-Part Five: The Void-

He sat in his throne, staring into the west. Atop of the tallest tower in the world, he scanned the horizon, turned black from the setting sun. His face was in a constant frown. Even though he could not see what he wanted to see, he knew for certain it was west of him.

He hated it.

"General White, sir."

With a pause, he turned around and saw one of his agents. A black clad man, he had his arms crossed behind him. Sunglasses hid his eyes, and there was an ear bud in one ear. The man, White, turned back to the east, but inquired of his intrusion.

"What news do you bring me?" asked the old man.

"I have come to tell you of the status of the Duality Orb." the man said in a low voice. General White nodded.

"And?"

"We are precisely on schedule sir. The orb is halfway decoded. One it is completely decoded, we will move to phase three. Phase three of course, should take almost no time at all to complete."

"Then after that…" General White clenched his fist.

"…The final stage sir. Stage four: Operation Titan."

General White almost felt his heart leap with excitement. Almost. He was still far too bitter to be happy, but this was enough for now. "Excellent. Tell all the scientists working in the building… that I give them my thanks."

"They all work for the same goal as you sir." The agent slid his glasses. "The same goal as everyone within Central Sapien City.

The eradication of the Legendary Council."

"Two Stylers…!"

"That's right Darkrai, two Stylers." grinned Zero. The two saucer shaped devices playfully orbited around zero as if he was some sort of planet. One of them was a shiny grey colored one, and the second was yellow colored. Sparks appeared to jump from the second one.

"Do you know how Stylers work now Darkrai?" Zero asked, still staring straight at him. Darkrai knew that he was headed for a long winded speech, but he decided to do nothing since he was tired from the earlier battle.

"In the beginning, we Rangers could only loop around our targets in order to capture Pokemon. But now… Stylers have become so advanced that we can actually duplicate Pokemon Moves."

Darkrai widened his eyes. This was news to him, although it did explain why Kairi's was able to use Poison Sting…

"Every Styler is now associated with one element, with the typical strength and weaknesses that element." continued the blonde Ranger. "And that elemental Styler is able to use one attack that corresponds with that attribute.

In short, you can consider me a Pokemon that uses two Moves. The first one I have is a Steel Styler…"

Darkrai surprisingly leapt towards Zero, a Shadow Punch readied in his right hand prepared to strike. Just as he was about to knock Zero back, a steel wall came in between him and his target. Darkrai punched the steel wall, but could not break it. He leapt back cautiously.

"Its attack is Iron Defense." Zero explained, the steel wall disappearing into the line from the shiny grey Styler. "With it, I can make steel walls from any point my Styler's line reaches."

Darkrai tried to attack again. This time, he predicted when Zero summoned the steel wall and swerved around it with blazing speed. Zero's Styler was faster still, and he created four more walls from his Styler that surrounded him from all sides. Having no other option, Darkrai quickly bounced off the ground and leapt over the walls to pounce on Zero.

"My second is an Electric Styler."

Before Darkrai could react, Zero fired off an enormous amount of electricity from his Styler. It hit Darkrai hard, and pushed him away from the wall. Darkrai slid on the ground, but stopped himself with some force.

"It's attack is Thunderbolt." grinned Zero. The steel walls vanished into his Styler, and the two began to hover around him as before. "I am unlike anything you have faced before Darkrai. In fact, this is only half my power."

Darkrai narrowed his eyes at this.

"I want you to beat me in this form Darkrai. I want to finally face a Pokemon at full strength and have a challenging match." Zero continued "This is the sole reason I brought you here."

"Idiot…" Darkrai said. "If you wanted to just fight me you could have called me out at any time."

Darkrai knew Zero couldn't understand him, so he did not bother with too many words. "I know you can't understand this, but I don't care how powerful you say you are! You're going down, and that's that!"

