Despite doing this along with my part-time job and a day of writer's block, here it is!

In a separate room built almost like a lab – filled with computers and a portal gateway that's 20 ft. high, – the grunts put Bruce Banner, wearing nothing but the purple sweats Brendan gave him, on a metal table/gurney-like apparatus where he is splayed out and bound by metal restraints around his wrists and ankles. They raise and position the table so that he's laid out vertically and in front of the gateway.

"What are you doing to me, Giovanni?" said Bruce to Giovanni as he stands next to him. "What are you doing to me now?"

"Patience, Banner. Patience." said the Team Rocket Boss.

"I don't have any more patience… with you or your team." Bruce Banner irritably verbalizes, showing that he's had enough of doing their dirty work. "You know I will Hulk out and…"

"Save your strength, Bruce." Giovanni interrupts. "You're going to need it."

Giovanni walks to one of the computer technicians, checking on their progress.

Giovanni: "How are we doing?"

The tech's computer screen shows a bar, pie, and line graph, with the bars and the pie slices of the graphs changing size erratically, indicating the power levels and fluctuations of the portal's energy output.

Team Rocket computer technician: "The power fluctuations are becoming steady; we should be ready to activate the portal momentarily, sir."

Giovanni: "Excellent."

Banner, overhearing, gets more anxious. He struggles to break free from his restraints, but can't. Giovanni notices this and casually walks up to Banner.

Giovanni: (indifferent) "Banner, what are you doing?"

Bruce Banner: "You're not putting me into that portal."

Giovanni: "Who said anything about 'putting you in' the portal? We're actually waiting for something on the other side to come to us."

Bruce Banner: "What are you talking about?"

Giovanni: (pointing to the gateway) "Out there, there is another world: a gateway to another dimension. In that dimension, there are Pokémon; not just any Pokémon, but ones that can control and bend the structure of our world's domain. These Pokémon can manipulate the fabric of space, time, and reality. These creatures created our continuum, but there is one that created the Pokémon world itself; one that created the Pokémon. This entity is one mankind have encountered and discussed for centuries. A legend turned into a myth… until now."

Giovanni and the rest (except Bruce) leave the room. The gateway turns on. It generates a swirling dark blue/purple vortex. This refers back to the dream Banner had weeks earlier.

Bruce Banner: "The portal — it's just like the one in my dream. But… what does this mean?"

A big, pointed yellow and white foot comes out of the portal. Bruce gets apprehensive. Out in the hallway, they go into the control room. Giovanni pushes a red button on the control panel and speaks through the microphone.

Giovanni: (from the loudspeaker) "Bruce Banner, you are about to bear witness the most powerful Pokémon in the universe."

As more of the creature comes through, everyone else in the room gasp in anticipation.

Giovanni: (from the loudspeaker) "Ladies and gentlemen – and Bruce Banner – I would like to present… Arceus!"

The Alpha Pokémon's entire body comes out through the portal. It raises its head triumphantly and lets out a bellowing screech. Arceus shifts his eyes and turns his head to wonder about its new surroundings. Its eyes focus on Bruce Banner; it leans in to get a closer look at him. Now, Banner gets more and more anxious as he fidgets to try to get out of his restraints.

Bruce Banner: (frightened) "Get away. Whatever you are, get away. Please. Leave me alone. Leave me alone! I don't want to hurt you. I don't… want… to hurt you!"

From the stress, Bruce begins to Hulk-out; his eyes turn green. In the control room, Giovanni looks at the screen that shows the room where Bruce and Arceus are. He sees Bruce transforming and flashes a sadistic grin. In mid-transformation, Bruce's restraints break apart. Arceus becomes surprised and curious in seeing a human change form. Hulk has fully transformed; he looks at Arceus and roars at it.

Giovanni: "Excellent."

In the lab room, Hulk grabs the apparatus that held him as Bruce and hurls it at the Alpha Pokémon… hard. When it makes contact, Arceus staggers back from the force of the impact, almost back into the portal. It regains its balance, puts on an aggressive stance and emits a deep, loud screech at its attacker. Arceus rears up and charges at the green giant. Hulk roars and lunges to punch Arceus' face, but it retaliates by using a Headbutt attack to knock him in the opposite direction and crash into some computers. Hulk quickly gets back up, now more enraged. He leaps at Arceus, but Arceus uses Hyper Voice to knock back jade jaws into a wall, then uses Thunder. Hulk is getting consistently electrocuted, but he gets back up on his feet and pushes through the attack. Arceus then switches to using a Fire Blast attack, right when Hulk leaps real close to its face. There is a miniature explosion as seen from the control room monitor. Giovanni, watching this, gets a transmission from his ear communicator. He presses it to turn it on.

Team Rocket Grunt #8: (from comm) "Giovanni, sir?"

Giovanni: (annoyed) "What?"

Team Rocket Grunt #8: (from comm) "We found two boys wandering the facility."

Giovanni: (surprised) "What?!"

