More. Than. One. Blasted. Month. That's how long I made you guys wait. I really am sorry for that. To make up for it, I'll try to update sooner. Here are the reasons I took so long.

I got lazy.

My Internet was down for about a week.

I've been stressing over updating my other story, The Ability Of A Master, and wondering why no one reviews for that story, while I've been getting reviews for this one.

And then there was homework…

The list just goes on…

Anyway, please enjoy. Here's a refresher-Infernape, Lopunny, Luxray, Ninetales, Staraptor, and Swellow have defeated Magmortar and his Houndoom, Electivire and his Jolteon, and Yanmega and his Beedrill. Now it's time for Machamp, Medicham, Drapion, Kricketune, Abomasnow, and Roserade to take out Rhyperior and his Rampardos, Ursaring and his Crawdaunt, and Tangrowth and his Ludicolo.

With Machamp and Medicham…

Machamp, Medicham, and the Golem Squad weren't known for their stealth skills. As such, they did not have any stealth skills. Their method of attack was upfront and ferocious. Brute strength was their way.

Luckily, their enemy wasn't known for his stealth skills either, and neither was his group. Nonetheless, Machamp, Medicham, and the Golem Squad were surprised when Rhyperior and his Rampardos emerged in front of them.

"Oh, good. I was starting to wonder when you would show up." Machamp said with a sneer.

"That makes two of us." Rhyperior replied. Behind him, the Rampardos were stomping the ground in anticipation.

"Machamp, take Rhyperior, I'll cover the Rampardos." Medicham said. The Golem Squad also opted to take on the Rampardos.

"Fine. However, Golem, I'm not sure if you'll get a chance. Rampardos have weak defense, so it would be simple for Medicham to take them out. Oh, well, just take what you can. Attack!" Machamp commanded.

At his command, Medicham surged forward, the Golem using Rollout behind her. Medicham picked up two Golem, much to their chagrin, and hurled them at the Rampardos. Two Rampardos used Zen Headbutt to knock the Golem away, but the move distracted them, and Medicham and the Golem began overwhelming the Rampardos.

However, the Rampardos had high attack power, and they used it well enough to turn the battle from a clear victory on the part of the Golem and Medicham to a large stalemate with casualties on both ends.

Meanwhile, Machamp and Rhyperior were wrestling. They both had great strength, but Machamp had advantage from being a fighting type. Rhyperior's Solid Rock ability, however, made it much harder to cause damage than last time.

"Cross Chop!" Machamp yelled. He ran forward with two glowing hands crossed in front of him.

"Rock Wrecker!" Rhyperior roared. He quickly fired small pebbles from his cannons on his palms that coalesced until Rhyperior was holding a humongous rock. He slammed it down onto Machamp's Cross Chop. Needless to say, the rock broke, but so did the Cross Chop. Fortunately, Rock Wrecker kept the opponent from moving for a bit after use, giving Machamp the distinct opportunity to attack.

"Focus Blast!" Machamp commanded. He charged up a powerful ball of energy and fired, hitting Rhyperior in the stomach. Rhyperior was only pushed back a few feet. Machamp growled. "You're pretty tough. A lot tougher than I remember."

"Did you expect anything else? Megahorn!" Rhyperior's horn glowed white and he charged forward with pure force.

"Dynamic Punch!" Machamp yelled. One fist flowed, and he punched Rhyperior just as the horn struck. The double attack caused both fighters to grunt in pain.

"That's it! Stone Edge into Rock Wrecker into Hammer Arm!" Rhyperior yelled. When he coalesced the pebbles, they were all sharp, resulting in a boulder with sharp spikes. Also, using Hammer Arm allowed Rhyperior to slam down with extra power. Machamp was unable to defend against this powerful attack, and it caused a lot of damage.

However, Rhyperior was still unable to attack after using this combination. Machamp used the full opportunity. "You showed me your combo. Now let me show you one of mine. Dynamic Punch into Focus Blast!" Using the same combo he used on Metagross, Machamp powered up all four fists and charged up Focus Blast with all of them. Thanks to the extra training he got from beating Metagross, the powerful beam was even stronger than when he used it against Metagross. The resulting energy blew up some dust thanks to its sheer power. This also earned the attention of Medicham, the Golem squad, and the Rampardos, the latter of which watched in horror as their great leader took a direct hit from the blast.