Darkrai charged up darkness energy in his hands and fired off a Dark Void at the blonde haired Ranger. Zero quickly responded by putting a steel wall between himself and the spheres, which uselessly collided into it. Darkrai zoomed around the wall and Zero shot him with a Thunderbolt attack. Darkrai narrowly dodge and launched a Shadow Ball, to which Zero flew up into the air again.

"Take this! Two Stylers at once- can you handle it?"

The walls vanished and both Stylers zoomed to Darkrai. One loop occurred before Darkrai got away safely. Hoping to disable the Styles, he launched a Dark Pulse in all directions. Unfortunately, Zero maneuvered his devices to avoid it while nailing in another two loops around the prince of darkness.

Darkrai knew that he would be captured in ten loops, which meant seven left to go. As such, he felt slightly woozy, but nothing to impede him much.

However, Darkrai needed a plan. Something that could be used to take out Zero directly. With a grin, he thought of one.

"Double Team!" dozens of Darkrai copies swarmed the area, surprising Zero. He recalled his Stylers as all of them began charging a Shadow Ball attack. With a cry, dozens of Shadow balls were fired from each of the Darkrai's. Zero used his air shoes to dodge them, but soon he had to resort to using his steel walls as well.

"Shoot! Where's the real one?" questioned Zero aloud. So far, all of the Shadow Balls that had hit his walls had been illusions, but he could jot take any chances and be hit by even one of them.

"Alright, Here we go!" Zero then did something that none of the Darkrai's expected- Zero performed a Unison Capture.

A Unison Capture was a type of capture used by two Rangers. It involved combining Styler lines together in order to make a loop that was impossibly wide and with much greater potency. Zero however, could do this by himself due to having controlled two Stylers at once. Unbelievably, he created a giant loop with his two Styler and simultaneously got all of the Darkrais at once.

The clones disappeared immediately, leaving nothing but a blank area.

"You're wide open!"

Although Zero could not understand the words, he already knew he was in trouble. Right behind him was a Darkrai with a Shadow Punch aimed for his body. Having no other option, Zero shielded himself with a bare Styler. Darkrai hit it, and it protected Zero but the impact still sent him crashing top the ground. The blonde Ranger checked the status of his electric Styler- it read 35/60 points of energy. An impressive attack.

"That almost did half damage to my electric Styler…" mused Zero. He looked at his steel one- it was at full health, 45/45 points. "Nice moves Darkrai! Now let me show you some of mine!"

Zero sprang up and launched both his Stylers at Darkrai. The prince leapt back while firing Shadow Balls trying to hit the Stylers. Zero dodged all but one, which the steel Styler intercepted and took ten points of damage. However, the steel Styler then looped around Darkrai once and proceeded to surround Darkrai with its steel walls.

Darkrai tried to fly up to escape, but another wall was formed and Darkrai was boxed in.

"Did you know that metal is a good conductor of electricity?" Zero taunted. "Take this! Iron-Thunder!"

Zero's electric Styler zapped the makeshift cage, shocking Darkrai on the inside. He yelled out in pain as the cruel electricity surged through his body. After a couple seconds, Zero stopped to let his Styler recharge. By this point, Darkrai was breathing heavily, bruised an battered all over his body. Darkrai was on his knees from the pain, gasping in fear.

"Not bad, right?" Zero said. "But it isn't over yet! My Styler has recharged!"

Darkrai widened his eyes- there was no way he could survive another shock like that. Desperate, he pounded against the walls with a Dark Pulse Punch, but could not break free of his prison. Seeing this, Zero laughed.

"There is no escape! Prepare for round two!"

Darkrai began to sweat, he pounded harder against the steel walls and still could not break himself out.

"There's no way out of here!" Darkrai panicked. He was boxed in, and Zero was going to torture him like this until he gave up. "Come on! Think! There must be a way!"

"Here we go…!" Zero said, his Styler sharged up again. "One more- Iron-Thunder!"

The electric Styler zapped the cage, the steel transferring every iota of electrical energy into itself. Zero knew that he had it won.

Until, that is, he saw a black hole emerge to the side of him.

"What?"

