Pokémon Trainer Hero
Chapter 52: The Sports Festival part. 23- Very Old Adversaries act.1(Final).
"Prepare for trouble! And make it double trouble! To infect the world with devastation. To Blight all peoples in every nation. To denounce the goodness of truth and love. To extend our wrath to the stars above! Team Rocket circling the earth both day and night. Surrender now you cannot win this fight!", announced the mystery voice over the speakers.
"Team Rocket!", Gar shouted in shock and anger.
"TEAM ROCKET?", All Might pondered aloud. " AREN'T THEY ONE OF THOSE EVIL VILLAIN TEAMS FROM YOUR WORLD? HOW ARE THEY HERE?", he asked Gar.
Gar slowly moved his head over in the tall man's direction and said with clear aggression and sarcasm, "Well geez All Might! I'd sure like to know that myself now wouldn't I!?"
Before their quarrel could escalate to any state, the main blimp turned to its side, displaying the logo, which happened to be plastered on a large jumbo screen embedded into the blimp. The screen fizzled and then changed to a view of the main otter deck of the air machine. On the screen were four people; two of them wore an all-black uniform with white accents, on the flip side, the other two wore an all-white uniform with black accents, both of them had the Team Rocket logo printed on the left breast or dead center of the chest.
The two in the black uniforms wore something similar to the grunts, one of them even having a grunt-style hat, both had white belts with white boots and gloves that came up to their elbows and knees with one orange stripe around each. The first one was an older-looking man with a slicked purple mohawk, a goatee, and a mole below his left eye. It was obvious he was up in years by the crow's feet, stress marks, and fading of his hair color. The other one was another older man with fading color and age marks, but younger than the previous. He wore the same uniform only he came with a hat. He had unusual green hair that was styled to draw back behind him and around his face just above the ears.
The two in white looked more like head leaders, especially since they stood in front of the previously mentioned. The first one was a female with her outfit looking like a dress, she had red hair that crested the center of her head then ran straight up, parted above her ears which adorned golden earrings, and hung in the back like a pendulum. Like the other two men she too was up in years with wrinkles, crows feet, extra weight, and a greying streak in her less than vibrant hair. The last one looked like the actual leader from his posture and position amongst the other three. He wore the male version of the white outfit, his hair was cyan blue and short, and like the others was up in years with fading features.
The man with cyan blue hair was the one who spoke first and addressed Gar like an old adversary. "Well well well, if it isn't Garfield. Nice to beat you again, brat!", he attempted to vex him.
Gar waited for a moment before responding. Looking up at the jumbo board, holding his hands over his eyes and squinting to make sure he had a good look. When he was sure of what he was seeing he asked, "Wait….is that-Petrel, Archer, Ariana, and Proton?", the cyan-haired man smiled devilishly at his recognition, which quickly faded as Gar forcefully blew out air and lamented, "Yikes! The years have not been kind to you four."
The look of confident pride immediately washed away to irritated fury as he shouted, "What did you say! You must think you're still hot stuff, even today. But that's where you're wrong! Because today we-."
Before he could continue his rant, Gar waved him off while firmly stating, "Oh shove it already, why don't ya! I've already heard your evil monologue blah blah blah stuff a hundred times already and it never changes, Archer!", this made the man, Archer, lose his words as he irritatedly glared at Gar. "Furthermore I don't wanna chew the cloth with the washed-out, two-bit, half-baked, pseudo leader of Team Rocket. I know for a fact that you, along with the rest of you, lack everything needed to set up this whole affair. But I know who does. So where is he? Where. Is. Your. Leader!", Gar demanded.
Suddenly the view of the camera shifted towards the glasses off the inner area of the blimp. Inside was the silhouette of a person who had just risen from their seat. The glass window doors opened automatically and strutted out with a bold, confident, and mature swagger as the true leader of Team Rocket. He looked like a typical mob boss with a black business suit and white undershirt, the Rocket logo below the left breast, sharp eyes, and grey hair. He, like his subordinate, was up in years.
