Pokemon Virus Version Chapter 59
Location: Dominion of Shadows - Foot of Neo Snagem Base
Seth's POV
"Rose" 20 said to himself as he snickered. "Unfortunately, you have no future with that name. Not only will I capture the killer, but I'll capture you too. And then, you will be rebranded the name of Commander 26. But enough of that. Right now we must deal with the situation at hand. You both will be served justice!"
"Haaww!" Both 20 and Hawlucha posed, ready for battle.
"Oh, and while we're talking about justice, what's a hero without his loyal fans? I hope you two don't mind an audience watching us." 20 pointed to four women I just noticed here at the scene. But these weren't just four women, these were the Kimono Sisters Naoko once said she was looking for. But why were they here?
"Justice is merely left to chance..." I said flatly as I grabbed a pokeball. "Times have changed. The hero no longer wins every battle." My voice began to slip down to ominous whispering as my right eye turned purple, and I started to emit my usual dark aura. "Thanks to the newest addition to my party, you'll be begging for mercy as you let down your 'adoring fans'," I said as I threw my pokeball, releasing the blood thirsty shadow Seviper for her first battle. "But of course, I found that I can only control Seviper through the use of this-" I said as I readied to let Seifer take over.
"Brother, are you..." Rose recognized the purple color my eye was becoming, and got in my face. "Brother, please no! Those dark powers only create trouble!"
Seifer's POV
As soon as I gained control of Seth's body, and as soon as I came to, I saw a little girl in my face.
"Brother? Brother!" The little girl grabbed my jacket collar, prompting me to take action.
"Pest..." I said as I surrounded the girl in a dark aura, proceeding to-
"Aah!" I threw her to the ground, and suddenly, my attention was off 20, and on her. "You..." She sat up and looked at me with eyes that began to water. "You hit me..."
"So what if I did? You were in the way of me defeating Neo Snagem." I answered.
"You struck your own sister...And you do not even care?! How could you..."
"It was for the best." I said as I faced 20/ "I'll do whatever it takes to defeat Neo Snagem."
The little girl sniffled, taking a few steps backwards.
"You are a monster... I was right: I DO feel like I do not know you anymore!" The little girl said.
"Hmph, you're talking will have to wait until after I defeat-" I was interrupted
"No, my talking will NOT have to wait! You...you..." She gave me a glare as she started to clench her fists.
"You what?" I questioned as my eyes narrowed. "I'm not the Seth you've come to know and love, and I won't hesitate to strike you again should you get in my way."
"She sniffled. "I hate you..." All I saw was a tear coming from her eye as she turned her back and started to run away from me.
"Chico chi!" Chikorita tried to called out to her, but the girl never looked back. The girl soon disappeared, camouflaging in the crowded streets.
"Wow...Even I think that was messed up, what you did," 20 said, as even Hawlucha had it's arms crossed as it nodded in agreement. "Someone as heartless as you deserves to be dealt justice!"
"Then let's see you try!" I said as I turned my attention back to my opponents. "Seviper, get in your battle stance and attack with Poison Fang!"
Sssaaa!" Seviper cried as she rushed toward Hawlucha with it's fangs cloaked in a purple aura.
"Dodge it!" 20 commanded.
Of course, Hawlucha obeyed Hero 20's command and narrowly avoided contact with Seviper.
"That's it!" 20 cheered.
"Oh, is it?" I asked as my eyes narrowed. I was well aware that Seviper was at a higher level than any of my other pokemon, which is how I knew Seviper would quickly retaliate as she pursued Hawlucha again. This time, 20, Hawlucha, and even a spectating Chikorita was caught completely off guard as Seviper was able to land a critical hit Poison Fang. And of course, at Seviper's level, Poison Fang had downed Hawlucha in a matter of seconds.
"Hawlucha..." whispered a 20 who couldn't believe what had just happened.
"Now take me to see Zero!" I had no time to be wasting on any other person right now, and what other people thought of me right now was completely irrelevant. The only person that mattered was Zero himself. Five years waiting for it to happen, the moment Zero and I lay our eyes on each others faces...There was not another moment in my life to stir up as many emotions from deep within me. I was at last going to fulfill my purpose for going on this journey. I will destroy Zero!
20 sighed as he recalled his fallen Hawlucha, and looked at the Seviper standing before him. The blood thirsty snake was ready to kill should 20 refuse to do what I say. "I have fallen...But how could I have been defeated so easily? My fans!" 20 held a hand out to the spectating kimono girls as he fell to his knees. "My fans...I apologize, for I have let you all down. But please, as I fall one last time, I ask of you one last request. Please, lead my liberator to where his heart desires. Take him...to see...Zero..."
"Pathetic..." Even though I haven't even attacked him yet, 20 was 'pretending' like he was dying. Did he just eliminate himself by overreacting? I guess the hero was just playing it up for the audience. The Kimono Girls got up and approached me, ready to carry out 20's last request.
