Chapter 17: Test of Darkness
Link, Pikachu, Kirby, and Jigglypuff stared at the new Pokemon. Mewtwo on the other hand was remaining calm.
"What do you want?" Rai shouted at the Pokemon. Link just walked over to Rai and placed his hand on Rai's right shoulder silencing the boy.
"Relax kid…" Link sighed. "They're not with Master Hand!" Link's head turned to Pikachu. "You know them?"
"Ya…" Pikachu said, smiling a bit. "I know them…" Slowly he began to name each of them off. "The big blue bird is Articuno, the fiery phoenix is Moltres, the prickly yellow bird is Zapados, then there is that pink cat like creature Mew, then the 3 dogs, Raiku, Suicune, and Entei! After that we have the onion like creature Ceilbi. Then there is Lugia, and Ho-Oh. Followed by Latios, and Latias! And after that we have Regiice, Regirock, and Registeel. Jirachi, and Deoxys! Oh… and Rayquyaza! They are the ones known as Legendary Pokemon."
"Pikachu!" Ho-Oh said. "You must come with us! Bring yourself, but leave your friends! Let your soul walk alone… And linger in the darkness!"
"What is he talking about?" Link asked.
Pikachu just nodded. "I understand…" He faced the small group. "I must be off right now…" Pikachu walked forwards; soon a barrier surrounded the Legendary Pokemon. "Those were the same words…" Pikachu spat. "How dare you use them!"
"Now you must be purified! From the evil that lingers in your soul!" Jirachi said.
Pikachu just stood still, or as still as he could. He was afraid and shaking like mad.
"All right…" Entei said. "Mew, and Jirachi! Your up first!"
A blue and red aura surrounded Mew and Jirachi. It quickly bolted from them towards Pikachu. "AHHHHHHHHHH!" Pikachu screamed in great pain. Slowly the ground began to turn a crimson color and the trees and the grass melted into it. Slowly the seal of Smash was formed.
"WHAT POWER! Its so evil!" Raiku shouted shocked. "Suicune, Celibi I don't think even you can purify this!"
"Raiku, do us a favor and shut up!" Suicune said. "We will do our job… You do yours! Kyoger!"
Kyoger floated in the air and nodded. It opened its mouth and soaked the ground near Pikachu with water. Slowly the water turned black. It was contaminated with the evil from within the Seal of Smash. Suicune slowly stepped forwards towards the black water. It stepped on it, when instantly she was thrown back. There was only a small spot of pure water, but it to slowly was corrupted.
"Celibi don't try it!" Suicune warned the onion head. "I just used half of my energy to try and purify it!" The other Pokemon were shocked. They looked at the water. "This whole area is evil, and it is dragging us in…"
Slowly a figure began to form from the water. It looked exactly like Pikachu in every way except it was a dark blue color. His eyes were white, and an aura of pure evil resonated off of him.
"Heh…" it laughed, with a scratchy voice.
"Such evil!" Lugia said shocked. "We can't allow it to get out of the barrier! Protect Deoxys at all costs!"
The Dark Pikachu stared at its light counterpart. In the middle of its forehead was a smash shard. "That rock?" Pikachu questioned it.
"It's a smash shard!" Dark Pikachu laughed, "The one you took off of Max's shirt." Dark Pikachu launched a thunderbolt at Pikachu. Unable to dodge Pikachu was knocked back and skidded across the ground, Deoxys appeared in front of him and knocked him out of the barrier.
"Its best if you are no longer involved with this fight!"
"Please you have to let me fight him!" Pikachu shouted, his Lance appearing in his mouth. Dark Pikachu glared at the Lance and a similar one appeared in his mouth.
"Your time will come soon!" Dark Pikachu laughed, jumping up into the air. The evil Pokemon's first target was Ho-oh. The lance started to spark and dark electricity hit all of the flying Pokemon, each of them slowly falling down onto the ground, the flying Pokemon that wasn't defeated was Zapados. But he took care of the electric bird by throwing his lance at the bird and piercing its wing.
