Parallel Hearts Chapter 13
There was a long, silent moment at the very lake that everyone knows and loves to be at, the three pokemon standing in front of the power-obsessed buizel.
"Who are you?" Fast Star asks in shock, but then realized what happened between them as he looks at the pikachu in the treecko's arm. This makes him mad at the sudden interruption between him and Mega, "who the hell are you?" He asks in a much more serious manner.
It doesn't seems that the mysterious treecko has any interests of the power-hungry, psycho buizel as he places Mega back down to his feet. Mega was barely conscious at this point, but he manages to see who the pokemon right in front of him is.
"Bro..." was all the treecko say with a smirk, "YOU'VE BEEN LACKING ON YOUR TRAINING!" The treecko then suddenly shouts as he raises his right fist to punch his dearest brother.
"AND YOU'RE LATE AS USUAL!" Mega shouts back and does the same thing despite the injuries he has.
The two punched each other in the face in a collision, "but it's good to see you again... Zero," Mega says with tears in his eyes.
"It's good to see you again too... brother," the now-named Zero replies, copying Mega's tears.
Everyone was crying to see such a reunion between brothers, all but a certain group, "so this Mega's other brother, huh?" Rose says to herself with tears in her eyes, causing the others to look at her in confusion, "that's him after all... my long-lost childhood friend."
Everyone, except Breaker, was shocked to hear her say this. "You mean he's that wimpy little pichu from back in the mountain village!?" Knolla asks Rose, who simply nods, "I can't believe it... he actually manages to get stronger like he always said he would."
Then another statement came into her mind... causing everything to break around her, "and I developed a crush on him..." she says in a depressing, gloomy mood.
Rose ignores her friend's statement and watches the beaten-up pikachu having a chat with his old friend, "I wonder how he would reacts when I tell him I'm THAT buneary."
"Did you bring the medicine you promised?" Mega asks in concern that his brother might have forgotten.
"Yup, I always keep my promises," Zero says as he digs through his pocket inside his jacket, it's black with verious green patterns that match his skin, making Mega wonder where he got that from.
"There it is... a Full Restore," he pulls out a object that Mega couldn't recognize, it was a white box of some kind with a green plastic container, there seems to be liquid inside it.
"And it'll get rid of the scar?"
"Yup, just like I promised," Zero aims it at Mega's chest, "all we have to do is spray it right here and you'll be able to have access to your full power again."
However, Fast Star overhears all he needs to know and attempts to stop him from using this 'Full Restore' stuff on Mega, "there's no way am I letting you use that to the pokemon I'm about to kill." He was stopped mid-way as the two other pokemon got in his way, a swinub and a snivy, "you don't scare me." He charges at them with tremendous speed.
"Vine Whip," two vines starts to grow out of her neck from both sides to wrap themselves around the buizel's arms and legs, "it's rude to interrupt a bonding moment." She says with her arms crossed and a glare that sends shivers down his spine.
When the liquid comes in contact with him, he feels nothing at first, but then pain starts coming from his chest where his scar is. It feels like his skin is pulling over the scar, trying to tie up to fix itself. It wasn't screaming pain, but it does feel painful in its own way. When all of it was over he feels refreshed and all the pain in his body was gone, he feels free at last... the biggest burden of his entire life is finally gone. He couldn't help but smile at the freedom he has now... he can finally use his fullest extent of his powers as much as he wants to.
"Thanks, bro," he says to the treecko, "I want to go back to that fight." Zero just smiles at him, then pats his head as a sign of respecting his youngest brother's wishes.
The pikachu looks back at the vine-trapped buizel in front of him, "let him go," he orders the snivy.
She looks at him, confused and afraid, "what, why?" She asks him.
I haven't finished my fight with him," he explains to her.
She can tell he's honorable (not to mention crazy as well) when it comes to fighting and puts the buizel back down.
Mega just looks at him with a serious expression on his face and goes back to his fighting stance, "let's continue where we left off."
Fast Star was stunned at the statement Mega just said, but goes back to his fighting stance with a sinister smile, "I'm gonna enjoy beating up a rat like you again."
He can see the anger in the electric mouse's eyes, "you'll regret saying that, Thunder Punch," charging at Fast Star with his right electric charged fist.
All the buizel does is simply move his head to the right with confidence to avoid the attack, the mouse pokemon misses of course, but there was something different about the punch this time. It suddenly burst with more electricity causing him to wince from the little shock it gives off.
