Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, O/Cs are mine, blah blah blah. You know the drill.

Chapter 4: Transform! Kent's First Real Battle

"Transform!" Kent yelled out as he put his knuckles together. He was immediately engulfed in a flash of light as he began the transformation sequence from human to Pokemon.

"What is this? Some kind of trick?!" cried Mars in surprise.

Kent went through the transformation that was painstakingly described in chapter one so if you want to read it again there be my guest. Moving on, Kent finished his transformation and brought his arms over his head and brought them swiftly down is a cross pattern.

Mars was stunned. She had just witnessed a 17 year-old boy become a Pokemon. She backed away some as she stammered, "W-who are you?!"

Kent's voice was somewhat mechanical and cold sounding when he replied. "I'm your worst nightmare." He dashed straight at Mars' Purugly preparing to launch an attack.

"Gnh!" grunted the Galactic Commander as she tried to think of a plan. "Purugly, use Ariel Ace!" she shouted to her Purugly.

"Myaaaa!" cried the Purugly as it leapt into the air spinning and twirling to control itself.

Kent did nothing but watch as the Purugly flew towards him. Seconds before it landed on him he muttered, "Imprison." The Purugly stopped in mid-air and fell to the ground unable to move. He proceeded to mutter other attacks. "Bulk Up" he said as his body mass increased slightly in size and weight. "Calm Mind" closing his eyes as he said and his mind became more focused in thoughts. Finally he muttered, "Swords Dance" and began to pump his arms back and forth to pump himself up. Purugly in the meantime had recovered and was waiting for a command.

"Purugly, use Hypnosis!" The large grey tomcat Pokemon began to stare deeply into Kent's eyes, trying to put him into a trance. Before it could take effect however, Kent brought one arm to eye level and another to his midsection and, holding his arms horizontally, used Safeguard and a small ring of stars started to spin in front of him nullify the attack.

"Tch!" said the Galactic Commander as she bit the ends of her nails. Crap, what am I supposed to do now? she thought to herself. Suddenly Kent brought both his arms down.

"My turn" he said.

While Kent was busy battling the Galactic Commander Mars Ashley, Lillith, Stevenson, and his daughter Sarah were battling the large array of Galactic grunts who had come as backup. Stevenson's Magnezone was fighting a couple of Golbat and didn't notice the Graveler about to hit him from behind.

"Daddy, watch out!" cried Sarah. "Angel, use Steel Wing on that Graveler!"

"To…ge…KISS!" cried Angel as her wings lit up and she rammed the approaching Graveler with them. The Graveler was knocked back several feet where it fainted upon landing.

"Nice job Sarah! You're handling Angel rather well!" said Ashley as she battled a Bidoof with her Combee, Honey. The Bidoof started to dash towards Honey and opened its mouth, an indication of its Hyper Fang attack. "Oh no! Honey, dodge it!" she yelled as the Bidoof leaped into the air where Honey was hovering. The bee Pokemon had just enough time to dodge as the Bidoof bit the air where Honey had been only a second ago.

"Alright Honey, now counter with Bug Bite!" Honey buzzed and dove at the Bidoof biting down as hard as it could. The Bidoof yelped in pain and tried to shake Honey off but to no avail.

"Now hit it with Gust!" Ashley yelled. Honey let go of Bidoof and started to move its wings rapidly creating the ever-classic flying move Gust. The Bidoof was blown away by the fierce wind and was thrust into the trunk of a tree.

"Good job Honey!" said Ashley excitedly. She had never done so well in battle before and it was if some dormant skill had awaked inside her.

Lillith was busy with a Dustox, Mothmin, and Kadabra which had her pinned against the wall of the Windworks. They were slowly approaching her until they were almost close enough to grab her (if they had hands that is). "We got you now pretty" said one of the grunts. Lillith said nothing but instead closed her eyes and clasped her hands together, bringing them up to her chest as if praying.

"What's this? Prayin'll do you no good now! Get her Mothmin!"

"Min!" Mothmin flew straight at Lillith at high speeds preparing to ram into her when she suddenly vanished. The Mothmin stopped short of where she had been and looked around quizzically.

"What the…where'd she go?" asked another of the grunts. Before anything else could be said Lillith reappeared behind them using teleport and then, using double team, she created several copies of herself. They all raised their arms in the grunts' and their Pokemon's direction and started to charge up Shadow Ball attacks.

They only had enough time to mutter, "Aww, cru-" before they were all sent flying from the Shadow Balls' explosion.

"Wow, we're doing pretty good!" said Ashley as she saw more and more of the enemies' Pokemon faint. "I just hope we can keep this up…" her voiced trailed off as a shrill shriek filled the air and two bat-shaped figures dropped out of the sky.