"Giovanni.", Gar said his name with venom while narrowing his eyes.
"Garfield.", Giovanni retorted with equal malice, but in a much more assured and serious way.
Gar then took a deep breath and changed his tune, nonchalantly walked forward with arms out in a friendly manner, and stated, "Gio Gio, it's been ten years now and you still look like the sad slut I beat when I was a child. How's life?"
This got more than a few laughs from the onlookers, which turned Giovanni's serious and mature demeanor into one of repressed anger and bitterness.
Still, he kept up his appearance of a serious business leader and after clearing his throat shot back, "I see your tongue has gotten sharper since your youth, and life has been better since I got out of prison."
"Honestly you should've just stayed there.", Gar rolled his eyes while crossing his arms.
"But we're not here to talk about me, where here to talk about you and your surrender.", Giovanni retorted proudly and boastfully.
"My surrender, Gio Gio?", Gar asked back with a raised eyebrow.
Giovanni smugly smiled and continued, "Yes of course you. You're going to-."
Though Gar quickly cut him off exclaiming, "Okay, let me stop you right there.", surprisingly this caused Giovanni to halt whatever he was going to say and stare at Gar in surprise. "I'm under a lot of stress recently and you being here isn't making it better. So here's what you are going to do!", Gar firmly demanded before listing off his demands. "First off, the only one who is going to be surrendering is you and your little washed-out gang. Second, you're going to tell me everything you know, right down to the final mark. And finally, you're gonna go right back into the prison cell where you belong! I thought time in the big house would straighten you out, but it seems I had too much faith in your ability to change and grow as a person.", he finished his statement with a huff and crossing of his arms.
At first, Giovanni looked livid! But he quickly gained control over himself and stated with a much calmer demeanor, "Bold demands from a child."
"I'm 20 you jerk!", Gar snapped at him.
Giovanni laughed in his throat at the young man's reaction, then asked him, "Still, what exactly is it that you want me to tell you so badly?"
Gar rolled his eyes while irritatedly sighing, "You're a smart man Giovanni, but you're not that smart. You could never pull the remainder of your team out from the woodworks, gain intel, funding, and cross-dimensional technology to go through with all this. Somehow out of all places in the universe, you knew I was here. You're not working alone, are you? Someone else is pulling the strings and you're just the puppet. They're the ones funding and helping you out, not by you and your merit. Am I right?", this made a tack mark appear on the man's face and forehead as he bit down a snarl. "And I've got a good idea on who that someone is. So that's what you'll be informing me about. So surrender yourselves and nothing has to get ugly.", Gar demands.
Giovanni looks like he wants to yell something, but instead, he retakes his calm and superior outlook as he asks him vexingly, "Oh yeah? You and what army?"
Gar looks surprised by this question of challenge, before stating boldly and proudly, "What army? What army?! Look around you Gio Gio!"
The whole stadium is silent, apart from the running blimp engines, as Giovanni serves the area. He sees normal civilians, students, and adults in ridiculous-looking costumes. He briefly wonders who Gar was referring to, but then he saw how he was motioning to the costumed adults and decided to poke fun at him once more.
"You're gonna fight me with…..cosplayers?"
"Cosplayers?!", Gar exclaims back with a mix of surprise and hilarity, before absolutely losing it and breaking down in uncontrollable laughter.
This was quickly followed by the roar of laughter that came from the dozens of pro heroes watching this unfold in the stadium, then quickly followed by the students and civilians. Giovanni now has an expression crossed between confusion and anger but keeps himself cool in the face of the shaming laughter.
Soon one of his grunts comes up to him and whispers to him, "Sir I think those are actual He-."
"I know that!", Giovanni snaps at him, cutting him off and making him scramble away.