With the opportunity at hand, he uses his left hand and punches him in the chin. With Fast Star being pushed back in mid-air, Mega takes this opportunity by using his right fist, still having the attack going, and punch his gut down to the ground with great force. Mega then charges electricity into his left fist and slams it against the water weasel at the same spot with the same amount of raw power.
It was the water weasel's turn to scream in pain, but he couldn't because the wind was knocked right out of his lungs. How can Mega get so strong all of a sudden? All he did was get rid of a little scar! Fast Star can't admit defeat to the same pokemon... especially to this particular pikachu.
"Aqua Jet," he surrounds himself with water and rushes out of range from Mega to regain some composure from the surprising attacks he just took. He stops at a fair distance, still feeling the pain from his gut, "so you wounded me... just bear in mind that sneak attacks only work once."
Mega goes back to his fighting stance, "Aqua Jet!" He launches himself surrounded by water at the pikachu with incredible speed and power.
Mega could see the power behind the aquatic attack as it tears through the ground below him. Everything seems to slow down as he feels the freedom once more, he closes his eyes for the slow moment to enjoy it, inhaling for a moment to relax his muscles, then exhaling the past to try and hear himself crying of his regretful days...
He finds himself in a room of dark red as the ground itself feels like it's not even there, and on the other end of the room, a crying pichu in a chair made out of wood. He walks up to the pichu and suddenly feel the room shaking around them.
"S-She d-didn't deserve to d-die," the sobbing pichu says, "i-if only I-I was s-stronger at t-the time." He lumps down in depression, "I can't even keep a promise! I can never forgive myself!"
Mega looks at the pichu for a moment then kneels down to his level, "we can... all we have to do is have faith that she's still alive somewhere."
The pichu stops sobbing, then looks at him square in the eyes with severe anger and hatred, "what makes you think that she's still alive!?" He shouts as he stands up, revealing the same exact scars that Mega once had, "this is a symbol that we can never forgive ourselves!"
All Mega does is look into his eyes and smile, "she's still alive, I just know it... just so long as we have faith in ourselves, she'll stay alive, just like she promised."
Suddenly, the scars on the pichu begins to disappear and hope begins to form into his eyes, "if that's the case... then let's put all our faith in her as well as having faith in ourselves!" He tilt his head with a smile on his face while closing his eyes as he too feels the freedom Mega just felt. With that, the room starts glowing white with them in it.
Mega opens his eyes and time was back to normal, seeing Fast Star coming at him with tremendous amount of force once more.
"Quick Attack," he charges at the water covered buizel with great speed and power, possibly to match the attack as it was the only thing he could think of to stop the attack, then again he wasn't much of a thinker to begin with.
Zero sees this and couldn't help but smile at how Mega always fight, "does he always fight like this?" Midori asks in total shock at how reckless the pikachu just charges at the sinister, dark buizel.
"He'd rather fight with his heart than anything else."
Diggy smiles at that as well, "yeah, that's also the same reason why we're proud to call him our brother."
Midori just looks at the two in concern for the pikachu, "Then why don't you two help then?"
Zero sighs at Midori's misunderstanding, "because if we do... then Mega wouldn't become stronger like he always wants to be... if it wasn't for that reason alone, we would've never met him."
Diggy wants to finish, "and we're more than glad we did... otherwise the team's name wouldn't be as cool as it is now."
When the two attacks come together, there was a massive shockwave that everyone could feel outside the lake area, "I am never losing to someone like you again!" Fast Star puts more force into his attack than anything else, making the ground around them to crumble into a crater.
Mega tries to stand his ground but was lacking on it, how can he get out of this one? He tries to hold onto the aquatic attack with his head, feeling the pain and being push back by the raw power Fast Star is using. Out of desperation, the pikachu charges his left hand with electricity, "Thunder Punch," he then punches through the water and towards the now-exposed buizel in the gut.
When contact with the thunderous fist in the gut, Fast Star's attack was cancelled out as he feels the pain going through his body. He throws his fists at the attacking arm against his gut to make it stop, making Mega pull back his left arm.
"Water Gun," he bursts a stream of water from his mouth towards the close-range, yellow mouse pokemon in front of him.
When the water contacts Mega, he could feel how powerful it is, and was pushed back to the same rock he was pinned in before his brother saved him. In front of him, is same sudden attack from Fast Star in front of him, but he was prepared this time, "Thunderbolt!" He charges electricity from his cheeks, to burst throughout his entire body towards Fast Star.
