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// Chapter 7: The 10,000,000 Volts of Friendship 
// Story: Parasite Shimmer 
// by Pinkie Pie Sweets 
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The pokemon trainers, the pony princess turned human, and the CHS girls watch as giant crystals begin to take over the park. They know that they need to do something before Sunset is lost to them, and the ultra beast takes over the park.

"This is bad. Really really bad," Sweetie Belle whimpers in fear.

"You can say that again," Scootaloo replies with the same expression.

Then Twilight worriedly asks, "I don't understand, Sunset was snapping out of the bond and wants to get out. Why that Nihilego refused to let her go?"

"Yeah. It's like what happened to Lusamine. The Ultra Beast didn't want to let her go because it wants to learn more about her and humans," Ash remembers.

"Maybe it's trying to understand Sunset?" Lillie suggests.

Then Gladion says, "It probably suspect that Sunset is not an ordinary human, and wants to understand her and what every power she possessed."

Princess Twilight and the other girls gasp in shock.

"You mean, that think sensed Sunset's Equestrian Magic?" Twilight questions in shock.

"And it's trying to understand her," Apple Bloom says.

"I believe so," Gladion says.

"And it must understand how Sunset feels about the Anon-A-Miss problem has done to her," Sweetie Belle suspects.

Apple Bloom shouts in frustration, "This holiday have turned into a big mess."

"You're right about that sister," Applejack agrees.

Then Rarity worriedly says, "We need to get Sunset out of there."

"But how?! That think covered Sunset in this strange goo thing, and has itself protected by a giant crystal wall!" How are we going to get in?!" Rainbow panicley asks.

Everyone begin to think of an idea on how to get Sunset free from the ultra beast.

Gladion has come with with an idea, "I can only think of one solution… we will have to use our Z moves on Sunset and the Nihilego."

Rotomdex shows a a exclaim face on its' screen, "You're right. If you all use your z moves and if Ash uses Pikachu's most Powerful Z moves, that will be enough to separate Sunset from the Nihilego."

"Z moves?!" Twilight and the CHS girls question.

"They're powerful moves that comes from the Z crystals, but also the bond between the pokemon and their trainer," Rotomdex explains.

Then Rotomdex shows the clips of the z moves as it explains, "Ash, Kiawe, Gladion, and Lana are the only ones who has the Z ring, and the z crystal. With them, they are able to creature powerful moves that can defeat stronger opponents. Ash used a powerful z move to defeat Nihilego once."

"Wow!" All the CHS girls awe in amazement.

Then Twilight becomes concern, "Will it hurt her?"

"It might hurt her, but it's the only way to save her," Kiawe answers.

Twilight becomes sad to hear it. The last thing Twilight wants is to see Sunset getting hurt.

Mallow puts her hand on her shoulder, "I know you don't want Sunset to suffer more than she has been, but Ash and the others will have to use their z moves on her in order to free her."

"And we'll be there to help with that," Lillie says with a smile.

"And we'll do what we can too," Applejack adds.

"Our friend is in trouble and it's going to take all of us to take this pokemon down," Rainbow adds.

Twilight looks at the six trainers and know that they are right. What really surprises her is to see that everyone are willing to save Sunset.

Twilight nods her head, "Okay, so what can we do to help out?"

They all gather around in a circle to explain about the plan. The pokemon circle around as well to hear the plan for their attack.

"Alright, some of us will distract the ultra beast and some of power pokemon will help out with the attack. Each time we get our chance, that's when one of us will use our z moves on it," Gladion explains.

"Right!" Everyone replies.

Pinkie sighs, "If only we can use our magic. Then we can help you."

"Maybe we will, if we try," Fluttershy replies.

"Well, we have a plan, might as well use it," Applejack says.

"I agree," Sweetie Belle replies.

Ash shouts,"Then let's do it!"

"Yeah!" Everyone cheer, well except for Gladion for the plan.

In the crystal infested park, the Nihilego has covered itself in a red crystal like fortress and more begin to part out to cover it. Even though it is covered, it's trying to sense any intruders that try to enter its territory.

Just then, Pikie jumps in and happily shouts, "Hey! Come and catch me if you can!"

Sensing danger, red crystals appear and try to shoot at Pinkie, but she dodges.

The Crusaders sneaks to the other side and shout, "We're over here! We're over here!"

The red crystals appear and try to attack the crusaders, but they dodge it in the nick of time. Lana steps in and crosses her wrist to activate her z crystal.