Zero recalled his Styler just in time before Darkrai jumped through the hole and used a Dark Pulse Punch on Zero's steel Styler. The impact sent Zero flying, to which he used as an opportunity to escape once more into the sky.

"A black hole… for short range teleporting?" Zero realized. He had no idea Darkrai could summon something like a black hole. Darkrai, though injured greatly, remained firmly standing.

"I won't give up." stated Darkrai plainly. "I gave up once before, and I nearly lost everything important to me…" he reminisced about the time he had almost activated a city wide Cataclysm.

"That will never happen again!" yelled Darkrai, summoning two Shadow Balls in his hands. "I will make protect my friends! You will lose!"

Darkrai fired the Shadow Balls at the surprised Zero.

In the dimension of absolute nothingness, there lay two beings. One was a white being with yellow symbols all over his body. The second was another white being, but with green hair and much more feminine looking.

"It's already been thirty minutes…" Absolix said to himself, lifting one eye to look at Gardevoir, who was in deep though. Since that time limit he set for her, Absolix had been in a meditative pose to calm himself.

"I wonder which one she will choose? It would be a pity if I had to kill her… but then again, living for the sole purpose of murdering your friends must be an equally hellish fate."

Gardevoir simply sat on an invisible object, hands between her head, tears in her eyes.

"I almost feel sorry for making her do this." Absolix closed his eye. "But then again… she is the only being on Earth who can destroy me. I can't really turn a blind eye to that, can I? No, she must choose."

Gardevoir was wrought with conflicting emotions. She felt her head was going to be ripped apart at this decision she had to make. Should she live on and have Absolix force her to murder her friends in cold blood? Or should she die in order to make sure that wouldn't happen.

If she died, she would be paring her friends from an awful fate. But who would take care of her sisters? They needed her, and they would be devastated if she were gone. Her friends would also be horrified to learn that she had died.

But if she lived, she would exist only to be Absolix's tool. Gardevoir felt a primal urge within her when Absolix performed his trick. She knew that Absolix was telling the truth when he said he had absolute control over her life.

What was she to do? Both options seemed equally horrible in comparison, and no matter what she did she and her friends would suffer great consequences.

Wearily, she looked at the clock.

Twenty eight minutes left.

"Wow, look at Posterus go!"

"But it looks like that other guy is just overwhelming him!"

Deoxys heard these phrases as she strode past the Legendaries on the first floor. Apparently they were being attacked or something, but it did not sound like a big deal…

The red and blue alien psychically levitated herself a couple floors upward. She stopped at floor five- the current location of Mewtwo's lab. He was still grounded from before, so he transported some of his supplies to a room on the fifth floor.

She knocked twice on the door. Deoxys knew what she had to do- it was now or never. She was going to confess to Mewtwo. No matter what happened afterwards, she would leave no regrets.

"Who is it?" a voice on the other side asked.

"It's… me." Deoxys stated, the blue part of her face suddenly red.

"Ah, Deoxys?" questioned the voice. "Come on in."

Deoxys obeyed and opened the door. She found all of Mewtwo's lab equipment off, with the purple psycat himself laying on a bed, eyes staring at the ceiling.

"Are you okay, Mewtwo?" Deoxys asked, gently closing the door. Earlier today he said that he wanted to be alone.

"I'm fine." Mewtwo replied without expression. "I just… needed to think."

Deoxys stared at him. She knew all bout his insanity- how Absolix had messed him up at birth, and how at times he could barely control himself. Deoxys flashed back to the time when Absolix had appeared at Tajiri High for the second time- Mewtwo had almost hurt everyone with a massive Psyburn attack simply to strike down Absolix. Deoxys' wounds had regenerated since them, but she could still imagine the blows she took clearly.

"What are you thinking about?" she asked.

"…nothing." Mewtwo replied. Deoxys was about to interject, but Mewtwo spoke up for her. "So what brings you here?"

