Chapter 104: Team RR's Ultimate Strike
Dawn was still at her place, sitting at the extremity of the Spear Pillar, guarding the entrance to the Hall of Origin. The earth was shaking. The weather was chaotic. The temperature was constantly climbing and dropping. There were yells. Roars. Pokémon loudly shouting their names as they attacked. Explosions. She could see jets of fire, bolts of electricity, balls of shadow, and many other kinds of attacks regularly disappearing into the sky. Flying Pokémon moving around in said sky, fighting each others or whatever they were targeting on the ground.
But she wasn't moving from her place.
She knew that her side was heavily disadvantaged despite their number. Because of the enemies' Shadow Master Balls, nobody dared Dynamaxing their Pokémon. The bigger the target, the easier it was to hit with one of these balls. But the Rockets didn't have this problem. Because the allies didn't have any Master Ball, they were forced to weaken the enemy Pokémon enough to be able to have better chances to capture them. They obviously needed her help. Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina' help was needed.
But she wasn't moving.
Giovanni hadn't appeared yet. He had the Flute. He had the Plates. She had to make sure that he won't reach the Hall of Origin. And this meant that she had to remain here. As much as she wanted to join the others, to send her Pokémon to help them, she couldn't. Because she saw the assault as what it was: a distraction. This frustrated her, but she didn't have a choice. If Giovanni captured Arceus...
This would be the end.
At least, Samus went to help. She entered the tunnels of Mt. Coronet to go fight the Rockets present in them, potentially stopping them from reaching Spear Pillar this way. Of course, Dawn didn't doubt that, if they had wanted, the Rockets would have directly warped onto the ruins. Or they could Teleport here, or reach the place with the help of flying Pokémon. But not a Rocket came, and she was starting to wonder why.
Thank Arceus they evacuated Sinnoh, knowing that such an attack would eventually come. It had barely started, and already she was receiving reports of how bad the region was being transformed by the battles, especially because of the Shadow Legendary Pokémon.
Oreburgh City had entirely collapsed onto the mines below it. All the western coast was flooded by a terrible tsunami, removing several of the islands there from the map as well as Canalave City, Floaroma Town, and Eterna Forest. Jubilife City was still standing, but took heavy damage, especially from the earthquakes, and had its feet deep in water. Same for most of the remaining of the West part of Sinnoh. Dawn's own childhood town, Twinleaf Town, was now partially underwater.
She swore she would sock Alternate Archie on the face for this.
The East part of Sinnoh was faring better, except that a good part of it fell victim to a rampaging Shadow Dynamax Groudon. Stark Mountain pretty much blew up, burying everything around it under layers of burning ashes and lava. And last she heard, the Pokémon was in the middle of destroying Veilstone City like a freaking kaiju. Heck, Groudon's proximity while going all out already caused some of the mountains separating the region in two to turn into volcanoes, destroying Celestic Town by the same occasion.
As for the rest of the cities and town, they were all being turned more and more into ruins by the earthquakes and intense battles opposing the League members and their allies against the Rockets. Huge cracks were now spread all over the region. Even the Sinnoh League building was wiped out by Ghetsis and his Gigantamaxed Shadow Masuryu. And Pastoria City was particularly being hit by the battle currently opposing Lysandre and his Shadow Dynamax Xerneas to several Champions and Elite Four members.
Dawn felt a chill as she thought that this could have been worse. Instead of Xerneas, this Lysandre could have had Yveltal, and a town being destroyed by the battle would have been the last of their worries.
And finally, the whole region, including the ocean directly surrounding it, was transported to another dimension. The sky and everything beyond the border of what was transported was now replaced by some void with shifting and swirling cloud-things of different colors. These clouds actually made it look like space-time itself was moving. Obviously, this was Cyrus' doing. Because of this, no outside help will come, and no way to escape. Not that it mattered. Pretty much all the more powerful trainers of the world were gathered in the region. Champions, ex-Champions, Elite Four members, ex-Elite Four members, Gym Leaders, ex-Gym Leaders, and just powerful normal trainers. If they lose today despite all this, then no way trainers still outside, as heroic as they would be, would be able to change the outcome.
