Chapter 16 – To the Island and the Forgotten War
Brock and Lurna arrived at Alto Mare to see it in major repair; Brock was shocked to see some sort of Black Pokémon caused the damage then hearing it the same that he and Lurna heard from a news report back on the craft in the Hoenn Region. They walk through the streets the ones that was walk able from the damaged pathways of fallen buildings, soon they came up to the pokémon centre.
"Wow this place really got messed up by that Black Pokémon" Brock said then he hears a voice looking up at a open window then he saw who he couldn't believe "Giovanni!?"
"Who is Giovanni?" Lurna look at Brock then look up "That guy? You know him?"
Brock frowns "I wish I didn't, he the boss of Team Rocket" Brock stood against the wall and Lurna followed what he did getting the idea what Brock meant.
Giovanni stood looking out at the island from his window just in view of the mountain tops "That evil pokémon on that island is up to something and my teams better find out what those two pokémon up to, even that those two was Jessie and James they now a BlackCharizard and BlackBlastoise working for that twisted pokémon" Giovanni sighed. "Persian I just hope we can stop it if we understand what that beast is up to, that thing is worse then us and I won't let it take over this world while I stand. You will stand beside me right Persian?" Persian meowed in reply then they turn away from the window walking into the room.
Brock look to where he just see the mountain peak just in view from a destroyed side exposing the view a bit better "It sounds like something awaken from that island and now Team Rocket for once is trying to do something good, but why?" Brock walk to the end of town
Lurna then call out "Where are you going?"
"To the Island, we going to find out what out there" Brock smiled with a thumb up Lurna nod with a smile.
"I like your style, lets go" Lurna and Brock run to the port side to get a boat to the island.
Night was falling and in a city far from Alto Mare. Domino walking onto the room of a building looking at the city lights feeling the forming of night time in the sky above, she look around carefully looking at the device opening it up displaying it again seeing the information. "I hope this works or I am going to have to do this the hard way and that something I don't have time for" Domino mumbled to herself pushing the button on the device then a sent of keys.
A pulse was let off from it "If this does what I think it would do, this should get Mewtwo's attention at once." Domino said to herself jumping up on the top of the part to the stairs, sitting down on it. "Now just to sit and"
"Wait" Domino got up in a second and turn around to see something standing on the edge of the building roof. "I thought I made sure Team Rocket would never remember me"
"Well that worked faster then I thought it would. I guess your Mewtwo." Domino jumped down on the same level placing the device away in her pocket.
Mewtwo wearing a cloak looking right at her with it purple eyes "Tell me why you're here before I choose to wipe your mind of me again"
"Straight to the point, good" Domino walk up to Mewtwo looking at it closer then sit down on the wall of the roof next to where Mewtwo stood on holding one of her flowers up. "Giovanni wish to tell you this first. 'good to see you again Old Friend' or somewhere down that line, but the point is that we got a problem one that could threaten not only this world but another place called Pokélonum" Domino look up at Mewtwo the point had gotten to it but Mewtwo turn to the stars appearing.
"I afraid I will not fall for that." Mewtwo psychically spoke in a cold voice.
Domino jumped up on the roof wall staring right into it eyes "Then read my mind! Do your psychic mind reading on me and see what I've seen, cause that will even scare you!" Domino yelled at Mewtwo
Mewtwo raise a paw up ready to use his psychic powers to throw her on the ground from yelling at it but Mewtwo choose to read her mind just to see what is the reason since she accepted to let it "Very well, just don't close anything off from me"
"Trust me I won't, Giovanni gave me the order to let you since this is a real danger for two worlds if this pokélonum really is around" Domino stood there with arms crossed and Mewtwo eyes glowed.
Mewtwo looked into her mind seeing something happening, another Team Rocket member by Maxwell doing something with stone blocks in the chamber with Jessie and James doing it for him. But then Mewtwo heard a voice something quite dark and evil it was talking to Maxwell telling him that all the power he wished was in the staff with the purple crystal. Then the next image Mewtwo saw was Jessie and James doing their motto with Mewtwo sensing just from this memoirs of Domino's a evil soul within Maxwell no sign of Maxwell in there. The memoirs the appeared to looking down, the part where Domino hid on the ceiling looking right below at Jessie and James, the first Black Aura ball hitting Jessie and before Mewtwo's eyes it saw Jessie more or less change in a style that would match evolving part from the purple black flames around her and in place a BlackCharizard then James was changed into a BlackBlastoise.
