Baa-Ram-Ewe!

by Darkonshadows

354. Titan on Attack.

-World Where Dreams ‘Can’ Come True, Camden Town, 101 Dalmatian Street, Dante-

I watched as Deedee and Dizzy napped while snuggling a Dolly plushy together. I might feel a lot better and the future was bright, but it didn’t mean that we didn’t miss or worry about our eldest sister.

Also there was the the whole thing with the banshee, meeting the actual Cerberus to confirm that dad’s side of the family was a little odd in it's own way compared to mothers and there was the recent actual ghost fighting expedition… while Dolly was missing a lot, I doubted she wasn’t in some form of trouble and having nearly as much fun as we were.

Spot, the old family friend, was successfully keeping us safe when magical things showed up.

“It was certainly nice of Hunter to give us a few of those.” Dawkins stated as he came to stop next to me to watch our sisters snoozing before moving on. “Still got a few things to tweak on the kibble sprayer, would you like to help me?”

“Sure.” I’ve had to step up recently for the family from my apocalypse predicting ways, but being a more approachable big brother was nice and happy puppy cuddles were great.

-Pokémon Realm, Ransei Region, destroyed top of Cerebrum City, Kenshin-

I defended myself against one of the arm and claws from the right as Kaoru covered my back from another, then I bore witness to entire units of Meditites being wiped out in single sweeping swipe from another arm and three claws.

As a Medicham and one of the strongest rebel leaders, Sanosuke was quite angry to see his guys go down so fast and easily… that and the fact that he had lost his big sword a minute ago.

One would think Sanosuke would lose spirit in the face of what we were doing and we were only fighting only a small portion of the overall Gilgamesh. No, instead Sanosuke continued to fight with his bare fists and continued to show he was one of the strongest among our numbers.

I can already tell the legendary Pokémon weren’t coming and that they obviously had good reasons not to. At least they sent help in the form of the weird Buzzwole who was also named Gilgamesh, him and the large green bird were supporting our forward push to finally put this all behind us.

I don’t know where Pom or her people were on the battlefield, I could only hope they were safe. They were quite incredible, but they were basically another statistic in this battle as far as the Golden Gilgamesh was concerned and he didn’t seem concerned.

And why would the titan be concerned? He was tanking blistering Hyper Beams, blasting Psychic attacks, the few sparkling Dazzling Gleam explosion using Pokémon we could field and even Shadow Balls and Dark Pulses. At least the Dark Pulses have proven to be exceptionally helpful when they occasional caused the oversized monster to flinch.

“We’re hitting him with everything we have, is it still not enough?” I asked quietly as I thought about my most dangerous technique. I could use Sacred Sword and then unleash my ultimate technique, but I would be taken out of the battle when I did so. Nobody could do such a technique without incurring major backlash from the forces unleashed by it. I would have to find the right time to perform it and right now wasn’t quite the right time.

I’ve already used some of my most powerful techniques consecutively and I don’t have nearly that much left in me even with my fatigue being recovered by the large green bird.

“We can do this Kenshin, I believe in you!” Thanks for the vote of confidence Kaoru… you would have never be on a battlefield like this if the situation weren’t so horrid.

“Yeah, come on my brother in battle!” I watched as Sanosuke performed an expertly done one inch punch with his right fist and sent one giant arm and three digit claw flailing away with impressive force.

That Sanosuke had timed it so impeccably… his battle instinct certainly hadn’t faltered even with the loss of his main weapon.

I looked forward and brought my blade up while facing the titanic monster, I just needed an opening to perform my technique. I hoped our allies were doing as well in this battle.

There wasn’t much of Gilgamesh’s forces, but even those that stubbornly remained on the battlefield despite their injuries started turning on the current ‘so called’ king that started all of this.

“I really have no idea what’s going on, and why I can’t leave by voiding out, but it seems like I’m set in backing you guys!” Red-Gil stated as he continued to expertly deflect attacks with a baseball bat and blocking them with the odd sword in his left. Every time that sword was struck it always created that odd ‘tink’ noise.

“Kweh!” Enkidu the green bird agreed to help us and then turned to Gilgamesh and unleashed a nastier sounding rebuke. “Wark!”

“Yeah, yeah, Greenkidu, I know!” The large red muscular bug stated.

