Turn 18: Black Versus White
Location: Opelucid City
Time: 7:40 AM September 18th
Condition: Cloudy
It was a quiet morning in Opelucid City, there had been buzz about a big battle southwest of this position but nothing that stirred these people. Down at the subways stop for Opelucid City stood a couple of Black Plasma Grunts to the exit out. They had been assigned possibly one of the most boring jobs.
Only a handful of subway trains ever actually stopped here so it wasn't very exciting. At Least in other cities like Nimbasa they receive a great deal of traffic, not here though. It was as dull as a job could be.
Then all of the sudden a train rolled up and stopped. The odd thing was it didn't appear as though anyone was moving and the doors weren't opening. The two stationed there started to walk up when suddenly something leapt out of one of the windows. It was a zangoose.
She swooped down with her claws forcing one of them into the ground unconscious and while the other one was still in shock she turned landed on the ground and punched him into a nearby wall. All of the doors to the train then opened and White Plasma members along with their pokémon piled out. Kallen and Guren were the first two out as they quickly flew up and out of the subway station into Opelucid City.
Lelouch was the last one out as he walked rather calmly out with Ohgi and CC next to him. "I think you did a little too much Chiba." Lelouch comment on the zangoose's work.
"They'll get over it." Chiba said running up with them out of the station.
Lelouch walked out and looked around at the men gathered around as if waiting for his order. He raised up his right hand next to his left cheek dramatically before shouting, "All Force, Attack!" As he shouted he whipped his arm down authoritatively.
At the sound of his voice the entire throng quickly separated in every direction attacking any and all who could be distinguished as members of Black Plasma. "Be careful not to harm any citizens." Cross reminded the men under his command.
Xingke rushed out onto a roof of a building drawing a poké-ball. "What's going on out here?" He demanded while releasing Shen Hu from the poké-ball.
"We're not sure sir," The man started. Before he could continue, seemingly out of nowhere, a pokémon crashed right into Shen Hu forcing it down through the roof, and wall into the ground. "What the?"
"You should focus on the battle not the situation Xingke of Black Plasma." From a nearby rooftop he saw Kallen who had issued Guren to attack Shen Hu in the first place.
"Hmm, I assume you are Kallen Kozuki the so called Ace of White Plasma." Xingke clarified.
"If you don't pay attention I'll also be Kallen Kozuki the one who beat Xingke without a sweat." Kallen drew his attention to the battle their two pokémon were waging.
"Do you really think that merely having a type advantage assures your victory? Shen Hu, activate the Shock Drive!" He commanded and the light on the back of Shen Hu's cannon turned yellow blue.
"It's time Guren." Kallen lifted her arm so that it was vertical facing Xingke. She pulled down the sleeve revealing a Mega Ring. "Mega Evolution Stone Activate!"
Surrounding Guren in a marble-like case was a thick energy field. It quickly cracked before the cocoon shattered in every direction. Guren's design seemed much sleeker with a taller, thinner body, three horns, the middle horn being the longest, small wings protruding from the claws and a jagged spine reaching all the way up the tail.
It whipped his flaming tail side to side as he flapped its much larger wings to become airborne. Its breath was so hot that when it roared a terrible roar you could see it. A ray of sunshine broke through the clouds shining light down on their battlefield.
Xingke seemed undaunted by the mega-pokémon before him. "Shen Hu use thunderbolt!"
"Guren, use Flame Thrower!" Kallen ordered.
Flying around overhead Guren unleashed a terrible barrage of flames that would melt the hardest steel, but before the flames could even get within a foot of the creature a giant protective field deployed protecting him. Aiming the cannon upward it launched a massive lightning barrage that only barely missed its target.
"What? How could you use two moves so seamlessly?" Kallen gasped.
"I take it that you didn't hear about my Blaze Luminous System, you fool, you don't stand a chance even with a type advantage." Xingke shouted.
"Oh really? Guren Blast Burn!" Kallen ordered.