"He knocked out six legendary Pokemon in two attacks!" Kirby said shocked. "But how? Pikachu doesn't hold that much power"
"I had been suppressed only given a true form by the Smash Crystal, and the power of these stupid Pokemon. I am not afraid of the consequences of my power I will wield it till the very legendaries are crushed. I draw my very power from hate, and hate itself is infinite!" Dark Pikachu responded to Kirby's question. "Once I'm done with these losers, you're next!"
"Unfortunately you are never going to leave the barrier!" Regirock shouted firing a Hyper Beam at Dark Pikachu. To counter it Dark Pikachu just used the tip of the lance to create a small electric barrier. As the other ten Pokemon saw that the attack was doing nothing they fired their own Hyper Beams, each one causing the barrier to bend further. Eventually the barrier broke, but Dark Pikachu had all ready jumped out of the way. Dark Pikachu noticed a red crosshair on his chest. Each Hyper Beam seemed to bend redirecting them towards Dark Pikachu.
A sinister smile crossed Dark Pikachu's face as the eleven Hyper Beams obliterated him. With that each of the Legendaries collapsed having used most of their energy to bring down Dark Pikachu.
"Isn't it pathetic that you had to put nearly your whole being into one attack?" A voice laughed out. "And it took eleven of you to destroy one Pikachu, is it that you are that weak? Or is it just for extra assurance? Or perhaps it was something else; perhaps the hatred that made Dark Pikachu ran deeper than anyone could of thought! He did say it was infinite after all!"
"An infinite amount of hate," Link pondered to himself, "What could cause a wound so deep? Wait who said that?"
"You all ready know the answer to both of the questions," Mewtwo replied. "They are the same thing; Master Hand" his voice trailed off.
In the barrier Dark Pikachu slowly began to reform. Each of the Legendary Pokemon stared in disbelief. From the shadows Master Hand appeared, weakly floating from side to side eventually emerging inside the barrier. Dark Pikachu now fully reformed rushed towards Master Hand, but was flicked out of the barrier. "You are now going to become one with me!" Master Hand laughed at each of the legendary Pokemon. The Seal of Smash spread out from underneath him and spread across the whole barrier. A pillar of crimson light shot into the sky, eventually the pillar became smaller, each of the legendaries no longer resting where they were.
Master Hand stood in the middle of the Seal of Smash, with a new form. This one was a humanoid shape. "SO MUCH POWER!" He laughed.
Mewtwo stood up, glaring at Master Hand. "You bastard!" He shouted enraged.
"Whats wrong?" Master hand laughed.
Mewtwo threw a shadow ball at Master Hand who held out his right hand. The shadow ball exploded on impact, using the smoke as cover for his next attacks Mewtwo dashed forwards appearing in front of Master Hand. He used his right hand to attack Master Hand and send him up into the sky. Mewtwo then jumped up into the air past Master Hand and smacking him down into the ground with his tail. Mewtwo teleported onto the ground and charged up another Shadow Ball, once it was fully charged he ran towards Master Hand, who was beginning to stand up once again. He glanced at Mewtwo charging towards him and with one swift movement he grabbed Mewtwo's wrist and forced his hand to the side causing an explosion of energy, creating a giant crater in the ground.
"Was that all you had?" Master Hand taunted. "Because it wasn't enough! It would have never been enough!" Master Hand lifted up his left hand and placed it on Mewtwo's chest. "Nothing can kill me. Now die!" With one move a beam of energy came from Master Hand and pierced Mewtwo, who's body went flying back motionless. He then landed roughly on the ground and skidded back 5 feet. Master Hand proceeded to walk towards the motionless body of Mewtwo, when a blast of energy went past his ear.
"Hold it right there! Beef!" Kirby shouted, he had the crystal on his arm pointing it at Master Hand.
"Heh…" Master hand laughed ignoring Kirby. "You know Link… those 18 Pokemon gave me so much strength I think I'll absorb every Pokemon on this planet! And every human too!"
