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Me: Do I even have to say it?

Greninja: Gren-greninja

Me: Huh? I don't speak ninja

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Greninja: *grins and nods* Ninja

Chapter 14: The Badge and the Set Up

Ash's POV

I knew that this was gonna be one hell of a battle. I'm sure everyone in the room thinks that this will be a battle to never blink or you'll miss. The room was quiet with a tense silence. Both Abomasnow and Greninja were both staring each other down trying to intimidate one another. I can feel the tenseness in the air. Time to cut it (literally).

"Alright now Greninja use Cut!" I command him and he pulls out the white blade of Cut and runs towards Abomasnow with extreme speed.

"Counter with Ice Punch!" He commands Abomasnow. And Abomasnow's right fist turned white with ice and charges towards Greninja. The two attacks collide and they're pretty much in stalemate.

"Now Wood Hammer!" Wulfric commands.

"Now use Aerial Ace quick to counter!" I say and both his fins light up white and he races to clash with the Wood Hammer. They both stay in stalemate until I see an opening to something.

"Now use Water Shuriken!" I tell him and he immediately creates a few shurikens and hits them in the spot where I saw which was his right side.

"Nice job Greninja!" I say and he smirks.

"Ice Shard!" I hear and shards of ice of flying towards Greninja. I was taken completely by surprise and so was Greninja. I couldn't react in time. He got hit by a lot of the shards. He fell to one knee for a moment in pain.

"Greninja are you good?" I ask in concern.

"Just a scratch I'll be ok." He said back. I was not expecting them to recover so fast.

"Alright now Greninja use Double Team and follow it up with Aerial Ace!" I say and Greninja creates multiple copies of himself as he rushes Abomasnow.

"Alright use Ice Shard on the copies and use Ice Punch to counterattack the Aerial Ace!" Wulfric commanded Abomasnow. He did just that and when there were only a few copies left I knew I had to change it up.

"Alright now use Water Shuriken!" I say as he immediately uses Water Shuriken and sends a few of the watery stars towards Abomasnow.

"Ice Punch!" Wulfric said and Abomasnow used on Ice Punch on the shurikens obliterating every one of them. I gritted my teeth. These two really aren't messing around.

"Aerial Ace!" I say as he then gets in close and then hits Abomasnow across the the chest then uppercuts him with lots of power. He then retreats to me.

"Good job Greninja!" I say.

"You bet. When do we show our full power?" He asks.

"When he brings out his if he has one. Nonetheless we'll be showing them who we are." I say smirking and pumping my fist. He looked ecstatic and faced his opponent once again.

"Ash you two all right?" Wulfric asks.

"Yeah no worries we're good." I said reassuringly. I don't know if Olympia has told him the form that Greninja and I have. But I'm going to assume that he doesn't know.

"Alright now Abomasnow use Ice Shard!" He commands.

"Now knock them away with Cut!" I say as he pull out the blade of cut and began slicing at them.

"Now while using Ice Shard go in and use Wood Hammer!" Wulfric says. That immediately got my brain going. Greninja just kept fighting off the Ice Shards.

"Alright now use Double Team and jump on the ice shards!" I say and he switches to Double Team and jumps on the shards of ice and runs towards Abomasnow.

"Now use Aerial Ace to counter that Wood Hammer!" I command and he then clashes with the Wood Hammer. But I had a trick up my sleeve.

"Now drop from above and use Aerial Ace!" I say quickly.

"Huh?!" He asks confused. He was fighting a decoy this whole time. Greninja then lands in front of him, uppercuts him and backs away to me. Abomasnow growled in pain.

"Hmm these guys are strategic. Time to show them true strength." He said. I had a feeling he was gonna do it.

"Now, I only use this when I have to get serious. And you have proven that I need to get serious." He says as he touches his key stone. And Abomasnow does the same. Then the process begins.

"Get ready Greninja." I say. He nods.

"Let the powers of the cold consume you and let your fangs grow. Respond to my keystone. Abomasnow, Mega Evolve!" He says as Abomasnow begins changing form. He shape shifts and grows and after a few seconds the Mega Evolved form of Abomasnow took his place.

