Day 4 of To Catch Arceus.
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"Wait for it, and... Perfect, Now Pikachu use thunderbolt!" Ash ordered right when Purugly was less than a foot away from Pikachu. The electric attack scored a direct hit slamming Purugly into the wall and knocking him out.
"What that isn't possible" Mars shouted frustratingly.
"Bronzor come out and use haze!" Mars said. Bronzor covered the room in fog and as soon as it cleared they were gone.
"Darn they escaped" Ash said angrily.
"Ash we can talk about this later, right now we need to open that bronze vault and get Drew out!" Pikachu said.
Pikachu then used iron tail on the front instantly breaking it open. They then saw Drew on the ground. He had bruises all over his body and a black eye. Roserade layed beside him unconscious. Ash barged into the room going over to where Drew was.
"Ash" was all Drew said.
"Drew what happened?"
Chapter 7: Day 4
"Well you see..."
Flashback
"TOXICROAK" his Toxicroak shouted before sending out a purple blast of energy towards Roserade. Once again, she had no time to dodge and the blast hit her and she now struggled to stand.
"That's not possible" Drew said confused.
"Yes it is, I trained my Toxicroak to combine Focus Blast and Sludge Wave! Now Toxicroak finish Roserade off with X-Scissor!"
"Oh no"
"Toxicroak!" Toxicroak exclaimed before slamming into Roserade knocking her out.
"Now, your time is finished" Saturn said pulling out a knife. Suddenly the screen on one of the walls blinked to life. And on it was... Cyrus?
"Don't kill him yet, we'll need him for the plan later" Cyrus ordered from the screen.
"Grr... your still going to have to pay" Saturn said punching Drew in the face knocking him out.
Drew then woke up a few hours late in a dark room plated with bronze on the walls.
"Where the heck am I" Drew said looking around at the bronze walls surrounding him.
"Oh no Roserade!" Drew said sadly looking at his fainted companion. Drew then just sat down next to Roserade and a tear escaped his eye.
End Flashback
"And then you came" Drew concluded his story.
"Ok well as long as you are okay we should probably get going, we need to get to the Hall of Origin soon" Ash said.
"Don't worry I'm fine. And thank goodness, you guys actually know where it is. We can finally catch Arceus" Drew said relieved.
"Yeah well we sort of have more of a general direction of where it could be" Drew facepalmed.
"Hey at least Staravia should be feeling better now so we can fly there" Ash said encouragingly.
Drew nodded and they went back to Staravia who's wing looked fine now.
"Ok Staravia, how long do you think it will take to fly to the Hall of Origin?" Drew asked.
"Who is this person Ash?" Staravia asked getting into a defensive position and preparing to attack the stranger.
"Relax, this is Drew he is going to help us" Ash said calming the bird.
"Okay well assuming we don't get lost too many times around 8 hours" Staravia responded.
"Ok lets get going, Drew don't forget to grab Roserade" Ash said.
"Already got him let's get moving"
They then rushed out of the cave and Staravia took flight high above the mountains.
'Wow it looks amazing. If only May was here with us' Ash thought staring at the clouds above.
"Something wrong Ash?" Pikachu asked noticing his trainer's dazed expression.
"No, nothing wrong Pikachu" Ash lied.
'As soon as we get back May, I just have to tell her my feelings before Drew does. I really do have loved her ever since I first met her and I don't know how much longer I can hold in these feelings. She is always so kind and caring to everyone and she treats her pokemon just as well as I do. I just can't wait to get this over with and hopefully I can be with May forever together' Ash thought.
'I still have a few roses left to make use of when I tell her my feelings. That girl has always been sort of different from other girls I know. I don't think I could bare the thought of her and Ash together' Drew thought.
Pikachu watched the two in deep thought about May and quickly concluded, 'Humans are weird'.
They continued the flight where it was rather scenic compared to most places they had been to on the adventure. The mountain tops were shining with bright white snow and you could even make out Snowpoint city in the far distance. Luckily they didn't get lost once since about halfway through the flight they could see the Hall of Origin which seemed to dwarf everything around it. Soon enough they reached Spear Pillar which they rested on for five minutes.
'This sure brings back some old memories' Ash thought.
"Hopefully we can reason with Arceus so we don't have to fight him" Drew said not truly believing it could be done but hoping it was somehow possible.
"I agree" Ash said twiddling his fingers nervously as they hopped on Staravia.