Commander Mars was actually getting worried. This kid was unbelievably strong. He had beaten her Purugly in only minutes and her Bronzor was quick to fall after it. Her Golbat wouldn't be any good here and she quickly realized that the tables had turned. She only had one other Pokemon left and using it would be risking the safety of the Windworks. Like I have any other choice at this point she thought to herself. Kent was slowly walking towards her as she grabbed the Pokeball at her side.

"Go Weavile!" A Pokemon with a black body, dark red feathers adorning its head and tail, and long sharp claws came out the Pokeball and landed between her and Kent. Kent stopped walking towards Mars and looked at the Weavile Mars had brought out. It looked strange to him for some reason, but he couldn't figure out what or why he did. The Weavile suddenly attacked without waiting for its owner's command, lashing out at Kent with long, sharp claws.

W-What the-? thought Kent as he jumped backwards and getting nicked as he did. It attacked before she even told it too.

"Careful kid, that's no ordinary Pokemon there" said Darkrai finally getting a chance to talk in this chapter.

"Does it have something to do with its abnormally violent disposition?" said Kent in an almost sarcastic tone.

"Stay serious and look at it again, carefully this time" he instructed him. Kent did as Darkrai told him and noticed what looked like a dark purple aura emanating from the Weavile.

"What is that? It's not something cheesy like a 'Dark' Pokemon is it?" (That's right, I'm talking to YOU Pokemon Coliseum!)

"No, it's not something that incredibly cheesey and unoriginal but I'll have to explain it to you later. For now just bring it down without killing it."

"Why would I kill it?"

"Guess." But before he could the Weavile leaped right up to Kent's face and tried jabbing its claws into his eyes.

"Grah!" shouted Kent as he knocked the Weavile off. The Weavile landed on its feet and pounced onto his back next. It began raking its claws against Kent's back and he cried out in pain as he felt the razor-sharp tips of the Weavile's claws break the skin on his back. Using the ends of his long elbows Kent was able to knock the Weavile back off, only to have it pounce again. Kent managed to repel the Weavile this time and parried its attacks with his long forearms while dodging the swipes at his feet using Agility. Mars watched and laughed as Kent tried furiously to repel the attacking Weavile.

"I told you you'd regret having come here boy. It's too late to apologize now though. Once my precious little Weavile's done playing with you we'll be capturing you and taking you to be our new research project." She laughed evilly as she finished the last statement.

"If that happens I may just leave you to die boy" said Darkrai blatantly. So much for support thought Kent as he constantly blocked attacks from the Weavile, unable to get in any of his own.

Outside, the situation had taken a turn for the worse. Stevenson's Magnezone had fallen prey to the two new figure's attacks and was lying on the ground unconscious.

"Magnezone no!" cried Stevenson as he ran over to his Magnezone. Two people could be heard laughing as they revealed themselves.

"Too bad, but your Magnezone is down for the count!" said a Galactic Boss as he walked out of the shadows along with another figure.

"That's right!" said the second boss walking out with the other, "He's been 'attracted' to the concept of defeat!" This was followed by complete silence as everyone looked at him strangely.

"As you can see my partner's an idiot, but don't mind him. We're just after that Togekiss so if you don't mind we'll just be taking it now." He shot out a net with a bazooka aimed at Sarah and Angel who were just standing there and watched with enlarged eyes as the net flew towards them.

"Look out!" said Ashley diving into the net's path. Lillith did the same, unable to use her psychic powers in time to stop the net. They were both caught in the net and dragged back where the bosses were standing. As she was being dragged Ashley's pack opened up and the jar of honey she had gotten from Barry fell out and broke (even though it was only about a foot long fall). Ashley screamed as they were dragged along the ground while Lillith was try to use her powers to break the net but failed, seeing as how they were specially made to resist Pokemon attacks.

"Well it's not the Togekiss but I'm sure we can use you two as bait to get your pals to bring Togekiss to us! Lenny, start up the truck!" The second boss (whose name was apparently Lenny) ducked behind some bushes as the revving of an engine could be heard. Then a semi-large pickup truck came out and the first boss (who's name as of now is Axe because I'm sick of writing 'boss' all the time) tossed the two of them into the back and climbed in next to his partner and they sped off. Sarah and her father couldn't do anything but watch as they sped off. In the back off the truck Ashley was starting to cry. She had never been this scared in her life. The only thing she could think of right now was Kent. Hot tears ran down her cheeks as her head was filled with thoughts of Kent and how he would save them. Please Kent, she said inside her head, Save us!

Kent suddenly stiffened up as if he had heard someone call out for him. He suddenly became worried about something and wanted to see if Ashley and the others were safe but he couldn't get away from this Weavile. No, he thought, I can get away. A strange energy began to fill the room as Kent knocked Weavile back as far as he could. It was about to pounce back on him again as it had been doing for the last several minutes when a surge of power suddenly threw it against a wall and started to crush it. Kent was surrounded by a dark aura that caused the lights in the room to dim.