"I feel powerful! Let's do this!" He says with lots of energy. Greninja looks over his shoulder and back at me. We both nodded. Let's do this. I felt my heart beat start to rise.

"Alright Greninja here we go! We're gonna be stronger together!" I say loudly.

"Together!" He repeated.

"Let's go!" I say. My heart beat rose even more and my body temperature rose. We then cock our arms to the side our fists facing the ceiling and both let out battle cries. I then saw the torrent rush quickly around Greninja. But instead of the torrent dissipating and creating the watery veil it rushes and then disperses, spraying water everywhere, and like before during the battle of Diantha it then forms like wings and then a small sphere in the middle of the back then flattens out to a massive water shuriken. He looked at himself happy. Everyone in the stands gasped including Diantha.

"So this is what you were talking about huh?" Greninja asks excitedly.

"Yep! This is our complete form Greninja! Now we just practice and become stronger!" I say with determination. I could feel his power rising exponentially.

"Yes! Let's do this!" He yells out letting the power flow through him. Everyone just looked shocked including Wulfric.

"Hmm so this is what Olympia told me about. Let's see how much powerful you guys get. Now Abomasnow use Ice Punch!" He commands. And Abomasnow's right hand glowed white with ice around it and began racing towards Greninja.

"Now use Cut!" I say. He runs towards Abomasnow and pulls out two blades, but they weren't Cut. Something was different, the blades were different. Instead of being white in color they were purple. Does this mean what I think it is? The blades look very special though they have like handles and like the shape of a dagger.

"Alright now Night Slash!" I say as he then charges off towards Abomasnow with immense speed. I even had trouble keeping up with him. They both clash and Greninja almost seemed to be overpowering the Mega Evolved Abomasnow.

"Wood Hammer in the other hand now!" Wulfric says as Abomasnow's other hand glowed green and took the shape of a log.

"Greninja duck and attack with Aerial Ace!" I tell him. He then ducks and skids right under him and all 4 fins were glowing white as he uppercutted him then kicked him on the head on the way down. Abomasnow fell to one knee and growled in pain.

"Hmm these guys are really strong. No matter what I do he always seems to find a counter." I heard Wulfric say. He was saying it quietly, but I heard it clear as day. I didn't wanna freak him out so I just kept my mouth closed.

"Alright now use Water Shuriken!" I say as Greninja takes the Water Shuriken and throws it towards Abomasnow.

"Wood Hammer on the Shuriken!" He commands and the two attacks collide and the Water Shuriken was pummeled.

"What strength." I say baffled.

"Now use Night Slash!" I say as he pulls out two daggers of purple again and charges towards Abomasnow. They both clash until I hear,

"Use Grass Pledge!" He says and I immediately panic. So he was waiting to use that move.

"Now use Double Team!" I say and dozens maybe hundreds of copies of Greninja appears and then the Grass Pledge starts eliminating them all.

"Now use Wood Hammer!" He says. I felt confident that the Double Teams could hold up until I feel a sharp pain in my side. I let out a little yelp and fell to the ground on one knee. I saw Greninja get launched towards me and he then recovers quickly and stands back up. I do the same.

"Well that hurt." He said.

"I bet. That was a super effective move right there." I said. The rest of the Double Teams then disappear.

"Now Abomasnow Grass Pledge again!" He commands him.

"Now Greninja use Night Slash to deflect the vines!" I say as he then runs towards the powerful grass move and starts slicing at the vines.

"Now while they're distracted use Ice Shard!" He commands and then a stream of big ice particles come out of his mouth and rush towards Greninja.

"Alright now Greninja do a mixture of dodging and using Night Slash!" I say and he does just that and does it flawlessly. And while doing so closing in on Abomasnow.

"Follow it up with Aerial Ace!" I say as he then hits Abomasnow in the stomach and then uppercutting him like earlier.

"Lets wrap this up with Water Shuriken!" I say and Greninja pulls the big shuriken off his back and it grows to about twice it's normal size and then chucks it at Abomasnow.

"Now use Wood Hammer to destroy it!" He says quick and Abomasnow hits the shuriken. But the explosion did damage to him and produced a smoke cloud. My queue.