Mewtwo then ended it right there and then it shook it head a few times "This can't be right, a pokémon with that power is impossible. What I sensed from your memoirs even bring fear to me, I wouldn't know fear but that thing is fear. The power to change humans into Black Pokémon slaves is very dark, what has Team Rocket done?" Mewtwo spoke out then glared at Domino
"Hey don't look at me alright, Maxwell was the target. That thing must of sense he was weaker then any of us to take control. I felt something probing me" Domino said back jumping down on to the roof walking a bit away
"Wait" Mewtwo spoke psychical and Domino stop looking over her shoulder at it "I did see that part of your memoirs and yes you was and it did target the one that wouldn't be able to fight. You and the others would have gave it problems and took more time then it wanted."
"What do you mean by that?" Domino turn around looking right at Mewtwo "Well speak up!"
Mewtwo silently thought about it then replied, "It only had five days for the perfect angle to Pokélonum. I saw those writings in your memoirs, they are some form of pokémon writing, I know this since I understood the words. It mostly history of a great battle millions of years ago. A battle against one pokémon the same that now has taken complete control of Maxwell to the point of no return" Mewtwo stats, Domino now very interested
"That something we need to know. The boss got other agents following those two that was Jessie and James finding out what on blazes he sending them out on a scouting mission for" Domino said to Mewtwo. It look at her as if this was going to be used for world conquer "Look at me like that if you wish, but this time Team Rocket is trying to find a way to stop him and find out what the blazes is going on here" Domino raise the flower up again and toss it to the side landing on the floor. She sat down on the opposite wall near the stairs "So your going to tell me about this great battle or not?"
"For once I can tell your not trying to lie to me" Mewtwo took a step off the roof wall onto the roof then sits down on the wall itself. "From all the writings I got from your memoir I can make out enough of it to form a story of a event as it where of a battle between powerful pokémon a group of 9 fighting against one but before that it wasn't like that." Mewtwo begins to tell Domino "These 10 which are called the Ancients, are types of ten, Fire, Water, Ice, Sky, Electric, Psychic, Plant, Rock, Steel and Dark. These was the most powerful of all pokémon, they all lived on a world called Pokélonum, it was a world of peace that had it normal ups and downs in life but pokémon lived mostly in peace even the legendary types which was called Guardians of Pokélonum. They using the power of psychic discover this world Earth, they created a living tower using a joint power and the help of hundreds of pokémon." Mewtwo talking about the beginning as it where to Domino
"They saw that this world would be able to colonized so once the tower was made the first group with the ancients left Pokélonum touching down on Earth then soon after made a second tower here on Earth to create a two way link between the worlds. Things was well for 30 years then Zarkaruio strikes with a armour of Black Pokémon taking control soon after of both towers sending his black pokémon to Pokélonum to fight the pokémon there." Mewtwo start to tell of the battle. "He held of his own brother and sisters the other 9 defeating them one by one. In just 2 years he had pushed both forces on Earth and Pokélonum backwards away from the towers gaining ground. But the nine ancients fighting their own brother created a powerful barrier, the Great Barrier cutting off the towers and his power over the Black Pokémon army on Pokélonum leaving them and all pokémon to fight Zarkaruio on Earth alone" Mewtwo spoke from what it understood of the writings that Mewtwo got to see in Domino's memoirs.
"They was losing even after cutting him off from the rest, his powers grown that over powered them all even together. In a last effect they call for help of the pokémon of Light, Eon pokémon their names Latiriuos and Latiriuas creating the armour of light for them. They then disappeared after that no clue to how these nine ancient pokémon vanishing some time after but leaving the very two that could defeat Zarkaruio." Mewtwo now getting to the end of the story "They clashed with Zarkaruio using all their power he was defeated turning his own body into a crystal trapping the soul within it. They place the armour within the tower of Arthfosor and the crystal in a staff in the middle of the tower, writing this history they soon created a island around it and a power to create fears to those that land on the island to keep them away." Mewtwo finished telling the story to Domino
"That is all that I could speak of from what I saw from your mind, as you can see from what I told you, this is Zarkaruio, the evil pokémon reawakened and his true form will be known in less then two days" Mewtwo stood up then turn about to take off into the sky when Domino took hold of it paw. Mewtwo was about to strike a blow at her when it noticed something place in the two-finger, thumb paw hand a little device. "What is this?"
"It a commutation device directly to my device right here" Domino point to hers in her ear "It another thing that Giovanni requested, it best if we keep in touch, I got a feeling that now there is a reason for this scouting. Zarkaruio is targeting all legendary pokémon that would even include you. If that the case you need to get word out to all legendary pokémon about the Island of Johto, the tower is there in that island" Domino said to Mewtwo "One legendary pokémon will be no match for him, but if there all of them. We have a fighting chance."