Giovanni takes a breath to center himself and then returns to his conversation with Gar, who was still laughing at him, much to his annoyance.
"You might have a gaggle of underdressed and overly colorful man-children under your beck and call, but since the last time we met, Team Rocket has improved tenfold!", Giovanni boasted.
Gar, looking unimpressed at the moment, asked back sarcastically, "You actually gained variety instead of just two Pokemon types, and also trained your Pokemon instead of just using the same under-leveled Pokemon that could be beaten by an Lv.6 Charmander?"
"No.", he replied simply and aggravated. "Team Rocket has been reborn with an advancement in technology!", he proclaimed proudly with a raised fist.
"Soooooo what? You finally learned how to use a smartphone?", Gar asked disinterestedly while picking his nose.
"Not even close.", Giovanni sneered at his rude gesture and disinterest before taking on a shit-eating grin.
With a snap of his finger, everything around them changed! The four blimps that had surrounded the perimeter of the stadium exploded with dozens of little shiny specks flying out of them! The specks flew around and then landed at several different spots; the entrances and exits, the perimeter of the uppermost part of the stadium ring, the lower lip of the stadium ring between the field and the stands, several spots in the pedestrian walk lanes, and even by the high-class box seats! When the twinkle of the specks stopped, there stood team rocket grunts with several high-end-looking mods!
Their arms and legs had been outfitted with limb enhancers: giving them longer reach, greater height, super strength, and much more with what looked like hidden weaponized features. Their faces were outfitted with high-tech goggles with red lenses; giving them a whole host of sight-based advantages. And finally, on their backs were winged jet packs! All of them had six Pokeballs on their belts and after landing on their destined spots would throw out anywhere from 1-3 at once! Some of them even floated around in the air.
Of the Team Rocket Pokemon that appeared were the Zubat line, the Koffing line, the Ekans line, the Rattata line, the Drowsy line, the Sandshrew line, the Grimer line, The Murkrow line, the Misdreavus line, the Houndour line, even the male and female Nidoran lines! The huge crowds of stadium watchers had already begun to panic as the vicious-looking Pokemon and robotic people began to cage them in, while the heroes stood for instance and ready to fight them, and the students had a mixed reaction like that of the civilians and heroes. Gar was stunned, to say the least! Eye wide, jaw slack, and sweat turned cold; a face that Giovanni reveled in! Once he had his fill of watching the young man turn pale, he began to boost towards him.
"Meet the new and improved Rocket Grunts. Fully adept at capturing any Pokemon or dealing with any obstacle. Now, this is where I expect your surrender.", he firmly told him.
Gar tore his eye away from the flock of High Tech Team Rocket Grunts, and glared at Giovanni hatefully! He took a step forward like he wanted to say something or charge at the airborne man, but All Might put his arm in front, stopping the young man before he could do anything in retaliation!
"FRET NOT GARFIELD, MY BOY! FOR I, ALL MIGHT, AND THE MANY HEROES HERE WILL TAKE CARE OF THIS VILLIAN!", he proclaimed boldly while readying himself with a determined look in his eye.
Some of the great got nervous real fast at the hero's proclamation, All except for Giovanni, who didn't look worried in the slightest. He looked down at the hero and said, "You must be All Might? Well, I have something just for you."
With a snap of his fingers, four Rocket Grunts were surrounding him. Before the hero could react the grunts shot their new robotic arms like grappling guns and grabbed hold of each limb on All Might, seemingly keeping him held.
But All Might didn't look surprised or even fazed by this as he laughed and stated, "HA! YOU THINK SUCH FLIMSY MACHINES CAN HOLD BACK MY MIGHTY POWER?!"
Before he could break away, one of the grunts cockily said, "No, but this sure will."
The actual arms of the Rocket Grunts hit a button within their robot arms and the clear glass parts of the arms schilling All Might opened up. Four blobs of foul-smelling purple globs emerged from the containers and quickly began to rush over All Might's body! This time All Might found himself to be trapped as the four blobs began to form mock faces as their body masses held him in place. All Might had studied much, but he knew these things were Pokemon.
