Heeello my good readers! Nice day, ne? *Window behind author shows a torrential rain* Well, maybe for some of you guys. I guess it comes with being in a tropical country. Anyway, last time, we saw two figures, one which everyone figured out were N and Reshiram, but who were the two other people? You'll find out now!
Same spot as last time!
The Guardians and the Trainers were all sitting in a clearing, having lunch. The guardians were noticeably happier after being able to talk with their families, and had lain off picking on the Trainers. They were happily eating and chatting with one another, occasionally making a joke or two. Even Mind was happily chatting instead of trying to pummel their other selves. In spite of this, Dragon had that distinct feeling something was about to happen. He could see his other self could see it too, making him wonder if their Aura allowed them to sense future events that would directly affect them. Of course, Dragon's skill was more attuned, so he could feel that whatever was going to happen, it would heavily involve Mind.
"Oh man, do you remember when we met Tien?" Mind asked, laughing. Everyone chuckled at the memory, except for Poison.
"Oh yeah, we remember…" Dragon said, mirth filling his voice, "What was it you told her, Poison? 'Go to Hell'?" Poison nodded at her leader, feeling a bit miffed about her defeat that time. "Of course, the funny part was her answer…"
"'Been there, lovely place'!" Mind finished, and they all burst out laughing. As Mind's laughter died down, he realized… "You know, if she realized we were talking about her, I think she'd stick an arrow up our a…"
"LANGUAGE!" Delia yelled out, startling the Guardian of the Mind into his Armor and up a tree. Delia, realizing her act, chuckled nervously. "Oh, sorry. I just don't like foul language…"
"You don't friggin' say!" Mind yelled from his spot on the tree. He jumped down and dissolved his armor, holding a hand to his chest. "Sweet Arceus I nearly had a heart attack!" Thunder chuckled evilly, her eyes glistening evilly, and covered her hands in electricity.
"CLEAR!" She said and placed her hands on Mind's back. The youngest Guardian yelped and went back to the tree, his back smoking slightly.
"OH, COME ON!" He yelled. "Was that really necessary?" He asked as he jumped down… again.
"Yes it was." Thunder answered. A tick mark appeared on Mind's head.
"Why, you cheeky little…" He was about to pummel his sister figure, but Dragon stopped him.
"Now, now, Mind. Behave." Dragon said, a grin forming in his face. "Or should we have Flame give you another heat therapy?" Mind paled considerably at that, and quickly apologized and sat down. Ava turned to Dragon.
"Uh… what was that all about?" Dragon chuckled again.
"That is a story for another time, Ava." He said and sipped his drink. Suddenly, a chill went down his spine. 'Whatever it is, it's close… very close.' Dragon said and extended his Aura, trying to find whoever – or whatever – was coming for them. And he found her quickly, but too late nonetheless… The bushes nearby the clearing rustled and shook, causing Dragon to begin the materialization of his Prime Technique, ready to claim the blood of whoever tried to attack him.
"M-Max?" A soft feminine voice came from the bushes. They all turned to the direction of the voice… and saw another May, her left eye covered in an eyepatch, and her entire right arm covered with a long, white silk glove. The Trainer group stared bluntly at the woman, and Ash turned to ask Dragon if he knew what was going on. Before he could ask, however, the Berserker armor barreled past him, aiming straight for the other May. Bloodlust simply oozed off the Guardian. He tackled her into a tree, the full weight of the Armor smashing straight into May, the impact making the bark crack under the pressure. Air was knocked out of the girl's lungs, eliciting a silent scream. She was not given a second to rest as the Berserker grabbed her by the throat, swung her over his head and smashed her against the unforgiving floor. May coughed out a blob of blood from the impact, her head snapping backwards as she bounced once. She tried to say something, but the Berserker clasped his right hand on her throat before she could speak. The armored behemoth kept her pinned to the floor as he raised his left hand above his head. Reddish energy began to focus on the palm of the clawed gauntlet. May's eyes widened in pure panic, remembering what the attack had done to her last time.
"Gehehe… This time, you die for GOOD!" Mind said, his voice holding a disturbing amount of happiness. "For far too long you have threatened me, my family, and most of all, my daughter." His grip tightened, threatening to snap the girl's neck. "So, I have only a few words for you: BA-BYE, BITCH!" The energy in his hand reached a critical point. It swelled up for a second before compressing. The beam was about to fire and obliterate the girl from existence…
*BAM*
Something impacted the left side of the Berserker, making the beam go wide. It landed right beside May's head and blasted everything next to it, leaving behind a small crevice of destruction. Denied of his kill, the Berserker whirled around, rage swelling in him, and began looking for whoever attacked him… And his armor dissolved in a rapid 'Poof!' at the sight. Three Absol pokemorphs, one of them shiny, were already charging another Razor Wind, while an Absol, obviously their father, was readying his Shadow Claws, ready to tear the Berserker apart.
"Leave mommy alone!" The shiny pokemorph yelled. Mind stared at the children for a second, before saying what everyone in his situation would've said…
"WHAT THE MOTHERFUCKING FUCK IS GOING ON!?" He yelled just as another figure crashed against him, making him release May. Ash recognized the figure.