-Ocellus-

Another beam of light rocketed into the sky as I sent more Dark and Psychic Types flying away to safety with the Rescue Team Badge. I seriously hoped Aurora could take them all, considering Gilgamesh was said to be attacking every single kingdom in throughout the entirety Ransei continent.

Dodo suddenly leapt to the side while firing a hypersonic highly carbonized bread loaf in defense that sent the massive claw away from us. It was terrifying that Gilgamesh could focus on more than six things at once, he was successfully fighting an entire army by himself without help. Not many could say they could do that so easily.

I wondered if King Thorax would be as grand on a battlefield as Kenshin is if pressed.

“Come on Dodo, we’ve still got so many more to rescue!” I urged on the quirky metal bird, as I saw another unit of Pokémon go down in a pile of bones, flesh and agony when a claw slapped down onto them.

Dodo warbled and continued on as I asked, but I could tell he was a bit terrified of Gilgamesh. I was too, but that didn’t mean we could stop saving who we could. Kenshin’s people were dropping like Flyders!

-Unbound Golden Gilgamesh-

Where were you? You’re out there somewhere… I know someone like you wouldn’t cut and run from this. A hero wouldn’t be able to look or back away from all of this! The wooly one had to show herself eventually.

Hm? Oh, how cute, here comes the poison attempt on the King of Heroes and its being done by the goat.

Even if they poison my arms, it won’t affect my body. Even if they poison my body directly it would take a while for me to really be truly harmed by it and unless I happened to have accidentally destroyed all the berry bushes in Illusio by accident, then it wouldn’t hard to get an antidote.

I swept my tail about sending bodies flying, I stomped down with my right foot and enjoyed the shockwave that sent more flailing forms falling before me. I don’t understand why the mongrels were doing by getting close to me, attacking me up close and personal was just courting pain and misery.

I fired a beam from the hole in my chest and swept it through the chaff that thought it could take me on. Quite a number of units were wiped out and I still didn’t get why they always bothered with coming in teams of six, especially if they were all this weak.

A small, relative to me, bolt of lightning struck me and I turned my gaze to where it had come from. I was so big now that it was hard to see the tiny one that had beaten Enkidu and continued to be an annoying itch in my side. The thing was barely a flea now and it still thought it could fight me?!

-Shanty-

The bubble flowed forward, sliding along the ground under my control at high speed and it be holding me and Dazzle.

Dazzle would be needing my help with getting close enough, because there was almost an entire section of floating land mass separated from the rest and Gilgamesh was standing on it over the ruins of what once looked like a castle. The broken section of the bridge is being the best I can be reaching from here.

When I be going to prepare the bubble for a launch I quickly rolled us to the side as an arm and claws fell down on where we were. A pair of hovering limbs be hanging before us and they all be flexing.

Creating a bit of an opening for us I turned to Dazzle, while making sure not to take an eye off either arm.

“Uh Dazzle, are you being alright with this?” I had a few ideas and I really doubted Gilgamesh would be letting us by if he already be knowing about this.

“So cold…” Dazzle mumbled while shivering, she not be liking water a lot. “I’ll be fine, but you might want to…”

I immediately be launching us straight up and wrapped the bubble around us as the other arm grabbed us out of the air and started putting pressure on the bubble trying to squeeze us. I be thickening the water to not be crushed.

Dazzle moved behind me and I looked as she shoved her left claw of the bubble and lashed a whip flames around the wrist. It be doing nothing until the fire whip be blooming with power when Dazzle be increasing the heat. The hand flinched and be dropping us both, Dazzle quickly be letting the flaming whip go and pulling back inside the bubble before hit the ground and rolled backwards as the other arm swiped at us.

It be making a nasty looking ditch in the ground and I be knowing a lot about nasty ditches, I be sleeping in a few of them. I quickly bounded over the other arm as it came to slap down on where we were at an angle.

Dazzle quickly be jumping out of the bubble and lighting both her claws to be creating flame whips, I be peeling the bubble back a bit from my head.

“… I were Charmander I’d be dead by now.” Dazzle grumbled as she heated herself up with the flame whips, she really did not be liking water and I be very understanding of why and not be taking it personally.

“Do you be thinking you’re poison would work on its arms?” Be hearing a lot about it, but I never be seeing the full effects of Dazzle’s poison before.