"Whoa, what do you think you're doing kid?! You can't handle this power yet!" shouted Darkrai directly inside of his Kent's head.

"I have no CHOICE!" Kent suddenly shouted out as the rest of his body turned black and glowing red runes began to form on his body. He had started to channel Darkrai's power into his body, making it his own.

"This…this can't be real…" said Mars backing away as much as she could. "I-I must be dreaming, there's no way…" she suddenly decided that the Windworks wasn't worth this much trouble and fled, leaving the Weavile behind. The Weavile itself had finally been released by the immense power that had been crushing it earlier and attempted an attack on Kent despite the surge of power now pouring out of his body. It leaped at him but he disappeared and hit it hard from behind sending it crashing into the ground. The Weavile tried to get up but Kent stood over it with his hand outstretched and sent several blasts of dark energy into it until it fainted. Kent turned and faced to where he thought he had heard the voice and disappeared in a flash.

Axe and Larry were driving the truck away from the Windworks and were approaching the bridge when a black figure covered in glowing red runes appeared on the road in front of them. Before they even had a chance to react Kent had thrust his fist into the front of the car destroying the engine. Then using both hands he ripped the truck in half and caught Ashley and Lillith before they could hit the ground. They were just as surprised as Axe and Larry, who were now sitting both in the two halves of what remained of the truck. After setting the girls down he picked up the halves of the truck and, looking at the two of them, said, "Welcome to hell." He was about to slam the two sections of the truck together when he suddenly started to cough loudly. He dropped the two parts of the truck and collapsed on the ground and started coughing up blood.

"I told you not to do it, kid! What's wrong with you, do you have a death wish or something?!" said Darkrai as Kent continued to cough up blood.

Meanwhile Axe and Larry crawled out from the remains of the truck and started running back to the Windworks when their Pokemon, a Crobat and Gliscor, flew up to them and waited for an order. Suddenly feeling more confident now that they had their Pokemon again Axe and Larry turned to face Kent, who was now vomiting as well as coughing up blood. He looked weakly over at them and could only mutter a curse before falling unconscious, returning to human form as he did so. Ashley and Lillith watched on in horror as the two approached Kent with their Pokemon while they were unable to do anything. Ashley couldn't bear to watch and turned the way when she spotted something coming up the path. Then she noticed the sound of what reminded her of bees buzzing. The figure on the path came up fast and Ashley recognized it almost immediately. "Is that…Honey?!" Honey, who had evolved into a Vespiqueen, went up beside Ashley as several small bees gnawed open the net that was holding them.

"Honey, you…evolved?" asked Ashley as she looked up at the queen bee Pokemon, who nodded slightly to indicate that she was indeed Honey. They turned and faced Axe and Larry who were about to attack the unconscious Kent. Ashley knew that it was up to her and Lillith to save their friend and companion.

"Honey, use Power Gem!" Ashley cried out pointing to the two galactic bosses. Several small rocks on the ground began to glow and rise into the air surrounding Honey before they were launched at the Crobat and Gliscor knocking them back several feet to the ground. Surprised at the sudden attack Axe and Larry turned to see who it was attacking only to be lifted up in the air by Lillith's Psychic attack. She slammed them into each other knocking them out. She let them fall to ground as she ran over to Kent's side followed by Ashley and Honey.

[Kent! Oh Kent, please be ok!] she cried out in distress.

"Kent…" said Ashley.

"Don't worry you two, he'll be fine after he gets some rest" said Darkrai reassuring them.

"Are you sure?" asked Ashley nervously.

"Of course I'm sure; I'm the one who gave him the powers in the first place so I know how it affects his body."

[You idiot…] said Lillith with tears starting to well up in her eyes, [Don't make me worry so much…] She hugged him gently and stayed like that until she realized that Ashley was starring at her. She broke the hug, nearly dropping Kent onto the ground in the process. They were both blushing and Ashley was trying to hide her face behind her hands.

"Can we move on now?" asked Darkrai with a sigh. These girls and their emotions, he just couldn't understand them.

[O-Of course. I'll teleport us now.] She waited for Ashley to return Honey to her Pokeball and then placed her hand on Ashley's shoulder. She used teleport and disappeared from the path leaving the Axe, Larry, and their Pokemon behind for the Police to find.

Ok, this is where this chapter ends. This chapter was mainly to finish up what happened last time so it wasn't supposed to be very long. On another note I'm still looking for O/Cs and, if anyone's willing to, an editor to preview my work before submitting it. I'm also thinking about starting other fanfics, because I'm making too much progress on this one, and I already have an idea for a one-shot Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, two Love Hina fanfics, and I'm thinking about a Bioshock one as well, so if you're interested be on the lookout for those as well. As always, please review!