Deoxys blushed again, remembering her missions to confess her feelings to the purple psychic. She raised her hand to her head, stuttering. "W-Well um…"

"Something the matter?" asked Mewtwo, an eyebrow raised.

"Y-yes, well… There's… There's something I need to tell you."

Mewtwo raised an eyebrow and sat up. Deoxys knew that this was it. The moment of truth- a moment that could possibly change her life forever for the better. Even with this in mind, the words did not escape her mouth any easier.

"P-Please don't hate me for saying this… but the truth is…" Deoxys looked down. "The truth is… I really…"

"Ah wait, I know what you mean to say." Mewtwo guessed. Deoxys widened her eyes. "You mean to tell me that you really don't understand why Humans wear clothing."

Deoxys blinked.

"It is an acceptable question, being an alien and all." Mewtwo rubbed his chin. "Unfortunately, us earthlings have no idea why either. Humans are just strange like that."

Deoxys paused. She looked down, the moment ruined and all confidence lost. "Yeah… well… thank you for trying to answer at least."

Mewtwo stared at this new development. Deoxys had suddenly become sad. She stood back up from her position and excused herself from his room.

As she closed the door, Mewtwo reflected upon what had just happened. Most would assume he's be confused that Deoxys had mysteriously become depressed. Most would assume that Mewtwo was oblivious to Deoxys' feelings for him.

The cold hard truth was that this was nothing but a façade. Mewtwo had known all along- ever since the beginning. He knew Deoxys had a crush on him. He even knew she was about to confess to him tonight.

And this is precisely the reason why he did what he did.

Mewtwo knew that Deoxys would never be happy with him. After all, he was not a real being. If Deoxys had been allowed to confess, Mewtwo would have simply rejected her for her own sake. Mewtwo cared for Deoxys, possibly even more than he cared for his friends. This was why he had to let her go.

For her own sake, Deoxys could not be allowed to love him. Doing so would only lead to her own unhappiness.

Mewtwo paused from his thinking as Deoxys opened the door again, poking her head inside his room.

"Yes?"

"By the way…" she looked downward. "Have you seen Cresselia and Mercifond anywhere?"

Mewtwo blinked.

He had not.

Darkrai dodged another Thunderbolt attack from Zero Styler, then did a back flip to avoid being looped by his steel one. Darkrai fired off a Shadow Ball, to which Zero used his air shoes to dodge.

"I have to do something about those air shoes of his…" Darkrai said to himself, firing off an Ice Beam at the Stylers to get them to go away. Darkrai looked over and saw a shadow. Taking the opportunity, he jumped in it and turned himself into a shadow to think.

FLASHBACK

"Hey Darkrai, you wanna see something cool?" A blonde haired boy asked. "Check this out!"

Effortlessly, the boy levitated into the air. Needless to say, Darkrai was impressed, gaping at such a feat. "Wow! I had no idea humans could learn Fly!"

"Nah, that isn't it." the boy laughed. "These are air shoes!"

"Air shoes?" the young Darkrai narrowed his eyes. "What are those, Zero?"

"Air shoes expel air from their soles in order to make people fly." Zero explained. "But, they need a lot of power to do it, so they have a cool looking battery installed into them that has a lot of electricity in it.

It needs charging every once in a while, but other than that these are awesome!"

END FLASHBACK

The flashback gave Darkrai an idea of how to get rid of Zero's air shoes. Since Fly was a flying type Move, then that means that the air shoes are obviously flying types. And, if Darkrai remembered correctly, flying types were weak against ice type Moves.

"It's the perfect plan! What do you think narrator?"

GO FOR IT.

Darkrai leapt out of the shadows with a roar, where Zero was waiting for him. Immediately the blonde haired Ranger launched his two Stylers at Darkrai, trying to loop around him. The two Stylers swerved and flew at Darkrai, but he was faster still than both of them. In the moment of truth, Darkrai went straight up to Zero and raised his hand for a Shadow Punch.