“Yes, but it wouldn’t cause Gilgamesh any pain they are exactly connected to his body, the best my poison would do is erode the strength of those things.” As she said this she slapped her two whips out against the left arm and claws as it dragged along the ground and tried to slash upward, the whips didn’t slow it down much and it kicking up dirt and dust sending it all into the air as the claws lifted out of the ground and narrowly missed Dazzle as she ducked and crawled backwards.

“Can he even be healing his arms if they are being poisoned?” If I knew she could be doing that, then it would be being great for us.

“Probably better not to tell you, if he can’t figure it out… then.” I be bouncing my bubble and Dazzle be diving forward as the two claws be trying to smash us together. The reason Dazzle by diving forward under the wrists is because if she be going backwards she would have been torn apart by the shockwave the two claws be sending forward.

A splash purple be blasting up into the arms form beneath and the skin of the claws started turning from a greyish blue to being a sickly purple color from the splotches of liquid erupting from beneath them.

The claws stayed in place and the arms lifted up slightly, I quickly be swinging out a tendril of water around to the left and under the wrists and hopefully that was Dazzle I be grabbing and yanked Dazzle out from under it sideways as the arms slammed down. The shockwave sent Dazzle flying, but at least she wasn’t being crushed by the poisoned arms.

I be staying in place, the water around me wobbled as it absorbed the shockwave, I be learning how important defense is being from Pom and my Bounding Bubble is being multi-purpose.

The back ends of the arms slapped together with the claws pointing in the opposite direction, I tilted my head wondering what was about to happen… then the arms started spinning as they came at me until they were moving fast enough to be indistinct blurs.

After I be pulling my scythe from my back, I gathered the water around me and had it follow the motion of the cane scythe as I pulled it back. Now would not be being the time to be thinking about how I have been basically using a leg to be beating things up, I had to be having more focus than that.

“Grand Cleave!” I swung the scythe forward horizontally to the right, the mass of water taking on the shape of the blade as I put my entire body into the swing.

The impact be sending me flying, but I did be stopping the spinning arms… and be losing all my water in the process of cutting them both up lightly with thousands of slicing water blades that exploded off my weapon. Didn’t count as a flying slash if water was involved, it is being more elemental boosted slash and I wanted to be a doing a flying slash without water… doing it with water already being simple enough.

Just because I managed to knock the arms a bit back, didn’t mean they stopped coming for me at least the right one be pulling back for a slap before I can be getting up. It swung its three claws forward and they stopped short of actually hitting me, I was being a little confused… then I be seeing glimmer of lines in the air in the path it took to come at me.

“Squeak!” The entire arm was being lit up by the nearly invisible webbing and the poisoned arm be flailing a lot as the lightning did a lot of damage to the wet arm.

I be glad to see Lit and that he be planting a trap, only as I was getting up the left arm be bringing its claws around to slap down on me.

Two flaming whips wrapped around two of its digits and Dazzle yanked herself harshly forward to bodily slammed into the arm and knocked it off course from hitting me and into the other arm causing them both to be harshly electrified as they hit the ground and the impact knocked me over. I don’t think that would be stopping them though.

Dazzle soon be helping me up onto my hooves as put my weapon back across my back.

“I don’t know about you, but Lit terrifies me on a number of levels…” Dazzle stated as she turned to see Lit scuttling up to us, he raised his front left leg and squeaked cheerfully while waving at us.

The left arm quickly freed the right from the webbing after they finished flailing about and the two of them floating in the air while turning towards us, the water I be splashing them with be having quite a powerful effect with Lit’s sudden lightning attack. It was not being enough, if we be having this much problems with the arms… then how much problem would be having with the body when we be getting around to it?

-Kenshin-

The arms were frustratingly fast, powerful and most off all tough, I think things were going well considering the five of us were fighting two arms and we’ve done a moderate amount of damage.

“Kaoru how many of those bokkens do you have?” I was only asking out of curiosity while we have a lull in the fighting to take a break.

“As many as I’ll ever need!” Kaoru responded as she tossed away a half broken bokken and pulled out a fresh one.

“At least they are easy to make.” I hummed thoughtfully as I turned to the two arms preventing us from encroaching on Gilgamesh. I noted two arms on Shanty, Dazzled and… Lit I believe I could sense being in the area. One arm was wiping out the people who put their trust in me for a better tomorrow and the other was searching for something… likely Pom given she was probably on the battlefield somewhere.

