get that game a week before Sun and Moon announced. So I will gladly take a this.
Besides, the true MVP from that press conference is the fact 2019 is confirmed Gen 8 and going back to the normal content.
And yeh: Questions for the first time in a billion years.
Will the traitors still have any role in the story or will they just become gone and forgotten?
No they are still very much in this. Remember, Ash may be a champion and have some strong allies in Gladion and Hau ect, it's still a larger group against them. But with Dulse on his side now ;)
I love AND hate you for leaving it on that big of an ending.
That was the aim Lmao. Glad it worked though XD
are you going to make a chapter where Ash's new Pokémon and Kalos Pokémon battle in the future?
I mean, Ash's Kalos mons were still technically loyal plus he has Greninja to whoo them over.
What is your favorite Pokemon typing and type combination?
Favorite typing would probs be Dark or Water (Not something I've thought about to much before tbh) and combo has Ghost Fighting, I love the idea of a ghost that fights AKA Marshadow (Probs second fav mythical behind Genesect for me)
Favorite Ultra Beast?
My favorite Ultra Beast is Stakataka. Before USUM, it was Xurkitree but I fell in love with both Blacephalon and Stakataka the moment I saw them. It was the first mon I shiny hunted in USUM and that's what edged it over Blacephalon for me.
You no longerwant conversation in reviews... jeez, let us have a little fun. What's so wrong about having a little chat with friends here and there?
Because its not just here and there. If it's on the topic of the chapter, then I am not bothered but when it's about your everyday life and yes, their has been that in the reviews, that's when I draw a line.
So as always, review, suggest or PM me. Spectre out!