-Part Three: SSDV (Same Sh*t Different Villain)-
MEANWHILE IN THE ISSH… UNOVA REGION
"I ARE N!"
A pair of blue eyes and a pair of red eyes stared downwards.
"What?" asked the red eyes.
"I are the chosen one!" said the green haired human that randomly entered their domain. "I can talks to the Pokemans!"
"…okay how the heck did this filthy human get in here?" the blue eyes demanded. "Zekrom, didn't you put up some seals?"
"That was your job! I'm bad at sealing!"
"Oh yeah. I guess that explains how he got in then, doesn't it?"
"I are here to capture you, for I are the chosen one!" The strange green haired teen said proudly. "Show yourselves legendary Pokemon of Unova!"
The blue eyes and red eyes looked at each other.
Apparently shrugging, they stepped forth from the shadows of Dragonspiral tower. Both were enormous dragons, towering over the comparatively puny human before them. One of them was grey and black colored, with some blue lighting. He stood upright, with a giant turbine tail, small wings attached to his shoulders, and large claws on the back of his hands. The second was a white dragon, arms in the air that looked more like wings. Her tail resembled a furnace, glowing reddish orange with flame power.
Reshiram and Zekrom.
"I are the chosen one!" shouted N for the umpteenth time that day. "I shall capture you so that I can separate Pokemans from the evil hum-"
Zekrom stepped on N, instantly KOing him.
"Well that was easy." Reshiram noted, fluttering her wings a little bit.
"Yeah. You know, I'm getting kind of bored here." Zekrom said, scratching his chin. "I've been itching for a fight, and we can't use our full powers without destroying this tower."
"Must I remind you why we're in here in the first place!" said an annoyed Reshiram. "We're here because Dialga and Rayquaza have come to Unova to capture us!"
"I know I know…" Zekrom gritted his teeth.
"And you KNOW what will happen if mom gets her hooves on us!"
Zekrom began shaking. The Dark Dimension of Ultimate Torture. The worst punishment a legendary could have, with the possible exception of no Halo for a week.
"On the other hand, when is it going to be safe to come out?" growled Zekrom to his twin sister. "I say we take our chances and fight them right now."
"…I almost agree with you…" Reshiram looked down, eyeing the extremely dusty and therefore dirty Dragonspiral Tower. Her twin brother had a point- Rayquaza and Dialga would eternally search for them. They'd be found anyway, so wouldn't it be better to just fight them now? "Alright fine. Let's take them out."
"I… are… the chosen…" said a voice in a crater.
"Let's go! the twins shouted "WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE!"
"What?" asked Reshiram.
"Sorry. Just had to say it you know?"
Reshiram rolled her eyes. They leapt up into the sky, surrounded by blue and red, shining their brilliance over Unova, signaling that they were the supreme power. Their combined flame and lighting powers created energy that spilled over the whole area.
And as they expected, Dialga happened to notice. Waking up Rayquaza, he pointed the green lizard in the direction of the intense light. Rayquaza uncoiled his body and growled deeply. They had found the twin dragons.
"I got Reshiram." Dialga said without further commands. "You take care of Zekrom."
"Got it! Wait, I wanted to fight Reshiram!" Rayquaza eyed Dialga suspiciously.
"Your crush on her would impede you from using you full potential." sighed the dragon of time.
"I DO NOT HAVE-"
"Just fight!" Dialga took off, with a grumbling green lizard right behind him.
MEANWHILE WITH TRUEMAN
The brown haired boy had earlier been ordered by Palkia to go immediately to Alekandra's room for protection. Naturally, his mother followed and led her son to the domain of the wizened African.
Who stood on his head in a meditative pose.
"…" said Katrina.
"He does that to calm himself down." Trueman smiled. "Alekandra's funny!"
"Well, alright…"
Katrina looked at her son once more. She hugged him comfortably, like a loving parent. "Trueman, I will never let anything happen to you alright?"
"Okay mom…" Trueman said carefully. Though he was still so young, Trueman knew the burden he placed on his mother. She, who had to be parent to possibly the most powerful and terrifying force in existence.
It was times like these that Trueman really wished he was a Seer.
The moment of parent and child bonding was interrupted by a small grunt from Alekandra. The two let go and gazed upon the old man, thinking of waking him.
Just then however, another grunt was heard from the dark skinned man. He grunted several more times, until it became shouts and fits. Within mere seconds the calm face of Alekandra had been twisted into agony, clutching his head in pain.
