Hey everyone. KhaosOmega here with the next installment of Amethyst Angel Adventures: Colosseum. Though the Amethyst Angel name and appearance are of my design, and the characters behind mystery trainers X and Y are OCs of mine, the Anise Azeat character belongs to BROCCOLI, while Pokemon belongs to Nintendo.

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Chapter 8: The Final Showdown

Anise's POV

Man, these last four trainers thought they could take my group on all at the same time. Their Shadow Pokemon consisted of a Miltank (some random Rider), a Tropius (held by a male Cipher Peon, who my scouter identified as the GD version of Alpha's enemy Ston), an Absol (which Ryo nabbed immediately from a random BodyBuilder that wanted in on the action) and a Houndoom, which i wasted no time in nabbing from the GD version of Team Vexus leader Alpha (something about her, though, seemed familiar to me). Phantova then deployed an Earthquake attack, super effective on 'GD Alpha's' Fire-type Pokemon, did nothing whatsoever on Tropius, as he's part-Flying, and didn't knock Miltank out for some reason. Unfortunately, Earthquake also knocked a spectator into the battlefield where he was drilled by an awry Air Slash from Ston's Tropius, and i accidentally knocked out one of Scotty's Pokemon as well.

"I knew i shouldn't've used Dig if that Earthquake was comin'." Scotty said. Ryo had anticipated Earthquake, as he was using Noctowl, part-Flying; Jasmine had sent out Meganium, who partially resisted enough Earthquake to only sustain slight damage (Only the Shadow Tropius was still in play against the Grass-type Johto starter, as the female Cipher Peon's other two Pokemon were knocked out by their weakness); and Y had sent out Aeres, a Flygon who evaded the quake with his Levitate ability and then hit a Flamethrower on one of Ston's other Pokemon as, on the next turn, Jasmine nabbed Tropius in sync with Y, armed with a Snag Machine now, nabbing Miltank. Only two turns later and the Cipher quartet had fallen.

"Hey, you in the pink." i called to the other side. The Cipher Peon pointed at herself in confusion. "Yeah, you. C'mere." The girl then walked towards me, her heels clicking on the metal floor and pulling off her helmet along the way.

"What?" she asked once she was at my end of the Realgam Tower battle arena.

"You look kinda familiar to me. What's your name?"

"Nicole Morneau. Why?"

'Strike one.' i thought; this girl had the same name as Kara's kidnapper two years ago. "I was wondering if you recognize me at all."

"Well, the dominant red color of your hair and your azure eyes seem familiar, but otherwise i'm drawing a blank."

"Maybe this will jog your memory." i said; next thing she knew my left leg crashed with massive power into her left knee, from which came a sinister CRACK at which Nicole collapsed in a heap, clearly in pain.

"DARN IT! That's the second time i've been kicked so hard in that knee!" she managed to choke out in trying not to scream out in pain.

'Strike two.' "When was the first time?"

"Some redhead drilled me on September 9, 2008 in the OZ sys- oh, you gotta be BLEEPIN' ME!"

"I take it you remember me now."

"Anise?! The hair accessories must be new; you weren't wearing them back then. But what happened to your eyes?"

"Eyeshadow."

"So i take it the very light pink shade of your lips must be from lipstick. Must be trying to express your feminine side, i take it."

"Yeah. By the way, i already got Kara out of the dimension. Had her take refuge in XQ Side Dimension 989."

"Did Nella already tell you about who controlled me into doing the kidnapping in the first place?"

"Yeah, that's why my power level is at 8 quadrillion. Stacy, who destroyed the amulet responsible, is with Kara. This is only my second mission since J.C. gave me my main nickname, and the revelation was in my previous mission."

At this point a recovered Desiree had come to Nicole's aid. An audible gasp came from her once she saw Nicole clutching her knee.

"What exactly happened?" she asked.

"Remember Kara from earlier?" i asked back, getting a nod in response. "Nicole here was under an Imperius Curse emitting from an amulet when Kara was kidnapped from my home dimension. The state of her knee was to jog her memory of it, for that's how i immobilized her for Stacy to destroy the amulet."

Desiree decided to help Nicole up, before planting a kiss on her lips that triggered a massive pulse of golden light between them. Upon releasing her grip everyone, myself included, noticed that the light had healed Nicole's injured knee.

"Nicole, since it was an Imperius Curse that made you do what you did two years ago, that only made my love for you stronger."

"Thanks, Dez." Nicole replied, using a nickname she had come up with for her soulmate. "Turns out the increased strength enabled the Bond activation to heal my knee."

"Good thing it did. C'mon, let's go, we've got some love-making to do."

"Right behind ya." With that, the two girls entered a portal and left Realgam Tower, the portal they used closing behind them, though just before it did the golden X of XQ formed. I assumed it was an indicator of whatever dimension they entered now being protected by a force shield identical to the one shielding Zelixena. Nascour chose then to enter the fray, using five of his six Pokemon to counter the fact he was dealing with five trainers. Phantova quickly forced him to send out his Shadow Metagross, nabbed by me the same way i gained Hydrixena (the Suicune i nabbed, now purified) from Venus, a Snag Master hitting Metagross' Poke Ball button first on the other Ball's button. That move was followed by his other four Pokemon falling almost simultaneously from attacks.

"You gotta be... wait, don't wanna make that same mistake Wakin did." Nascour said, having stopped himself from using the line Jet got from baseball announcer Ken Harrelson, not wanting to be on the recieving end of whatever move one of us would pull if he did. Only Scotty, however, had that luxury of a free shot without damaging a Snag Machine as he didn't have one. That was after Metagross was nabbed, as he couldn't stop himself from doing it a second time after the defeat via four nearly simultaneous knockouts. Scotty didn't react in time, on account of Jet having arrived on the scene behind Nascour and landing his own Vhozon Chill maneuver. That was when Es Cade appeared on the scene.

"Alright, Evice, i figured you were up to something, and as there's six trainers now you're really in for it. However, you'll only face the five from the other battle." i said. Scotty, using Xaianova, easily knocked out Salamence with an Ice Beam, forcing Tyranitar into the battle - had Jasmine not Snagged it in a repeat of Metagross' Snagging. Exodia's Brick Break took out the troublesome Slaking, messing up the Skill Swap Slowking was setting up (Slaking's ability is Truant, allowing for an attack only every other turn), while Machamp was wasted by Y, using a Blaziken Jet nicknamed after my Rune Angel teammate Natsume, via Aerial Ace. One Flamethrower from Ryo's Magcargo (he had nabbed Slugma, now purified and having evolved) was enough to knock out Scizor, while a Thunderbolt from Jasmine's Jolteon, not seen before and named Sparkine (it was female) took out Slowking. The Shadow Pokemon plot was over, but Evice had an escape option planned out.

Jet was ready for it.

"Starblaze, Sacred Fire on the helicopter!" he yelled out, throwing a Master Ball that contained a Ho-oh, which promptly used its signature move to destroy the helicopter and effectively bring down Cipher. Cipher was done.

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Whoa. What a final chapter. The next, and last, installment in AAA:C is the epilogue, showing the final group purification of the remaining Shadow Pokemon and the detailing of the next mission. Until then, mateys.