Mewtwo look at it then at her, it was going to regret doing this but Mewtwo had little choice from what it seen, this evil pokémon Mewtwo sensed for days and now the answer is clear. "I will come with you back to Alto Mare. I will speak to Giovanni directly. I would say also this better not be a trick but from what I saw on those writings it hard to believe you would go to all that effect to trick me." Mewtwo laughed psychical then use it psychic powers floating into the air Domino glowing and floating at well.
"Hey what the big idea!?" Domino yelled out at Mewtwo.
Mewtwo look ahead "This will be faster then your human transport." Mewtwo then speeds off with Domino beside it heading for Alto Mare. It would take till afternoon to get there but Mewtwo had to get close to find out what this world is up against. A threat and darker then it had been in the past at New Island, something that even brought chills to Mewtwo itself.
Back with Brock and Lurna, they slowly walked into the cave of the side of the mountain to find out what on this island. So far they just found what was a camp site and tracks leading in and out of the cave both Charizard and Blastoise tracks showing that they was around a few days ago just as the news spoke about a team fleeing from the island cause of two black pokémon.
Brock and Lurna walked down the tunnel "Knowing Team Rocket, they most likely found something down here and unlocked more then they wanted to" Brock said with his head down a little a hand on his chin as they walked.
"I guess Team Rocket trying to undo it now" Lurna said shining her torch around at the cave walls and ahead, walking onwards. "Does that surprise you?"
"Yes, make me wonder what so evil that got them to try and find a way to stop whatever the pokémon they woke" Brock looked concerned then they saw it. An opening in a wall with writing, Brock went up to the wall kneeing down looking at it with a hand on the chin again.
Lurna turn her torch off kneeing at it as well "Do you know this kind of writing is?"
Brock shook his head "No. I can't even make out any of these symbols, it seem to be ancient though, look quite old, no idea how old this could be, it could be 1000 to 30000 years old" Brock said then look at the opening.
Lurna then got up walking through "Lets go into this place and find out what scared them off while those two Black Pokémon are not around" Lurna said
"Alright, but we should be on our guard" Brock frowns a little then follow her in not noticing a camera bot on the side of the cave wall looking at the entrance watching them enter the tower.
Zarkaruio looked at the laptop screen that had a live link to the bot, he grinned "A bit late for that you humans, now you're in my tower there is no turning back" Zarkaruio look over at Meowth. "Look like we going to have guests"
Meowth yelled at him "You're the worst kind of pokémon I have met, your evil to the core" Meowth was ratting the bars but all Meowth got was a psychic attack knocking it backwards into the back of the bars.
"Don't waste your words with me, now I will go and meet my new guests" Zarkaruio smiled crawly then leave the main chamber walking to go and confront the humans that entered his Tower as he declared and depending where they are when he get to them.
Brock and Lurna walked through the very large opened corridors of the tower they never seen such an old place made to be this big. "If I am not mistaken this place could even hold Onix a pokémon I once had given to my little brother back home" Brock said looking at the writing on the walls as well with pictures. "I still wonder what all this say, it must mean something. A history, a event, anything that give reason for such a place being in the heart of this island"
Lurna walking alongside him wondered it much as Brock did "I know what you mean about this place, I travel parts of the Hoenn region but never came by something that inside a island miles in size" Lurna stopped as they came to another turning both of them seeing the armour floating in a sparking of white starry light
They walked right up to it Brock putting a out to the side stopping Lurna then he put a hand out a barrier the hand connecting to but he couldn't move his head into it "There some sort of energy barrier in the way, but that metal it look like it would fit a Latias and Latios" Brock spoke looking at both moving around in mid around in the energy barrier.
Lurna knees down looking at the writing and pictures "If I took a guess, there was some sort of battle that happened here or outside it." Lurna looked at Brock from where she knelt "Could of it been a battle or some sort of war between pokémon and humans?"
Brock place his hand back against the barrier then pulled back "but what would this pokémon armour do in a war against humans and pokémon, I think we missing something here and I think this war was something else. But I just can't think of it" Brock frowns then they heard laughter, turning to the voice they both saw a man in a Team Rocket uniform standing with a staff with a crystal on it.
Lurna got up quickly seeing this stranger "I guess your Team Rocket"
"No" He chuckled "maybe the soul that once had this body was Team Rocket but not me." He said staring at them "I must say you two are far more smarter then the humans that was here before you two. But you did get some things wrong" He told them both walking towards them, they taking a step back a little.
"His not Team Rocket or even human, that must be some sort of form that pokémon taken" Brock said with sweat coming down his face the fear shown.
