-Part two: Anarchaoss VS. The World-
"…hey mom?"
Arceus turned her head to the side, to see that her son Darkrai had entered the room. "…not that I care or anything, and not that this will influence the plot of this movie in any way… but when did you say you were going to Judgment that area…?"
"Thirty minutes from now." Arceus blinked. "Now leave me be! I must discuss how to get Girat- er I mean… I am God! Go away!"
They were all gathered on the first floor. Everyone was itching to go, they just needed some information from Darkrai. All were tense however- this rescue mission had to go smoothly, efficiently, and most importantly, without God knowing. Which would be pretty hard to do considering she had all seeing ears.
Darkrai raced down the hall as fast as he could. He reached the group and announced Zero's fate:
"We have thirty minutes!" he shouted. Kairi bit her lip. Zero was too far away from them- thirty minutes wasn't nearly enough time to perform a rescue mission.
Cresselia noted Kairi's look of concern and spoke out.
"Don't worry!" The lunar swan assured them all. "As long as there isn't some sort of time jump, this will give us ample time to get Zero to safety!"
"Hey Palkia, watch this!"
After the deep voice had spoken, there was a massive surge of energy that pulsed from another floor and cascaded towards everywhere. The beings in the Hall felt a strange energy rushing through them, but as quickly as it came, it vanished.
Mercifond stared at her hands, looking at the others, as the other looked upon the rest.
"What… was that?" Gallade asked, uncertain.
"Woah, what was that Dialga!" they heard Palkia roar from upstairs.
"I just sent the entire Hall fifteen minutes into the future!"
There was an audible gasp from everyone in the room, and a panicked scream from Darkrai "We only have fifteen minutes to save Zero!"
"D-Don't worry!" Cresselia tried to calm everyone down. "At- At least it can't get any worse!"
Dialga: "I'm going to try it again!"
"FRIC!"
Another burst of energy occurred, ignoring the screaming teenagers from below Dialga's feet. The proud blue dinosaur stood before his twin brother and announced
"I just sent us forward another five minutes!"
For some reason, he heard a loud shout of "OH FRIC!" when he said those words. Palkia however was all too pleased with his brother.
"That's great that you can do that now! Your time manipulation has improved!" Dialga, in response, puffed out his chest and smiled.
"And best of all…" Dialga added. "Nothing bad happened whatsoever!"
"THIS IS REALLY BAD!" Kairi shouted. "WE ONLY HAVE TEN MINUTES TO RESCUE ZERO!"
As everyone began to scream and panic that their mission was a failure, Cresselia tried to remain calm, despite the fact that she was sweating the most of all.
"D-don't worry!" She shouted above the noise. "At least we can still-"
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" before the lunar swan finished her sentence, both Malispite and Darkrai forcibly clamped her beak shut. "YOU ARE NOT JINXING US AGAIN!"
"W-We have to hurry!" Gliscor calmed down, but only just a bit. "What if we ran as fast as we could!"
"Good idea!" before anyone could say anything, Darkrai had somehow picked everyone up in his arms and flew down the hallways of the Hall at lightning speed. He ran faster than anyone even thought possible, zooming past stairway after stairway, until he reached the familiar pink portal that lead down to Earth.
Taking it, Darkrai sped through the pink wormhole and entered the ground. He dumped all of them onto the ground, too tired to carry them any further. Huffing and sweating, he hastily asked how much time remained. From Cresselia, he got an angry reply of
"DARKRAI YOU MORON!"
His friends were all unconscious, clutching their heads in agony. They moaned about horrid visions in their heads, illusions of unimaginable horror tormenting their every moment.
Darkrai paused.
"Oh yeah. Nightmare powers." he remembered. Darkrai chuckled at Malispite. Cresselia slapped him hard upside the head and started to heal them all. Luckily, Darkrai's nightmare powers were diminished due to the amount of people and Pokemon he had infected all at once, and thus Cresselia was able to heal them relatively quickly.