The mother had no idea what was going on, and Trueman had never seen this side of Alekandra before. In pain, he screeched and shouted random words and phrases, and it was then that the both of them realized he was having a vision.
"M-Mommy…?" Trueman was scared at the convulsions of Alekandra. He jerked violently on the floor, frothing at the mouth and still screaming and clutching his head.
"C-Coming!" Alekandra screamed over and over again. "The Omega…! No, too much… War! The fools!… No, stop it!… this wasn't meant to happen!… war… War… Run… Kurades… Not…
…
…Escodia… he watches…"
Finally, Alekandra opened his eyes, by now shining a pale purple. Seemingly calm, he looked at Trueman and Katrina, yet not seeing them there. With a hoarse whisper, he uttered his final prophecy.
"It began with destiny…" said a horrified Alekandra "And it will end… with destiny."
And suddenly, Alekandra was awake. Katrina clutched her son in fear, while Trueman stared at Alekandra with shocked eyes. The wizened man looked around vigorously in fear. Making sure that his surroundings were real and not another vision, he spoke.
"Trueman. Katrina. Stay here and don't come out.
…I need to speak to Arceus immediately."
"ZERO! GET THE HELL OUT HERE SO THAT I CAN BEAT YOU UP!" Darkrai shouted as he pounded at one of the legs of the STAG Beetle, shouting at Zero wherever he may be. Cresselia dragged him back, smacking him on the head.
"Darkrai, we're going to sneak in remember!"
"Screw that." Darkrai huffed. Cresselia dragged him over back to the group. Kairi counted up their numbers: There was Cresselia and Darkrai, Malispite and Mercifond, Gallade, Gardevoir, Gliscor and of course Ruby and herself. Totaling to nine members, Kairi estimated that they would need a miracle to occur to capture Zero.
"Don't you worry about that." Gliscor flashed a toothy grin. "Mercifond can do those things since she's the Chosen One!"
"Now then, as your leader I shall tell you all the battle strategy." Cresselia stood in the center.
"I refuse being led by her." Darkrai immediately raised his hand.
"I agree, we should let Gardevoir lead!" Gallade piped up.
"I AM MOST SUITED TO BE LEADER AND THAT'S THAT!"
"Oh yeah and why's that?" asked Malispite incredulously. Cresselia glared at him and proudly announced
"BECAUSE I AM A STUCK UP SWAN AND GOT AN 'F' IN LEADING THINGS BECAUSE I AM STUPID."
Darkrai and others laughed at this. "Hah! Nice one narrator!"
DON'T MENTION IT.
"WE ARE SNEAKING IN WHETHER ANYONE LIKES IT OR NOT!" Cresselia blared at all of them. Just then, there was a hiss from the STAG and a compartment opened up. From the compartment burst a set up stairs that led to the ominous interior of the steel clad insectoid.
"…I think he already knows we're here." Gallade pointed out the obvious, to which the purple and yellow swan angrily ordered them to go up the stairs.
Malispite cracked his knuckles, Gallade extended his swords. Mercifond glowed a shade of white and Gardevoir began emitting more EPressure. Gliscor opened and closed his claws, Kairi got out her Styler. Cresselia's eyes shone a brilliant purple and Darkrai's eyes began to glow blue.
Time to go in.
"Wow, what a nice Pre-battle scene!" commented Ruby.
"…alright, let's just do this as quickly as possible." Kairi warned. "We have no idea how long Anarchaoss can stall so Arceus could potentially blow us up at any minute."
BOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHHH!
"Aw crap we got blown up!" Darkrai exclaimed.
"Wait, if we're blown up… how are we still talking?" Gliscor questioned.
"Urg, that was the narrator." Cresselia said angrily.
SORRY, COULDN'T RESIST.
"Well can it! You had me scared for a second!" Kairi shouted at the invisible voice. "Now lets hurry in before something else happens!"
With that, all nine of them entered the STAG beetle. They were up the stairs in no time, and a circular door opened up just as they got to the top. Going through the door, they went a short distance before reaching a wide room filled with mechanics and complicated looking technology.
Another door opened, and a new figure stepped out. "Hello Kairi and friends."
He wore a mask that almost resembled that of a robotic clown. Red eyes gleamed from beneath it, the tip extending far back like an antenna. His chest was wide, but torso was small. He had a circular under section with four legs protruding. Two arms were at his sides, though they floated in midair. A cape was tied behind his back.
"Greetings." said the new figure. "I can see you are clearly shocked, so let me introduce myself. I am Toyman."