"My name is Zarkaruio, Brock" the mouth didn't move this time they hearing it by thought then by words from the mouth "To correct some things about this, it history before and during the war that lasted a while but in the end my brothers and sisters created this armour to have me stopped even it cost their own lives. What a waste of power" Zarkaruio said stopping in front of the barrier looking at it raising his left hand turning around touching the barrier.
"He can't even get through it" Lurna whispered to Brock
Zarkaruio turn around at them "Very true human." She looked surprised. "How about telling how I knew what she said Brock"
"I don't know how you know my name but I only can guess you have psychic powers" Brock said trying to keep a brave face looking at this pokémon.
Zarkaruio raise his left hand while holding the staff in his right still "It so simple, I got it from a little Meowth after I forced that pest to give me the information from that mind of his. I learnt a bit about you and your friends, him and those other two chasing you and those others for a Pikachu" Zarkaruio just stood there calmly.
"So you know him and his friends so what" Lurna said standing with a foot forwards "Now you answer me this, who are you exactly!?"
He just stood there with that smile "I am Zarkaruio my dear human, the last of the ancient pokémon. And the one that almost had control of two worlds all those millions of years ago. You would call my type of true self power as dark type to your modern day databases on those computers of yours" Zarkaruio said to her, Lurna lost that strength then.
"If your telling us that, I gather your not letting us get away" Brock said with gritted teeth now the evil pokémon laughing loudly at them.
"Give the human a prize you got it in one" Zarkaruio chuckled then saw them get the pokeballs out "Oh a battle against me? Hmm? I would love to squash your pokémon but I don't have time for children games" Zarkaruio raise the free hand, all the sudden the balls vanished and the rest of the other pokéballs, all appearing in a psychic field.
Lurna sneered at Zarkaruio "You dirty loser! You chicken!"
Zarkaruio eyes glowed, Lurna lifted off the ground then was blasted back against a wall she pinned on it "You pathetic human haven't seen my true power yet. This is only a tiny taste of it, your pokémon are lucky, if they battle me, they'd be dead and" he lower his head a little the glare of the eyes fixed on her "that no lie"
Brock spoke seeing the pain Lurna was in "We give up, please stop it" Zarkaruio looked over at him then raising his staff they all teleported instantly appearing in the central chamber. Lurna landing on the ground chocking a bit and the balls floating into a steal create the balls in it, the lid closed. "Are you alright Lurna?" Brock knelt down to her holding her around that back as she coughed
"I will be" Lurna got the power to stand, Brock supporting her, both looking right at him standing at a set of laptops on creates.
"I see he got you both" Meowth moaned, Brock looked over at the cage.
"Meowth you look bad" Brock said with worry
Meowth shook his head "Don't worry about me, it yourselves that should be worried, he might change you into one of those black pokémon, he done it to Jessie and James already and have them running around doing scouting missions" Meowth said back to Brock little concern for himself at the moment.
Brock gasped then look at Zarkaruio "oh don't be surprised, I see you got a strong will so a simple pokémon form wouldn't do. As for you girlfriend human I will be taking information from her" Zarkaruio raise a hand, Lurna raise up off the ground balls of lightning appearing purple flames then blasted at Lurna she screaming in pain.
"Stop it!" Brock yelled out and Zarkaruio laughed at him, Brock seeing that this was really bad for him and just seeing it from Zarkaruio had the facts
"I know which will do for you Brock." Zarkaruio raise his left hand up a purple aura forming "this is known as Black Aura and this will change you into the pokémon I have chosen for you" Brock step backwards away from him then turn to run. "Your soul will be closed off from the new form. No chance to run" Zarkaruio throw the aura ball at him.
The Black Aura strikes the back of Brock and he turns around looking at Zarkaruio "Ash will find out and he will stop you!" Brock last words yelled out as the purple flames engulf him with his body now covered in a sheet of blackish purple no features but the outline could be seen. His body grow in size and mass growing and growing. The head change shape a long beak formed with a narrow head the arms open out changing into flaming looking wings the body rounding out a little in length and width the feet changing into three toe talons with a claw talon behind. The legs bent in reverse direction then the sheet of aura disappear.
Leaving a over 130lbs pokémon in the place where Brock was, the body a blackish colour with flames on the tail, head and wings being purple black with some red and orange mixed with it. "BlackMoltres" the eyes opened from the large bird pokémon looking right at Zarkaruio wings now folded in. "My powerful pokémon you will protect this island" BlackMoltres screeched out back Meowth covering his ears then saw the pokémon once Brock do as he command and leave the chamber walking on those talons the pokémon BlackMoltres the eyes dark purple and threatening, Meowth could only gulp.