"We were told by 10 that we'd be your escorts..." One of the women said.
I nodded in agreement as the Kimono Girls started. After I recalled Seviper, Chikorita and I followed into Neo Snagem's base, leaving a defeated 20 alone outside.
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Rose's POV
What has just happened between my brother and I? In just a matter of minutes, Brother went from being someone who has taken care of me, to actually inflicting pain on me...
It was just myself, hands covering my face from the many conflicted people that I ran by. Not only was I covering my face, I was also covering my tears.
"Is the brother I have come to know and love dying?" I stopped my running and faced the ground. His obsession with power and Neo Snagem is allowing the Fear side Seifer to cloud his mind in darkness. "Whether or not it is his fault for changing is completely irrelevant. But I DO fault Brother for for hitting and not listening to me. It is now a severed relationship between him and I... The side of Seifer I call Fear is becoming something I may fear myself. My fear of Fear only comes to mind because if Fear were to gain complete control over the body of Seth, then Seth- the first person to ever make me fell like I wasa truely loved- that Seth risks losing himself to the darkness indefinitely." I was talking to myself as I was beginning to feel lonely, "But even so... I should not turned my back on Brother. We still have the obvious common goal of defeating Neo Sngem. It appears I do not have a choice on whether or not I should return to Brother."
I sighed, turning back to start toward Brother before hearing a familiar cry in the distance.
"Wile!"
"Huh?" I saw Mawile running to me with a strange, aqua colored device in her hands. "Mawile?" I said confused as Mawile stopped right in front of me. "Where is Chapel? If I remember correctly, you were with her the last time I saw you."
"Mawile!" Mawile cried as she handed me the strange device.
"This device looks familiar..." I remember 24 having bought one of these devices shortly before I left Neo Snagem. He once called it a 'Nintendo 3DS', and speaking of 24 "-Oh!" 24 just so happened to be the man on the screen. Every word coming from his mouth was being displayed in words at the top of the screen. He was talking to Chapel at the top of a very tall tower.
Location: Pokemon Y Version's Prism Tower- Hacked
Chapel's POV
"Like I said before, I kind of forgot to recharge my 3DS system, so the amount of time you have to eliminate me is limited. In fact, I've modified my 3DS system to let me know exactly how long I have." 24 was pointing to the sky, which displayed a time of 17 minutes and seven seconds while still counting down. "And remember, if you fail to defeat me within the time limit, it's curtains for you! You'll die along with the system battery!"
"Our lives are in your hands, Chapel." Kashius saud as I nodded, then stepped up, waiting for 24 to send out his first pokemon.
"Alright! Game on, Gliscor!" 24 proceeded to send out a 'different' colored Gliscor as he said what I believed to be a catchphrase.
"Well I've got a different colored pokemon of my own." I said as I took out a pokeball and threw it into the air, releasing my recently caught, silver furred Eevee.
"Vee!"
Luckily, I healed my pokemon at the Pokemon Center the actually wasn't modded. "Eevee, we're on the clock, so we need to act fast. Use Quick Attack!"
"Ee!" Eevee nodded as she then started toward the blue Gliscor at top speed.
"Gliscor, use Protect!" 24 yelled.
"Protect?" I said confused.
"Gli!" Gliscor cried as it created a green barrier that repelled Eevee and her Quick Attack.
"You did that on purpose!" Missingno said to 24.
"You can't use Portect forever!" Kashius added.
"Fools! Protect wasn't JUST for avoiding damage." 24 started. "Take a look at Gliscor, and then take a good guess at what Protect was REALLY for!"
Looking at Gliscor...
"Oh!"
"It's poisoned," Kashius said.
"But how?" I asked.
"Take a look at Gliscor's left claw." 24 answered as he motioned for us took look at a claw that had a mysterious purple orb in it. "It's called a Toxic Orb, and it automatically inflicts it's holder with a bad poison. You see, the whole point of Protect was to keep Eevee from somehow interfering with the effect of Gliscor's Toxic Orb!"
"What a fool!" I facepalmed myself ,"Who poison's their OWN pokemon in a timed battle?!"
"Just wait and see..." 24 had a sinister smirk on his face. "You have no idea the amount of jeopardy you put your life in by accepting this challenge..."
I took a look at the clock to remind myself exactly how much time I had left. "Fifteen minutes and four seconds..."
"Tick. Toc. Tick. Toc,"24 said ,"Clock is ticking. You'd better make your move fast!"
"Err...Eevee, use Iron Tail!" I called.
"Vee!" Eevee cried as she ran toward Gliscor with her tail cloaked in an iron silver color.
"I thought so!" 24 said confidently.
"What?" Missingno said confused.
"Use Toxic!" 24 commanded as Gliscor's left claw-the claw with the Toxic Orb-started glowing purple.
"Vee!" Eevee successfully land Iron Tail, but...it didn't seem to hurt Gliscor in the slightest...
"Now, Gliscor!" 24 cued for Gliscor to poison Eevee.