He sees this coming and tilts his head to the left as the bolt of electricity pass by his head, "I told you sneak attack only works once." He pulls Mega by the chest fur to pass next to him, but in mid-way, "DON'T YOU EVER LEARN?!" He shouts as he spin-kicks Mega in the back, sending him skipping across the water of the lake.
Groaning from the pain, Mega desperately tries to get back up to fight, only to be grabbed on the back of his lightning-shaped tail. "If anything, I should compliment you," the sadistic buizel begins to say, then he starts to spinning the pikachu, "for not knowing," he slams Mega to the ground and picks him back up as he says his reasons, "WHEN TO GIVE UP!"
After slamming his face to the ground once again, Fast Star picks him on the back of his bleeding neck, "on your feet, rat!" After putting him back on his feet by the neck, he sees a bad cut on his forehead from what he did to him, feeling no sympathy for him, "Ice Punch!" Charging his ice attack into his left fist, he aims it at Mega's chest with menacing force.
The hit in the chest sends Mega flying across the field once more, as this is happening, he could feel something burning above his left eye... he feels his anger rising as this new surge of energy starts flowing throughout his entire body.
Whatever this feeling is, it feels great, and he doesn't want it to end right now. Opening his eyes with anger consuming him and this sudden power surging through him, Mega begins to spin in mid-air and land on the ground with a loud thud. He then walks back to the buizel with this power consuming his body, he knows this feeling, he knows what he has to do to defeat the power-hungry buizel.
Everyone who's watching the battle could see his yellow fur turning red and giving off a golden aura color as Mega walks back, two in particular was smiling at this, "it's about time," Diggy says.
Midori looks confuse about what they're talking about and Zero explains, "when Mega gets angry enough, that's when his full power can be used."
Rose thinks she saw this before, and goes wide-eyed about the situation: if she remembers correctly... "take cover!" She shouts to the others as she covers her head with her arms.
Mega raises his fists in a different fighting style as his golden aura rises, with a look of anger that says 'I'll never forgive you'. "You're finished," he simply says and charges at Fast Star. Electricity forms around him as he performs Volt Tackle, making his opponent to copy, but in the form of water with equal power.
Fast Star channels the water into his fist as he freezes the tip of it with his ice energy, "Ice Jet Punch!" And aims it at the charging pikachu: unlike the last battle, he put everything he has into this one attack. When it was about to make contact to Mega, the pikachu unexpectedly jumps, making the ultimate Water/Ice move to make contact with the ground instead, causing ice to form around half his body. Fast Star knows this is the price if he misses this ultimate move, but he didn't think Mega would jump like that. That thought froze in place as he looks up, seeing him forming the attack into his right fist.
Mega knew the price to pay if not used properly, and not being able to practice this in a long time isn't helping, but he's taking the risk as he knows his opponent is stuck in place. Channeling the roaring Volt Tackle into his right fist, he performs Thunder Punch. Even though it isn't as easy as he remembers it to be, he still manages, and aims it at the frozen buizel below him.
"Ultimate Move: Mega Volt Punch!" He shouts and spins to gain momentum to make the attack more powerful, surrounding himself with a trail of thunder as he spins towards Fast Star. He looks at the ground beneath him as he was right where he needs to be and brings down his thundering fist towards Fast Star. When he makes contact... everything around him explodes, he forgot how powerful this attack can be and hopes nobody else gets hurt by this in the process.
Rose was right about the taking cover idea and everyone could feel the massive electricity running all over the place, Knolla was surprised about the entire thing, "this is how powerful Mega has become now?"
"Apparently!" Beauty shouts over the noise.
It took a solid ten minutes for the entire aftershock of the attack to stop. When everyone takes a good look of the aftermath, it was very misty due to the fact some of the water from the lake had evaporated from the electricity. When all the mist clears up, they're surprise to see a huge crater about to be filled by the water of the lake.
Zero shakes his head on how reckless Mega is with that Ultimate Move of his, "he still hasn't learn how to put that attack under control... then again, he wasn't able to use it for a long time."
Midori just watches the entire crater in shock, "t-this is M-Mega's true p-power? That crater has to be at LEAST fifty feet deep!"
Diggy was unfazed by it as well, "Yeah... at least we know he still has it in him to do this attack at all. In fact, it's even more powerful than the last time he used it."
Mega could barely stand as he tries to pull Fast Star out of the crater, "I keep forgetting about the aftershock of that attack... I'm surprise he can still breathe after that." When he succeeds pulling, he lays down next to the unconscious buizel, "at least I hope we can become friends after this." With that being said, he closes his eyes and quickly drifts off to unconsciousness.