"Are you deaf?" Xingke winced at her determination.
Guren opened his jagged maw and the surrounding heat and flames all seemed to gather into a massive ball in front of his mouth. It seemed to get colder but Xingke realized that it was all being absorbed into Guren's next attack.
The massive ball of fire then compressed until Guren chomped down on it as if to swallow it whole. Smoke seemed to emanate from Gruen's mouth and nostrils as it held it in there before he whipped his head around and opening his mouth to launch the sphere of compressed fire.
It flung out of Guren's mouth fast as a bolt of lightning into Shen Hu. Exploding on impact, smoke, flame, dirt, and debris all flew skyward being visible from all corners of the city. A giant gust of wind blew from the epicenter wildly sending leaves and other miscellaneous objects flying as well. Kallen held up an arm to defend his eyes from the debris flying everywhere.
Kallen's eyes widened whenever she suddenly realized that Shen Hu was completely untouched even by that assault. Launching from Shen Hu's cannon was a small metallic orb. Once it grew close enough it exploded sending Guren hurdling towards the ground.
Shen Hu then took aim with its cannon again firing another massive barrage of electricity dealing super effective damage to Guren and blasting a hole through the wall behind him. Guren then helplessly landed flat on the ground defeated.
"Hmm, that's all you have to offer?" Xingke shrugged in disappointment.
"Not even a little!" Kallen cried as Guren whipped up back to his feet.
"Dang, how is it still moving? Switch to Douse Drive and hit it with everything you've got!" Xingke commanded.
"Air Slash!"
Flapping up into the air Guren swooped down at sonic speeds towards Shen Hu. He whipped his right claw horizontally sending a massive burst of air right at Shen Hu. Just before Shen Hu could unleash his final attack the air slash hit the cannon directly sending the attack in a completely different direction.
Xingke almost gasped when Guren slammed right into Shen Hu leaving little to no space between them. "Now melt that sucker with another Blast Burn, point blank!"
"Dang it, Shen Hu, get it off of you."
Before it could move Guren latched onto Shen Hu's arms with his claws. As the flames once again accumulated in front of Guren's mouth Shen Hu already seemed to be taking damage from just being in the same vicinity.
Skipping the final step Guren simply lunged forward forcing the ball of compressed fire into Shen Hu's chest before letting go. The explosion wasn't as large as the first one but still nothing to spit at. Shen Hu was sent flailing backwards into the building that Xinke stood on.
Xingke had to turn completely around to see that Shen Hu had actually flown right through the building he was in and landed in the one behind it. The direct hit from such a super effective move was more than enough to put it out of commission.
"No!" Xingke's vision shook at the sight.
"Good job Guren." Kallen congratulated him as it swooped up and landed next to her. Kallen then climbed up on his back. "Now let's get going."
The two of them flew off into the battlefield. Xingke returned Shen Hu to his poké-ball; he needed to get Shen Hu healed fast.
Ghetsis slammed his fist onto a nearby table where the other six of the sages sat. "Curse that Lelouch, how did he get within the City Perimeter?"
"We're not sure but reports have just come in, Xingke has been defeated." One of the sages explained.
"What?" Ghetsis stood up and turned to face Colress who was currently writing something on his notes. "I thought you said that it would be invincible."
"I never said anything like that." Colress didn't seem very interested in Ghetsis or the current attack on the city. After finishing up he clipped his pen closed and placed it in his pocket. He gave a grin before heading out. "Although watching it's affectivity in a real life situation has given me some very interesting notes."
"Where do you think you're going?" Ghetsis sneered at him.
"I may not be much of a sailor but even I can recognize a sinking ship when I see one." Colress didn't bother turning to face him. "I think I'll offer my services to an organization better suited to my needs."
"Damn you Colress, I'll show you a sinking ship…" Ghetsis threatened, while taking out a poké-ball from his cloak.
"Sir look!" Another sage pointed at the screen in the middle of the table.