And like stated earlier, they were losing despite all the help they received, like the soldiers that had been brought from that futuristic Federation. Dynamaxed Pokémon really were another thing, especially when they weren't limited to just a minute or less in this form, just long enough to attack a few times before being forced to revert to normal. She really wondered how they were able to store so much Dynamax Energy in these small capsules. And there were these damned Shadow Master Balls that managed to capture more and more of their Pokémon, adding more force to the Rockets while diminishing theirs.
There were still some good. Red and Gordon were absolutely wrecking every Rockets they encountered in the tunnels of Mt. Corona and the surrounding mountains. Elio's Ultra Necrozma and Victor's Eternatus were currently fighting Ghetsis' Masuryu over the eastern ocean, away from the coast, ensuring that the dragon won't join the Shadow Groudon to rampage together through the Eastern Sinnoh. The Shadow Groudon itself was being fought by Gold and Hilbert while the Shadow Kyogre was being taken care of by Ruby. Then, among the people fighting Lysandre were Rosa, N, and Calem. No news about Cyrus however, but all of this meant that at least most of the enemies' big hitters were currently being occupied. If they were defeated, then they could retake advantage. As for many others like Blue, Peter, Steven, Iris, and so on, the Elite four members, the Gym Leaders, most were spread out among the tunnels of the mountains, or on the mountains, or around the mountains, where the majority of the Rockets had appeared. Some were west, others east, and others north, covering Sinnoh as much as they could. With part of the region being flooded, it was actually an easier task.
Still, she sent a message to Sweetie Belle a few minutes ago, knowing that the filly's help could tilt the balance of the battle in their favor. And so, it was with joy and relief that she saw a rift opening at her left. Then the alicorn came out of it followed by a large group of ponies and other beings. Dawn had to do a double take when she saw that there were three versions of the same ponies, thinking that she had problems with her eyes. Seeing that that wasn't the case, Dawn got up and ran toward them.
The group barely arrived that an earthquake began and lasted a couple of seconds, followed by the sound of a huge explosion in the distance and by the harsh heat (no sun could be seen) being suddenly replaced by a terrible storm, forcing the ones possessing a hat to quickly use a hoof or a hand to stop them from being blown away or to catch them when they weren't fast enough. Then the rain stopped as suddenly as it started and the harsh heat returned.
"Jeez! What's the deal with this place?" Sonic wondered.
"That's what happens when the local Gods have fighting," Sweetie Void answered not long before the storm returned. She then saw Dawn approaching and exclaimed, "Hey, Dawn! Why is it so calm here? I expected at least a few Rockets to battle you. Unless you already defeated them?"
"No Rocket came yet to fight me. Not even Giovanni," Dawn answered. "You have no idea how much I itch to go down and join the others because of that."
"Don't worry, we're here to join them instead! This battle is already won!" Chromatic Bolt said.
"What is with the sky, miss?" Jeff asked as he looked at the void now surrounding the region.
"Cyrus transported the region into another dimension, I suppose with his Shadow Palkia," Dawn answered as she looked at the boy and at all the others that she was just meeting. She considered asking who they were but thought that it wasn't the moment for presentations. Instead, she took a map of Sinnoh. Seeing this, Sweetie used her magic to sheild the map and dry the ground before Dawn placed the paper on it. Using it, she began to point out the locations of the enemy leaders. "Maxie is there, in Veilstone City. Archie is somewhere in the west of Sinnoh that he flooded. You should have no problem finding him as he is battling Gold. Ghetsis must be somewhere not far of what remains of the Sinnoh League. His Masuryu is above the ocean between it and Sunyshore City, not far of the coast beside Veilstone City. Lysandre is in Pastoria City. Petrel and Ariana are somewhere in the tunnels of the mountains, and Archer is in Route 216. No idea of where Cyrus is. He didn't show himself. And nobody saw Giovanni either. The grunts, however, are all over the place."
"Well, you have your targets, everyone. Pick one and go," Phantom said.