Zero anticipated this and recalled his Steel Styler, forming a barrier between his face and Darkrai's fists. But this was just a fake- Darkrai's other hand had charged up an Ice Beam, where it was launched at Zero's feet with the utmost amount of cold energy. This froze his shoes.

"Ack! Cold feet!" Zero quickly took off his shoes, for his feet were freezing. Upon removal, Zero realized Darkrai's plan. "Getting rid of my air shoes… smart."

Darkrai grinned. He was right! Flying was weak against ice!

"Unfortunately I'm better than that."

Darkrai found himself surrounded by Zero's Stylers, who tried to loop him again. Darkrai moved out of the way, but still managed to get looped three times by Zero. He felt his head get fuzzy again, and messed up on the landing, crashing to the ground.

"Nightmare!" without hesitation Darkrai wrapped himself into a nightmare in order to relieve the effects of the mind control. Zero decided to attack Darkrai while he was frozen, sending a Thunderbolt at Darkrai with his electric Styler. Darkrai roared from the pain, but snapped himself out of the nightmare and the Thunderbolt by leaping backwards.

Darkrai breathed heavily. His endurance was running out quickly- he would have to finish this soon. He thought about using Quasar Expulsion, but he realized it would be futile because Zero mostly attacked him with his Stylers and not Moves.

"Double Team!" thousands of Darkrai copies appeared in the arena. Zero surrounded himself in steel and began firing off Thunderbolts at the Darkrai's. several of them surrounded Zero at once, and he quickly looped them and found them to be just illusions. One of them tried to use a Shadow Punch, and Zero raised all his walls to that one. It hit, which meant it was the real Darkrai.

"Take this!" the steel Styler surrounded Darkrai and the electric one fired electricity. "Iron-Thunder!"

Darkrai was electrocuted immensely for a brief second before using Dark Void to escape. He came from behind Zero and landed a large blow on him with Dark Pulse. Zero was knocked back and used his Stylers to zoom at Darkrai, looping him once before he escaped.

Darkrai marveled at how tough Zero was. He compared him to General Guanine- Darkrai just barely beat him, and it looked like he might not be able to beat Zero.

"No." Darkrai said to himself, wiping some grime off his face. "I will win. I will learn the truth!"

It had been fifty five minutes into her hour when Gardevoir approached Absolix. The Fallen Angel opened one eye, looking at her kindly.

"You still have five minutes." Absolix stated. "Have you made your decision?"

Gardevoir smiled. She nodded her head up and down, signaling a yes. Absolix smiled in return and brought himself out of his meditative position. "Well then, let's hear it."

"I thought about it for a long time." Gardevoir began. "The longer I thought about it, the harder it became to make a decision. It seemed like… no matter what I did, the Pokemon around me would suffer."

Absolix swished his tail.

"No matter what, I didn't want any of my friends to get hurt… but either option seemed to do just that. Either choice would harm my precious friends.

However, I know now what I must do." Gardevoir smiled. "Absolix… I want to live."

"Is that your choice? Are you sure?" Absolix wondered, seeing if Gardevoir had any doubts.

"Yes. I now know that that is the best option. After thinking it over, I realize that it doesn't matter that you will have control over me."

"Oh?"

"Yes." Gardevoir smiled, looking at Absolix unafraid of him. "It doesn't matter that you will mind control me because…

I believe that Darkrai will save me from you. This is the answer I've reached."

"Are you certain? My Neo-Genesis is quite strong. We could actually take the current Legendary Council and win. And yet you place your faith on a Pokemon that can't even be classified as class Three?" asked Absolix suspiciously.

"Yes." Gardevoir said simply. "I wholeheartedly believe in Darkrai. I know that he'll save me from you. I'm confident that one day he will be able to match your power. And even if he doesn't, he'll find a away to break me free from you- permanently." Gardevoir smiled.

Absolix narrowed his eyes, but his grin never ceased. She placed her faith on Darkrai, believing that he would be able to save her once Absolix had 'recruited her' into Neo-Genesis. How… interesting.