Ghetsis turned to see a camera shot of Rosa, Blake, and Jiang freeing there pokémon from another prison. They were escaping. Ghetsis flung a chair against a nearby wall in rage. "Damn you Xingke, you probably lost on purpose too."
"What are we going to do?" A third sage stood up in horror.
"Call down you bumbling little creeps. Get whatever manpower we have left to prep the Plasma Frigate, we're leaving." Ghetsis ordered while pulling his long hair back with both hands. He then snapped his fingers and the Shadow Triad appeared in front of him. "Kill the prisoners."
"Yes milord." They disappeared in flash.
"I'll teach you to double cross me, Xingke."
Galloping quickly through the rubble and wires all about the streets were Zack and En. Zack was carrying Blake on his back while En carried Rosa and Jiang as they made their escape towards friendly lines. They hadn't met much resistance; most were too concerned about the battle to worry about them. It looked like they were about to make it out of the city when suddenly a dog-like creature covered in white fur with a black face and a black blade extending from the right of its face stepped forward. It was an absol and then appearing right behind it was one of the Black Plasma's Shadows.
"Zangetsu, Psycho-Cut." He muttered from behind his mask.
Zangetsu then swooped horizontally with the blade on the right of his face. An arch of purple energy launched at them. En stopped in time to dodge the attack but Zack got hit and flopped forward dropping Blake onto the ground.
"Blake, Zack, are you two alright?" Rosa whimpered as she got off of En.
"Yeah, we're fine." Blake reassured her and Zack nodded to concur.
Appearing around them were the other two shadows with their pokémon. The second shadow stood behind his bannette while the third stood behind his Accelgor. They were surrounded.
"Blake." Rosa called him.
"Yes commander?" He stood up ready for a fight.
"Take Jiang and run." Rosa ordered.
"What?" Blake almost felt like he had to check his ears.
"You heard me," Rosa told him. "Run!"
"Alright." Blake ran up to grab Jiang and run.
"Wait, miss." Jiang took out a poké-ball and handed it to Rosa. "Her name is Tianzi, she's my strongest pokémon and she'll protect you."
"Are you sure about that?" Rosa asked.
"Come on we need to get going." Blake told them.
"Okay, I promise I'll return her to you safe and sound." Rosa nodded taking it in her hand. The cold smooth surface of the poké-ball almost felt alien in her hands, it had been a very long time since she had held a poké-ball. She also realized that she forgot her gloves back in the prison but that wasn't important right now. Blake picked up Jiang and started off.
"Are you sure it's alright that we leave her like this?" Jiang asked Blake as they ran further into the battlefield.
"Don't worry about the Commander; she can take care of herself." Blake said confident that what he spoke was truth.
"Alright then, let's see what's behind curtain number 1." Rosa tossed the poké-ball to release Tianzi, whatever pokémon that is.
It was a large moth-like creature with a thick looking ice blue exoskeleton and a black underbelly. The upper half of its body was covered in white fur. It featured six large red/orange wings that made it almost look like a volcano erupting from its back. Its face was black as the underbelly with two long red horns extending from the bottom of either side of her face. She featured cold blue compound eyes unshifting and focused.
"Volcarona?" Rosa seemed a little shocked that such a young girl could carry such a rare and powerful pokémon. This really would help out when you're going three against one. "Alright let's get started, En use flame charge, Zack volt switch, and what can you do? Tianzi use bug buzz!"
"Urabe, sucker punch." One shadow ordered his banette
"Asahina, sludge bomb." Another shadow ordered his accelgor.
"Zangetsu, it is time to mega evolve." The third shadow revealed his mega ring. Pressing the button Zangetsu was encased in a cocoon of energy until it broke out. The white fur on his head had now extended so long that it covered half his face and two long feathery wings extended from its back. "Now attack with aerial ace."
Leaping forward En charged right for Asahina the Accelgor and fire began to envelope En's horn. It seemed as though it would hit when suddenly the pokémon disappeared and in its place was a sludge bomb which exploded upon impact.