As Malispite tackled Darkrai from anger, Kairi, who was the last one to wake up, demanded to know how much time remained before her beloved Zero was obliterated.
"Five minutes." Ruby tapped her on the shoulder.
Kairi stared blankly. It was over. She knew it would take them at least ten to get to Zero. It would take even more time to convince him to leave the area. It was simply impossible- not even a combined Teleport could take them to where they needed to go in time. A look of pale agony took over the brunette Ranger as it dawned onto her that Zero was going to be killed.
"We may have one last option…" Cresselia said hesitantly. "Mercifond." she barked, getting the white bat's attention. "Use your Chosen One powers to summon help for us!"
"Wh-wha-!" the white bat said in a confused manner. Gliscor and Ruby immediately locked on to what Cresselia was getting at.
"Oh yeah!" Ruby realized. "Mercifond is the Chosen One!"
"If she can use her powers to get some help for us…" Gliscor added.
"Then saving Zero might be possible…!" Kairi realized. Holding Mercifond's hand, the female human begged Mercifond to do something to help them. Mercifond was unsure if she could even pull something like that off, but had to give it a try.
Mercifond concentrated, and was enveloped in a white aura. Her powers surged part way into the sky, pulsating a bit, as if trying to contact some sort of unknown force. At its peak, the pulse surged into nothingness, and all that remained was the black sky of the night.
Everyone stared at Mercifond, especially Kairi, who was the most worried. Tensely, Gardevoir asked "…did it work?"
No sooner than Gardevoir whisper the words did a vortex open in the night sky. It pulsated for a brief second and then launched out what appeared to be a metal object from it, right beside the group.
As the group watched in awe, the piece of metal began to move. What was thought of at first to be a sphere of steel quickly assumed the guise of something completely different.
It grew longer and wider, revealing that it was not a sphere, but rather a body clumped together. The majority of its body was dark grey colored, the hair was a mysterious silver white that extended backwards like a cape. Red marks covered its long legs and arms. Tubes similar to rods extended from its body, four at the head, two in each elbow of the creature, and the last two at the knees. Its head rose, three spikes on its lower face, hair covering the middle. The shocking part were its eyes- one appeared to be a normal blue colored eye with a red mark below, while the right eye was concentric in nature with a small dot for a pupil.
The creature rose to its full height- just a bit taller than Darkrai or Gallade- and noticed them for the first time. Breathing shallowly, they watched as the creature grinned at them and subsequently announced
"THAT WAS AWESOME!"
A pause.
"It was!" Ruby agreed, despite not knowing what the creature was talking about. The Pokemon cocked its head, and addressed them once again.
"Do you want any fries with that!" he pointed at Kairi. The female ranger assumed that her translator had malfunctioned and answered with a "Huh?"
"No no, of course not." the being went on. "Because you're in a hurry!"
As Cresselia tried to figure out just what had happened, the steel grey creature asked loudly "So who's the hot chick who summoned me!"
Before anyone could reply, the being ran over to Mercifond, bowed, and then clasped her hand. "You are as hot as I thought you'd be!"
The white bat turned red and hastily shook off the creatures hand. Just then, it occurred to everyone that this was who Mercifond had summoned using her Chosen One powers.
"Yep!" The silver haired Pokemon said happily. "I heard a hot chick calling for help, so I went through a wormhole that hopefully lead to her, doing a cannonball as I jumped in!" explained the man. "Name's Anarchaoss! Guardian of First Island!"
Oh by the way, Zero has about three minutes left to live!"
"Wha-? Incredible!" Cresselia gaped. "How did you know!"
"What are you talking about?" grinned the man insanely. "I don't know anything!"
Cresselia: "Butbutbut-!"
Anarchaoss: "Shut up you egotistical swan! I'm trying to talk to the hot girl!"
With that, Anarchaoss went over to Mercifond.
"Want to go on a date?" he asked, grinning from ear to ear (or in this case, rod to rod).