But Absolix could see that Gardevoir's heart never wavered. Even in her mind, which Absolix could accurately read, she would be saved for certain even if he had complete power over Gardevoir.

"Interesting." Absolix's tail swished. "Very well then. I will not kill you, and let you be on your way. I will control you when I have need of your abilities."

"I'm not afraid." Gardevoir stated, eyes locked into Absolix.

"By the way…" said the white being. "I noticed how you said 'Darkrai' will save you instead of 'my friends'…"

Gardevoir instantly turned red, stuttering in her speech. "W-Well I-I meant my friends too! N-Not just Darkrai…!"

"Ah well, it doesn't matter to me." chuckled Absolix, turning away from her. "One last thing, if you dare tell anyone about this meeting I will take control over you then and there. If you don't want to lose your freedom… then keep quiet.

Oh by the way, I seem to have left my mark upon you." Absolix snapped his fingers, materializing a reflective wall in front of Gardevoir. Confused, Gardevoir looked at her own reflection and found nothing wrong with it.

Just then, she saw it. It was small, barely noticeably in fact. Yet it was right there.

A part of her hair was colored yellow.

"Well then, let that serve you as a reminder of our deal."

Absolix snapped his fingers, and the white reality broke.

Gardevoir found herself back on the Stag Beetle. She blinked once, making sure she was back in the normal world.

"GARDEVOIR!" Gallade cried, leaping up and hugging her. "Where have you been! I was worried sick!"

"We have the bruises to prove it." stated everyone else in an annoyed fashion.

Gardevoir hugged Gallade back, and remembered the promise she had made with Absolix. "Well, I was… I had to got to the bathroom."

"What?" Cresselia yelled. "Gardevoir! Why pick such an inappropriate time?"

"S-Sorry!" Gardevoir said nervously, hoping that no one would recall Pokemon did not excrete waste…

"Well listen up." Cresselia said, deciding to bring Gardevoir up to speed. "Basically, Three of us got mind controlled because of Haruhi Suzumiya but when beat up ourselves and then trashed the Toyman while doing so, but then he became a sore loser so now we have to figure out what 2+2 equals."

Gardevoir paused.

"Can you explain that in a way so that it makes more sense?"

"No time! Darkrai is depending on us to solve this math problem!"

"It's really hard." Gliscor added. "So far we figured out that 2+2 is equivalent to 3+1, but we have nothing beyond that!"

"Oh for the love of crap…" Kairi face palmed herself. "Just count your fingers!"

Gliscor held up his claws.

Cresselia held up her hand stubs.

Gallade, Gardevoir and Ruby held up their hand stubs.

"…" Kairi said. "IT'S FOUR! TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS FOUR!"

"Two plus two…!" Cresselia gasped.

"Equals four?" Gliscor added. Just to be sure, Mercifond drew up a four on the opposite end of the equation. All of them checked the math, and were shocked to find out Kairi was right.

"Did you do all of that in yor head?" Gliscor gasped, impressed.

Kairi face palmed herself once again.

"Now that we know that two plus two equals four, we can get the door open!" Cresselia announced. "Malispite, go!"

"Alright, finally some action…!" the brown bat snickered. "Demon's Offence!"

Angry red symbols instantly covered Malispite's body. All seven feet of him became cloaked in a vicious yet powerful aura. The newly empowered Malispite stared at the door, cracking his knuckles.

"Mega… PUNCH!"

Malispite zoomed in on the steel door and punched it with all the force he could muster. Shockwaves came from the impact, which nearly sent Cresselia's group flying backwards. There was a creaking from the impact, and without warning the door burst open, leaving a large enough hole for everyone to get through.

Toyman stared at this feat, genuinely impressed. Moist of the others were impressed as well that Malispite could punch through solid steel.

"Hey wait a minute!" Kairi yelled. "Why didn't we just do that before?"

"Weren't you paying attention?" Ruby asked innocently. "We had no idea what two plus two equaled until now!"

