Chapter 71: Nemona Vs Rojo

Multiple sounds of metal being deflected rang in the scarlet dimension of Paldea. Whenever Nemona swung her blade at Geeta Rojo, her opponent deflected her sword with her arms. With every attack Nemona threw, her opponent would attack back, waving her hands wildly like claws and growling madly like a beast.

After stepping back to dodge a swipe from Geeta Rojo's hand, Nemona slashed downward with incredible force. Just as Nemona's opponent blocked her attack, they entered a deadlock.

"I'll never forgive you..!" Nemona shouted.

Geeta Rojo gritted her teeth with immense fury, roared, and pushed Nemona away with a swing of her arm. After ducking another swipe from Geeta's arm, Nemona disappeared as though she had teleported.

Using the move Extreme Speed, Nemona appeared and disappeared again and again around the crazed woman, who turned her head back and forth in an attempt to keep up.

Suddenly, Geeta Rojo began getting slashed like an invisible blade was cutting her. Her body stumbled back and forth with each slash Nemona threw with incredible speed.

Suddenly, the Rayquaza that wrapped around them disappeared in an instant before Nemona suddenly re-appeared in front of her opponent.

"DRAGON ASCENT!" Nemona shouted before swinging her blade upward, knocking Geeta Rojo into the air briefly before the golden holographic body of Rayquaza ascended from the ground below- biting onto Geeta Rojo and carrying her high into the sky. Nemona aimed her open palm at them both as the Rayquaza hologram started to dive into the ground.

The moment the Rayquaza hit the ground was when Nemona closed her open hand- and the hologram exploded. The explosion created a gigantic golden mushroom cloud-shaped puff of smoke large enough to eclipse the entirety of Naranja Academy. Nemona watched with a frown, the gold light of the smoke reflected off her eyes. She closed her eyes.

In that instant, Nemona felt someone punch her directly in the stomach. Her eyes shot open, and saliva flew out of her mouth as she saw Geeta Rojo's bruised up face and furious look. Golden static coursed around Geeta Rojo's body before she punched the young girl again in the face, sending her flying through the walls of the academy and straight into the Entrance Hall.

Nemona coughed loudly as she reeled from the blow while lying on her back. She looked up, seeing Geeta Rojo's shadow from the dust from the wall's broken concrete.

That shadow Geeta Rojo cast had two glowing red eyes that shone brightly.

"I'm going to give you bad news and worse news…" Geeta Rojo's voice no longer carried that same wild instinct from before. It sounded normal. A shiver ran down Nemona's spine as she slowly stood up.

Geeta Rojo came through the dust cloud, putting a hand on her neck as she cracked it. "First, the bad news. That attack you did on me got me to wake up. The worse news is… I'm absolutely livid."

Nemona grit her teeth and threw her blade, which spun like a top as it flew over to her nemesis. Nemona aimed her open hand at her thrown blade.

"Twister!" Nemona shouted. A blue twister formed around the thrown blade and flew after Geeta with incredible speed.

"I thought the math teachers taught you better than this." Geeta Rojo looked completely unfazed. "You have one legendary Pokémon on your side-"Geeta Rojo swung her arm which sparked with fighting type energy and swatted the twister away. The moment Nemona gasped and took a step back, Geeta Rojo was already in front of her, crouched down and ready to throw an attack. "And I have two."

Geeta Rojo swung her electric-type energized fist and uppercutted onto Nemona's jaw. The blow was powerful enough to shatter the face visor of the young girl's armor. She was sent flying so far that she crashed through the floors of Naranja Academy, one by one. By the time Nemona's body had flown straight through the rooftop, Geeta Rojo was already up there, waiting for her and flapping her wings. Grabbing the airborne girl by the neck, Geeta Rojo looked the girl in the face as she pulled her close.

"While I beat you until you're an inch away from death," Geeta Rojo said, "I want you to remember. You wanted this."

Nemona spat at Geeta Rojo's face, and the wad of saliva hit her cheek.

Suddenly, Geeta Rojo's eyes shined with red, furious light as she glared furiously.

"I'LL KILL YOU!" She shouted.

The tightened grip of Geeta Rojo had made Nemona cry out in pain. Then, with an intense roar, Geeta Rojo threw the young girl back into the school building. Nemona fell through every school floor one by one once again before landing straight onto the ground of the entrance hall with enough force for her body to bounce once she crash-landed back-first. Nemona gasped for air as she floated for a brief moment.

Despite the danger she was in…Nemona grinned.

Geeta Rojothen dove down foot-first right where Nemona was lying.

The attack was powerful enough to send a shockwave around the entire school. The shockwave crashed through the walls around them and destroyed parts of the wall. The entire building trembled- there were mere moments left before the entire academy would fall.

"I WILL END YOU..!" The wild and berserk nature of Geeta's voice had returned, and she swung her fist down over and over again even as the dust from her attack nearly blinded her. "HOW DARE YOU SPIT ON ME! YOU WORTHLESS, INSIGNIFICANT BRAT! I'M GOING TO PULVERIZE YOU! I'M GOING TO CRUSH YOU UNTIL THERE'S NOTHING LEF-"

Geeta Rojo gasped loudly when the dust around her settled, and she could finally see who…or rather, what, she was pounding on relentlessly.