“Ah yeah, this is getting my blood pumping!” Really wasn’t paying attention to the Buzzwole at all, but he seemed physically strong enough to at least handle one of the arms on his own as long as the green bird was helping.

Green sparkles washed over us and healed our injuries.

“Hey why wasn’t I healed too Greenkidu!” One might be able to guess Red-Gil, but I didn’t want to assume that your friend might have some baggage regarding you.

-Quetal-

Okay we managed to get this close and now I had to distract… I was going to have to learn a long range dark type attack one of these days, but I will forever refuse to learn an Ice Type attack.

At the moment the best thing I can do is fire off a Swift and create a duplicate, maybe double team to shore up the maximum time my clone has to be out and about. Using Aerial Ace on Gilgamesh would be quite a folly given how close I’d have to get to something that large.

I looked from behind my cover and concentrated until I created a Substitute clone, my clone stood next to me and waited to start attack. There can only be one Substitute clone, but nobody said that the clone couldn’t use Double Team alongside the original at the same time.

Being careful was how I was going to survive this, I’ve always been careful… I just had to avoid being the one to take a hit as any blow from Gilgamesh will likely tear me to shreds.

Pom needed time to get into position so she can really deal some damage, she’s only ever going to get the one attack in without reprisal and she better make it a good and highly damaging one. I looked at my Substitute clone and he started moving and firing stars, I counted to five and then moved in the opposite direction while firing stars and then we both used Double Team at the same time and started multiplying into illusory image.

Gilgamesh didn’t even bring one of his six arms against my, he slapped his large tail at me and either of me quickly dodged by leaping into the air. Generating Double Team Clones doesn’t hurt and uses less energy, but all they are is images that move and I’m trying to use it against a Psychic Type… yeah that’s why the Substitute clone is important to confuse the issue.

Still, even if I was attacking him, he still didn’t try to do more than hit me with his sweeping tail and stomping feet, he was saving one of his arms for Pom and it was fairly obvious that he saw her as a threat. In fact I was almost entirely beneath his notice given how weak my attacks were and I needed his attention as much as I could, even if there were two of me avoiding his attacks I wasn’t nearly enough.

I certainly didn’t feel very helpful and I still wanted to prove myself, but in this situation… what?

“Need some assistance with drawing his attention?” I blinked and looked to my left as the air shifted and the now mercenary Zoroark of the Dark Types revealed himself.

“Yeah, we need to keep his attention on us entirely for at least a few minutes.” I stated and continued to fire small energy stars into the titan attacking everything around him, for all the good it would do in comparison to the hyper beams he was being hit with. He only needed one arm for Kenshin’s forces, it said a lot that only a few people required two to fight and Kenshin was one of them that I could see from here near the edge of the floating landmass. “Shouldn’t you have escaped by now with the other Dark Types?”

“Why haven’t you? Good friends are hard to come by when you’re a Dark Type and I don’t think either of us is here to be a martyr.” Despite saying this he leapt out and fired a Shadow Ball into Gilgamesh’s face and drew his attention to the three of us.

“I want to be seen and remembered as a hero.” Which was saying much when my species were known for skulking about and quickly cutting something down in a flurry of violent claw swipes. “We just have to make sure he’s facing this way, we can’t let him turn around.”

“Well we’re going to need more firepower than what we have to keep his… oh… never mind.” As Zoroark was saying this several blasts of boiling and steaming liquid slammed into Gilgamesh’s head and face actually causing him some pain and staggering him.

I looked up and saw an airship, the only one in the air around here and the only one I’ve seen in a while and next to it was… the Skitty Squad!

They’ll definitely draw enough attention if the only airship doesn’t, still wondered how Gilgamesh was paying attention to what all his arms were doing while attacking us with shockwaves from his feet and sweeps of his tail.

-On the back of Skitty Squad’s Best Flying Oversized Father Ever Wilhelm, Captain Skeeball-

“Unit command, Splash, Shock and Shiver!” At my command Wilhelm immediately inhaled and gathered his water energy and began the process of unleashing a massive Hydro Pump that buffeted the big bully.

Legendary kind of Pokémon or not, the Skitty Squad does not tolerate big bullies and this guy was one of the biggest.

I quickly followed up by firing a Charge Beam into my blubber hubby’s attack and supercharged it, then our little Skitty’s start spraying Ice Beams into parts of the two legged body to start freezing him in place as he was battered by Water, Electric and Ice Type attacks all at once.