Cresselia's eyes widened. 'Toyman? Then… Then this man is…!'
"GALLADE HE'S TRYING TO ATTACK GARDEVOIR!" shouted Darkrai suddenly.
A pause.
"…wait what?"
"HOW DARE YOU ATTTEMPT TO ATTACK MY BELOVED!" and with that, Gallade charged up his arms and nailed Toyman with a Close Combat attack. The resulting hard impact carried Toyman all the way over to the left wall, leaving Darkrai an opportunity to zoom through the doorway and up some stairs. Toyman made an immediate recovery as Gallade leapt back.
"Did he just go up the stairs!" Toyman asked aloud. He was met with several nods. "How rude! Well, I WAS going to say that only Darkrai could pass and meet Zero…"
The door closed when Toyman snapped a finger. " But I suppose he's already up there isn't he? You all will have to wait."
"Like hell we will!" Malispite said defiantly. Toyman chuckled in his mechanical voice.
"Well, that was to be expected." he laughed. "So, I suppose if you all can defeat me you can pass?"
"We have to do it." Kairi warned. "Zero is too powerful for Darkrai alone!" turning to the robotic Pokemon Kairi pleaded "Please, let us through to see Zero!"
"Afraid not, sorry."
"This place is about to be blown up by God!" Mercifond shouted desperately. Much to her avail, Toyman chuckled.
"Hah. You expect me to fall for the oldest trick in the book?"
Everyone scratched their heads…
"I suppose if that were true then we'd have a good reason to evacuate." laughed Toyman. "But let's face it, what are the odds of that happening?"
PRETTY HIGH CONSIDERING THE STUPIDITY OF THIS STORY
Darkrai ran upwards and upwards, flying through the air. In no time at all, he reached the top of the STAG.
"Hello Darkrai."
Darkrai saw an entire field. Much like an official Pokemon Battling stadium, there was short green grass in a wide circular area. A small fence surrounded them from all angles, and a giant white Pokeball design was in the center of it all. Standing in the center of the Pokeball was Zero, smiling at Darkrai.
"Alright look." Darkrai pointed an angry finger at Zero. "I would love to beat you up right now. I mean, I would LOVE to beat you up for all the crap you've caused us…" Darkrai said in a low voice. "…sadly, I can't. We need to get out of here, like right now!"
"Darkrai…"
"I mean it! My mom's gone ballistic and created a new holiday that will blow up random stuff and now she's going to blow you up!" Darkrai said quickly.
Zero paused.
"…right that made no sense… You're in grave danger, get it? We need to get you out of here and then we'll definitely fight!" Darkrai concluded. Zero stared at Darkrai, a serious expression on his face.
"Darkrai…" Zero said once again. "There's something you ought to know…"
"Well whatever it is can't it wait?"
"The Communicator on my Styler is broken. I don't understand a thing you're saying."
"…WHAT!"
"DARKRAI! KRAI! DARK-KRAI DARK DARK KRAI! DARKRAI DARK!" shouted the pitch black Pokemon opposite Zero.
"Yeah… no idea what you just said…" the blond Ranger sighed.
"YOU'VE GOT TO BE FREAKING KIDDING ME!" screamed Darkrai in rage. "After all of this we still can't save you?"
"I have no idea what you are saying… but nod your head up and down if you are ready to battle me." Zero replied.
Darkrai closed his mouth in annoyance. Zero could not understand him, which meant Darkrai could not deliver the doomsday message. They needed to get Zero out of there fast, but Kairi and the other had not shown up yet.
Darkrai glanced where he came from, no one in sight. So he was alone, up against the most fearsome human in the world.
"Don't you want to fight me?" goaded Zero. "Don't you remember what I promised the last time we met?"
Darkrai narrowed his eyes.
"Do you still think I'm the Zero you met in the past?" "You look just like him! Tell me the truth!"
"Darkrai…If you want to know the truth, then you must face me at full power. Figure out where I am first, then challenge me. If you defeat me I will tell you everything."
Darkrai turned sideways a bit. Zero could not understand him, and they only had a limited time to save him. Zero obviously was not going with Darkrai without a fight, so the rescue mission was hindered tremendously.
This left Darkrai with only one option left: he would have to fight an subdue Zero to get him off the STAG. Either that, or stall him out until his friends and Malispite arrived. Yet until then, he was alone…
Darkrai nodded his head up and down. At this, Zero finally smiled.