"N!?" both Ashes yelled, startled. N stared at Ash, confused, before looking at Dragon.
"Dragon? What are you doing in this world?" The former King of Team Plasma asked the leader of the Guardians. Dragon kept his eyes set on May, who was coughing loudly, trying to get oxygen back into her deprived lungs. The Absol was next to her, and the children were helping her get up.
"I might ask you the same thing, Natural Harmonia Gropius" Dragon asked. (A/N YES, THIS IS HIS REAL NAME! WTF!). N groaned loudly.
"How many times must I ask you not to call me that!?" He yelled. "I already told you, call me N!" Dragon chuckled, and sat back down. "Anyway, maybe you should listen to our story before you rush in guns blazing." Dragon nodded.
"Alright then…" He said calmly while he created Aura Chains around Mind, who was already getting up and ready to attack. Warily, both N and May sat down, N accompanied by a white haired girl. "Let's start with you." Dragon practically ordered, pointing at May. The girl sighed.
"It all started after the Christmas party…" May started. "I was fuming. My brother was going to marry a Pokémon. All I could think of was how revolting it was. Blinded by my rage, I went to Lillycove, the Hunter HQ in Hoenn, to join them. My plan had been to join them, kill Kirlia and get my brother back." Mind growled, but Dragon shut him up.
"But…?" Dragon prompted the girl. She sighed in response before continuing.
"Not everything goes as planned." She said, the floor suddenly becoming very interesting to her. "The minute I stated my name, they threw me in a cell. They were planning to use me as a bargaining chip against Max. I told them it wouldn't work, he hated me and I hated him. I said I wanted to join them. They stopped hearing after the hate part. They decided to use me for their cloning project. They were even 'nice' enough to finish what the Berserker started…" The girl removed her glove, showing her entire arm was a machine. "They amputated my arm for genetic material and replaced it with this." She chuckled slightly. "I guess some of them were not entirely bad." Mind growled again.
"You expect us to buy that, you miserable bi…" Dragon covered Mind's mouth with his hand and glared. The young man slumped, but nodded. Dragon took his hand off. "Anyway, the first time we fought after the party, it seemed a lot like the real fucking deal." May sighed, resisting the urge to glare at her brother for using that language in front of her daughters.
"The first time you faced me, when the Hunter of Poison was sent out to capture someone in Hoenn,it was the first clone they made. MH-01." She shivered slightly, but the Absol placed his paw on her shoulder to calm her down. "When she didn't make it back, they decided a fully biological clone would be useless… that when she was born. MX-02. A cyborg with the ability to heal herself with the iron in her blood." Her human hand unconsciously raised to her eyepatch. "Of course, they had to test her…" she slowly removed the patch, and everyone, Mind included, gasped in horror. Her eye was milky white and mangled, with an x-shaped scar around it. "For a whole month they added things to that thing: Scanners, weapons, defense mechanisms… Every time they added something, I became the test subject." May turned around and lifted her shirt. Her back was crisscrossed with hundreds of scars, each of different length and depth. Some looked like they had been harsh flesh wounds, but some undoubtedly went from side to side of her body. She lowered her shirt and replaced her eyepatch before continuing. "The only company I had during those months was my 'cellmate', who they hoped would kill me…"
"That would be me." The Absol said. "Do you not recognize me, Max Maple? After all, I nearly kill you once." Mind's eyes widened.
"No way… you're the Absol from the Jirachi incident!" Mind realized. Dragon's eyes widened while the others, except for the Max, were just confused. "This little fucker tried to maim me! Repeatedly!"
"Well, I guess that makes them Soul mates." Flame said jokingly, but it made both Absol and May slump sadly.
"I changed, you know…" May muttered.
"Doubt it." Mind said with a barely concealed deadpan. May's head snapped up, tears welling up, ready to flow.
"Arceus DAMN IT, Max!" She screamed at him. "During the time I was in the cell, I realized what I did was wrong! I felt so horrible with myself…" She hugged herself tightly, shivering. "I had tried to kill my own little brother… I wanted to join a group that was threatening to kill innocents! One day, I turned to Absol, and simply told him…" She choked up, unable to continue, so Absol finished for her, his paw on her back.
"A fellow inmate was a Psychic Pokémon. A Noctowl, I believe. He gave May a Mental Activation as per her own request… after that, when we returned to our cell, she said to simple words that shook me to the core: Kill Me." Mind's eyes widened again, but they still held distrust. "For three days, the only thing she told me were those words… Kill me… Kill me… Kill me… Until one day I couldn't take it and… well… slapped her with my tail."
"Hard." May confirmed, recovering from her episode. Absol nodded and continued.
"For the next few weeks, I kept encouraging her. I kept telling her one day we'd make it out, that her brother would come and get her out of that place. Of course, that was the biggest lie I have ever told."
"I still resent you a bit for that." May told her mate with a light glare.