He blasted a beam out that tore the ice off of himself and manage to fight off our attack and Wilhelm managed to quickly drift to left to avoid it, me and the kitties ducked down as the passing of the beam heated up the air and I shivered at the raw power behind that attack.

I didn’t become Captain Skeeball of Aurora for nothing, for great justice!

“Unit command, everyone prepare a Super Splash, Shards and Shakes on my mark! Sorry big hubby, this might hurt you a bit too.” I commanded, my husband whined sadly for me… he knew what I was about to do to myself and sure it was going to hurt a lot… but I’d live. Don’t know about this giant with the golden highlights attacking innocent people though. I felt the leftover energy from the previous Charge Beam boost my abilities and I smiled a little, might as well take advantage of that. “After I’m down… move away and look out for anyone that needs further help evacuating, do not stay engaged in the fight… and maybe support the airship while you’re at it, but get away as soon as my attack finishes okay?”

My Skitty Squad and Wilhelm acknowledged the order and I started glowing as I stood up on my hind paws and move forward to the front of Wilhelm’s forehead and did the pose to start charging up for the last part of the attack as Wilhelm dodged two massive beams by losing altitude quickly.

He spat a Hydro Pump into the titanic tyrant and then the Skitty Squad started firing Ice beams into the Hydro Pump to start sending thousands of ice started pelting the two legged titan who slammed his tail down to brace himself against the attack and the hole in his chest started glowing.

“Just a little more… there… hhhhrrrrRAHHHH Z-MOVE GIGAVOLT HAVOC!” All the ice shards started to carry parts of the charge much as the water itself and the ice shards exploded into fountains of Electric Type energy.

Our opponent fired back and some of the attack did some damage, but now we had two beams pushing against each other.

“Nyahhhhhhhhhhhhhh-AHHHHHHGGGGHHH!” I put everything I could into this attack quickly reaching the Zenith my body could produce and pushed harder, the electrical flow was almost encompassing the water entirely as it pushed against the singular beam our opponent was putting out from his large cavity.

That he was even managing to fight our combine beam when the occasional icicle bounced out and exploded into him or distractingly into his surroundings, our opponent didn’t flinch and stayed strong when buffeted with exploding Electric Type charged ice.

Like before my body couldn’t take the strain of my own attack, but I was holding out much longer this time and I was powering through. Willpower don’t fail me now!

“You know what I hate, those who believe in willpower alone being enough to protect everything!” The giant stated as he started pushing my beam back slowly. “Though I have to admit, you are impressive… if you survive this then I’ll let you live and see what becomes of you. If you take too long to recover and prepare for a world that’s about to fall to ruin, even if I might not be the one to cause it, then you weren’t ever worthy of being called a hero!”

“Hey Blubby Hubby… take care of the children while I’m out…” I mumbled as I kept pumping energy into the attack.

Even as Wilhelm’s attack cut out, even as my Skitties tired of firing ice beams, I kept pushing my limits on Gigavolt Havoc as it fried my body. This guy wasn’t wrong, willpower alone was not enough at times, that’s why you got to have an unbreakable spirit too! Also I have to have a purpose here and a reason to continue excelling, my family.

They always believed in me even if I’m a bit off at times as a mother, I’m also a recognizable icon in the southwestern nations of Ransei.

My eyes opened slightly, revealing to my opponent the windows of my soul.

Using the last bit of energy I pushed his beam back with a wordless scream and blasted him good and then the world started fading away, was I coughing up smoke… yep… that… that certainly hurt. How did Electric Types handle burnout like this?

I blearily recognized that I was blacking out when one of my Skitty’s looked at me and then grabbed me with their tail and started to pull me back before I fell off of Wilhelm.

-Ruins of the Castle of Illusion, Golden Titan Gilgamesh-

“GG-gg-ggghhheeekk…” Where was that whale riding little hat wearing pink cat before all of this?! That’s almost the kind of hero I was looking for, one willing to put their entire being behind their actions. She was definitely devastating if she could even give me pause with an attack on par or even better than an actual true Noble Phantasm.

They were getting away, they were just going to cut and run… at least they were smart. Once I was able to move my body again I’d go after them.

I had kept my one floating arm at the ready, now where was ‘she’ and what was ‘she’ was preparing for me? Was I wrong about the sheep, did she flee the battlefield, she didn’t feel like the type to cut and run after all of this.