"Excellent…" from nowhere, a Styler zipped in a circular motion around Zero. "Then let's begin, shall we?"
It was time to find out just who Zero really was.
MEANWHILE WITH KARMA
"KAIRI!" shouted the female Ranger. She narrowly dodged another wire tentacle by leaping backwards. Ruby then immediately covered her by firing a 'Fire Blast' in the direction of the Toyman. The masked Pokemon responded by raising a pink colored shield and defended himself against the Shadow Ball.
In the first few seconds of fighting, they had quickly learned that Toyman had the special ability to control electronics, machines, and all other things that beeped and whizzed.
Here in the Stag, he had a large amount of technology at his disposal. Zero was a techno -wiz on his own, and with Toyman's ability he could use all the appliances in Zero's ship to his advantage.
"Flash Cannon!" Toyman suddenly fired s stall type ball at them. Cresselia came up and performed a Reflect which dissipated the attack. Looking over at Malispite and Mercifond, she saw that they were done charging. With a roar, they activated their signature Moves. Malispite's skin became covered in angry red symbols while Mercifond became engrossed with calming blue tattoo's.
"Oh my?" Toyman said in confusion. With a leap, Malispite closed in on Toyman and delivered a straight punch that sent him backwards. Toyman maneuvered himself upright using his four legs and launched a mighty Discharge attack in response. Mercifond came between in and her brother and performed a Mirror Coat attack that reflected it back at Toyman, shocking him.
"Stop it." Cresselia suddenly said. Toyman wriggled himself upright where he saw Cresselia staring at him.
"Toyman… why are you doing this?" Cresselia asked. Toyman cocked his head, the eyes behind the mask giving a mysterious glint.
"It is the way things are to be, Cresselia."
"No, it doesn't!" argued the yellow and pink swan. "You don't need to do this! You could just accept my mom's offer…"
"Ah, that." Toyman said monotonously. Gallade and Gliscor looked at each other- just what was going on here? Did Cresselia know this enemy?
"…My mother offered Toyman to become a class Three Legendary with a position in the Council." Cresselia explained, causing many eyes to widen. "Toyman is really a good Pokemon at heart…"
"Sadly that is only half the case." Toyman sighed. "You see children, I use my power over technology to created devices for the Council to use. However, I am also a black arms dealer and sell weapons that I make to the various evil organizations. I am neither good nor evil you see."
"But you could join us!" pleaded Cresselia. Toyman sighed again.
"Sadly, my situation is a bit more complex than that. I'm sorry Cresselia, but I truly don't belong on either side."
It had become clear to Cresselia that his heart could not be swayed. Thus, Cresselia sighed and realized they would have to fight Toyman, even though she really believed he was good at heart.
"Then I hope you realize what you're up against." Cresselia said sternly. "You may be a class Three, but we have seven on our side. We grossly outnumber you, Toyman."
"You're right. I am severely outnumbered." Toyman stated, a glint in his eye. "Luckily I foresaw this scenario…" from his cloak, Toyman produced three helmet looking devices.
"…what are those?" Cresselia said suspiciously, inching back a notch.
"First a quick question." said Toyman. "Who do you think are the three strongest of your group?"
"Naturally me!" Malispite said proudly.
"I would be in the top three now that I have learned Swords Dance!" Gallade declared in front of Gardevoir.
"And I am the leader so naturally I would also be high ranked!" Cresselia smiled. Toyman chuckled beneath his mask.
"In that case… the three of you will do!" Without warning he controlled the three helmets and caused them to zoom at Cresselia's, Malispite's, and Gallade's heads. Before the three of them could realize what had happened, the helmets had latched themselves on.
"Brother!" Mercifond cried. They struggled to get off the helmets, but in a split second Toyman used his powers to activate the helmets, and they immediately stopped struggling. A blank look was suddenly in their eyes.
The four that were left without the helmets, Kairi Ruby, Gliscor and Mercifond, stared at their companions not knowing what had happened. Toyman chuckled once again, and announced that the brainwashing was complete, and that Malispite, Cresselia and Gallade were now under his control.
"Mind control technology!" shouted Kairi in fear "Impossible! How?"
"Ah well you see it's quite simple." Toyman chuckled "In their minds, I am showing them back to back episodes of Ouran High School Host Club."
"GASP!"
"Exactly. And because they're brains have been turned into mush…" Toyman prodded Gallade's head to prove his point "They are very susceptible to do whatever I tell them.