When the dust settled, everyone was surprised to see Rhyperior still standing! "Impossible!" Medicham yelled. The Rampardos cheered. They stopped when Rhyperior bashed himself in the head with Hammer Arm and knocked himself out. Then they started fleeing.

"Oh, no you don't! Psychic!" Medicham yelled. Gathering up her psychic energy, she stopped the Rampardos and pulled them all back into a wall, the sheer force of which knocked them all out.

"Golem! Guard this group. Use ropes and tie them up. If they try to get up, use them as bowling pins to practice your Rollout." Machamp commanded. The Golem broke into cheers. The great thing about their leader was that his training methods also let them have fun.

Machamp took Medicham's hand and raced off towards the castle with her.

Around to the left and in the shadows…

Drapion, Kricketune, and the Seviper Squad were using their espionage techniques. Actually, Kricketune was riding Drapion's back, but that was beside the point. They were known as the assassins of Laxos's army for a reason, and this was it.

However, Drapion's opponent had neither the desire nor the patience to deal with these techniques, as was noticed when he came under their path and began roaring.

"Drapion! I know you and your cowardly squad are here! Show yourself! I am in no mood to deal with these stupid techniques!" Ursaring roared.

"Show myself? How many pairs of eyes do you need?" Drapion joked loudly. He then dropped out of the tree that he was in.

"So you've finally shown up. I thought that the journey to Zarton would take a long time, much less getting back." Ursaring said.

"Well, I had some help. Anyway, let's get down to business. You can try stopping me if you want, but I can assure you that it won't work. Taking me on will leave you all the worse for wear." Drapion promised.

"You think you can defeat me? You can't do anything but use poison. If you ask me that's a cowardly way to fight. Besides, you're outnumbered. Your squad is nowhere in sight. Proves how loyal the Poison-Types are. " Ursaring replied.

"Really? I should show you how powerful the Poison-Types are. Kricketune will also show your Crawdaunt how deadly it can be to underestimate insects." Drapion warned. Kricketune nodded, her claws waving in anticipation.

"Then let's see if you can beat my pure strength! Crawdaunt, attack!" Ursaring yelled. They scuttled forward. Drapion grabbed Kricketune and backed up until he was right under the tree he jumped out of. Then, at his signal, he let Kricketune go and she joined the battle as the Seviper Squad lunged out from the tree. Surprised, the Crawdaunt paused and began attempting to beat off the new attackers, although they weren't exactly successful.

Ursaring, however, was spared for Drapion himself. However, he was still able to prepare an attack. "Slash!" Ursaring yelled. His claws extended and he charged forward.

"Poison Jab!" Drapion called. His tail was bathed in purple energy and he jabbed his tail forward to meet the claws. The two attacks were canceled out.

"X-Scissor!" Drapion called. He ran forward and slashed his claws across Ursaring's body. The bear was pushed back. "Sludge Bomb!" Drapion followed up by firing the deadly projectiles, which struck Ursaring easily, causing him to become poisoned.

Ursaring grinned. "Thank you! Focus Punch!" Ursaring gathered his energy and punched Drapion, sending him flying through a bramble patch and into a tree.

Drapion struggled to get up. "What …was that?" he managed to gasp out.

"That was Guts, my ability!" Then he screamed after the poison from Drapion caused a bit more damage. However, he was able to regain his composure. "If I have a status problem, my attack power is raised by fifty percent!"

Drapion growled. "X-Scissor!" he commanded. He ran forward with his claws at the ready.

"Hammer Arm!" With his extra power, Ursaring was able to overpower Drapion, easily breaking through the X-Scissor as causing major damage. Luckily, Ursaring was slowed down due to the Hammer Arm, and he still felt the effects of the poison.