Hundreds of attacks landed on me, but they felt like pinpricks compared to what that one cat managed to do, that was the most powerful attack I’ve felt yet on the battlefield.

I continued fending off just about everyone with my five arms easily, I even took a single swipe at the airship with the arm I was using to wipe the rebels out and it scraped across the barrier on the ship as it barely swerved out of the way.

Yep, that was definitely the airship I was going to give Inky Due alright. The ants on the ship continued annoyingly spraying me with boiling water, but I always kept my upper right arm in reserve and used it defensively.

Where was that wooly little piece of…

“Thousand Spears: Huo!” A voice sounded out from behind me, I swept my arm into the path of a blast of flames as hot as the sun spearing upwards at me and the flaming spear scorched my right arm badly, however the person who shouted that was not the sheep.

What I saw was a little confusing, it was a smaller version of my bound form with different colors and a small green fairy piece of crap.

“Can’t believe he fell for that!” Said the piece of crap.

“Told you ventriloquism and voice mimicry lessons were awesome!” The hoopa stated before grabbing the crap fairy and disappearing into a portal as I blasted a beam out of hole in my current existence.

-Flashback to fifteen minutes ago, Celebi-

“So yeah, Hoopa is out of power, but I can still do something and I’ve been kind of wanting to prove that I’m not just someone who dies frequently or a loser. Arceus would never call me a loser, but I already know he’s been disappointed in my lately and this is my chance to show him that reviving me multiple times over the past few weeks was not a waste of energy. You’re not going to get any other Legendary help around here… everyone is… a bit busy… like ludicrously busy, you don’t even know everything going on yet and probably won’t for a while once the time stream clears up from this incident.” I finished while looked between the Sneasel and Pom, they looked to each other and then turned back to me. “By the way Arceus sends his regards and says that you’re going a little bit above and beyond helping just Aurora. We don’t have much frozen time here, so don’t ask for spoilers I don’t have.”

“So what can you do?” Pom asked me, I grinned brightly while rubbing small hands together. We were currently out of sight and ‘out of time’ since I was using pocket time to prevent Gold-Gamesh from noticing us.

“I can manipulate time and this guy manipulates space…. but as I said he’s out of energy and I’m getting a bit low personally, so don’t expect huge things.” I said as I patted my understudy friend on the back, Dialga and Palkia tended to fight a lot, but they were still siblings at the end of things. Usually to the end of any continuity.

“Hey I’ll have you know that space manipulation is not all I’m good at… I’m good at tricking people too, I mean I can mimic voices and I’m very good at ventriloquism and throwing my voice without using my spatial powers, I’m good at party magician tricks and Mentalis is a big fan of mine. You can book me at any time once I can give you a card… it’s kind of stuck in my pocket space at the moment. As Celebi said, dragging that help into this situation took a lot out of me.” Hoopa was upset with Gilgamesh for making him look bad as a Legendary, but could he really do anything helpful in this situation? “Look, just give me a voice to copy and I’ll show you my stuff, even if fighting is not something I can currently do. Besides that Buzzwole Gilgamesh has already turned the battle around once and he’s currently being helpful in dealing with those two arms, even though he has what he wants he’ll continue to be helpful on the battlefield if what we’re planning here does take him down.”

“Hm… say… can you freeze an attack in a moment of time and move it around?” Pom asked as she sent me an interested look with her clear blue doe like eyes that hid a hint of a nasty idea behind the innocent slightly dog scented ewe.

Pom wasn’t a killer and didn’t have the heart for it, sure she could actively maul someone and mangle them with her Wolf-Fang-Hoof techniques, but what she was… was clever, fast and with her wool ridiculously hard to kill and not for lack of trying from what I saw in her personal time stream.

“Here’s what we’ll do…” Pom said while looking over the floating piece of landmass she got to before we stopped her and Quetal for a talk.

-Now, current time, Pom-

With two long strings of wool coming from my shoulder, I launched myself high above Gold-Gamesh and brought my left wool paw covered hoof and grappled a nearby landmass with my wool from my right shoulder.

I recalled that Paprika had done this to get around back in Huoshan when that Clockwork guy was attacking it along with those shadow monsters, that she easily fought those large mechanical wyverns still gave me the shivers. She could swing around on wool strings without much effort and her I was using every ounce of effort doing it to maneuver myself into position.