Giovanni has a realization when he heard his subordinate mention "two boys".

Giovanni: (thinking) "Two boys…"

He has a flashback of meeting Brendan, Lucas, and Bruce at the city weeks ago:

Lucas: "Excuse us, sir."

Giovanni: (stops walking, taking his hat off) "Yes?"

Lucas: "What's going on?"

Brendan: (to Giovanni) "What's with the black-clad goons in the masks… and why are they putting one on you?"

Giovanni: (with utmost sincerity) "Why? Why, my dear boy, they work for me."

Team Rocket Grunt #3: "Sir, what about the kids?"

Giovanni: (looking at Lucas and Brendan, sleeping on the pavement) "Leave them. I have no use for them, but they did bring me what I need."

Back to the present…

Giovanni: (thinking; surprised, then angry) "I don't BELIEVE IT! They must be here to rescue Banner! But how did they find my BASE?!"

Team Rocket Grunt #8: (from comm) "What should I do with them, sir?"

Giovanni: (thinking; angered) "If I knew they would be a nuisance, I would've gotten them killed when I had the chance."

Team Rocket Grunt #8: (from comm) "Sir?"

Giovanni: "Do whatever you want with them! I've come too far and waited too long to let anyone interfere with our plans."

Team Rocket Grunt #8: (from comm) "Yes, sir."

In the hallway in another part of the base, two grunts hold Brendan and Lucas each at gunpoint; the one with Lucas takes his finger off the communicator. Lucas curiously asks, "Who were you talking to?" The grunt hits the back of Lucas' head with the nozzle of his gun. "None of your business." He says. Lucas faintly hears a roar coming from a wall they walk through. He whispers to Brendan, "Did you hear that?" Brendan whispers back, "Yeah, I did."

Team Rocket Grunt #8: "What are you guys talking about?"

Lucas smiles and nods to Brendan; He responds by doing the same answer to his friend.

Lucas: (slyly) "None of your business."

The trainers step on their captor's foot. Once they get some distance between them, Lucas quickly releases his Luxray.

Team Rocket Grunt #9: (hopping while clutching his foot, ticked) "Why you little…"

Lucas: "Luxray, use Zap Cannon."

Lucas' Luxray: "LUUUXXX-RAAAAAY!"

Its attack electrifies the two grunts; they faint and are left with their skin and clothes blacked and burned. Lucas asks his Luxray to use its x-ray eyes to search the room where the Hulk is located. It scans the wall where it sees…

LUXRAY'S P.O.V: Hulk inside the lab landing flat on his back then getting back up again to leap straight towards something.

It glances slightly to the right.

LUXRAY'S P.O.V: Hulk has grabbed the Alpha Pokémon's neck in an attempt to choke it, but it uses Psychic to get the Hulk to let go and fling him away. Arceus then uses Extremespeed.

Lucas: "You found him?"

Lucas' Luxray: (nods) "Lux."

Lucas: "Good. Let's go!"

They run to find their friend. Back in the lab, Hulk is still fighting Arceus. It uses various attacks to try to knock the Hulk out, but mean green keeps getting madder and madder with every hit it takes. Hulk eventually hits Arceus multiple times. Arceus is getting so weak from the hits that it staggers wobbly to get itself standing straight. It uses Recover and then charges a Hyper Beam attack. It shoots the Hyper Beam right at Hulk, which sends it crashing to the door, then out of the room. Lucas, Brendan, and Luxray encounter the Hulk crashing into the wall, along with the door. Hulk runs back in, enraged. Lucas returns Luxray to its Pokéball and enters the room Hulk went into where they couldn't believe their eyes; they see Arceus duking it out with the jade giant.

Brendan: (flabbergasted, trembling) "Is th-t-t-t-t-that a-a…"

Brendan and Lucas pull out their Pokédexes to scan it.

"Arceus, the Alpha Pokémon. It is said to have lived before the universe existed, which it created using its 1000 arms. The plates in its body allow it to change into the elemental Pokémon type of its choice."

Brendan: (looks at his Pokédex, he and Lucas look at each other in disbelief) "No… way."

Lucas: (he and Brendan look at Hulk and Arceus fighting) "My gosh!"

Hulk grabs one of Arceus' legs and smacks it around the floor and walls.

Lucas: "This is why Giovanni wanted Bruce – or, more specifically, the Hulk: he wanted Banner's alter ego's strength to weaken the legendary Pokémon so that his team can capture them."

Brendan: "How did you know that?"

Lucas: "Think about it; when we saw Hulk fight back at Wishcomb, he didn't care about whether or not he was killing the Pokémon: he only did it to protect himself."

Brendan: "So what you're saying is that… he wouldn't attack the Pokémon…"

Lucas: "…unless they attacked him first. Giovanni used Bruce Banner's fear of the Pokémon and 'condition' to his own personal longings. So when Bruce was hit by a Pokémon's move – legendary or otherwise…"

Brendan: "…he would transform against his will and retaliate."