"Vui!" And there it was. Just as Eevee was about to back away from Gliscor, Gliscor touched Eevee with it's poisoned claw, poisoning Eevee using Toxic.
"Eevee, no!" Kashius yelled.
"Eevee..." Missingno was concerned for Eevee.
"Eevee, are you okay?" I asked worriedly.
"Eevee should be the least of your problems now!" 24 said as he grabbed our attention away from Eevee. "Just take a look at Gliscor one more time."
"Gliscor?" I said confused as we all looked at Gliscor. "What the?!" I JUST noticed Gliscor, cloaked in the poison purple aura, looked to be recovering from Iron Tail. "But how...Gliscor is poisoned."
"When poisoned, a pokemon is supposed to suffer continuous damage..." Kashius started.
"But instead, it's healing?" Missingno asked.
"Why is it?" I followed Missingno's question with another question.
"Now that Eevee's poisoned, all the pieces of my plan have fallen into place. Because Gliscor's defense is so high, it'll be able to withstand ANY attack you and your pokemon try to come at me with. What little damage that's dealt to Gliscor will immediately disappear thanks to it's Poison Heal ability, which allows Gliscor to gradually recover health when poisoned by something liiiike...A Toxic Orb!"
"Aw!" So that's why he poisoned Gliscor! I thought to myself as my jaw slightly dropped.
"And unfortunately for you, Eevee's poison doesn't have the same properties as Gliscor's poison." 24 said as he looked at a gradually weakening Eevee, who was flashing an intense purple color. "I call this 'Toxic Stall'. Perfect for critically timed showdowns like this!"
That prompted me to take another look at the time that read eleven minutes and fourty-three seconds.
"All the pieces have fallen together..." I said to myself, "Eeven without hacks, 24 has stacked all the cards in his favor...The whole point of Toxic Stall is to keep us at bay until the timer hits zero. I was going absolutely nowhere using an Eevee who's poison seemed to be getting worse. "Eevee, come back!"
Recalling Eevee was really the only move that made sense. As Eevee made her way toward me, I tossed a Pecha Berry that she caught in her mouth. "Eat it. Then stand back and rest for a bit." I said as I didn't even bother returning her to her pokeball.
Maybe I can just send out all my pokemon at once...No, all that'll do is prompt 24 to do the same, and fighting more hacked pokemon is the last thing I need right now.
"Hey! Maybe Guts will work!" I said as I touched Ursaring's Pokeball.
"Guts?" 24 snickered. "I see you're doing some stalling yourself, and now I'M sick of waiting. Stop stalling and have Missingno fight!"
"You hide behind Protect and Poison Heal, yet you're calling ME a staller?"
At those words, 24's face became serious. He wasn't kidding...
"Now why should I listen to you-" I was interrupted.
"Chapel..." I was interrupted by Missingno. I turned to the dual horned virus and couldn't help but highlight the serous look on IT'S face.
"First Mawile, then Eevee, and by mentioning Guts, I'll bet you were about to use Ursaring next!" 24 said as he crossed his arms. "You're only holding off the inevitable moment of when Missingno has to fight."
"Chapel, 24 won't have to wait any longer...because I'll fight him and Gliscor! Right here and right now!?" Missingno said with a determined face.
"No! I won't allow it! What if something happens?!"
"Chapel!" Kashius called out my name. "You're being overprotective. 24 and Missingno...They both have a point that you just don't understand."
"Vee."
"What?" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Eevee and Missingno, even 24 nodded at the words that came out of kashius' mouth. "You haven't even known me for a full day. And you're gonna stand there and judge me like you have?"
This was the absolute worst time for an argument to be looming. However, Kashius kept his cool and proceeded to speak once more. "You're right, I haven't known you for very long, but I can relate to Missingno's position. You and Missingno...I can tell that you two are like family, and you worry very much about Missingno. My mother is the same way with me, given the fact that I'm on Johto's front lines as the leader of the Restoration Committee. You should've seen her...Cassie...She worries about me just as much as you worry about Missingno, But..." Kashius walked over and put his hands on both my shoulders. "But you can't hide Missingno forever."
"Kashius..."
"This is Missingno's life, and it's time he makes his own decisions," Kashius said.
"It's time." Missingno repeated in agreement with Kashius.
So I am much like how a mother is with her child...When MY mother, Chiyo left this world, it was time for me to make my own life decisions.
I backed away from Kashius and stared at my own two hands. These were the protective hands I inherited from Mother. I felt like I was someone's daughter for the first time in five long years. The daughter that Mother would eventually have to let go of, on matter how overprotective she was.
Relating to Missingno, Kashius, and myself, I called the name of Missingno, repeating what he and Kashius said to me, "It's time!"
To Be Continued...
Okay, so the whole situation at the beginning of the chapter was a foreshadowing of things to come for Rose and Seth sometime in the future. So please be ready for the next few chapters because they will go by a bit faster than the pace of the rest of the story so far...