After hearing my own voice shout the technique I had fired off minutes ago silently, I came in at Gilgamesh at high speed while spinning clockwise and rearing back my left leg with wool claw splayed out and ready to slice.

I was aiming to slice his head off or at least slice through his nape to damage him enough to stop him from using his body to defend himself by damaging his spine… if I could even do that, I had magic to spare and I didn’t have to use my Chrysomallus ability to do this either.

I drained my body empowering my wolf claw to the maximum and…

"Wolf-Fang-Hoof, Defenestration!"

In flash I was past Gilgamesh neck as he was about to taunt or attack Celebi and Hoopa, a large portion of my left leg was covered in red and a massive amount of flesh was torn from Gilgamesh's naturally armored nape. I couldn’t sever his head, but that certainly had to hurt as I spun into his nape like a living circular saw multiple times as I went past him, all while digging in deeper with every spin.

As the large piece of flesh fell away from my wool claw, I wool shifted back into armor form and I immediately inflated my wool as I saw the badly burned arm coming about to grapple me.

Yeah, should have seen this coming, given my current aerial abilities were lacking.

“Gah… that stung!” Gold-Gamesh fired on Celebi and Hoopa from his chest and they disappeared when Celebi did something. Slowly a glow took over most of his body as he slowly turned it around using Psychic Type energy, so he could still move around using psychic abilities. “So here you finally are… I was wondering when you’d show up.”

His claw squeezed down on me and I spiked my wool out in every direction making him grunt slightly be he kept up the pressure even if his claws were starting to bleed as they tried to crush me and Dolly.

“You know, the worst thing I could do to you right now… isn’t kill you or the mutt you’re hiding on your back directly. It’s killing everyone else here and making sure you can’t do a single thing about it, though I do tire of your existence Chrysomallus.” With that Gilgamesh bodily threw us forward. “Well, that is if you can even survive what I’m about to hit you with, I’ll even be somewhat impressed if you somehow survive the Moon Cell’s near immortal servant. Since I’m so graciously giving you a reason to rise above you’re mortal worries… I want you to please remember to thank me for this later.”

I saw the beam building up in the hollow of his body, I couldn’t turn around and put Dolly into the path of it. Also what or who in the world was Moon Cell?!

I could see the beam coming at me and I covered my body and my right leg with my other three, clenching my eyes shut I put as much wool between me and the beam of energy. The shockwave slammed into me, but it at least didn’t reach Dolly.

The light it was so bright, the noise was deafening and my body was being wracked with shocks.

I could feel a part of my body making a very unfortunate sounding crunching noise before…

-Quetal-

What?! I saw a portal open behind Pom as her body was blasted by the beam towards it and I recognized the looming mountains that were fairly familiar to me… in fact… it’s the last place I would want any of my friends to go or visit.

“No…” My heart filled with complete horror at the realization of where Gilgamesh was likely sending Pom to… anywhere but Nixtorm, anything but that! Pom’s body was holding up in the beam, she would make it to the portal and from what Gilgamesh just said. Whoever that Moon Cell was, they had someone in Nixtorm that could kill Pom… because of course they did. “I have to reach that portal!”

Zoroark finished firing a Shadow Ball at Gilgamesh and turned to me and then looked up at the portal.

“Then allow me to help you with that buddy our efforts here weren’t doing much, I’ll make sure the fight here goes about as well as it can. First give me your left claw.” Looking at Zoroark warily I did so and held out my left claw looking at him as he took a grip on them with both his paws. “Do what we Dark Types do best, survive!”

With that I felt my body go light as a feather as Zoroark spun me around and then threw me like a hammer, I soared at the portal and barely passed through it after Pom was let off the beam attack before it closed.

Unfortunately I found myself falling towards water with Pom who I can see was unconscious and had lost a majority of her wool to the power of the beam and Sneasels were unfortunately not good at swimming.

Strangely we didn’t appear in the hellish frozen mountains, much to my very minimal relief that I could even still see them from here.

Like hell I’d let myself or Pom die like this!

-Gilgamesh-

“Hmph… one more survivor then, how quaint of a Dark Type to be altruistic.” I looked down on the dark fox as he turned to me with a glare, then disappeared… ah illusions, unfortunately for him… I too was now a Dark Type.