"Staravia let's go up!"
Staravia began to flap his wings pulling them up higher and higher. The Hall of Origin reallly is higher than it looks and it took an hour to reach the top.
"Ugh finally from down there it looks like only a 5 minute climb up" Drew said confused at how they made it look like that.
"Yep it is strange" Ash said trying his best to quell his nervousness.
"What are you doing here?" a deep voice called.
"Who's that?" Drew asked nervously. The figure of the voice soon appeared to be Arceus.
"Arceus thank goodness, we need your help" Ash said half relieved, half worried that Arceus would blast them out of the Hall of Origin after they told him what they needed to do.
He explained to Arceus there story. Arceus didn't say a word during the story.
"Don't worry we aren't actually going to let him take you, we'll just have you help us defeat him" Ash said reassuringly.
"Please we are begging you!" Drew said sadly.
He continued to just stare at them and they prepared for the worst.
"I shall help if you two defeat me in a one on one pokemon battle" Arceus responded.
"Very well" Ash said his eyes gleaming with fierceness like they always did during a battle.
"Pikachu I choose you!" Ash called out to Pikachu who hopped off Ash's shoulder and got ready for battle.
"Thunderbolt!" Ash ordered. Pikachu sent out a large electric bolt that hit Arceus but didn't even leave a scratch.
"Hyper Beam" Arceus called out forming a beam of energy from his mouth and sending it at Pikachu. Pikachu barely dodged the beam which hit the ground instead leaving a giant crater.
"Pikachu while he's worn out from the move Iron Tail" Ash shouted. Pikachu sent his powerful tail into Arceus having a large effect and bringing him down for just an instant. But he then got back up and used the move judgement which hit Pikachu nearly swallowing him who was now struggling to stand.
"Pikachu please stand up" Ash begged to Pikachu who looked like he would collapse any moment.
Pikachu stood up finally still in a weak condition but determined nevertheless. He glared at Arceus.
"I'm impressed but it is not enough" Arceus said calmly again charging for Hyper Beam.
The hyper beam hit the ground below Pikachu knocking him into a chasm where his eyes were still opened barely.
"Pikachu try one more thunderbolt on Arceus's leg" Ash begged to Pikachu who sent out a weak bolt of electricity.
Again as expected the thunderbolt hit but had zero effect.
'I've got to think of a new strategy just sending a thunderbolt won't work. I've got it I'll get Pikachu to send a thunder at Arceus's head. If it hits we may have a chance' Ash thought.
"Pikachu use thunder on Arceus's head" Ash shouted.
Pikachu then sent out a thunder that would change history. Despite Pikachu's weakness he put all the energy he had left into that one attack. The thunder looked as thought it had been supercharged and was glowing with absolute fierceness.
They only question was: Will it hit?
And the answer was...
Yes
The thunder hit knocking over Arceus. Pikachu had done the impossible, he had brought down the creator of Pokemon himself.
"Pokeball go!" Ash shouted. He threw the pokeball which continued to shake.
and shake
and shake
After about 5 minutes of this it finally clicked and they had done it.
Ash then let Arceus out of his pokeball.
"I shall help you" Arceus declared.
"Awesome with Arceus on our side Cyrus doesn't stand a chance!" Drew said happily.
"Huh that's what you think" a voice said from the other side.
"What was that voice" Ash said now suspicious. The person revealed himself to be Cyrus. (Yeah I'm betting you saw that one coming)
"Finally my perfect moment of revenge is complete!" Cyrus exclaimed throwing a red chain towards Arceus. It hit him and his eyes began to glow red.
"Arceus no!" Drew shouted.
"From now on you listen to me" Cyrus ordered sternly to Arceus.
"You two are going to pay dearly for what you did. You destroyed my dream of destroying emotion. I was going to rid the world of it for the better and replace it with a new and pure world. This time I will not fail. You two will be the first to die on my quest to create a new world" Cyrus said sending a death glare at them both, rage in his eyes that were normally empty.
"Giratina come on out" he shouted.
"YOU CAPTURED GIRATINA!" Drew shouted angrily and surpised.
"That is right you see my original story I told you two was false. I escaped the distortion world by capturing Giratina herself" Cyrus said glaring at the two.
"Giratina, Arceus finish off those two!"
End of Chapter 7!
Arceus and Giratina vs Pikachu and Staravia. Seems pretty onesided to me. Will they survive...