"Alright now Aerial Ace and let's finish this!" I say with confidence and Greninja goes in and hits Abomasnow 3 times. Once in the stomach, uppercut, and on top of his head. Greninja then retreated back to my side and the suspense was real. Abomasnow was seen to still be standing and it seems as though he is trying to shake off the attacks of that last Aerial Ace. And finally the thing that I wanted to see. Abomasnow then reverted back to its normal form and fell to it's stomach.

"Abomasnow is unable to battle. So the winner is Ash the challenger!" The referee says. Greninja then reverts back to his normal form and comes running towards me.

"Yes! Great job Greninja we won!" I said excitedly. We both gave each other a high five.

"Our power grows more and more! I'm so ready for the Kalos League!" He says with much enthusiasm and determination.

"Me too!" I say happily. Wulfric comes up to me.

"Well Ash that was a fine battle. You and your Pokémon were powerful and overcame the icy challenge. I see great things in your future young man. Well Olympia wanted me to tell you that, but me personally I see a bright future ahead of you," He said.

"Thank you Wulfric. I'm going to win that Kalos League!" I say in determination.

"I have no doubt you will," He said while smiling. The referee came over with a box. The badge. Wulfric turns around and grabs the badge then faces towards me again.

"To prove your victory here at the gym, I provide you the Iceberg Badge." He says proudly and holds out the badge in his hand. I gladly take it and look at it for a moment. I then looked at Greninja and Pikachu.

"We did it guys good job!" I said to them very proudly. Everyone came over from the spectator stands.

"Ash that was awesome! You and Greninja nailed it out there!" Sawyer said ecstatically.

"Thank you Sawyer! All that training really paid off!" I said in the same level of enthusiasm.

"That was quite a battle Ash." Diantha said very amused.

"Yes it was. I bet you would like to have another battle with me?" I ask teasingly.

"I will neither deny or confirm that." She said smiling and jokingly. We all laugh. I then stop laughing and look towards the entrance. I sense someone coming. Someone powerful. Serena was the first to notice something wrong with me.

"Ash what's wrong?" She asks concerned. Everybody then either looks at me or the door.

"Someone's coming." I say softly. Suddenly the doors fly open and a figure began floating down to us with two Meowstic by their side. Everyone was shocked as to who it was. I was kind of expecting this, but nonetheless was shocked.

"Olympia?" I ask just slightly dumbfounded.

"Yes it is me Ash. We all have much to discuss about the disaster that lies ahead of us. We must head to Anistar City first to the gym. I'll be waiting by the Pokémon Center for you to get your stuff." She says. We all stand there shocked and confused as she then exits the gym floating the entire way. I snap out if it and I turn to everyone.

"Ugh I totally forgot about the Kalos Disaster. This will not be good." I said. My mom looked at me very shocked.

"Uhh Ash what do you mean by the Kalos Disaster? What's going to happen?" She asked shocked and worried. I look at everyone then back to her. I thought they told her what was happening. Clemont and Bonnie shrugged apologetically and Serena looked down apologetically. Diantha kept a sort of stoic look on her face. I then look at my mom again.

"Well so much for transparency. So uh in about 3-4 days a huge war is going to break out between Team Flare and basically the entire Kalos Region. They are trying to destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of (had to get that Infinity War reference in there XD). Starting with the Kalos Region." I said with all seriousness.

"Well if you say it like that that makes me very worried and slightly scared." said Serena. I turned to her and she looked frightened. I felt bad. I put a hand on her shoulder and squeeze it softly. I can tell that worked a little. I didn't want to frighten her, but that was really the only way I could do it really.

"I'm sorry Serena I didn't mean to scare you. But that's more of a reason why we need to stop these guys so they don't carry out their plans." I say seriously. She nods and a determined look overcame the previous worried look.

"Hey Ash." Clemont said. I turned to him.

"Yeah Clemont what's up?" I ask him.

"Could your aura play an important part in stopping Team Flare?" He asks me.