"You can't do that!" Link said shocked
"Just watch me!" Slowly the Seal of Smash came down upon the whole planet. Everything began to be absorbed.
"No…" Mewtwo said weakly. "I must protect them!" he raised his hand and a dark shadowy barrier protected them from the Seal of Smash. Mewtwo however wasn't as lucky as he was absorbed into Master Hand. Soon the shadow barrier disappeared and so did the seal of Smash. All that remained was a barren planet, turned into various shades of grey, and withering plants, their very life force drained out of them.
"Power…" Master Hand laughed.
"POWER THIS!" Kirby shouted at the hand. Pointing the crystal at Master Hand it released some energy and blasted off most of his right shoulder and the arm. Then an arrow went right through his windpipe. Master Hand's body flew back motionless.
"To believe that was all it took!" Link said shocked. "I thought he would have been more of a challenge…"
"You're a fool if you thought that!" A voice rang out, from the corpse. It began to stand up and the spots that were wounded began to regenerate. "Deoxys' regeneration ability just how did I ever live with out it?"
"You were a coward and didn't get your body blown off before!" Link shouted.
"Uh… Link that was sarcasm!" Pikachu sighed.
"I knew that!" Link said slightly embarrassed.
"Enough babbling! Potato!" Kirby shouted. "We can end this now! I have an idea!"
"I'm all ears, what do we do?" Link asked.
"Attack him with all you have!" Link stared in disbelief, not thinking that it would work in the smallest way. Nonetheless Link drew the Master Sword and ran forwards, following him was Pikachu, Kirby, and Jigglypuff. Pikachu was the first to get to Master Hand and he unleashed a few thunderbolts on him. Jigglypuff was spinning at a super fast speed and bashed right into his gut, temporarily winding him, and breaking a few ribs in the process. Link and Kirby on the other hand rapidity were slashing at Master Hand several cuts appeared on his body. Becoming enraged Master Hand sent them all flying back with a gust of wind. Each of them began to stand up preparing for the second onslaught. However something stopped them from charging in.
They all stared dumbfounded as each of the wounds instantly healed. Master Hand raised his two arms; letting the palms of his hands face the four warriors. "YOU FOOLS!" he shouted annoyed. Slowly the ground began to tremble at the amount of power he was harnessing. "Too long have you meddled in my plans!" A ball of light appeared in front of his right hand, while a ball of blue fire appeared in front of his left. "Hyper Beam, Dragon Rage!" slowly he brought the two balls together, and they merged into a fiery energy ball. "I'll make sure not a single speck of you survives!"
"Right because that worked so well with Dark Pikachu!" Pikachu muttered underneath his breath.
"Such power!" Link shouted. The very energy that Master Hand was emitting was pushing them back no matter how much resistance they put up.
Master Hand let his left hand go down to his side and the fiery ball floated in front of the right. "You're going to need one hell of a miracle to save you now!" Master Hand laughed evilly. "And one can never be too cautious, especially up against you Link; you always have the uncanny ability to think up of some strategy to win at the last second!" Master Hand placed his left hand's index and middle finger on his forehead. Several sparks of electricity appeared on the two fingers. He then pointed them at the 5 warriors. "Thunder Wave!" Master Hand shouted, as the sparks of electricity suddenly rushed forwards and paralyzed Link, Kirby, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, and Rai.
"You know I'd think the element of surprise would be a lot better is it really necessary to shout out what attack you are going to use?" Pikachu asked.
"Your right," Kirby responded. "By announcing your attack wouldn't that give the other person a few seconds to actually think up of some random strategy to defend against the attack and attack back? It really isn't that necessary!"
"Yes it's necessary because I say it is!" Master Hand replied. Slowly he walked forwards letting the palm of his hand once again facing the paralyzed victims. "Any last requests?" Master Hand asked.
"Ya!" Link laughed, he used every ounce of his strength to rise up his bow and arrow. "DIE!" The arrow released but it stopped in front of Master Hand. A blue aura surrounded him, and the arrow. The arrow then snapped in half.