For instance… attack your friends!" at this command, the three leapt from Toyman and began to do battle with the other four. Malispite zoomed next to Mercifond, Gallade came from behind Kairi and Ruby, while Cresselia charged at Gliscor.
"So it's just us five versus our strongest members…" Gliscor said quietly. He realized something was a miss and turned around. There was Kairi, Ruby and Mercifond…
'Wait, where's Gardevoir?' thought Gliscor alarmingly. He did not have much time to think after that because just them Toyman gave another command and his three puppets began battle.
MEANWHILE WITH MEWTHREE
She peeked around the corner of the main building.
Was it gone?
Mewthree, for the past five days, had been in constant battle with a bar of soap. No, seriously, a bar of soap. Absolix sure had a twisted sense of humor to have such a dangerous object living in Cascade.
However, Absolix himself as well as the rest of the members did not appear to mind. It had become very clear to Mewthree that she was the weakest member there. She hated this fact, but what she hated more was that the bar of soap did not respect her enough to cease attacking.
"If you manage top defeat it, then you may gain its respect." Absolix had told her. "However until you can do that, it will be annoyed with your presence and will not stop attacking you!"
She really hated that man.
On the other hand, she did not have much of an option. Giovanni would surely punish her for not killing Mewtwo. Most likely, she would wind up either dead or in permanent containment upon failure to return with Mewtwo's head. Most would have loved to believe she was joking, but the truth of the matter was this:
Even though she was 'Mewthree' she was actually the fifth clone of Mewtwo and Absolix. The other four had also failed their orders, and Giovanni had them all destroyed for being so useless.
Mewthree suspected the same fate would await her.
"You aren't Number Five." said a woman in a lab coat. "Not anymore."
"…why?" asked a much younger looking Mewthree.
"You are Mewthree. Remember that alright?" smiled the brown haired woman. After some additional checking, she removed the tubes attached to the young psychic. Without hesitation, the woman hugged her.
"Mewthree, I've seen what Giovanni did to the others…" the woman moaned. "You have to promise me something, okay?"
"O-okay…" Mewthree, still so young, did not realize the weight behind those words.
"You must become free." the woman said softly. "You have to escape that man. Unless you can evade Giovanni, you will never have a life of your own.
Promise me, Mewthree… I don't want to see another child die…"
Mewthree's eyes softened for an instant as she remembered this memory. Angeline Ceras. Her 'mother'. More accurately, the mother of her and her previous four 'siblings'.
The day she left to kill Mewtwo that day at Tajiri High was the last day she saw Rachel. She had never come back to the Team Rocket headquarters, and did not plan to until she had attained her goal of destroying Mewtwo.
'Don't worry. Soon…' Mewthree thought. 'Once I kill Mewtwo… then Giovanni will let me have my freedom.'
She had thought about this before, and it always made perfect sense. That is, until that man appeared during her second assassination attempt.
"I am the perfect mate for you, Mewthree."
"Giovanni has made me so every fiber of my being, sight, sense, smell, etc, are all triggering Mewthree's hormones for the emotion that is love."
"It is illogical to think you can deny these feelings for me, Mewthree."-
Xeno.
Created not only to destroy Absolix, but also to be the perfect mate for her. Unbelievably, it worked. Mewthree still thought of him, even though she didn't want to. She tried to deny her quickening pulse every time her lips pursed his name, but to no avail could she deny that she loved Xeno.
In fact, Mewthree had realized it was partially because of him that she stayed. She realized that another powerful motivation to train under Absolix was to defeat Mewtwo so that Giovanni would let them be together in peace. Though it shocked her to know that she was created to feel such an attraction to Xeno, at some level she simply did not care.
Yet this too led to another disturbing concept… even when she and Xeno would be together, would Giovanni simply use Xeno to manipulate her once more?
She did not know.
"Hiya Mewthree!"
Mewthree swiveled her eyes to see a darkened figure with blue glowing symbols. Cascade was in complete darkness so nothing but the tattoos were visible, yet the design made her know just who it was.
"Hello, Schrocat." sighed Mewthree.
"Are you avoiding the soap too? Boy it sure is tough isn't it? And scary… really scary…" Schrocat went on about random things that Mewthree did not care about. Her thoughts were focused on more urgent matters, such as if Xeno truly loved her, how to defeat Mewtwo, and most importantly, how far away the bar of soap was.
"Hey Mewthree I'll make you a deal!" grinned Schrocat from within the darkness. "If you deliver this book to Absolix, then I'll defeat the soap for you so you can get some sleep!"