"Possibly. I mean I feel as though it's becoming more and more natural to me everyday. Of course we'll have to discuss with Olympia about it. Let's see what she thinks about it. Speaking of which we should be going." I say as I begin making my way to the exit. Everyone nods and follows me including Wulfric.

"Wulfric you're coming too?" I ask curiously and surprisingly.

"Yeah. Olympia has requested that after our battle I would need to meet up with her along with you guys." He said.

"Ahh ok makes sense." I said as we reached the entrance to the lobby of the gym. Wulfric then locked up and we headed outside to the Pokémon Center. I see that Olympia is waiting for us at the entrance. We walk up to her.

"So Olympia. Who else will be showing up at your gym with us?" I ask.

"All of the gym leaders of the Kalos region and a lot of other special guests." She says smirking. That got me to want to know who else. But I will wait and see that's for sure. And also wow, talk about a reunion.

"I take it we're going to go over like a battle plan or something?" Diantha then asks. Olympia nods her head.

"Well we should go get our stuff before we head out." I say and everyone nodded in agreement. I saw Diantha staying behind on her phone. Looks like she was about to call someone.

"I'll be there in a moment Ash I'm just calling for a few rides." She said. I nod at her letting her know that I understood. After a few minutes, Greninja, Pikachu, and I went inside the center and up to my room and grabbed my bag and then headed downstairs back to the entrance to the Pokémon Center. I then saw Diantha, Wulfic, and Olympia talking. I can tell it was about the disaster. Diantha was holding her phone to her shoulder which means she must've gotten interrupted.

"What's going on?" I ask curiously. They all turn to me.

"Olympia is saying that this war is gonna be even worse than we thought." Diantha said worried. That got me to think as to why. She quickly said thank you to the person on the other line and hung up the phone.

"Why's that?" I ask. They all look at each other with looks of concern on their face. Then Olympia looks at me. I can tell this was not about to be good.

"One of my disciples I sent her to go spy on Team Flare and see if she could hear anything useful and I just learned that apparently they're teaming up with other evil organizations from other regions." She said. My stomach immediately dropped after hearing that. That is not good at all. I mean I have seen the works of the other evil organizations from Team Rocket to Team Plasma and they all nearly succeeded with their plans. And just imagine them coming together. It would be a disaster worse than the Great War decades ago by a catastrophic amount. That is not good at all. Everyone else then came out of the entrance of the center with a serious and/or determined look on their face.

"Alright we all set?" I ask. One by one, everyone nods. We then walk back to the route that leads to Snowbelle City to catch the helicopters that Diantha called.

"I am not getting a good feeling out of this at all." I said to myself quietly. I know Olympia heard me.

"Me neither. But no matter what, we must fight till one of us drops either us or them." She said in response. She was right. We need to stick together as a team to defeat them. And fight no matter what the outcome is. After a few more minutes of walking on the route the helicopters are in view in the same clearing me and Sawyer had our battle at. We all headed to them and boarded the helicopters one by one. There were 3 of them. Serena, my mom, and I in one, Diantha, Clemont and Bonnie in another, and Olympia and Wulfric boarded the last one. I had to return Greninja for now. I pulled out his Pokéball.

"Hey Greninja I'm sorry I gotta do this, but just until we get to the gym in Anistar City." I said feeling bad a little. He looks at me and nodded.

"It won't take that long to get there I promise." I said as I returned him. We all then sat down in the seats.

"So sweetie. How long do you think this war will last?" My mom asks me. I got to thinking about that. I did not know. But if it's really true that Team Flare is teaming up with other evil organizations this was definitely not gonna be some leisurely walk in the park. It could range from hours, to days. Most likely a couple days or so. That means we would have to stock up on lots of supplies like food, water, possible transportation. We could probably discuss this at the meeting that Olympia is talking about.

"It could last days. I mean that's if we really are going up against lots of evil organizations." I say. Probably shouldn't have said that.

"Wait what?" Serena asks in a very scared tone. She looked like she was on the verge of panicking. I was starting to panic because I didn't know how to undo what I said. I guess I just have to be honest with her and my mom.