"Remember before you choose, everyone listed excepted Petrel, Ariana, and Archer have Pokémon that are considered as Gods," Sweetie Void reminded.
"And again, the Entei stolen from Gold may have been given to Archer, or at least to one of the two others," Dawn said.
"Or it could be to a simple grunt," one of the Twilight added.
Sweetie Void reminded herself to ask for the nicknames they decided to give themselves, but she was sure that this Twilight was hers.
"For information, the Masuryu is probably the strongest Legendary the enemies have, without counting Palkia and Dialga's space and time control. It almost killed me. So, whoever decides to go fight it, be careful. Same if you encounter Giovanni. The only one more powerful than his Shadow Mewtwo when it takes its merged X and Y Mega form is Arceus itself when it has all its Plates, and that's not counting Dynamax."
"We will see how this will go as we encounter the enemies," Mario said. "We will probably be too busy fighting the minions to worry about the leaders."
Dawn nodded. "And the Champions and the others will hopefully deal with them quickly enough. They may be defeated before you could even encounter them."
Luigi looked relieved about this. He didn't want to fight Gods.
"We will still try to go to them," Link said.
Sonic started stretching his legs. "This won't be a problem. I will reach one in a few seconds. Not sure which one however. I haven't decided yet. But I will avoid the ones above the ocean."
"Wherever you go, I'll be behind you, Sonic. You can count on me," Tails said.
Sonic gave the fox one of his grins. "Like always, buddy."
At this instant, Red suddenly appeared alongside his Mewtwo who was in its Mega Y form. His Pikachu was also present on his left shoulder. The man looked frantic.
"Dawn! Quick! Ask Palkia to open a portal to the Rockets' HQ!"
"Uh? Why?" Dawn asked.
Red showed a piece of stone with some red crystals poking out of it. "I saw a bunch of grunts mine a bit of this before they warped away."
Dawn gasped. "That's Origin Ore!"
"Origin Ore?" Sweetie Void asked. "I can feel... a great power from it."
"This ore is said to come from the origin of the world, containing Arceus' power," Dawn explained. "If Team RR took some, then I fear that they intend to craft something to use against Arceus.
"Wait, so this means that this whole assault didn't have for objective to open the way to Arceus, but to collect this ore?" one of the Twilight concluded.
Red nodded. "And this means that they aren't quite ready to go after Arceus yet. So, hopefully, I can stop them before they finish whatever they are doing with the ore."
"Then I'm going with you, Red," Sweetie Void said. "The others should be able to deal with the Rockets here by themselves."
Many in the group nodded before Sonic gave a thumb up and said, "Leave it to us."
Sonic then ran down the mountain, not by the path through the tunnels, but by the side of the mountain, jumping on boulders and rocks when needed. Before they knew it, he was already gone.
"Hey! Sonic! Wait for me!" Tails shouted before he began to follow the hedgehog, using his tails to propel himself forward, and then to fly down the mountain.
Sonic's speed and Tails' ability to fly by using his tails like the propeller from an helicopter impressed more than one, but they quickly recovered and began to move too. Most decided to pass by the tunnels, but the Mario Brothers and their dinosaur friend decided to follow Sonic's example and to go down the mountain by jumping down its side. Kirby then materialized his wings and flew away, Magolor and Susie doing the same afterward, the girl using a propeller machine.
"You don't mind if we go ahead?" Little Ghost asked as she, Scootabot, and Sweetie Ghoul remained.
Apple Death waved at them to go. "Ah don't mind. Go."
The three nodded and went to follow the others into the tunnels. Sweetie Void also let out all her Pokémon and sent them after the others into the tunnels, warning them about the Shadow Master Balls and asking them to keep each others' back to ensure that they don't get captured. She even sent Spiky. At the end, only Sweetie Void, Phantom, Apple Death, Red, and Dawn remained. Dawn then let out Palkia and, after checking the HQ's coordinates, asked Palkia to open a portal to it, which it did without problem.
Speaking of...