It was at this point did Malispite figure out that the newcomer was hitting on his sister. He grew angry at this and immediately activated Demon's Offence. With a roar, the brown bat launched himself while the steel being was distracted, delivering a solid blow to his head.
His fist collided with a mighty clang, yet unbelievably, Anarchaoss did not move, or even budge.
"Please?" he inquired Mercifond. Both bats were shocked at what they had just seen- he had completely ignored Malispite's punch.
"What on earth…!" Cresselia said in awe. She had sensed the newcomer's power level, and it was scarcely above one thousand. Yet, he had blocked a punch from a being above ten thousand EP by doing nothing.
"He's strong." Darkrai said, his eyes serious. Cresselia gazed at him. "I've felt this for a while… this guy is insanely powerful."
Anarchaoss looked at Darkrai with his swirling eye.
"Are you an energy sensor?"
"No." Darkrai replied. "I can just tell."
Everyone stared at Darkrai, while Anarchaoss twisted his body to be eye level with Darkrai. The two met each other's eyes.
"The Lord of the Night…" murmured Anarchaoss. "So, I suppose we'd better get down to business since Zero is about to die."
With his insane logic, he approached Mercifond again, who decided to speak and describe the situation they were in.
"Arceus is about to Judgment Zero because she doesn't know he's there…and we have a limited time to save him." Mercifond breathed. "Can you help us?"
"Long story short:" Darkrai made things simple. "We have to save our worst enemy before he accidentally gets blown up by God.
…
…wow. That sounded so wrong in more ways than one…"
"Oh really?" Anarchaoss actually had a serious expression on his face. "Tch. I hate it when that happens…"
Everyone scratched their heads…
"However, everything has become clear to me!" Anarchaoss did a backflip, distancing himself from the group, towards the Hall of Origin. "If I can defeat seven Pokemon in the Legendary Council, then Mercifond will date me!"
"WHAT!" screamed Malispite and Mercifond at the same time.
"Stand back!" Anarchaoss fired a small Flash Cannon in the direction of the Hall.
"…That's it! That's the best you can do!" questioned Cresselia.
That's when Anarchaoss summoned several barriers in front of the Flash Cannon, each one bigger than the last. When the grey sphere pass through the first barrier, it became larger. When it pass through the next, larger still. In the process of five barrier, it had suddenly grown to the size of the Hall itself.
"This is going to be a big explosion…!"
"Attention everyone!" Arceus shouted above the Legends. This was more of an informal meeting, so everyone was on the ground floor not in their usual seats. "I have an important announcement!"
"But you always have-"
Azelf was frozen.
"My announcement is this: I am going to start NABSUD! Right now!" Everyone applauded. Except Azelf, who was too frozen to move.
"Oh by the way, we have a guest appearance in this movie!" Arceus announced to all the legendaries.
"Another guest appearance?" questioned Palkia.
"Is Cataclyptic really that desperate to get pageveiws?" Dialga wondered.
"Yes. Yes he is." Arceus assured them. "Behold- Posterius!"
A large midnight blue dragon entered the Hall. A white rune was on his forehead, the dragon's stubby legs bringing him closer to the astonished Legends. The dragon has glasses, and was reading a book as he walked. When he got to Arceus, his attention diverted from his reading material.
"My name is Posterus. Not 'Posterius."
"That is what I said Posterus."
"…whatever." the blue dragon went back to reading his book.
"He will be staying here for the remainder of the movie!" Arceus announced. "So please treat him well!"
"Palkia." the giant pearl colored dragon grinned. Posterus raised one of his legs and they shook. "So what brings you to the Hall today Posterus?"
"I won a contest."
"…"
"So uh, what is your special ability?"
"I can predict the future." announced Posterus proudly. Palkia was awed, asking him to do it in front of him.
"Alright… my psychic senses are telling me… that in the far future…" he looked at Palkia. "…Some idiot named Ultimega is going to lead the Legendary Council…"
"No way!"