"Hyper Beam!" Ursaring yelled. He had to finish this quickly. However, Drapion used his speed and rammed Ursaring, throwing him off balance and the Hyper Beam hit a rock, shattering it to bits. Ursaring had just given himself his own doom, as Hyper Beam rendered him immobile and completely at Drapion's mercy.

And Drapion had no mercy for his opponent. It was time to repay all the pain Ursaring had helped to cause. "Cross Poison! X-Scissor! Poison Jab into Sludge Bomb!" His left claw glowed with purple energy with the Cross Poison, his right claw glowed with white energy with the X-Scissor, and his tail glowed purple and started bubbling with the Poison Jab and Sludge Bomb. Drapion slashed with the Cross Poison, struck with the X-Scissor, and completely and utterly rendered Ursaring unable to battle after striking him with the Poison Jab and then releasing the Sludge Bombs into Ursaring's body. After one last powerful tail whack, Drapion left Ursaring for fainted as Kricketune had finished with the last Crawdaunt. To Drapion's relief, she looked just fine.

Drapion was about to run over to Kricketune when he heard groaning. Looking behind him, he saw Ursaring attempting a last stand when the poison Drapion had left in Ursaring's body unleashed its most devastating effect yet, this time leaving Ursaring down for good. Looking on in contempt, Drapion called the Seviper over.

"I have shown him how powerful poison can be. If he wakes up, give him a reminder." Drapion said. The Seviper nodded, slithering forward to guard Ursaring, while Kricketune jumped back onto Drapion's back and he ran towards the palace, muttering playfully about whether or not Kricketune was going to use him as a ride forever.

Meanwhile…

Abomasnow, Roserade, and the Glalie Squad were traveling around the right-side outskirts of Laxos, following the plan. However, as it was with their teammates, they were confronted by Abomasnow's rival in Team Demonic.

Tangrowth and his Ludicolo squad were all ready. When Abomasnow showed up, they were quite pleased, to say the least.

"We meet again. I've been craving for a rematch with you. I assure you, it will be much harder to defeat me this time." Tangrowth warned.

"When you say it will be much harder, do you mean it will take more than one hit to knock you out or just that you have actually have a strategy that your stupid Lord Dusknoir thought up? Because if you actually followed his plans, you're a lot more idiotic than I realized." Abomasnow rumbled.

"How dare you insult Lord Dusknoir!" Tangrowth yelled.

"How dare you kill King Lucario, Queen Lopunny, Master Gallade, and Mistress Gardevoir!" Abomasnow responded with just as much ferocity.

"I grow tired of this! The time for words is long gone! I should have attacked from the start!" Tangrowth shouted.

Abomasnow turned to Roserade. "Can you lead the Glalie into battle while I take care of Tangrowth?" he asked.

"Sure. Just be careful." Roserade answered. Abomasnow nodded.

"Attack!" The Ludicolo and Tangrowth surged forward as Roserade and the Glalie charged. Roserade and her Poison Jabs were easily taking down one Ludicolo after another, and the Glalie used their freezing skills to easily defeat the Ludicolo and their Water Guns. That changed when the Ludicolo started using Zen Headbutt and Hydro Pump. That, combined with the Glalie's counter-use of Blizzard and Gyro Ball, pretty much turned the battle into a stalemate, but thanks to Roserade, the good side was winning.

Meanwhile, Tangrowth had just jumped over the opposing side by using Power Whip to swing on a tree branch. As he maintained the Power whip to attack Abomasnow, Abomasnow prepared a counterattack.

"Ice Beam!" Abomasnow yelled. The move was partially blocked by Power Whip, but the brunt was taken by Tangrowth's stomach. While Abomasnow hated to use such an underhanded technique, he deemed it necessary.

"Sunny Day!" Abomasnow's eyes widened as Tangrowth fired a ball into the sky that turned into an artificial sun.

"He wouldn't do that just for the sake of it. What is he planning?" Abomasnow wondered. He got his answer when Tangrowth moved inexplicably faster than before.

"Ancientpower!" Tangrowth commanded. The rocks fired at close range caused massive damage to Abomasnow, who was an Ice-Type.