Lucas: "Exactly!

Brendan: "Now, Hulk must think that all Pokémon are evil."

Lucas: "But where exactly are the legendries? That's what worries me."

Arceus, leaning on the wall, weak and injured from continuously being smacked around, charges another Hyper Beam, but Hulk lands on and grabs it's neck, wildly firing it at a support beam, which nearly falls on Brendan and Lucas, but they move out of the way just in time. Arceus frighteningly fires a barrage of long-range attacks, like Flamethrower, Thunder, Hyper Voice, and Focus Blast on the walls and ceiling; Lucas and Brendan have to constantly run to dodge the falling debris. It then uses Giga Impact to break through the walls and ceiling and get the Hulk to let go. When that doesn't work, Arceus tries a different tactic: it uses Giga Drain on Hulk to weaken him, enough to have him loosen his grip, then uses Giga Impact again on the ceiling. The Hulk falls off of Arceus and it [Arceus] breaks through the ceiling, letting the blue sky and sunlight bleach the room. Arceus flies up out of the room high into the sky (approx. 500 ft.), where it briefly takes a look down to see Hulk's unconscious body lying on the ground. Lucas and Brendan run to Hulk's side.

Lucas: "Hulk. Hulk!"

Brendan: "Come on, big guy. Wake up!"

Hulk gets back up albeit woozily. He looks up the large hole in the ceiling to see Arceus hovering above and growls. Brendan cringes with fear.

Brendan: (frightened) "Hulk? B-b-banner? Let's not do anything hasty (chuckles nervously) now."

But Hulk doesn't listen. He leaps with all his might through the opening while Brendan and Lucas watch upward From below as Hulk makes his ascension.

Brendan: (sarcastically) "That went well."

Hulk lands on the roof outside where he roars at his adversary. Arceus charges an energy ball on the top of his head. Brendan squints to get a better look at what's happening.

Brendan: "What is Arceus doing?"

Arceus flings the ball of energy on its head high into the sky.

Lucas: (eyes widen in fear) "I think Arceus is going to end this fight… once and for all."

Arceus used its move Judgement; the ball of energy in the air explodes into multiple streaks of light that come down; one of them lands on the Hulk. The portal starts to react again; a claw like appendage come through. Another streak of light comes raining down on the boys where they are standing. They close their eyes, cringe, and brace for impact. Just then, a spherical green field of energy suddenly surrounds the trainers, protecting them from the energy comet. Lucas and Brendan open their eyes and are stunned by what happened. While they're grateful that their lives have been spared, Lucas wonders how the field came out of nowhere. They soon here a shrill, but deep, screech. They both turn around to look behind them and they see to their amazement – Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina; the creation trio. The field disappears as soon as the trainers see them.

Brendan: (in awe) "Oh my gosh! I can't believe it!"

Lucas: "I can. (Smiles) Thank you."

The creation trio nods at the trainers for their gratitude. They fly up and out the building and turn their attention to Hulk, standing in an aggressive/defensive stance. He growls,

"Hulk… smash… FLYING… MONSTERS!"

Hulk leaps at Arceus to tackle it; its momentum pushes both of them away from the building and Arceus manages to stay aloft. Dialga uses a Hyper Beam on the Hulk, but Hulk leaps off of Arceus before it hits and punched Dialga on the side of its face, causing it to faint and plummet back into the lab where it crash-lands on the portal, destroying it, and into a load bearing wall. Lucas and Brendan gasp at seeing a legendary Pokémon knocked out cold right before their eyes. They then look up to see the others using their attacks and flying away from the building.

Lucas: "This is ridiculous! We've gotta stop this battle before Hulk hurts the others!"

Brendan: "I don't think it's gonna matter."

Lucas: (in shock and disbelief) "What?"

Brendan: "Most of our Pokémon were injured from the fight in the hallway, and I don't think Vigoroth and Swampert would last doing a rematch with him."

Lucas: "I don't care! We've gotta find a way to stop this and we've got to do it now!"

Brendan: "How? How?!"

Dialga, regaining consciousness, lifts and shakes his head. Lucas suddenly gets an idea.

Lucas: "Dialga."

Brendan: (seeing Lucas running to Dialga) "Lucas, what are you doing?"

Lucas: "Dialga!"

Dialga turns its head to look at Lucas.

Lucas: "I need you to send the Hulk into the past – 10 minutes into the past."

Brendan: "What do you mean, Lucas?"

Lucas: "Dialga is a Pokémon that can control and travel through time. With his power, this means that he can help end this as soon as it began."

Dialga's eyes glow white. Outside, Hulk roars at Arceus, Palkia, and Giratina and they roar back. As Hulk leaps to attack, his body becomes a glowing, white silhouette and soon, he disappears. The three legendries look at each other in bewilderment.

Brendan: "Where the heck did he go?"

Lucas: "Not where – when."

Oh, yeah! Merry Christmas, readers, and (for those of you that don't celebrate Christmas) Happy New Year!