They are large, sticky, amorphous Pokémon made of living purple sludge. It has two small eyes with beady black pupils. It also has an enormous mouth with a gray tongue and strands of ooze connecting its top and bottom jaws. While it has no visible legs, it does have two arms with three fingers on each hand. Gar instantly recognized these pokemon as Muk, The Sludge Pokemon.
"All Might!", Gar cried out in panic.
"I-*COUGH COUGH* WHAT IN THE WORLD IS-?*COUGH COUGH COUGH*I-I CAN'T MOVE!", The hero coughed as foul purple smoke rose off the Pokemon, and he felt his limbs go numb.
"All Might! Are you okay?!", Gar exclaimed as he looked ready to intervene.
All Might quickly nodded his head as if to wave him off, and replied, "I'LL BE FINE-*COUGH COUGH*I JUST NEED A MINUTE TO-HEY NOW! WATCH THE FACE!", All Might shout at Muk trying to touch and envelope his face.
"All Might whatever you do, don't swallow any part of them! They're so incredibly toxic it'll turn your insides into soup!", Gar immediately tells him as something else draws his eye.
The seven other blimps on the outskirts of the stadium, hovering above the outside vendors and entertainers, were being swarmed by Rocket Grunts and their Pokemon! Some of the grunts had taken back to the air and were flying back to their blimps with something in nets or their robotic claws. It took him a moment, but to his horror, he saw that the Grunts were flying away with his captured Pokemon!
"NO!", Gar cried out in terror as his poor Pokemon cried out! "MY POKEMON!"
Gar didn't know what to do now, he felt stuck, frozen, terrified! His Pokemon were all over the place and not expecting Team Rocket of all people! There was no way he could try and save all of them from being stolen! Was he…...was he going to lose.
Then a booming female voice shook him out of his trance as she shouted, "Have no fear, Mt Lady is here!"
There on the outside of the stadium was the Heroine herself, jumping into the air and slapping away the flying Rocket Grunts like flies! She even managed to jump up high enough to grab a blimp and send it crashing to the ground! With her mighty action, all the other heroes sprang into action, fighting both the High Tech Rocket Grunts and their Pokemon! Long ranged and flight-based heroes all jumped into the air and managed to capture the flying Grunts and freed Gar's captured Pokemon! While on the ground they took up groups and tried to separate the Pokemon from their trainers! Gar felt a slight ping of hope ring in his chest.
Though the heroes had no experience with fighting Pokemon and many of them found themselves in tight situations or on losing ends! Even Mt. Lady got knocked over by several Pokemon swarming her body.
Seeing this happen, he knew that now was not the time of a cinematic camera panning at the glorious sight of the heroes fighting the villains. He had to contribute his part and knew exactly how to do it. He looked at the jumbo board and while fixing his mic said, "Rotom, Porygon2! Punch me into all available speakers!"
Within moments the two Pokemon worked in nanoseconds to connect all available speakers to Gar's headset, and the young man made his proclamation. "Attention all Pokemon, this is your trainer, Garfield! We are being overrun by enemies from the sky. This is my order to all of you from here on!", all Pokemon in and around the stadium all stopped to listen to the young man's orders. Gar licked his lips and taking a deep breath he shouted, "Protect yourselves by any means necessary! Protect the people! And most of all, Protect one another! Show your strength today and don't leave a single Mon or Man behind! Good luck to you all."
With the end of that, Gar heard a great roar of many Pokemon crying rings out all over! Pokemon from outside of the stadium joined with the scattered heroes, those who were still captured found the will to break free and fight back, while any Pokemon rescued by the heroes in the stadium took to fighting by their side! Gar smiled at this and seeing no more use for it, threw down the headset, ripped off his sweatshirt, and sent off Mimikyu to join the many battles occurring. With that, he glared up challengingly at Giovanni and his admins.