Kairi stared at this idiocy.

"Whatever! Let's go up to Zero and finish him off once and for all!"

"I'm going to finish you off once and for all!" Darkrai yelled, even though Zero still couldn't understand him. The twin Stylers prepared themselves in a defensive position around Zero as Darkrai began to gather up an enormous amount of energy.

"Hm… And just what are you planning to do?" Zero wondered.

"This ends… now!" Darkrai clasped his palms together, forming a dense sphere of dark energy. "Dark Void!"

The pitch black Pokemon fired the Dark Void and from it launched not thousands, but millions of spheres from itself that spread to every corner of the stadium. Zero panicked upon seeing the ocean of dark matter upon him, and quickly used his steel Styler to surround himself in a box of iron, along with his electric Styler.

The millions of spheres hit the cube with force, but not enough to break or even damage it. Zero grinned to himself, seeing as how he was perfectly safe. After all that buildup, this was the best he could come up with?

Zero barely had time to register his own shadow rising up and gaining solidity. He had just turned around when Darkrai built up a fair amount of dark energy into his fists.

"I've got you now! Dark Pulse!"

Zero tried hard to dodge a massive Dark Pulse at point blank range. He succeeded in only disabling his wall and putting his two Stylers up in front of him for protection. The Dark Pulse crashed into the Styler with violent force, knocking Zero clear back into the stadium grounds. Zero cringed at being hit so hard, and gapes when he realized both his Stylers had lost all of their energy defending him from Darkrai's last attack.

"It was all a diversion…" smiled Zero. "Just to corner me in my own move and get in by turning yourself into a shadow.

Dafrkrai… you are truly worthy." Zero mused. At this moment, he heard a noise from below. Both he and Darkrai turned to see Kairi, Cresselia, and the rest of the gang running up to the field.

"Darkrai!" Cresselia cried as soon as she reached the top. "What happened?"

"I beat Zero. Duh." Darkrai smirked, pointing to the weakened human. "Even with two Stylers he was no match for me! He's all your Kairi!"

Kairi smiled at Darkrai, relieved and happy. He really managed to defeat Zero where all else had failed. "Thank you, Darkrai." she thanked with a smile.

"Ah yes…" the voice came from Zero. "When was the last time I was helpless like this?" he mused out loud.

"Z-Zero!" Kairi yelled up, the others watching with interest. "By order of the Ranger Union, for your crimes against both humans and Pokemon worldwide, I arrest you for your violation!" she said in an authoritative voice.

"Hm. Was it that time, with Hardner?" asked Zero rhetorically. "But no, I was mad. Now… I'm just happy."

"Happy?" Mercifond blared. "You've been utterly defeated and Kairi's going to arrest you!"

"Ah, what a wonderful feeling. The feeling of being beaten." Zero was now grinning. With some effort, the blonde haired Ranger stood up. "Darkrai, you really are the opponent I've dreamed of."

He turned to face them fully. His right side had been previously hidden before, but now it was exposed. And once it was, there were audible gasp among the entire group, with a look of sheer horror of Kairi's face.

Zero's eyes was purple colored. And glowing. To the Pokemon, it meant that Zero wasn't down just yet. For Kairi, it meant that they no longer had a prayer of winning.

"Here I come, Darkrai." smiled Zero. From the inside of his pocket, he pulled out a small half sphere with a button. Zero then pressed the button, and the sphere emitted a glow of white light.

"Kairi… Kairi, what's happening?" Cresselia demanded, worried.

"Most Rangers… can only wield one Styler." Kairi said in a dazed manner. "Very few can wield two at once…"

Zero began laughing as the white light shot eight objects out of it, and they began to orbit around Zero in a planetary fashion.

"But Zero… Zero's affinity with a Styler is somehow so great…!"

The Pokemon widened their eyes as they realized what the objects were. Zero chuckled at their horror, and his purple eye flashed.

"That, for some reason, he is the only human in the entire history of the world…

…to use eight Stylers at once."