Dark Pikachu had woken up now, and he saw Master Hand. "You!" Dark Pikachu shouted. Recognizing Master Hand despite his change in appearance. "You moron! How dare you show your ugly face around these parts again!" Master Hand just looked at Dark Pikachu.
"Well if it isn't the freak of nature!" Master Hand laughed at the small Pokemon. "Pikachu's hatred! Had it become so deep that it could take a physical form? Oh well… I was expecting something more kind, especially to your father!"
"What are you saying?" Dark Pikachu asked, sounding more disgusted than before.
"I'm saying that if it wasn't for me! You wouldn't exist! I had to kill that pathetic younger brother of his, and then set everything up so it looked like the humans killed it! From there his hatred grew, towards the humans! But you became weak when Pikachu's heart became soft!" Master Hand laughed. Both Pikachu's, and Dark Pikachu's eyes were opened with horror.
"You bastard!" Dark Pikachu shouted outraged.
"After all that is why I gave you the Seal of Smash back then!" Master Hand continued. "So that your hatred would grow and that you would use it to destroy this planet!"
"Then I will use the same tool that you gave me, to destroy you!" Dark Pikachu said, The Seal of Smash appeared on his forehead.
"It won't even be worth my time to fight you at full power." Master Hand laughed holding the 1/6th of the smash crystal, and dropping it. Allowing it to fall on the ground. "This should be a good time to learn how to control this body! And this body deserves a new name: The Master!"
"Screw the name and fight!" Dark Pikachu shouted annoyed.
"But you were brought to your limits against the other Pokemon! How long can you last?" The Master asked.
"Well then let's find out!" Dark Pikachu dashed at The Master. Dark Pikachu's speed had improved, and he bashed The Master in the gut. But The Master didn't even flinch; instead it was Dark Pikachu that was hurt. "What the hell? It felt like steel!" The Master's body had become shiny, and rather hard. It was steel. The Master tried to punch Dark Pikachu. The punch however was to slow and Dark Pikachu evaded it. The Seal of Smash then spread across his body.
"It's just like with Metaknight!" The Master thought to himself. "In that form he might be too powerful! I should end this quickly!"
It appeared that Dark Pikachu didn't move an inch, but what came next was a strong gust of wind, and The Master was down on the ground gasping for air. The Master then proceeded to vomit. Dark Pikachu had appeared in front of the Master. The Master clenched his fist and punched at Dark Pikachu, only to hit an after image. The Master jumped up and disappeared.
"They both vanished!" Pikachu shouted out.
"No!" Link responded. "They are both here; we just can see them at the speed they are moving! We have to see with our mind instead of our eyes!" Quickly every one of them closed their eyes.
Dark Pikachu attacked with his tail at The Master, however he was able to block, and send his hands flaying wildly towards Dark Pikachu. Every punch from The Master hit Dark Pikachu dead on. He was shot down onto the ground, causing an earthquake, and he made a rather large crater. The Master landed on the ground his hands had transformed into what appeared to be vines, and they wrapped themselves around Dark Pikachu. Light pulsed from Dark Pikachu, and flowed into the vines into The Master.
"You're weak!" The Master whispered into Dark Pikachu's ear. "If you want another chance to fight me survive the destruction of this pathetic planet!" The Master threw Dark Pikachu aside, and his fur began to go from black, covered with various dots of red, to a light blue. "Now then… where was I?" The Master gazed at everyone else, and he held up his hand. From the mass of vines it began to reform back into a normal hand. "That's right… I was going to kill you!" In his hand a sword had appeared, and he slowly walked forwards. Noticing that the others were going to run The Master raised his left hand, a purple aura surrounded it, and the others were paralyzed. The Master walked towards Pikachu. "I'll start with you traitor! Then with you out of the way, your damn dark side will vanish as well!"
The Master lifted up the sword and was ready to cleave off Pikachu's head. "This is it!" Pikachu thought.
"Now die!" The Master shouted as he swung his sword.
To be continued…