"Hey, it worked, didn't it?" May opened her mouth to protest, but shut it immediately, knowing he had a point. "Anyway, I guess during that time I… fell in love with her." Absol declared, shrugging slightly. "However, I'm a Dark-Type Disaster Pokémon. I was not exactly knowledgeable of what love was."
"Which caused me to take the initiative. I slowly began to develop feelings for him. I was revolted at first, I thought 'What the hell am I doing? He's a Pokémon!'. Still, I guess the heart overpowers the mind, given some time. And I am glad it did."
"Yeah, yeah, we get it…" Mind said, annoyed. "A lot of lovey-dovey shit later, you got together, yadda yadda yadda. Now what I want to know is about the triple terrors over there." He jabbed his left thumb in the direction of the triplets, who were playing tag with each other.
"Several months after I was captured…" May continued. "… All the soldiers left. They simply geared up and left. They didn't even move towards the remaining prisoners… the 4 of us that remained: N, Resh, Absol and myself." Ava perked up at this. She remained quiet the whole time, not really knowing what was going on.
"Resh?" She asked. "As in Reshiram, the Vast White Pokémon?" The white-haired woman raised her hand.
"That would be me!" A tower of flame erupted into the air. When it cleared up, the woman was gone, and in her place was a tall, pure white Pokémon with a flaming tail. Dragon looked up at Reshiram.
"Nice trick. You learn it from Latias?" Reshiram nodded, before returning to her human form.
"Anyway…" N continued, "When the soldiers vacated the premises, I was able to snatch off one of their keycards. As soon as they were completely gone, I opened my cell and got Resh out too. We then opened up May and Absol's cell and we all ran out of there. We hid in a forest in Unova, and built a small shack. In there, Resh and I had to endure these two going at it like Lopunnies in heat." Both May and Absol blushed a deep red at that comment. Mind, on the other hand…
"GAH!" He screeched, ripping his hand out of the chains and covering his eyes. "TOO MUCH INFORMATION! TOO MUCH MOTHERFUCKING INFORMATION!" The Guardians burst out in laughter at that. After smacking N in the head (with her mechanical hand), May called her daughters. The three girls approached, two of them happily climbing on her mother's lap and the last one climbing on her dad's back.
"Anyway, these are our daughters: Hisa…" The shiny absol pokemorph raised her hand cheerfully.
"That's me!" she said cutely. Mind's lips began to tug upward.
"This is Choko…" May continued. Another of the triplets, one with a brown tuft of hair on her head, waved adorably at the guardians.
"HI!" She said loudly. Mind's eyes widened a bit. May and Absol chuckled at their daughter's antic.
"And last but not least, we have Etsuko…" The last Pokemorph, the one riding happily on Absol's back, was laughing childishly as her father trotted slightly. This last action was too much for Mind. Right there and then, he instantly became attached to the Absol triplets.
"They are so cute…" He mumbled, hoping no one would hear him. Sadly, the Guardians all did. They were about to tease him, when a plasma based net, similar to the ones Annie and Oakley used, shot out of the bush, ensnaring Etsuko before delivering its painful charge.
"Heheh… One down…" The entire group turned to the forest, Mind instantly going Berserker, seeking the blood of whoever had hurt one of his nieces. His eyes narrowed into slits as pure hate raged through his veins.
"You…" There she was… MX-02, or Mecha-May. The evil clone laughed evilly at the sight of Hisa writhing in her net, making Mind angrier. "I guess your story was true… May." Mind said as he prepared to lunge at the robotic copy of his sister.
"Come on, let's kick her ass!" Thunder yelled.
"NO!" Mind roared at her and the rest of the Guardians, making them back away. "This is MY FIGHT!" He set into his fighting stance again, when May ran next to him, holding her Prime Khopesh in one hand, with the chain sickle spinning in the other. "Didn't you just hear me? This is…"
"… MY FIGHT TOO!" May finished for him. The Berserker Guardian reeled back like he had been shocked. "That is MY daughter she attacked! And she's the one that nearly kills me as well! Even if you don't like it, this is my fight as much as it is yours." She said with a fiery determination. Mind looked at her for a second… before settling back into his stance.
"Peh, fine. I guess you're right." He said gruffly. "Still doesn't mean I forgive you, though." May grinned, raising her sword.
"Fair enough. I guess I'll have to regain your trust, lil' bro." Mind growled. While this happened, Mecha May regarded them, amused. Her sight settled on Ava.
"Didn't I capture you before?" She asked, pointing at Ava. "Oh yes, I remember your screams as the virus slowly took your li…" She was unable to finish, as she had to dodge the Berserker's Aura Beam.
"Damn you talk TOO FUCKING MUCH!" Mind roared, preparing another beam.
"I know, right?" May said, amused. "How about we shut her up for GOOD!" With a mighty battle cry, the Berserker and May lunged at Mecha-May, intent on wiping away her cruel smirk…
…For once and for all.
AAAAND CUT! Now how many of you saw THAT coming, eh? Thanks to Midnight Monster for the idea, this is BladeOfThePoet, logging out!