"Yeah. But please do not panic. I'm sure we're going to have lots and lots of allies from here and other regions including the gym leaders and maybe champions." I said as reassuringly as I can. She calmed down slightly, but I can tell she is still very frightened.

"How many organizations are we talking here?" My mom asked. I really didn't want to answer that, but I couldn't lie. I sighed then answered.

"All or nearly all of the organizations in the world." I stated quickly and somewhat calmly. My mom and Serena glanced at each other in the eye panicking. But Serena's panic somehow turned into determination.

"We will stop them no matter what." She says determined. I nodded. I then realized something. Mewtwo probably doesn't know this yet about all the evil organizations teaming up.

"Hey Mewtwo. I know that I'm not alone, but there is something very important I need to tell you." I said in a little bit of a loud voice.

"Chosen One. Are you sure?" Its voice asks in my head. My mom and Serena look at me weird. I ignored them.

"I'm positive. You can trust my mom and Serena I promise." I said.

"As you wish." It said and it then materialized next to my mom who sits across from me.

"Ahhhh!" She screamed in panic.

"Mom calm down it's ok!" I say getting up and reassuring her. I'm certain the others heard that from their helicopters. And I'm sure they're going to rush over here.

"Mewtwo hide real quick!" I say quickly. It nods and vanishes. I then sense that they are coming. I had to come up with an excuse. Then an idea popped in my head. I then hear Diantha and Clemont's footsteps coming. Huh I can tell who it is. That's a new trait from my aura. But anyway they both approached with worry on their faces.

"Everything ok I heard a scream?" Diantha asked concerned.

Yeah it's just a Ledyba flew threw here and my mom is scared of Bug type Pokémon." I say looking at my mom my eyes telling her "just play along." She understood and nodded. Both their expressions turned calm. My mom puts her hand behind her back and smiles sheepishly.

"Hey what can I say. I don't like Bug Pokémon." She says embarrassingly.

"I feel you Delia. When I was young I was scared of Ariados." She said and they both laugh. Thank you Misty.

"Alright let's get this show on the road." Delia said as her and Clemont walk back to their helicopters. That was close.

"Alright Mewtwo you're good. Just, show up in front of me, then you can go sit next to my mom." I said as to prevent her from getting startled again.

"As you wish." It said and it appeared in front of me and went to go sit next to my mom.

"Ok Chosen One, what is it that you need to tell me?" It asks. I almost didn't want to tell it, but I made it appear in front of other people which it asked me to refrain from so I might as well tell it.

"Olympia has informed me that all or nearly all of the evil organizations of the world are teaming up together." I say. It looked at me and then looked at everyone else speechless. Then it looked back at me.

"Hmm I was not expecting that. We'll need significantly more help than just the gym leaders of Kalos and Diantha." It said.

"Don't worry I'm sure Olympia has figured that out." I said. The door to the helicopter then shut as the pilot turns on the engines.

"You all buckled in?" She asks us. We all looked at each other and we all noticed we weren't buckled in. I scramble to get my seatbelt on. I did it pretty quick. So did everyone else including Mewtwo.

"Yeah we are." I said. She nodded and asked the other two pilots in the other helicopters if they were ready. It seemed that they were.

"Say Chosen One." Mewtwo says to me. I then look at it.

"Yeah." I replied back.

"I've decided I'm going to show up at the meeting. At first I was pretty hesitant to show up, but with the situation even more dire it is very important that I must be there." It said. I was slightly surprised as yesterday it said it wanted to stay hidden, but it was right. I nodded in agreement.

"I'm sure Olympia wouldn't mind collaborating with you for your psychic power." I added. It nodded.

"Yes. I will be sure to help her out in any way I can that get us to see if there is an upperhand." It said. I nodded. I then felt a slight jolt as the helicopter then lifted off the ground. I looked out the window and saw the other two do the same.

"Well off we go." Serena says quietly as she comes closer and puts her head on my chest for comfort. I held her hand. This was a very perfect moment. And would probably be the last moment we'll be like this in peace for a few days maybe more. But now, we must head to the Anistar City Gym and make up a plan for the war. We will stop Team Flare and the other organizations from carrying out their plans. No. matter. what.