She happily shouts as she crosses her wrists together, "Ready Popplio!"

Just then the z move begin to activate. Popplio reply with a while on it's face. The two wraise their arms until Lana's wrist are moves her arms and body as her z crystal begin to glow. She then position herself so her arms ar up in the air on one side.

The power of the z crystal moves into Popplio, Lana chants, "Past the ocean's horizon!"

The power of the z move has transferred into Popplio, meaning that it's ready to perform its z move.

Lana shouts, "Hydro Vortex!"

Popplio lets out a loud cry as waves of water appear out of nowhere. Then Popplio flies in the air and create a giant vortex of water that looks like a water tornado. The Hydro vortex is spinning do fast, and hits directly at the fortress. The vortex has become too much for parts of the fortess to handle so it begins to crack and break apart.

When the vortex disappear they can see the protective shield has been damaged.

Rainbow happily shouts, "It's working!"

"Then it's our turns," Mallow says.

"Steenee," Steenee happily replies.

"Row!" Rowlet reply.

Applejack turns to Kiawe, "Are you and your giant turtle ready?"

"It's a Turtonator, and of course we're ready, "Kiawe answers.

"Then let's do it," Sophocles shout.

"Maru!" Togedemaru happily cheer.

"Charja!" Charjabug adds.

Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Mallow, Sophocles, and their pokemon run over to begin their diversion so Kiawe can use the z move on it. Of course, Ash's Rowlet tag along with them.

When they reach to a different side of the fortrus, Applejack shouts, "Hey you, you don't look so tough!"

"Yeah. You ain't so tough! Your mother is a jellyfish!" Rainbow adds, and giving it a raspberry.

The ultra beast create multiple energy balls and crystals, and aim it at Applejack and Rainbow.

Sophocles call out, "Togedemaru use zig zag! Charjabug, discharge!"

Togedemaru charge itself with electricity and zig zag to hit the crystals and energy balls out of the way. Then hits the fortress breaking it even more. Charjabug zaps the crystals and not the protective crystal, breaking it too.

"Marowak use, Bonemerang!" Kiawe adds.

Marowak throws it's boan and hits at the crystals, destroying them in the process. Then the bone comes back to the pokemon. Marowak catches it with good timing.

Mallow shouts, "Steenee, use sweet scent!"

Steene then makes a pink aroma appear from it's leaves and some of the kids and pokemon become entrance by the smell, especially Rowlet who goes to Steenee on the stop. Steene then gives Rowlet a double slap on the face making it fly in the air. Then Steene makes a very sigh jump, and gives Rowlet a strong kick to the head. Rowlet then flyes at fast speed while performing it's peck attack. Rowlet hits the crystal fortress making more cracka and breaking of large pieces of the shield.

Applejack looks questionably at Mallow, "What kind of move is that?"

"That's called Ultimate Move: Rowlet Shot," Lana replies.

The others are kind of confused about it.

Rainbow turns to Kiawe and shouts, "Kiawe, Now!"

Kiawe nods his head saying, "Right."

Kiawe z crystal begin to glow, and he crosses his wrist together as she calls out, "Alright! Turtonator let's go!"

"Turt!" Turtonator replies.

Kiawe and Turtonator begin to do the same movement as Kiawe chants, "My full body, full spirit, full power!"

Kiawe admits a fire like aura and then transfer the power of the z crystal to Turtonator.

"Inferno overdrive!" Kiawe calls out.

Turtonator then unleashes powerful fire from it's nose and leases a maximum amount of it on the the beast with the girl inside. When the blast is done, they can see more of it broke. In fact, it's enough to see the Nihilego. They just need to put in more power.

"It's really working," Fluttershy happily says.

"We need to put more power at it," Gladion adds.

Ash says, "Looks like your group is up,"

"Right," Gladion replies.

Gladion, along with his pokemon, Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, Lillie and her pokemon run to Sunset and the pokemon so they break the bond even more. Sinsing the danger, the pokemon create more crystals and energy balls, and use them to strike at the others. Twilight and the others dodge them in the nick of time.

"That pokemon is rude," Rarity complains.

"And it's making Sunset hurt us," Fluttershy adds.

"We can only hope the plan work," Twilight adds.

She looks ahead and shouts, "Look out!"

They run away from the crystals.

Luckily Gladion commands his Umbreon, "Umbreon use, dark pulse! Silvally use air slash!"

