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Mercury materializes at the summit, much to the surprise to the three admins and Charon. The three legendaries break away from the child and the violet eyes glance at the two orbs standing on pillars towards the edge of the summit.
Violet orbs glance around the area. Pillars sported cracks and shifted from their original stoic figure to stand crookedly, like broken fingers. The pokemon on standby waiting for directions paw at the fissures in the ground and roll the pieces of debris across the ruins in their boredom.
"Are you ready child?" The old man asks as the three lake guardians take position around the orbs in triangle formation.
The child released her sliggoo and her arcanine for standby before entering the triangle. Light outlines the shape and the two orbs glow a faint color. One pink, one blue. The three pokemon eyes glow as the triangle's borders slowly rise. Uxie's concentration breaks and the walls shatter when a Shadow Ball is launched at the four. Mercury drops into a roll to avoid the Aura Sphere and accompanying Flamethrower.
"Aw, crap it's the champion," One of the grunts whines as her glameow is hurled through a column.
The violet eyes catch a glimpse of the determined champion and she motions her pokemon forward. Destin sticks himself to Diadem's mane and the duo charges at the lucario and spiritomb. Mesprit, Uxie, and Azelf cut off Garchomp's rampage with barriers.
A whistle cuts through the air and Mystic's pokeball bursts open from within Cynthia's coat. The dragon takes its stance in front of the opposing dragonic beast ramming its claws against the Reflect caging it in. A Brick Break destroys the box and the two dragons go for eachother. Flames are spewed in all directions, creating a broken circle of fire, and the hydreigon throws its head forward before a spiraling beam launches the garchomp back a few spaces. Garchomp retaliates and torpedos forward, sharp claws slice across the brutal pokemon and Mystic roars in pain before it spins to land a Dragon Tail.
The child gingerly picks up the rolling dusk ball and places it back on her hip. Her main distraction preoccupied, she restarts the summoning and Cynthia realizes too late when that the two orbs have begun to glow radiantly. The eyes of three lake guardians shine and they stretch out their bodies when the orbs illuminate even brighter. Their tails spin outward and Mercury radiates her signature pulse in a colossal wave that causes all the pokemon to turn around to stare at her.
The air above the child begins to distort and waver as the pulse resonates across the sky.
"Hear our plea! Dialga, Palkia, answer my summons!"
The portals start to gravitate inward, a swirling vortex that limbs start to protrude from. The two beasts float hauntingly in the air and stare with their red, beady eyes at the tiny creature who dared summon them.
"Angel, don't you dare!" Cynthia half pleas, half hisses as she starts to run forward, only to be stopped by Diadem.
She tries to dodge around the canine, but the arcanine pounces in front of her movements. Both of their faces contort, muscles tensing as they glower at each other. The fire type roars and rushes forward to force the champion back. Cynthia huffs in annoyance and releases her gastrodon.
"Gastrodon, water pulse!" The sea slug creature hurls its head forward and propels the ball of water at the arcanine.
Diadem jumps to the side and releases a slew of flames to force the pokemon back.
Wind, or the power that pulsates from the two menacing legendaries, whirlwinds the platinum locks around as she stares upward.
"Please, help us! Help me ease your friends fears. Open the dimension where the renegade resides so that it won't destroy this world!"
Dialga roars at the small girl before him. The question causes her to straighten.
"I made a promise to help and, and this world is too beautiful to destroy. I-I don't care that it likes to hurt me. That it killed my father, that my mother left us when I was born. I have my pokemon and, and I have Cynthia. This world is happy and full of love. Do you want that to be gone?"
Palkia murmurs at her.
"I don't care what happens to me and neither do my pokemon. I don't care about the pain from when I was younger because I know my father loved me and Cynthia gave me love. I don't need to live through today, but this world does. I don't care if everyone hates me because this is the region where my Mama is from and, this dimension, this time, is the one she loves. So I've got to protect it."
Everyone pauses. Cynthia in stunned silence stops trying to skirt around Diadem to stare at the small child in front of her in misty, eyed wonder. Garchomp starts using Mystic as a punching bag and lands beside her trainer. The Team Galactic admins scowl and Charon states their thoughts,
"Well, you little traitor. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. We'll just have to eliminate you know."
Angel doesn't even flinch at the armada of pokemon flying at her, but does blink in subtle surprise when Dialga releases a Flash Cannon that blow the creatures back and down the stairway leading to the ruins.