Giovanni, on the other hand, didn't change his expression even as the tide was changing out of his favor. Instead, he just stood there with arms behind his back and looked down on the young man with a vexing smile. Even his admins chuckled as he teased him saying, "How touching. Truly, how heartfelt. Even after all these years you still have that bleeding heart since you were a Grubin."
"Darkrai you Giovanni! Hiding behind your grunts like a coward, same as always!", Gar spat venom at the boastful man! "Always sending your underlings to Weedle me down until you can come in for the kill! Like a coward. Do you say you're a boss? Prove it now and fight me head on!", he shouted his challenge.
Giovanni smirked at this and replied by descending off the blimp on an aerial platform with his admins. Once it landed they all stepped off with the Admins walking ahead of their leader, obviously challenging Gar instead of the boss. All of them summoned their Pokemon as they smiled devilishly at him like they had played him like a fool.
"And yet again you still send your lackeys to fight your battles. You are a sad old slut.", Gar snorted out in irritation while continuing to vex the man.
This last insult finally ticked Archer off the edge, and with a huge tack mark crossing over his red face he shouted, "That is the last time you speak ill of The Great Giovanni!"
With that proclamation, his Houndoom barked and charged at him! But before the hell hound could get too close, a Persian leaper out of nowhere! Slamming into the hound with its jaws it launched onto its flesh before using its previous momentum to flip the dog over and throw it at Petrel's Honchkrow, both of which crashed into the field divider wall! When the large cat landed it pointed its gem-encrusted head at Ariana's Arbok and Proton's Wheezing, and fired! The two pokémon went up in an explosion as all four admins covered their faces, even Gar.
When Gar lowered his hands from the explosion he immediately noticed that the Persian was his, and he was being protectively surrounded by four heroes ready to fight!
"Eraser, Mic, Midnight, and…..you?", Gar drew out in confusion at the last one.
"Sup Hero trainer.", Hawks greeted him casually.
Gars face deflated at that name and stated with exhaustion, "Don't call me that, why does everyone call me that?"
Hawks shrugged and replied, "It fits.", making Gar slap his forehead.
During the distraction, Giovanni slips away and casually walks into the inner parts of the stadium. Gar sees this in his peripherals and tries to go after him, but is stopped by both the admins and their recovered Pokemon. Gar glares at them and reaches for his belt, but Aizawa stops him.
"Garfield, we have these guys covered. Go after the boss.", the tired-looking hero tells him, and the young man nods.
"Ah, before you jet off though. Any tips on these guys and their powers?", Present Mic quickly stops him before he leaves.
Gar gave a quick inhale and briefly explained, "The four of them use Dark and Poison types. Dark types excelle in dirty and undermining tactics, while Poison….I'm sure you got the gist. You guys also have zero experience fighting actual Pokemon so be careful. And don't worry they're not like Team Freak. They're the only team composed of people with the Pure Poke Gene."
"So avoid the stinky smelly ones and keep an eye on the brooding emo ones. Got it!", Mic wrapped up while shooting finger guns.
Midnight stepped forward and drew out her whip and said, "Good to know they're just a bunch of punching bags after their pets are down.", she cracked her weapon and licking it she said with a sadistic tone, "This'll be fun."
Before he ran around the four admins, Gar looked back in worry for All Might. The large man was still trying to break free from the four Muk and one of them was still trying to envelop his face. He so wanted to help them, but Eraserhead grabbed and persuaded him not to.
"Don't worry, we'll help All Might after we've taken these four down first. Go!", he commanded him.
Gar nodded and ran around the four admins and Pokemon as the four heroes dove into an attack formation with Persian! Gar ran into the inner sanctum of the stadium and chased after the old man, yelling out to him threateningly!
"GIOVANNI! GET BACK HERE!", he screamed into the empty and echoing hallway.