It was a Substitute doll.

"I like it better when you're like this," Nemona's voice caused the berserk Geeta Rojo to spin her head around.

Nemona held her sword with both hands as she aimed it directly at Geeta. Golden, dragon-type electricity coursed around her and her body. "I like it when you're angry and predictable!"

Geeta Rojo roared loudly in anger as she rushed mindlessly after the young girl. The school around them was breaking down into pieces more and more, and the roof was beginning to fall straight onto them.

The slash from Nemona's sword that came was powerful enough to not only cut the oncoming roof above them in half, but send Geeta Rojo flying straight through the said roof and and into the air.

Nemona watched as more rubble fell down toward her. She leapt into the air, cutting down each piece of debris that threatened to crush her. Planting her feet on a piece of debris, she leapt away from the oncoming avalanche of scrap. After successfully getting out of the Academy building that threatened to cave her in, Nemona aimed her blade at Geeta, who was still flying uncontrollably in the air.

"THIS IS FOR MY FRIENDS!" She roared. "DRAGON ASCENT!"

The tip of Nemona's sword sent out Rayquaza's holographic body toward Geeta Rojo's spinning body.

As Geeta Rojo saw the open jaw of Rayquaza flying for her, her eyes widened. A single, sane thought came to her mind at that moment.

One thing was obvious: She had been tricked. That act of disrespect, the spit Nemona had thrown at her face was a tactical one. But there was one factor that would prove to save Geeta Rojo's life. One that Nemona had no way of circumventing.

When Geeta Rojo saw she was face to face with death, no fear would come to her. No- instead, she would feel solace.

Peace.

After what she had done to Paldea… Geeta Rojo knew that when death came for her, she would accept it with open arms. It's what a monster like her had deserved, after all.

However, this peace is exactly what would 'wake her up.' That moment of tranquility would be enough to snap her out of her berserk state, and have her primal instinct to live kick in.

She couldn't die. Not like this.

Gritting her teeth and stopping herself from twirling uncontrollably, Geeta Rojo stopped her momentum and held still in the air as she watched the hologram of Rayquaza open its mouth, ready to grab her once again.

"ELECTRO DRIFT!" Geeta Rojo roared loudly as she used Miraidon's signature move. An orb of blue lightning formed around her body and started rotating loudly.

Then, Geeta Rojo teleported in front of the orb that had previously 'consumed' her. Raising an open palm at the rotating orb, she stared into the eyes of the Rayquaza that opened its mouth.

In the end, the guilt that caused Geeta Rojo to accept any death that would come her way was what would bring Nemona down.

Tragic.

Geeta Rojo fired the blast straight at the hologram of Rayquaza- which shattered like glass.

Nemona shouted in sheer horror, being able to do nothing but watch the attack come her way at incredible speeds, which the young girl had no way of reacting to, let alone dodging.

Killing her wasn't part of the plan. But unfortunately, Geeta Rojo had no choice. If she had spared Nemona, she would have kept chasing her to the ends of the earth. It was against the plan, but Geeta Rojo felt that her life was more valuable than Nemona's in the said plan.

The Professors would understand.

"Goodbye, Nemona," Geeta Rojo said to herself, closing her eyes. "I'm sorry."

Just before the orb touched Nemona… The loud sound of a Katana slashing the air made Geeta Rojo's eyes widen.

The orb that previously was inches away from Nemona had suddenly been cut in half before exploding.

"Thank goodness I made it in time…"

Nemona couldn't believe her ears. The voice she had heard couldn't have possibly reached her ears.

As the smoke from the explosion in front of Nemona faded, the girl's eyes widened upon realizing who was standing in front of her with a Katana in their hand.

It was a second Geeta, clad in invoker armor reminiscent of Kinggambit's armor, with yellow stripes over a crimson breastplate. The Japanese samurai sunhat on her head gave Nemona so much nostalgia that she almost teared up.

This was still impossible, though. For a moment, Nemona wondered if she had died, and gone to heaven, and that this was fate's cruel joke showing how things could have gone differently. But the pain on her rear reminded her that this was indeed real life.

The second Geeta turned her head.

"You okay?" She asked.

"Who-...what... are you..?" Nemona asked.

The second Geeta smiled. "I'm Geeta. From another dimension. The Violet Dimension, to be exact. I'll explain later. Anyway, I want you to sit this one out. I'm not saying it because I think that you're weak. I'm saying it because…" The second Geeta's smile faded as she looked up at Geeta Rojo, who was descending slowly to the ground.

A huge, creepy smile crawled on Geeta Rojo's face.

"I've got a bone to pick with her," Geeta concluded with a glare.

The wave of…sheer…awesomeness was hitting Nemona at that moment.

A single tear of nostalgia crawled down her cheek. Nemona had long since given up on seeing the old Geeta, the one that she looked up to, the one that she thought was the coolest, most powerful trainer of all of Paldea.

La Angel Rojo.

La Primera.

For the first time in months, a genuine smile of joy crept onto the Scarlet dimension's Nemona face...one that came after a single thought came to her mind: 'So cool..!'