Umbreon jumps in the air and unleash pulses of black rings. And hitting the field breaking it more. Silvally uses it's horn to creates slashes to strike at the attacks and the protective field. Luckily, it has done a lot more damage.

However more crystals are about to hit Twilight and the others. Just then, Litten uses its' fire fang, follow by ember. Then Ash's Lycanroc uses its rockthrow on them. The two crushes the crystals like rock candy.

The girls sigh in relief, "Thank you!"

The two pokemon simply nod their heads in reply.

Now it's Gladion and his pokemon Lycanroc turn to make their move. Their z move to be exact. Gladion activates his z crystal in the ring and crosses his wrist together with the ring at front. His pokemon Lycanroc copies his trainer's movement.

Gladion chants, "The blue moon sea power washes over us… in the crumbling world!"

The trainer and his pokemon begin to clutch their hist and they do the same movement on their body. The two make a determine and furious pose clutching their fist. Gladio glows orange all over his body.

"Then sealed it up!" Glaidon adds.

He then raise his fist into the air and an orange stream of light appear. Then the power of the light travels in to gladion's Lycanroc.

Gladion cries out, "Get ready! Use Continental Crush!"

Gladion's Lycanroc jumps up in the air with large amount of rock. The pokemon spins around until it's holding a giant boulder in it's paw. Lycanroc then throws it at the Nihilego from above and smashes it into a bits of explosion. When the smoke clears they see that theNihilrgo foce fiedl is gone.

Gladion shouts, "Ash, now's your chance to finish this!

"Right," Ash replies.

Then she runs over to have the Nihilego who still has sunset trapped inside. The ultra beast tries to attack Ash and Pikachu, but they dodge t the nick of time.

Ash asks, "You ready Pikachu!"

"Pika pi!" Pikachu answers.

Before Ash can be ready, Twilight runs over along with the girls.

Ash claims, "Twilight! What are you and the girls doing!"

"We want to help you save Sunset," Fluttershy answers.

"Sunset is our friend, and we're partly the reason she is in this mess," Rainbow adds.

"And we want Sunset to know that we're still her friend," Rainbow says.

Then Rarity says, "We let Sunset down before, and we swore to never let it happen again."

"We'll give everything we got," Pinkie cheers.

"I know why you are concern, but please understand that our friend is in trouble. She needs us. We'll do anything to help you bring her back to us," Twilight explains.

Ash sees the determine and worried look in their eyes. He can see the girls really care for Sunset, and want to help fix the mess that sunset is in.

Ash smiles, "I'm not sure how you can help, but i'm glad that you are willing to be with her friend to save her. So I'm counting on you to help and support us."

"Thanks Ash," Twilight replies.

Ash, Pikachu, and the main six face the Nihilego. Their final attack to set Sunset free.

Ash shows a determine look, "Pikachu. girls, let's hit it full on with our power!"

"Pikachu!" Pikachu agrees.

"Right!" the girls chant with determination.

Just then, Ash's z crystal begins to glow a bright rainbow color. To add to the surprisingly event, Twilight and the girls begin to give off magical aura, each of them glowing a different color. Twilight glows light purple. Rainbow Dash glows cyan blue. Applejack glows light orange. Pinkie Pie glows pink. Rarity's is white. Finally Fluttershy is glowing light yellow. Then they all transform into their ponified form. At the back, everyone are shocked to see what is happening.

"Wha-what's happening?" Sophocles asks in shock.

"I have no idea," Lillie shockley answers.

"Something's happening!" Kiawe adds.

Rotomdex panicky shouts, "I… I must record this!"

Rotomdex then presses it's buttons and is beginning to record the event.

Scootaloo, "Aw year!"

"The girls magic is going to help us too," Apple Bloom adds with excitement.

The aura from the girls begin to fly up in the air and then surrounds Ash's z ring. Ash is surprised to see the magical aura is being absorbed into the crystal. Ash's hat falls off from his head, but luckily, Pikachu manages to catch it. Ash sees that the thunder z crystal has transformed again into the shape of Pikachu's tail and changed to a special rainbow color of light the same colors the girls have given off.

Twilight calls out, "Ash, you need to use the crystal on that pokemon."

"Our Equestrian Magic is giving you and Pikachu more power," Applejack adds.

"Go! You got this Ash!" Pinkie shouts.

"No… we got this! Together!" Ash shouts with a grin on his face.