Other than the fact that Mewthree was baffled an eight year old could take on that monster and live, Mewthree pursed her lips in serious consideration. After all, she really did not have much sleep. Tempted, she paused as Schrocat handed her the video.
"Why do you not want to do it?" asked the pink psychic, suspicious.
"Because Absolix doesn't like to be woken up!" Schrocat said happily. Mewthree sighed. He would probably berate her for waking him up, but she figured the worst that could happen is she'd get out of Cascade.
Taking the video and sighing once more, she felt the way to the central doorway of Cascade's mansion. After some stumbling around she located it and ran inside. Using her Seer Oversight Mewthree quickly glimpsed the hallways, and chose the straight one. After walking about ten meters she arrived at a door. Absolix's chambers.
Now, Schrocat said Absolix did not like to be woken up, implying that the light type was asleep. This was not the case as Mewthree crept closer to the doorway. She heard a voice, rather, voices inside of Absolix's quarters. Naturally, Mewthree placed her ear to the doorway. There was a faint sound of music.
"Yes! Let loose, it's fun!"
"Shut the hell up Delta! I'm pissed off at ALL of you right now!"
"Ah, what a beautiful song…"
"It makes me sad…"
"It gets ME fired up!"
Mewthree paused. She wondered if she had arrived at the right door. Sighing for the umpteenth time that day, she decided to take a chance and knock.
The music stopped abruptly.
"Absolix, it's me, Mewthree."
There was a pause. Mewthree placed her ear on the door again.
"Oh no, Absolix isn't here! We're all doomed!"
"Shut the hell up! Tell her to back the f*ck off!"
"Um, I-I think one of us should…"
Illegible mumbling.
"Splendid idea! I should do it!"
"No way man! I'm the one who can do it, impersonation is like my think man!"
"I'm scared!"
"I think Beta should do it."
"Wh-what? No! I-I couldn't…"
"Yeah, that's an awesome idea! You're up Beta!"
"I'm… coming in." Mewthree said forcefully. She nervously pushed open the door, not knowing what to expect. When she came into Absolix's room, she saw the man himself, a small candle sat by some books letting her see the entirety of the man.
"Um, h-hello Mewthree!" he gave a nervous smile "You can uh, just put the book down! Um, that's an order!" he said.
Mewthree stared, eyes wide open.
"You aren't Absolix." she stated.
"Wha-What? N-No, I'm Absolix, really!"
"Yeah, and since when have your tattoo's been BLUE?" Mewthree pointed.
Standing before her was a carbon copy of Absolix. However there was a small coloration- instead of Absolix's normally yellow tattoo's and golden colored eyes there were blue symbols with sky blue irises. In addition, his personality did not match Absolix at all.
"I told you this plan wouldn't work!" Mewthree heard a voice cry out, much to her surprise.
"What was that!" Mewthree said alarmingly.
"Uh… the wind?"
Mewthree stared.
"She does not appear to be buying it."
"We're dead…! We are so dead!"
"S-Sorry about this!" Without warning, the fake Absolix rushed to Mewthree, spun her over to the end of the room, grabbed the door and Sealed it. And then he turned the lock over.
"Who are you, what are you doing here?" Mewthree asked, Shadow Balls spawning in her hand. The blue colored Absolix meekly tapped his fingers.
"What do we do with her?" said a voice.
"Kill her. Dead women tell no tales."
"What! A beautiful lady like her? You must be mad!"
"We should-"
"SHE'S FOUND OUT YOU ARCEUSDAMN MORONS!" screamed a very loud voice. "We have to get rid of her by any means necessary! Gamma, you can't tell me she'd be a threat!"
There was a pause in the air, all of the voices stopped talking. Mewthree had had enough by this point- Absolix was genuinely freaking her out right now- or whatever stood in his shoes pretending to be him. The blue colored light type tapped his fingers, and opened his mouth to speak.
"U-Um, I have an idea…?"
"Proceed." said a calm voice.
"Well um…" the blue Absolix looked at Mewthree again, before talking to the air once more. "She-She knows now right? And it's not like we could kill her…"
"Yes we could!"
"If only she hadn't stepped in!"
"Pl-Please hear me out!" the blue Absolix said forcefully. "M-Maybe this is a good thing? I mean, you know… with all of us operating on the inside… maybe we could let her leave with the knowledge of us and she could help us?"
"Righteous idea!" said a voice "But… what would she help us with…?"