"It gets worse…" Posterus grimaced. "He prioritizes ice cream above the lives of his fellow Pokemon…"
"Gasp!"
"And the most horrible part of it is…" Posterus built up tension. "That every member of the Legendary council is going to be obsessed with BADGES!"
"DOUBLE GASP!" Palkia said in horror.
"Exactly! It will be like Boy Scouts! Except worse!"
"The horror!"
"We have to prevent this from happening at all costs!" Posterus realized. "We'll have to find Ultimega now and kill him so that the Council is not reduced to the horrible state it is in the future!"
"I'm on it. Dialga!"
Dialga popped in, and Palkia explained the situation to him. With a nod, the blue dinosaur agreed to travel through time and kill this 'Ultimega'. With a flash, he disappeared. He reappeared one second later.
"Well, it took a while but I finally found him." Dialga said.
"…I will never understand time travel…" Posterus frowned. "Well? Did you do it?"
"I couldn't kill him."
"What?" Palkia narrowed his eyes. "But why?"
"He gave me a cool looking badge!" Dialga smiled. Palkia and Posterus fell down to the ground. The blue dragon stood back up.
"Wait!" said Posterus. "I'm getting another vision!"
"Hm? What is it this time?" asked Palkia. Posterus concentrated for a little bit, and said
"We are about to get hit by a giant-"
BOOOOOOOOSSSSSSHH!
"Arceus."
Mewtwo had cornered his superior in an isolated room. His intention was to speak with her in private.
"Please dear, call me Mom!" Arceus replied. Mewtwo sighed at that old rubbish and continued.
"There is something I wish to speak to you about." Mewtwo began. "It's about the Betazoans."
Arceus turned to him. "What about them?"
"How many of them are there in the world?" wondered Mewtwo. Arceus replied that there was only one Betazoan in existence: Mew.
Normally, Mewtwo would have believed her. However quite some time ago he had a mysterious vision with another, female Betazoan, who had advised him to save Deoxys from her mother. This lead him to the conclusion that there was more than one Betazoan in the world. Looking into Arceus' eyes, he found that she was telling the truth. Arceus was not lying- there was only one Mew in existence.
"Are you certain?"
"Positive. They are like the Alphazoan's in that their numbers are few. And in this decade, Mew is the last of their kind. At least, until he gets of age…"
Mewtwo's eyebrow arched. This decade? "You are saying that there have been previous Betazoans?"
"Well of course." Arceus said. "How do you think Mew got here in the first place?"
"Then where…?"
"You weren't around…" Arceus said softly, looking down. "Mew's mother was killed. She died recently- five years ago. It was a tragic incident with Team Rocket…" she muttered bitterly. "They killed her. We buried what was left of the body… Mew was at the Hall when it happened, so he was safe."
Mewtwo pursed his mouth. Mew's Mother? As in, female? Could that have possibly been…!
"Celebi was devastated." Arceus continued, sorting through bad memories. "She was Myuu's best friend… it changed her. Celebi no longer jokes like she normally does. She always appears sad…"
Arceus lifted her head. "When she asked me to train with her, I figured I could use it as an opportunity to heal her broken heart…"
"But then Absolix…"
"Yes." Arceus said softly.
"Arceus." Mewtwo's voice was sudden. "How strong is he?"
Arceus gazed at the clone.
"What is Absolix's power level?"
Arceus bent her head down. Mewtwo could feel his heart racing. By just saying his name, he could already feel the cracks of insanity oozing from his mind. Arceus appeared to be distressed.
"Mewtwo… do not tell anyone about what I tell you now." Arceus said softly, gazing at the sky. "My own power level is seven hundred and fifty thousand. And I know for certain that Absolix is stronger than I am.
I'd estimate his power level to be around eight hundred thousand."
Arceus' power level was already far beyond that of a typical class Five. Hence why she was currently known as the strongest God in all of history, excluding possibly the first. Yet, here she was saying the monstrosity called Absolix was even more powerful than she. This should have been a frightening revelation yet all Mewtwo felt was anger.