He ran so hard his lungs began to burn, just how fast was this old man? The only thing he could hear, apart from himself yelling, was the cadence of Giovanni's casual footsteps. Eventually, Giovanni stopped walking and stayed out as he heard the young man's echoing voice call down the hallway one last time before confronting him.
"Coward! Come here and face me!", he heard Gar yell and could help but smirk at the young man's anger and unawareness.
Gar finally catches up to the man and rests on his knees while catching his breath. Once he can talk enough he wipes the spit running down his mouth and says, "Have you finally given up on running, Gio Gio?"
Before he turns around to answer, Giovanni smirks a little wide, then says, "Oh I'm not running away."
"Don't make me roll my eyes into the back of my head.", Gar states, aggravated while rolling his eyes.
Giovanni flares his nostrils while knitting his brows, and saying flat out, "I'm serious. I only retreated as a tactical measure."
This time Gar crossed his arms and raised a skeptical eyebrow as he said back with some boast, "Tactical? I hope you don't think you'll have the advantage in a small space, cause I've fought on a ship and a subway train a few times."
Giovanni giggled while reaching for his belt and replied, "Something like that."
The old mob boss then threw out all six of his Pokéballs and each one of them popped open to manifest a different Pokemon. Rhyperior, Rhydon, Dugtrio, Nidoking, Nidoqueen, and Persian. All of them stared down angrily at the young man.
Gar rolled his eyes at this sight, and with fake fear sassed, "Oh wow! Using the same all Ground-type Pokemon team you used back when I was ten, bravo. Though evolving your Rhyhorn and Rhydon is new.", still though, Gar simply sighed at the sight and said to him, "You know, back when I was young I thought you were a true threat to me. That's why I went through all the trouble and hustle just to find a Legendary to use against you. But now I see you're not worth a stretch of my time or patience. So instead I'll just use this one."
With that said, Gar took out a single Great ball and dropped it at his feet. The ball opened and out came his own Rhyperior, looking bigger than Giovanni's. Without a word, Gar snapped his fingers and Rhyperior took off in attack with a roar!
Despite its huge and hulking form, Rhyperior was quite fast, even more so than its six opponents who were blindsided by the huge creature in pure shock! Rhyperior quickly grabbed the other Rhyperior and Rhydon by their faces and slammed them into the ground while shooting point-blank from its hand-arm cannons! From there it slammed its wrecking ball tail down on Dugtrio, causing the Pokemon to experience triple vertigo and see stars! The huge rhino monster then swung its tail against the ground, digging up the mole-like Pokemon from the concrete and sending them flying into the wall!
Rhyperior then raised his foot and attempted to slam it down on Persian, who dodge the attack with fluent and graceful movements! The cat then jumped up and readied its claws, but Rhyperior simply opened its mouth and caught the cat in its jaws! The Pokemon bit down and violently shook it around before throwing it off to the side! Then came Nidoking and queen, both of which shook off their initial shock as Rhyperior took down all the others. The three Pokemon then engaged in a battle of claws and fisticuffs! Each side exchanged equal strength and blows of power, but Rhyperior came out on top with his bodily advantage. As the two monarch Pokemon resisted another combined attack, Rhyperior held out both arms and shot out stones at the two. The stones shattered with ease under their strength…..too easily, and sandy particles blocked their vision! This gave Rhyperior more than enough time to grab both by their heads and slam them into one another!
Once those two were down, Rhyperior saw how the other Rhyperior and Rhydon had begun to get back from the first attack. Rhyperior roared in anger and charged at the two once more! This time he made a sliding stop and used the momentum of his huge body's movement to deliver a devastating blow on Rhydon with his tail! The attack was so powerful that it knocked the air and Pokemon clean into another room! From there he charged headfirst into the other Rhyperior's stomach and activated Drill Horn! Giovanni's Rhyperior cried out as the horn drilled into its armor-plated stomach and Gar's Rhyperior kept charging forward until they both crashed through another wall and vanished from sight and earshot, leaving only echoes of the distant fighting and the two men alone.