The girls smile in reply and hold each other hands so their magic will become strong. They stand behind Ash as he is ready to help Pikachu perform their powerful z move.

Ash then begin to activate his z move by crossing both his wrists with the ring in front.

He shouts, "Alright! Let's do this Pikachu!"

Pika!" Pikachu calls out, and has Ash's hat placed on its' head.

Pikachu jumps in the air to Ash. They both give each other a fist bump. Then use their hand/tail to give them a hi five. Then Pikachu lands on its' feet. The two then do the same movement to activate the moves. When they finish the pose, the z crystal gives Pikachu power and orbs of the six colors appear around it giving Pikachu even more power.

Ash chants, "Stronger than a Thunderbolt's 10,000 volts...1,000,000 Volts!"

"Pika!" Pikachu replies.

Ash then clutches his fist that has the z ring, "No, even bigger than that! Our super full power!"

"Pika pika!" Pinkie replies with determination and electric sparks coming from its' cheeks.

"Pikachu! 10,000,000 Volts!" Ash cries out, raising his fist in the air.

"PIKA!" Pikachu cries as it jumps up in the air, and the orbs follow along with it.

Dark clouds appears over Pikachu and yellow electric sparks. The orb is caught in the sparks and turn bright yellow as they release sparks of the colors they represent. Twilight and the girls unleash their magic to hit the orbs in order to give them more power.

Pikachu focus on it's electric powers as the orbs do the same, "Pi, ka, ka, ka ka, ka…"

"PIKA… CHU!" Pikachu cries unleashing its' most powerful z move.

The six orbs turn into strong streams of light and electricity surrounds it. They hit the ultra beast with full force. Just then a big blast of rainbow electricity surrounds the beast. Everyone look at the amazing power, and show concern on what will happen. Rotomdex has been recording the move the whole event. Ash and the main six take deep breaths, after experiencing the attack. Ash's z crystal return to normal, and the girls aura dissolves soon after.

When the smoke clears, they see the Nihilego is out of the crystals with electric shocks coming out of its body from the movie. The next thing everyone sees, the pokemon has wobble until it falls down to the ground. Seeing that the beast is finally down, Lillie grabs the beast ball and is going to catch it.

Before she can, Twilight cries out as she runs to the pokemon, "Sunset!"

Twilight arrives at the pokemon along with her friends. The main six look to see Sunset's arm is out of the crimson hair. Stuttering, Sunset is trying to move her arm. She uses the strength she has to lift her arm and tries to reach out to the girls.

With her eyes covered in water, Twilight shouts in concern, "Sunset!"

Twilight uses both of her hands to grab Sunset on the wrist and begin to pull her out. Applejack and Rainbow grab Sunset by the arm as well, and the others help them pull too. Just then red crimson substance moves as they pull Sunset out and they fall to the ground. Twilight and the girls look to see the Nihilego has returned to normal and still unconscious. Then look down to see Sunset still unconscious, covered in red crimson go, and still in her pajamas.

Twilight rushes over and picks up Sunset. Twilight begin to cry for two reasons. One is seeing that Sunset is alright. And two, saddened to see how much Sunset has suffered before and after being under the influence of the ultra beast. Just then, they girls begin to hear moaning sounds, and look down to see Sunset's head move.

Sunset's eyes begin to slightly open to see Twilight, and feel groggy, "T-twilight… girls… is… is that… you?"

Twilight smiles and nods her head with tears coming out. Sunset smiles as well, but falls into unconsciousness soon after.

"Poor Sunset, that pokemon must have took a lot of her strength," Rarity replies in concern.

Then Fluttershy suggests, "Maybe we should take her to the hospital or something."

"The doctors will question about what happened. And I don't think they'll like our answer," Applejack replies.

"You're right Applejack. We need to take Sunset home," Twilight says.

"To her apartment or back to Equestria?" Rainbow questions.

"Her apartment is close by so we should take her there," Pinkie says.

"Good idea," Twilight agrees.

Ash walks over, and kneel down to them, "We'll help take care of her."

Twilight sniffles while shedding tears, "Thanks Ash."

The others walk over to see the girl that is set free. The trainers them put their pokemon back in their pokeballs. Lillie then throws the beast ball at the Nihilego and it's been put inside. After three shakes from the ball, it clicks meaning that the pokemon has been caught. With Sunset free, and the Nihilego caught, Ash and his friends know that their mission is accomplished, but that is not the end of their adventure.