Mewtwo gripped his fists tighter than he could ever imagine. Eight hundred thousand! That was almost twice his own ! Doing the math, it meant that Absolix was close to being
'Sixteen times more powerful than I am…!'
Mewtwo never looked more angry in his life. He had been training as hard as he could, and managed to bump his level from 10,000 up to 421,000 EP, yet this was still not enough to defeat Absolix! Despite his best efforts, the man was still sixteen times more powerful than he!
"Mewtwo, snap out of it." Arceus' stern voice brought back the clone's attention. "Your path is wasted on revenge."
"This is beyond d vengeance, Arceus!" Mewtwo replied harshly. "I will never be a real being as long as that man exists!"
"Do you still not understand that you have Pokemon who care for your well being and who accept you regardless!"
"And do you still not understand that you are not will never be my mother!" Mewtwo hissed, gritting his teeth. A long silence passed between the two. Each stared the other in the eyes, neither one refusing to give up their stance. Mewtwo could feel Arceus' fury on him, and Arceus could feel Mewtwo's determination to kill Absolix.
"I'm leaving." Mewtwo immediately Teleported away before Arceus could argue. The white colored god cringed at herself. Mewtwo had not yet conquered his madness. And yet, despite his natural insanity Mewtwo hated Absolix with every fiber of his being and would do anything to kill the white being.
She was about to chase after him but Palkia warped into the room, demanding that she come down to the lower floors.
"Did you not hear that crash just now!" Palkia said quickly. "The Hall is being attacked! A part of it even got ripped off!"
"What?"
"OH YEAYUH!" Anarchaoss pumped his fists in the air. "TAKE THAT ARCEUS!"
Everyone stared, not knowing exactly what to do. On one hand it was clear that he was messed up in the mind in more ways than one. Yet on the other hand, Anarchaoss appeared to want to help them. By challenging God to a battle.
Luckily, Anarchaoss snapped them out of their daze and told them what to do.
"Are you still here! You have to go rescue Zero!" Anarchaoss said, his head spinning one-eighty degrees to meet them.
"Th-thank you!" Mercifond smiled, to which Anarchaoss responded with a wink and a whistle.
"DON'T YOU DARE HIT ON MY SISTER AGAIN!"
And with those last words from Malispite, the entire group ran as fast as they could towards the coordinated specified. Led by Kairi, they zoomed as fast as they could towards the forest.
Anarchaoss stayed behind. Now was where the battle started- he versus the God of this world. Anarchaoss knew that he had no chance whatsoever of beating her but…
"Grey colored French Fries…" he grinned.
He was a bit too happy/insane to care.
Meanwhile, Arceus flew down the flights of stairs onto the first floor, where there was a giant gaping hole in the Hall of Origin from a Flash Cannon attack.
"WHO THE HELL DID THIS TO MY NICE CLEAN HALL?" said Arceus in rage.
"I THE HELL DID THAT TO YOR NICE CLEAN HALL!" Arceus was surprised when someone actually answered. She was even more surprised to see that it was a steel typed Pokemon she knew all too well.
"Who is that guy!" Palkia wanted to know.
"I'll handle this…" Arceus narrowed her eyes. She instantly Teleported next to Anarchaoss, eyes furious digging into him.
"Anarchaoss, what are you doing here! Get back to First Island!"
"You fired me, so now I'm stalling!" Anarchaoss answered.
"What are you talking about! I never fired you!"
"You didn't?" Anarchaoss was confused. "Then why am I out of a job?"
Arceus did not even know where to begin explaining. Clearly, she could not reason with something that was the complete opposite of it.
"You have five seconds to get back to your island before I attack!"
"Five." said Anarchaoss.
"…what?"
"Four." he said immediately afterwards.
"What are you-"
"THREE." he hissed.
Arceus just then realized he was counting down for some reason. At that, she simply warped back to the Hall and back to the Legendaries, too tired and pained from going outside the Hall.