Gar put on a wry grin as he approached Giovanni step by step while speaking. "Would you look at that? It's just you. Me. And Giratina watching us. Thought you were pretty Thievul, didn't ya?", he asked with a condescending look.
but instead of being angry, Giovanni simply smiled, like he still had the advantage, and said, "Oh no, I simply drew you into these confined quarters to talk."
"Talk? Are you joking?", Gar asked back skeptically, but when all he got was silence, he decided to follow up his question with, "Well whatever it is, spit it out quickly.", he told him with an eye roll and hand wave.
Giovanni just chuckled in his throat and shaking his head said, "Oh Garfield, for someone who portrays himself as some kind of a benevolent saint-."
"The media made me look that way, I never said anything like that.", Gar shot into his accusation.
"You truly are as hypocritical as I.", he finished with a gleam in his eyes.
Gar narrows his eyes while knitting his eyebrows together, and asks back with a dangerous tone, "What are you saying? If you're gonna try and convince me to join you based solely on some lackluster half-baked connection between our state of mind or goals or something like that, then you can forget it."
Giovanni chuckled aloud this time and replied, "Oh no, nothing like that. See I didn't come here for revenge or your vast amounts of Pokemon, though that is a nice addition to all this, I simply want what you stole from me."
This time Gar raised his eyebrows to his forehead with shock and anger as he exclaimed, "Stole from you? I don't remember stealing from you? And even if I did; you're a black-hearted, cutthroat, mob boss! Sooooo morality calls this a draw.", when Giovanni made a face, one Gar recognized as someone waiting for a follow-up question, he humored him and asked, "And what did I even 'steal' from you anyway?"
A cold grin spread across Giovanni's face as he replied with a sinister tone, "My magnum opus."
Gar's eyes widened until they were their max size! His shock quickly turned to anger as he gripped the ball containing what the man was referring to and shouted in defiance, "You're not getting Mewtwo, EVER! You'll have to pry him from my COLD, DEAD, HANDS!"
This time Giovanni burst out into a small fit of maniacal laughter, making Gar's blood run ice-cold, and he stated while pushing back his already short hair, "Oh that's where you're wrong. Cause you see, I have something that'll get it for me. And take you up on your challenge."
With that said, the old man took out a master ball and threw it into the air. It popped open and out manifested a very familiar Pokemon that Gar fully reconsidered! Mewtwo.
The young man's body went slack and cold, his breath went raspy, his eyes went wide, and his body visibly shook with fear! He then forced himself to speak, and said with a shaking tone, "No-No…..No way. It-It can't be! Y-You…..created another one!?", Giovanni smiled wide and nodded proudly, making Gar's heart skip a beat as his cold blood run hot! He grabs his chest while biting his lip and yells, "You Dhelmising MONSTER! Was playing Arceus and screwing one in the head not good enough for you?! Now you go and make another? Have you learned nothing in these ten years!?"
Giovanni said nothing again, instead, he looked Gar straight in the eyes with a cold, uncaring, white-toothed, devilish grin. Gar's anger sank to emptiness alongside the expression on his face. He looked…. defeated. As if Giovanni's lack of….anything was all the words he needed to confirm.
Then with a weak and small voice, he stated, "You….really haven't, have you?"
Giovanni grunts a laugh as he asks back, "Is that such a surprise?"
"OF COURSE IT IS!", Gar explodes on him, surprising the old man. The scream was enough to knock the air out of him, and he breathed heavily as he exclaimed, "Don't you think….don't you know what should matter to you right now?"
Giovanni looked at the young man strangely and managed to croak out with an estranged tone, "What are you-?"
"SILVER!", Gar cut him off with another shout.