The violet eyes spark when she connects them with the legendaries and she bows her head in respectful thanks. The two beasts turn to each other and roar. Energy wraps around their frames and a new rift appears between them. It slowly grows in diameter and the center reveals nothing more than a purple hole that descended into an unknown area.
Angel calls her pokemon back into their pokeballs. She stares at the ominous hole and slowly inches her way across the cracked rubble towards the portal. A clog catches in her throat that makes her heavy breathing more difficult as she stretches her neck to catch a glimpse at the realm below. Her eyes widen and her lungs labor to breathe at the sight, but feeling the two legendary pokemon eyes on her, she steels her nerves and throws caution to the wind.
Her legs kicks out from beneath her as she leaps into the abyss. Energy crackles around her and her limbs felt like they were being constricted by slimy, seaweed by the way it uncomfortably slid along her skin. Her hair flows behind her as she propelled to her possible doom and Angel keeps twitching her eyes between closing shut and staring wide eyed. Deciding she'd rather not look, Angel glues her eyes together in a vice grip and let the energy take her.
…
The ground was a rude awakening. Angel couldn't explain why, but she half expected she'd land on her feet. She found herself corrected when she landed flat on her behind and tumbled onto the red dirt. Her hands press against the fractured earth and she pushes herself into a kneeling position. The child's hand goes to her waist, but recoils when she remembers her team's exhausted state. Sighing, Angel stands up and hits the dust off her outfit. Her violet eyes glance around the familiar landscape.
Spasmodic masses of land hung suspended in the air against the purple background at every angle unimaginable. Some sported black, deformed, bristly trees that looked like they could pierce through skin. Pointed rocks protruded from the crimson earth like ragged teeth and the occasional waterfall, flowing both down and up, could be seen from the child's position.
Angel stiffens when the little light available darkens for a second and when she looks up she catches the tail end of a phantasmal being in her peripheral vision. When she turns to investigate she discovers the creature is gone.
A thud behind her makes the child jump and pivot on her heels. What she makes out through her mass of hair is a slim figure cloaked in black. Angel stares at the rising person in a stupor as her companion brushes the debris off her outfit and starts to approach her. The violet orbs just stare blankly as Cynthia brushes her hair away from her face before grasping the child in a death grip, apologetic words streaming from her mouth.
"I'm sorry Angel. I-I I'm so sorry that I doubted you," Cynthia's grip on Angel tightened, almost painfully, but the platinum didn't care and even forced herself further into the embrace.
The mother keeps up her apologies as she relinquish her grip.
"It's okay Mama. As long as you're not mad at me. Y-you don't hate me right?"
The champion smiles at her and places a kiss on her forehead, "I could never hate you Love." The blonde stands and smiles slightly when Angel clutches her hand tightly when she tries to pull away.
"What is this place?" The adult wonders out loud.
Two words blurted from Angel's mouth, not because she knew their origin but because they seemed to propel their way out on their own. "The Distortion World."
"Cyrus created this place?"
The platinum shakes her head as she stares at the swirling vortex in the distance, "I don't think so Mama. This is beyond even a mad man's mind and… I saw something earlier."
Angel doesn't elaborate and shudders slightly at the thought. Cynthia crouches down, pats her head and snatches Calamity's pokeball of the child's waist.
"Hey!" Angel protests as she jumps to grasp the luxury ball before Cynthia rose to full height.
The adult smile at the pout before digging through the bag she had strapped to her waist for potions. A max potion made its way out of the folds of the fabric and the champion kneels on the ground to start healing the younger's pokemon.
Calamity slumps to the ground when released, still battered and sore. She opens her green eyes and her view is filled by her trainer's face, the pokemon lets out a soft cry. The spray medicine makes the absol wince at the slight sting, but she feels rejuvenated nonetheless. The creature stumbles its way up to its four paws and shakes her ruff.
"Are your others okay?" The mother asks as she stands and puts the empty container back in her bag.
"They're fine. We only have two things to find here anyway."
Cynthia looks at her but doesn't say anything. Instead she follows the child once she starts walking. The champion doesn't question their direction, if anyone has the slightest clue what is happening it's Angel, but flinches slightly when the child launches herself at one of the floating steps. Her heart probably skipped a beat when she did it again and Cynthia choked on her own saliva when the girl nudged the center of a platform and it went zooming in one direction before it came zooming back. Calamity, probably just as fearful your lifelong trainer was going to fall into literal oblivion jumped after her.
It's going to be a long day.