"K-Keeping us a secret from the others. And maybe stabilizing Absolix's mood…" blue Absolix stuttered. "I mean, we've all had trouble keeping this all a secret right? I mean… this isn't the first type we've been found out…"
"Ah yes, the incident with the graceful Brillareby…"
"That was entirely your fault and you know it. But Beta has a point. And I suppose if she fails we could get Absolix to mind wipe her…"
Mewthree still had no idea what was happening. Soon she heard the blue Absolix say for them to vote on it. After pausing a few seconds, he turned to her and said "We've voted… and um, it's four to two so you won't be killed… or mind wiped…"
Though Mewthree was thankful she wasn't going to be killed or lose her memory, she had to wonder just what it all meant.
"So um… should we start with the basics?" the man asked.
"Only was is necessary for now. We may not have much time, Absolix could be back at any moment…"
"O-okay!" said the blue Absolix, sucking in air and gathering his confidence. "S-so first of all, as you guessed, I am not Absolix. M-My name is Beta."
"Yo! The name's Theta!" said a voice from nowhere.
"She can't see you, moron! Oh, and I am against this idea completely!"
"Um, don't mind him, he's just…" Beta shook his head, changing the subject. "Listen, I-I know that you have a lot of questions… but Absolix could be back any second now so we don't have time to answer all of them…"
Mewthree stared, in complete confusion. Yet, she saw Beta release the seal and undo the lock. Glancing at her, he said "Don't tell anyone about this… especially Absolix, okay? I promise we'll tell you everything, but when it's safe."
He gestured her to the door. Mewthree stood up and walked to it, pausing as she looked at this blue colored Absolix look-a-like. "Are you… trying to hurt Absolix in any way?"
There was a small invisible chuckle.
"N-No!" Beta said nervously. "We wouldn't dare! We'd be killed and besides he needs us to… we'll explain later, just go!"
And with that, Mewthree was shoved out the door.
MEANWHILE WITH POSTERUS
Posterus: "Hey! My creator won the contest, why aren't I getting any screen time?"
BACK TO DARKRAI
The situation on top of the STAG was tense. Both combatants were ready to use their full might to eliminate the other. Alone, Darkrai had to face the most powerful and dangerous human in the world- Zero, a dark Ranger with tremendous abilities with the Styler. To many Pokemon, this would have been a daunting task. To many others, they would be scared to even think about challenging the legendary dark Ranger.
Not Darkrai.
Zero tensed up, a Styler floating in the near vicinity of his area. "Ready?"
"Bring it on."
Darkrai charged.
"The key to this plan…" Kairi explained as she blocked another attack from Gallade. "...is to capture Zero as quickly as we possibly can."
"Alright, but why?" Gliscor asked, huddling next to his human friend for defense.
"Let me put it this way: Zero is the strongest Ranger in the entire history of the world." Kairi bit her lip. "We need to beat him quickly before he decided to use his full power. I'm confident that Darkrai can hold him until we deal with these three."
"So what happens when he reaches full power?" Mercifond had to question. She performed a quick Mirror Coat which sent Malispite, Cresselia and Gallade backwards.
"Zero is absolutely invincible at full power." Kairi told them the truth. "Currently in my plan there's no way we could fail as long as we reach Zero in time. But if Zero decided to use his full might… we have no chance of winning."
Gliscor and Mercifond stared at Kairi in disbelief. "He can't be that strong…"
"Remember how I said he captured an Aggron in thirty seconds?" Kairi stated, deflecting a Psycho Cut. An image of a man with a purple eye came to her mind. "…that wasn't even half his real power."
Now they were afraid.
"Zero… is really that strong…" Mercifond began to sweat. Kairi nodded her head.
"I've only seen him at full power… once." Kairi said, a memory formed in her head. Ruby nodded silently, she too remembering it.
"Fools!"
A grey haired man stood on a floating device that served to move him. With a flick of his wrist, he commanded his three servants to strike. "I, David Hardner, shall defeat the Ranger Union once and for all!"
The man had three Pokemon, at his disposal, all three had a blank look in their eyes. One was a four legged blue colored steel type, a Metagross. The second was a green and black colored dinosaur with many spikes- Tyranitar. The last was the most fearsome of all. It was a flying black and blue dragon who growled monstrously, giving off a huge amount of EPressure.
"Hydreigon! Use Dragon Pulse!" Hardner commanded. The Hydreigon obeyed. Gathering a ludicrous amount of energy in all three of its mouths, it let loose an impossible huge Dragon Pulse that decimated everything in sight. Buildings were flattened, homes were layed to waste, and in that single attack, nearly all of Veintown was destroyed.