"S-Silver?", Giovanni repeated the word curiously, like it held an air of long gone nostalgia.
"Yes, you Binnacle-brained brute, Silver! Your son, Silver! He's out there, somewhere you know! I know, I've been looking for him.", Gar snapped at him as his head sank and he continued. "He needed you and probably still does! He needs someone to stand as a figure of inspiration to him, someone to help guide and be there for him. You had the chance to do that, along with the manpower and resources. And instead, you do….this?", he exclaimed while motioning around himself. "Scrape your washed-out gang together and cross over space and time just to get your Geodudes off for petty revenge and reclaim your abused science experiment? Are you mad?!", he yelled with a fiery furry before quickly regressing and asking with a sad and desperate plea, "Don't you care about him?"
Giovanni said nothing in return. He simply looked to the ground as a shadow covered his eyes. He stayed like that for several seconds before a grin crossed his lips and he looked up with his cold eyes while stating with complete certainty, "The only thing I care about is according to my will and desire! Nothing else matters."
Gar's head fell at his conviction, and with a shaky breath, he replied, "Then I guess you truly are beyond redemption, and now I have no regrets in what I will do next.", he lifted his head to stare at Giovanni right back with his stone-cold glare.
At first, this made the old man flinch, but he took back his confident bravado as he asked back snarkily, "Oh, and what's that?"
"I'm done playing nice with you old man. I'm gonna beat you to a pulp and then drag your body to a new cage for you to rot in like the filth you are.", Gar replied while walking slowly towards the man, cracking his knuckles with each step.
Giovanni smiled at Gar's declaration and asked him, "Ah, so you feel it too, don't you? I felt it just moments of coming here. It is like a new form of dark clarity has reached my mind.", Gar stopped his walk and stood there staring and listening as Giovanni spoke his riddles. The old man took a deep and refreshing breath as he continued. "To think that for years on end we have used these fantastic creatures for all our purposes. We have known of their veracity and power for ages, and yet so few cases exist of people of our world using them for their full purpose. Don't you find it strange?", he asked as a shadow covered half his malicious expression.
Gar gulped dry as he tried to find the words, but couldn't. His lips were dry and it felt like a stone was in his throat. However he pushed through and said with full assuredness, "I do, actually, and honestly, it makes my skin crawl. I guess the theory of the separate universal rule systems is true. Then again it could just be our nature to rely so heavily on these beings that it reflects on our personality and values. After a failed battle the losers' hurt pride is the same as losing a regular fight. Regardless of the circumstances involved, I do feel more freedom to attack with my veracity, almost like I finally had a long-awaited epiphany.", he then closed his eyes while taking a calming breath and when he opened them with a vicious gleam he told him with a growl, "And I'll use this new clarity on you."
Giovanni smiled even wider and more sisterly at his declaration of battle. Mewtwo stood in front of the old man ready to attack, but he stopped the Pokemon with a stern voice, exclaiming, "You are not to be involved in this. This is between us.", Mewtwo seemed to nod and floated off to the side to allow the two men to duke it out between them.
They both stood just several feet from one another, staring each other down like animals ready to attack! Gar was in a tense fighting stance while Giovanni stood with a relaxed standing position with arms behind his back. Gar glared at the man with teeth bared, while Giovanni looked down on him with a self-assured glint in his eye.
Giovanni smiled at him vexingly and brought one of his arms to the front, motioning the young man forwards while saying, "Well? What are you waiting for? Come at me."
Hey guys, sorry about the two part chapter, I know I said that this would be the final chapter to wrap up this arc. I've just been having a good writing flow lately and just had to get at least this part out asap! So the next chapter will definitely be the last chapter to wrap it up, and after that there will be two small sequel chapters that will add on more, tie up loose ends, and push the overall narrative with new information. Hope you guys enjoyed it and the actual final chapter to the sports festival arc will be released…..whenever. Hope you have a great day and Plus Ultra!