"Blizzard!" Abomasnow yelled. He summoned a powerful snowstorm that Tangrowth took some damage from. Surprisingly, he was still up, while last time it took just one Blizzard to knock him out.

"Surprised? I told you I would be tougher! Solarbeam!" Since the sun was at full strength from Sunny Day, Solarbeam barely took any time to charge up, much to Abomasnow's expense.

After taking the Solarbeam, Abomasnow struggled to his feet. "It seems I've underestimated you." he said.

"You're weak. It's time to finish this! Power Whip!" Tangrowth yelled. Once again, his arms stretched out, and he hurled them both at Abomasnow. Abomasnow held out his left arm, and the Power Whips wrapped around the arm. Tangrowth grinned and used the vines to hurl himself into the air, planning to crush Abomasnow with his weight.

Tangrowth should have known better. He didn't hear Abomasnow whisper, "Wood Hammer into Ice Beam into Brick Break.", nor did he see Abomasnow sneakily freeze the Wood Hammer with Ice Beam. He might have been spared a very painful defeat if he did.

As Tangrowth got near, Abomasnow swiftly dragged him the rest of the distance and swiftly bashed him with the Frozen Wood Hammer Break combo, the same one he used to knock out Mr. Mime. Tangrowth then got the wind knocked out of him, and hung limp, Abomasnow holding him in the air by one arm. For good measure, Abomasnow slammed him down to the ground, cutting off all of Tangrowth's chance of surviving.

As Abomasnow stood over the fallen Tangrowth, Roserade and the Glalie Squad ran over to him.

"Sir, all of the Ludicolo are all either ice statues, frozen to the ground, or writhing in pain from Madam Roserade's poison. Some of our troops are down, but for the most part we're all right." One of the Glalie reported.

Abomasnow raised his eyebrows at Roserade, who grinned at him, and then looked back at the Glalie Squad. "Excellent. Guard the cretins until a member of our side shows up. Roserade and I have some business at the castle." Abomasnow ordered. The Glalie moved to guard the fallen enemy army, as Abomasnow and Roserade took each other's hands and headed to the castle.

Some time later…

"Where are they?" Infernape asked impatiently. He and Lopunny were the first ones to arrive at the castle.

"They'll be here. We just have to wait a bit longer." Lopunny answered patiently.

"What would "a bit longer" mean in that sentence?" Infernape asked.

"No time at all." Another voice called. Infernape and Lopunny looked to see Luxray and Ninetales running towards them. It was Luxray who had spoken.

"Sorry, we got stalled by Electivire." Ninetales added.

"We got attacked by Magmortar, and we still got here in time." Infernape countered.

"You too?" It was Staraptor, who shouted from above. He and Swellow swooped down to meet the others on the ground.

"Yanmega and his insects launched a counter-aerial attack. It was annoying, but nothing we couldn't handle." Swellow said.

"Well, it looks like we weren't the first to get here after all." Machamp said as he showed up with Medicham.

"You can blame Rhyperior for our tardiness." Medicham said.

"Hey, you guys are slow, so you have an excuse. I'm the fastest member of Team Valor and I still got here in fifth place!" Drapion's voice yelled. He leapt out from the forest with Kricketune.

"This guy was held back by Ursaring." Kricketune tapped Drapion's shoulder playfully, earning a playful glare from Drapion.

"Well, it looks like the gang's all here." Abomasnow rumbled.

"You don't have to worry about Tangrowth." Roserade giggled.

"So, Team Demonic has been stopped. I guess that's to be expected. They were all strong, but pretty stupid. Now it's time for the final test." Infernape said. Then, he glared up at the imposing castle above him and his teammates. The very castle that they all grew up in. There was nothing more than hatred in all their hearts as they thought of the one who was responsible for this in the first place.

"Dusknoir… you will pay." they all murmured. Team Valor and Team Majesta walked through the already open castle gates, ready for the final and ultimate battle.

Very, very dramatic ending. Again, I deeply apologize for updating so late. I hate myself for doing this to you. Then again, it's probably because I have a huge sense of responsibility.

Anyway, please review.