"Oh! I almost forgot!" Sweetie exclaimed before she flew high into the 'sky' and opened a big rift out of which came the Great Fox. "You guys shout everything that flies and that is purple and light grey colored! But try to avoid killing them! They aren't in their normal state!" she then shouted before she returned back to the portal that Palkia opened.
Falco gave the filly a deadpan look through the window of the Great Fox's cockpit. "Yeah... This will be so easy to not kill these things when we will fire at them with our laser beams..."
"We will simply use minimum power," Slippy said. "Just enough to stun them with more or less heavy burns."
"But this means that the Great Fox won't be able to use its weapon to help. It's too powerful."
Fox nodded. "I fear so. We will have to remain close to help if it's attacked. Let's go, team."
Meanwhile, Sweetie Void and Red passed through Palkia's portal under the good lucks of the three that remained behind. Then, as the portal closed, Phantom and Apple Death readied themselves to fly away too to join the fights when they spotted someone who hadn't been present at the entrance of Spear Pillar a few seconds earlier.
A blue-haired man.
Dawn immediately recognised him as she growled his name. "Cyrus..."
"Dawn..." Cyrus said without emotion. "The girl who stopped me in this world. Supposedly the most powerful Champion of this world. At least in the top five with Gordon, Ruby, Elio, and Victor." He glanced at Palkia who was still out of its ball. "Considering who you have as Legendaries, this is not a surprise. Let's see..." He took a Shadow Master Ball. "Will you end up like that woman?" He took a capsule and broke it open, sending Dynamax Energy into the Shadow Master Ball and transforming it before he opened it, letting out a Dynamaxed Shadow Dialga in its Origin form. "I advise you to be careful in our battle. When Dialga and Palkia clash, they send destructive ripples through space and time. This whole region could end up collapsing as a result."
Dawn gulped, but then smirked. "Then I will just avoid to use Dialga and Palkia against yours. Come back, Palkia!" She called Palkia back and took a Master Ball. Out of it came Giratina, also in its winged serpentine Origin form.
Phantom and Apple Death took place alongside the Pokémon, Apple Death saying, "Don't forget about us!" before she turned into her ghost form while Phantom took her anthropomorphic form.
Cyrus eyed the fillies. "So you want to turn this into a three versus three? Very well." He took two other Shadow Master Balls, filled them with Dynamax Energy, and opened them to let out Dynamax Shadow Palkia and Dynamax Shadow Giratina.
"How about we just knock you out?" Phantom said.
"Is this really what you want to do? Without me, who will stop these monsters from destroying this whole dimension?"
"Uh..."
"Alright. No knocking out the villain. We must first defeat these three."
"We will have to defeat the three at once so we can go after Cyrus right away, or else he will certainly revive them with Max Revives. He must have a lot of them on him," Dawn informed.
"Mmh... This won't be easy..."
"If that's the case then we just knock them out again and again until he runs out of these Max Revives," Phantom said.
"If ya don't fall from fatigue before that," Apple Death warned.
Phantom silently admitted that she was right. Those were Gods after all. Of Space, Time, and... She wasn't sure what Giratina represented. Just knocking them out once will ask her to use a lot.
Maybe she should have brought the Chaos Emeralds...
In the tunnels, Samus shifted out of the way of a lightning bolt sent by a Shadow Luxray before she fired at it with a charged beam. She didn't worry that this would kill it. These Pokémon were revealing to be surprisingly resistant. Considering that they apparently fought each others daily by throwing stuff like super hot sun beams or sharp pieces of rock and always came out with just scratches, burns, and whatever else, this shouldn't be a surprise. And the Luxray getting up despite having taken the charged beam on the head proved this, even if it had some difficulty.
Then, a Shadow Mienshao jumped at her to attack her only for it to receive an arrow before Samus found herself joined by a young boy in green and a blond woman in an elegant pink dress with golden ornaments. With a wave of her hand, the woman sent a small ball of fire that slowly moved toward the Mienshao as if it was guided before it exploded on it, sending the Pokémon crashing onto the tunnel's wall.