"Retreat!" yelled a man from somewhere.
"No!" shouted Kairi, desperately looking amidst the flames. "I need Ruby! Ruby, where are you!"
Kairi leapt and dodged a Hyper Beam that was fired by the Tyranitar, dodging it only barely. She hid herself behind a house and ran through a crack, shouting for her precious Partner. "Ruby! Ruby! Where are you?"
She heard a soft groan. Kairi's tear strung eyes looked down and saw a familiar Kirlia lying on the floor.
"Ruby!" she cried. Kairi knelt down and grabbed her Partner in her arms. "Don't worry, we'll make it! We'll-"
She never finished the sentence, the house was blown to bits by a Meteor Mash attack. Kairi shielded Ruby with her own body, and luckily not much of the house crash on her. Unfortunately, Kairi was still injured. She looked up to face the man in the sky.
"That was the last structure of Veintown." he grinned. "And look at what we have here… a trapped rat."
Kairi winced in pain as the man laughed.
"You know it's too bad." sighed the man. "If you weren't a Ranger, I wouldn't order my Tyranitar to destroy you."
The Tyranitar loomed over her menacingly. It raised its arm, which became covered in rocks instantly. It was a Stone Edge at point blank range.
"Tyranitar, finish her."
The Tyranitar was blasted away from Kairi, sent stumbling back by a surge of electricity. Kairi looked behind her, and saw Zero, the last man she would have expected.
"Zero…!" she wailed. The blond haired Ranger ran up to her, freeing Kairi from the debris.
"Go." Zero commanded her. "I'll deal with them."
"You can't possibly!" Kairi pleaded.
"Kairi, I'm feeling extremely angry right now…"
That's when she saw the eye.
"I don't want to accidentally hurt you. And at the same time this bastard needs to pay…!"
For the first time in her life, Kairi was horrified.
"GO!" Zero shouted. Without any further hesitation, Kairi ran. David Hardner looked at the lone Ranger with curiosity.
"So, you are angry and expect to defeat me?" questioned the grey haired man. "And how do you suppose you will do that?"
"Like this."
Kairi remembered what happened next. She had looked back only for an instant and saw something incredible. Something that no Ranger had ever done before. However, that was classified information. She could not simply tell her friends how Zero managed to defeat three powerful Pokemon in under a minute.
"So all I can say is… they were all captured." Kairi finished.
"That is… fascinating." Toyman said. He had been listening the entire time. "You know, I underestimated Zero, I thought he was weaker than I. But… to do all of that, perhaps he could match my skill… or possibly be even stronger than me! You must tell me the secret of his strength dear girl."
"No, and I'm going to prevent 'it' from happening at all costs!" Kairi said. She flung her Styler an launched a Poison sting attack at her three opponents. This blinded them, which gave Mercifond room to use her Chosen One Powers to force all of them to sleep.
"Ah yes, the Chosen One." Toyman remembered. "I will have to remember that. By the way, whatever happened to the green haired girl?"
Gliscor looked around nervously, and the rest quickly realized that Gardevoir was not among them.
"You don't know either? Ah well, I still have a job to do…" Toyman then used his powers to summon a pink energy shield and a blue energy sword. "Ready to face me now?"
It was white.
Everything was white.
And there appeared to be no floor.
"Where… where am I?"
The last thing she remembered was Gallade telling her that he was one of their strongest members. Then she was here.
"H-Hello?" Gardevoir said alarmingly. No response. "Where am I… how did I get here…" she wondered. Looking down at the ground, she saw there was no ground. She appeared to be floating in midair, yet under her feet seemed solid enough.
Just as she was about to panic, a soothing voice reached her ears.
"You won't fall, so don't worry about it. This place makes it so that what you recall walking on the ground is reflected in the sky. You will not 'fall' unless you really want to."
She widened her eyes.
From a white and purple portal burst a figure who stood ten meters away from Gardevoir.
"Y-You…!" Gardevoir stepped backwards.
"Sorry I scared you. I accidentally warped you to another location. And since this area has infinite space, it was rather hard to track you."
This couldn't be right. Why would he be here of all people!
"Well Gardevoir, I did say we should have a chat. And here we are."
His golden eyes looked at her observantly, while she looked on in fear at the man who nearly killed her. In a calm voice, Absolix declared
"Let's talk about why you have light powers."