Urabe the Banette then disappeared before reappearing right beside Zack before dealing him a harsh sucker punch. The down side to this was now he was too close. Zack quickly lunched at him a jolting attack dealing moderate damage to the creature.
Zangetsu was faster than Rosa had anticipated. He swayed from side to side attempting to dodge any oncoming attacks before lunging forwards slashing at Tianzi with its blade. It dealt super effective damage but not enough to put her out of commission as she returned with an equally effective horrid screech which as the wings on her back shimmered.
The two seemed evenly match which wasn't a good sign for Rosa, if she didn't do something that would give Tianzi the advantage Zangetsu's speed would make him the victor in this fight.
"Okay." Rosa thought to herself on what her next move should be. She opened her mouth to give a command when suddenly she felt something force itself into her heart. She wasn't sure what it was. It was so sudden it could have been an emotion. She clenched her heart and felt a metallic blade.
Looking down she saw one of the shadows who stood crouching in front of her holding the dagger in her chest. He took a step back and stood up straight leaving the blade stuck in her chest. "Sorry."
Another Shadow came at her from the side with dagger in hand. He slashed across her legs severing the tendons just below her knees. Unable to support her weight anymore she collapsed onto her knees. "But this battle was going on too long."
Rosa felt a third blade press up against her neck. "If you would like we will take your last words before you die."
Rosa didn't have anything she really wanted to say, nothing that would define her life or what she believed. It almost made her want to cry but she didn't have anything to say.
"Nothing?" The shadow confirmed before slitting Rosa's throat. The pokémon who she commanded rushed to defend her but it was far too late, there was nothing they could do. Before they could get there the three shadows disappeared and their pokémon with them.
She didn't realize it but the third shadow was holding her up, now that he was gone she flopped backwards onto the ground and began to bleed out. She reached her hands into her chest to remove the knife in her heart but didn't have the strength to do so. It didn't take long for her white and light blue uniform to start turning a disgusting red. As death settle in around her she began to feel cold. Her senses dulled until she couldn't hear the battle around her, the tears in her eyes made it difficult to see. "Is this really all I'll ever do?"
"Lelouch, we've managed control of the western half of the city." Cross' voice came through Lelouch's x-transceiver.
"Good to hear." Lelouch said.
"Lelouch, I've just ran into Blake and some young lady. They say that Rosa needs help immediately." Another voice called to him.
"Kallen, think you can handle that? You're the only one fast enough." Lelouch told her.
"I'll see what I can do." He heard Kallen respond.
Lelouch let his arm with the transceiver fall to his side as he overlooked the city battlefield. The most advanced city in the world now the site of a battle that would determine the fate of Team Plasma, if everything goes according to his plan then it might even decide the fate of the world.
Suddenly from across the battlefield Lelouch felt something disturbingly powerful emerge as if from nowhere. He then heard CC's voice echo through his head. "Lelouch, he's here."
"Who?" Lelouch turned in the direction of whatever it was he felt.
"Lelouch!" A voice called through his transceiver. "I don't believe it, it's, it's…"
The sound fuzzed out until he couldn't hear it anymore. Lelouch didn't need him to finish the sentence. He could feel the power; a power that rivaled even CC's and was by all meanings of the word her exact opposite. He even knew who accompanied the creature. It was the Champion of Unova himself along with his fiery dragon of truth.
Exploding up until it was only a good couple yards between the two was a large completely white shape. It was very bird-like in appearance with white fluffy feathers up and down its body. It had only two long horizontal wings with hand-like claws extending from the wrists of the wings. It stood on two relatively short but strong looking legs with long sharp talons extending from the feet. It had a long narrow neck with two rings around its neck.
It's head featured a long snout with cloud-like hair extending from the back of its head in two separate tails. The tips of the tails glowed bright orange along with its breathing. Its large soulful blue eyes looked as though they could see right through a man.