“You’d actually be surprise by how friendly some Dark Types actually are!” Hearing his voice from the right, I rolled my eyes and stomped my left foot to the left and the rupturing landscape sent Zoroark sprawling as he was battered by the torn ground rising up into his meager form.

“Do you think such pitiful tricks will work on me?” I asked, then I was hit in the face with something that didn’t seem to do anything other than make a noise that sounded like chiming bells and then I was splashed with ball of purple liquid. “Gah.”

“Word of warning, since I have to pay this price to even do this one thing out of order, ‘Time Won’t Heal Your Wounds Here’. If you do not heed my words, then that would be just great!” Said the small green monster ominously offered before they disappeared.

I actually recognized the manipulation of time this time, they came from the future? Looking into it… that Metapod again. It looks about ready to hatch from its chrysalis, but it was too far away from Illusio to really do anything to me.

Since I was actually paying attention, I could even feel the power of the time traveler had been waning greatly with whatever they just did. They wouldn’t be back for a fight as that was likely their last action of this battle. Also it appears that I’ve just been poisoned, badly.

No matter, once I was done here, I would just rest until I could go on and destroy everything else. Do they have any other heroes that can damage me nearly as well as that hopeless Chrysomallus?

I somewhat hope they do, because being defeated here would mean that this world was strong enough for what was to come.

-Dazzle-

“Was that Celebi?” I asked as I got back up and wondered where they got a toxic attack from, but then I had to dodge as we were still fighting the arms. Nobody aside from Pom got that close and after seeing what happened, well… I could only hope Pom, Dolly and Quetal would be alright.

Well at least they weren’t on a falling city about to crash into Illusio with lethally explosive force anymore… yep the more I think about it, either we all lived long enough to defeat Gilgamesh and escape or we all died to him or suffered grievous injury if not outright die from the falling Cerebrum City shattering upon striking the ground and then are killed by Gilgamesh.

“Whatever that was, it be poisoning Gilgamesh for us at least!” Shanty stated as she readied her leg like cane scythe.

“One less thing to worry about, yes.” I stated, as the two arms flexed their claws as the three of us.

“Boo!” The sudden sound and appearance of something coming at me from my left made me reflexively fired a Toxic at the green… oh… so that’s where Celebi got the Toxic attack from.

I thought I was past reflexively spewing poison at people, I might just have to get rid of the move, but it’s far too useful to do so for a Salazzle.

-Recon Beedrill Leader-

“It’s good to hear and see that Celebi and Hoopa are with us. We have a grand opportunity, let’s start our attack run now, unit command Venom Blast!” I angled my right lance forward and my unit burst forward as I stayed in the back and a glow overtook me.

Gilgamesh might be able to hit my squad, but I doubt he could hit a Mega Beedrill as easily with the speeds I’m going to be moving at.

It’s about time we got revenge for what happened at Three Borders Valley!

Author's Note:

Pom has been rendered out of the battle.

Yes 'Defenestration', instead of 'Decapitation'. One is about taking off someone's head and the other is about lowering ones position and Pom was always more than likely to outright disable Gilgamesh than actually kill him. As you might have read, that didn't stick and it wouldn't for a Psychic Type.

Also Gold-Gilgamesh still hasn't revealed something yet and there's a reason why Celebi and Hoopa wouldn't stick around for long.

Comments

[Darkonshadows]

11718277

He's not that important, he's not in sixty percent of this story.

Though the remainder...

[Darkonshadows]

11716017

You would think so... but...

[Booster Spice]

Forgot till reminded.

all theLegendaries are elsewhere in teh world holding defensive positions against Gates Of Babylon Weapon Death Tsunamis?

Poms going to need on hexk of a ride back if shes halfway accross the continent again. Wonder if the Kecleon franchise is in her region, with loadouts?

[Herald of Opera]

I wondered if King Thorax would be as grand on a battlefield as Kenshin is if pressed.

No way in Tartarus, but that's why he has Pharynx.

unless I happened to have accidentally destroyed all the berry bushes in Illusio by accident, then it wouldn’t hard to get an antidote.

Your portals are still being limited, so at minimum that means toning down the assault and leaving yourself open. David Xanatos, eat your heart out.

[Darkonshadows]

11721735

Yep, love Hi-Commandramon's design. Also the grenade launcher is sweet even if the shield doesn't look like it'll protect you from much.