"Well?" asked Dialga.
"He's insane. We're going to beat him."
"You're going to fight?" Posterus raised an eyebrow, closing his book. "This ought to be interesting…"
"No, of course not!" everyone was taken aback by this statement. "You all are going to fight him for me!"
Everyone questioned why this was, and Arceus responded that since today was HER holiday, SHE shouldn't have to do any work. Thus, she announced her plan:
"My seven evil ex boyfriends shall fight him!"
A pause.
"You don't have seven evil ex's." Moltres pointed out.
"Then I shall use my seven EX-cellent Legendaries!" at this, several of the members perked up.
"Wow really!" Palkia said, excitably. Arceus nodded at Dialga, who was more than happy to participate.
"SUIT UP!"
With those simple words, seven blazing colors suddenly burst from the hole that Anarchaoss made. Each of the seven was one color of the rainbow, crashing downwards into the city like seven meteors.
Anarchaoss braced himself as mild shockwaves hit the area. What he saw next astounded them.
There, seven Legendaries stood in formation, each wearing a color coded cape and mask over their eyes.
"We are here to challenge you, evil doer!" Palkia announced in a booming voice.
Entei: "Captain Red!"
Heatran: "Captain Orange!"
Raikou: "Captain Yellow!"
Shaymin: "Captain Green!"
Suicune: "Captain Blue!"
Dialga: "Captain Indigo!"
Palkia: "Captain Violet! And together we form the SEVEN EX-CELLENT LEGENDARIES!"
GO GO EXCELLENT LEGENDS!
MIGHTY
MORPHIN'
EXCELLENT
LEGENDS!
"…what the crap is going on?" said an extremely confused Posterus. It was Manaphy who answered.
"Know what a Super Sentai series is?"
"…yes?"
"Oh. Well then I don't need to explain it after all." she turned back to watching the fight.
Posterus was still confused.
"Oh great. Super Sentai Soldiers." Anarchaoss paused from the rooftop he was on, observing the poses of the seven multi colored Captains. "Well two can play at that game!"
With a mighty leap, he leapt in front of them and flung his silver hair around in a cape like fashion. "I AM CAPTAIN GREY!"
A pause.
"No!" said Shaymin. "There are only seven Captains in the Seven Ex-cellent Legendaries! And besides, grey isn't a color of the rainbow!"
"Who cares, I need to stall!" and with that the battle truly began. The steel typed insane Pokemon launched several dozen Flash Cannons in the direction of the seven. However, Palkia easily stopped it by warping the space and transporting them somewhere else.
"That isn't how things work!" Anarchaoss leapt back again as Palkia explained the 'Rules'. "You face us in a one on one battle, starting with the weakest and ending with the strongest!"
"Entei, you are first up!" announced Dialga. At this, the red caped beast walked forward proudly. He stopped before Anarchaoss, looking at him with determined eyes. Then, he realized something.
"HEY WAIT, I'M THE WEAKEST?"
"Er… sorry bro!" Suicune said apologetically. Entei snarled at his predicament, then announced to Anarchaoss that he would defeat the evil-doer to prove that he wasn't the weakest.
"You are though." Anarchaoss agreed, crossing his arms. "I'm an energy sensor- the best there is in fact! I can tell that you definitely are the weakest of the seven."
"SHUT UP I AM NOT!" Entei roared, and with the roar came an impressive Flamethrower attack. The all consuming flame was directed at Anarchaoss, who raised his hand.
Suddenly and without warning, Anarchaoss grinned and summoned a wall in front of himself, then leapt back. When the massive Flamethrower hit the wall, when it came out it was much smaller than before. The insane steel type easily dodged the now small Flamethrower.
"What?" Entei roared. Without warning, Anarchaoss began to glow violently, as spheres of white light entered his body.
"Flash Cannon!" A large sphere of metallic energy was fired at Entei, who leapt out of the way to dodge. However this was a part of his plan- Anarchaoss then closed in on Entei and nailed him with a massive empowered punch that sent Entei to the ground, defeated in one blow.