The tail extending from the creature's back seemed to be covered a reverse cone with a glowing fiery color. It had four long feathery protrusions exactly ninety degrees from each other with two white rings holding them to the shape. From the fiery reverse-cone shape extended the long wispy end to the tail. So here it was at least, Reshiram the Legendary Dragon of Truth.
Leaping off of Reshiram's back was Suzaku. "Lelouch." He glared up at him.
"Suzaku." Lelouch said. "Last time we met, you were just an aspiring trainer with a single gym badge and I was but a simple worker at a pokémon-day-care center. Now look at us."
"I guess four years really is a long time." Suzaku said.
"Zekrom, it's been too long." Reshiram called up to CC.
"Not long enough I'd say." CC glared down at him.
"Don't be such a sore loser." Reshiram said back.
"Shall we end these pleasantries and move on to the main event?" Lelouch asked as CC returned to her true form as Zekrom. She stepped off the roof and floated down to the ground.
"Let's." Suzaku agreed. "Albion, use fusion flare!"
"CC, fusion bolt!" Lelouch ordered.
A giant sphere of fire started to collect over Albion at the same time that a massive orb of blue electricity started to accumulate above CC. Almost on queue both of them launched their attacks simultaneously as if this had been a rehearsed movement.
As the ball of fire was flung forward it seemed to take a wall-like shape as if to hit all of CC's body. When the ball of lightning was launched it took on a much more spear-like shape aiming directly at Albion's heart.
When the lightning spear hit the center of it, the flame wall collapsed around the spear causing a massive explosion. Flames and electricity flew in every direction until the energy finally ran out leaving only smoke and char left between the two of them.
"Dragon Claw."
"Dragon Pulse!"
Lunging forwards full speed CC's right claw became imbued with ametrine energy. She slashed across Albion's body dealing super effective damage just before Albion released a pulse of ametrine energy in every direction knocking CC back.
CC stepped forward swooped down with her claws but Albion managed to dodge this time before returning with his own claw strike. The both of them waved their wings sending a gust of air beneath them with enough force as to send them both in the air.
CC launched a thunderbolt at Albion before he set up a light screen which reflected the attack in another direction. Albion then went on the offensive attacking with his fire fang, before he could pull it off though CC put up a protective barrier.
CC headbutted Albion with psychic energy backing it up. Albion returned with a psychic blast knocking her back before she managed to use her wings to catch the air again.
Albion and CC then landed on the ground before both of them became imbued with ametrine flames for their next assault. Both of them lunged forward at impossible speeds forcing the air out of their way as they headed for each other and clashed in the middle in like manner to their opening attack, however this attack forced them both back.
While they were both still consumed in the ametrine flames Albion lunged at CC forcing her into a nearby building. As the building started to topple into the ground CC whipped out of it attack back at Albion sending him flying the opposite direction, as he did he crashed into the roof of a nearby building.
CC then leapt up breaking the sound barrier as she plummeted towards Albion. Albion then got up on his feet and leapt up in like fashion to CC towards her. Once they clashed the ametrine flames exploded in every direction and the both of them were sent crashing to the earth landing next to their respective masters while the explosion continued overhead.
CC stood half kneeling with one of her claws on the ground to support herself as she panted. Albion stood tall while supporting himself on a nearby building unwilling to sit or kneel.
"CC!" Lelouch cried in worry of his pokémon. "Can you still fight?"
"I'm still ready to fight." CC said standing up.
"Albion, are you alright?" Suzaku asked trying to refocus him on the battle.
"I'm fine; I'd be more worried about my opponent right now." Albion stood up too.
"How much more beating can he take?" CC asked.
"He's about at the same health percentage as you." Lelouch told her.
"So just above half?" CC confirmed.
"CC, let us end our rivalry right here and now!" Albion called.
"If you think you can." CC glared right back at him.
"CC!"
"Albion!"
"Bolt Strike!"
"Blue Flare!"