Needless to say, everyone gaped at this.
"Raikou… we'll double team this guy!" Suicune ordered her brother, who nodded in response. The beasts of lightning and water leapt into the fray to do battle with the enigmatic Anarchaoss while Palkia warped Entei to the Hall.
"His primary power must be… energy manipulation." Dialga guessed. He can sense energy, absorb it, decrease and possibly even increase it at will."
"So in other words, he could be above a class Two for all we know…" Palkia muttered, sensing that Anarchaoss' energy was less than ten thousand. "Because of his ability, he is far stronger than his EP indicates…"
"This could be problematic…" Dialga agreed, narrowing his eyes. "Yet we shall not fail, for we are-"
"THE SEVEN EX-CELLENT LEGENDARIES!" cried the remaining six, plus Entei in the Hall.
"And don't forget Captain Grey!"
"YOU AREN'T A PART OF OUR TEAM!"
Though Deoxys had said she would visit Mewtwo, this was nothing more than a ruse to distract the others. True she wanted to see her love, but he insisted that he wanted some time alone and she could respect that. Deoxys had her own agenda as well.
Pausing to make sure there was no one to see her, she used to her Shifter powers to warp her body into a red and blue puddle. With another gasp that no one had seen her yet, she slid through the cracks of a white door and reformed on the other side. At this point, Deoxys was sweating profusely, eyes shifting left and right for any movement at all.
She was in Arceus' chambers.
Deoxys had not forgotten her mission. She was sent as a spy from the planet Ribos to study Arceus and learn of her weaknesses. When Cytosine had paid her a visit, she announced she would resume her spying on Arceus, but with a slight improvisation. Instead of learning her weaknesses (already revealed to be Bubble Wrap of all things…) she was going to try and discover something much more important:
The reason for the genocide of the Ribonians.
Deoxys was determined to find out the truth about why Arceus, God of all Pokemon, has decided to indiscriminately slaughter two billion Ribonians on their home planet. Deoxys at first thought it was because Arceus was indeed their enemy. However… the remorse she showed after confessing made Deoxys think twice. This, and the fact that Arceus was saddened that her friendship with Helix was forever lost made Deoxys reconsider Arceus being an enemy.
Thus, here she was in Arceus' chambers. It was perhaps here she would learn if Arceus truly was the enemy, or perhaps something else.
The room was plain enough for a being of divine like status. It was dimly lit, for no lights were on. The room was relatively small, with a large bed and curtains in the far corner. A dresser lay in another corner, and a closet in yet another. Deoxys decided to check the dresser first, when she noticed a strange doorway that seemed out of place.
She reached for it, but could not get it open. There were no cracks that she could slip through, as the doorway appeared to be created using dimensional powers. R3alizing she could not open it, Deoxys went back to the dresser.
Carefully altering her body to leave no fingerprints, she reached inside and pulled something out. Deoxys then realized her folly- her species could only see in electromagnetic radiation. She could feel something there, but could not see it.
Sighing, Deoxys concentrated on her eyes. Remembering her shifter powers, she changed her eyes so that they could see in color. When she opened them, she discovered that she could see normally, but only in shades black and white.
This did not bother her- as she could clearly see that she was holding a white wedding dress in front of her. Tossing it aside, she rummaged through the rest of Arceus' items- a hairbrush, some perfume, a small notebook with nothing written on it, and several picture frames.
The picture frames seemed to take up most of the space in Arceus' dresser drawer. Deoxys examined these quickly- most of them were pictures of her with the other legends. Darkrai, Mewtwo, Giratina, Palkia, she seemed to have a picture for each Legendary in the Council. Deoxys even found a rare photo- one of a much younger looking Arceus and a much older Alphazoan smiling down at her.
Archezeus- Arceus' father.
Deoxys found this photo to be interested, but it did not leave her with any important clues. She closed the dresser, placing all items back in it. As she stood up, she then noticed another picture encased in gold placed atop the dresser. Deoxys paused to look at it.
There were two Pokemon in the frame. One was a white Alphazoan- Arceus. However, the second one, another Alphazoan, was black colored. Deoxys cringed a bit as she saw that this black one has multiple eyes and a giant toothy grin.
Deoxys narrowed her eyes. Hadn't she seen something like this before?
And that's when she nearly dropped the picture frame.
"Why don't we find out who's best at shape shifting?"
She had seen multiple yellow eyes before! Kurades! During the fight with the tremendously powerful Pokemon, she had overheard Umbreon saying that Kurades was able to create dark matter with his 'creation powers'- the signature ability of the Alphazoans.
The second Alphazoan was Kurades. Deoxys was shocked to learn of this, and almost denied it, yet it all made sense. Turning the picture frame over, she noticed words were engraved in gold. With a low voice, she read them.
"My brother and I."
There was a noise, and Deoxys turned around to see Giratina in the room. She looked at her sternly, and Deoxys was so shocked by his sudden appearance that she couldn't move. After a silence, she looked at the picture frame and sighed.
"Do you know the rule of Alphazoans?" he asked her. Deoxys remained still, blinking a few times. "The rule is, there can only be one Alphazoan in power at one point. That is why each Alphazoan only makes one son or daughter of themselves in their entire lifetime. This rule had held since the beginning of time."
Pausing, Giratina floated around the room.
"And then something changed. Right after Arceus was born, Archezeus felt a strange sensation in his gut. Two days later, without warning, he accidentally created a second Alphazoan.
Kurades."
Deoxys felt a bead of sweat trail down the side of her head. She had a feeling what Giratina was telling her was top secret information.
"The Council at the time was in a state of panic." Giratina continued. "This sort of event was unprecedented- never before had there been two Alphazoan children in the world. Believing Arceus to be the real successor to her father, they shunned Kurades from the Council.
Arceus, and sometimes even myself were the only ones kind to Kurades. Everyone else hated and feared him- especially when he began to take up an interest in shape shifting his body to horrific forms.
His title was 'The Accursed One', because Kurades was never meant to be born."
Pausing again, Giratina stared at Deoxys.
"Arceus loved her brother. Kurades wasn't always evil- he was always a battle junkie and never understood jokes, but at one point he was just mischievous.
And then one day, something changed. After Archezeus died and Arceus was officially admitted to be God of the world, he began to resent his sister. Love turned into hatred, and hatred turned into the Fourth Great Destruction."
Giratina looked past Deoxys, staring into a distant memory. "Can you imagine what it's like… to kill your own brother? To be forced to obliterate him for the sake of peace?"
Finally, Deoxys spoke.
"Why are you telling me this?" she inquired. Giratina simply stared at her. Finally, he responded.
"I'm telling you this to give you an idea of the secrets Arceus has locked up inside of her." said the guardian of death wisely. "As God, she has it harder than anyone else.
I don't know why she committed mass genocide on your species, Deoxys. But I do know that she cried harder that day than I have ever seen her in my life."
Deoxys stared at Giratina. As Giratina left the room, Deoxys called out to him "When you saw Arceus… when you saw her crying… what did she say?"
Giratina turned around, his red eyes looking into a distant memory.
"She said nothing.
All she could say was nothing."
And with that, Giratina vanished.
"…
…Zero?"
"What…?" Zero moaned, followed shortly by a large gurgle from his stomach. "This had better be important… too hungry to think straight…"
"…who was it you said you wanted to do battle with?"
"Darkrai." Zero called out.
"I see…" the mechanical voice called out. "Does Darkrai have blue eyes?"
"Yeah…?"
"Near pitch black skin? With white hair and a large red collar?"
"…yeah?"
"I see."
At this point, Zero sat upright. "Why are you asking?"
"I am looking at the monitors, and he appears to be outside the STAG demanding that you let him in."