"I'm guessing you are Samus?" the woman asked, and Samus answered with a nod. "I'm Zelda, Princess of Hyrule, and this is Link. We were sent here to help, so allow us to give you a hand."
"Your help is more than welcome," Samus said as she glared back at the group of grunts she was facing with, at their head, a man with undercut purple hair on the sides, leaving longer hair at the top to form a lock, and he also had a small beard just at the chin.
Thankfully, Samus hadn't been alone as she had been facing the group with the help of some trainers, including some Champions and a few Elite Four members, as well as Blue.
"This guy seems to be one of the leaders Sweetie warned us about," Link remarked. "Thankfully, it is one of the lesser ones."
"Yeah, it's Petrel. One of the admins of the original Team Rocket," Blue informed. "Not as big of a threat as the likes of Cyrus or Ghetsis, but still powerful on his own."
Link nodded and readied himself as a Shadow Camerupt attacked.
"Necrozma! Max Mindstorm!" Elio shouted from the back of his Fearow.
Before him was Necrozma, in its Ultra form, fused with Lunala, and also Dynamaxed. He felt confident to use the Dynamax because they were far enough above the ocean and in the air that Ghetsis shouldn't be able to throw a Shadow Ultra Ball to capture it. Elio still regularly kept watch to see if the ancient leader of Team Plasma approached on the back of some flying Pokémon.
Elio didn't like fusing Necrozma to Lunala, but the Pokémon he was facing didn't leave him a choice. Masuryu really was powerful. Despite the types advantage and the fact that he was fighting it alongside Victor and his Eternatus, without forgetting the few allies that were around and that could participate thanks to having flying Pokémon, the Masuryu resisted. It easily dodged most of their attacks and used any opening it found to try to land terrible hits that caused huge damage. Already, Elio had been forced to use a Full Restore once when Ultra Necrozma was hit by what seemed to be Masuryu's signature move(version Gigantamax) which almost killed it. Elio knew that the only reason that Ultra Necrozma survived was because it was one of the most powerful Legendaries and Fighting-type moves weren't Super Effective against it.
Unlike the partially armored dragon of light, Eternatus, who looked like a dark violet skeletal dragon with red highlights, wasn't Dynamaxed. Because it couldn't. Well, it could Dynamax, taking on an unique form called Eternamax, but maintaining this form more than a few seconds costed it a huge amount of energy that it just hadn't recovered yet. At best, it could keep the Eternamax form only the time to launch its signature move: Eternabeam, which was thankfully Super Effective against Masuryu... when it landed, which was pretty much never because that darn dragon was too good at dodging. But the trainers didn't doubt that if Eternatus could remain Eternamaxed, then this battle would probably already be over, and this made some of them curse at this.
Ultra Necrozma sent a series of giant circular psychic waves at Masuryu, but the dragon calmly dodged again, with minimum movement like always, perfectly reading the move. What was scary was that it didn't move that fast, and the psychic waves of the move itself grew bigger the further they moved, but Masuryu just read the attack and immediately knew what to do to avoid it, immediately acting in consequence, moving and shifting its long serpentine body out of the way so the attack just grazed the tip of its tail.
"Eternatus! Dynamax Cannon!" Victor shouted from the back of his Braviary while Masuryu was moving to dodge the previous attack, trying to take it by surprise while it had its attention focused on Ultra Necrozma.
While Eternabeam was definitively the most powerful move in Eternatus' arsenal, Dynamax Cannon, which was just a giant beam made of Dynamax energy fired by Eternatus without having to turn into its Eternamax form, had the advantage of dealing double damage to Dynamaxed enemies.
But again, it only worked if it landed, which it didn't as Masuryu still dodged, thought the beam still took off some of its scales as it grazed its body, the dragon almost moving too late.
Masuryu then began to gather shadow energy into its mouth, probably to fire some beam, but a blur suddenly came and the next thing it knew, it had a big cut between its front legs. Despite the pain, Masuryu immediately changed its focus and targeted the newcomer, firing the shadow beam at him.
"Poy!"
A big mirror made of energy suddenly appeared and deflected the beam back at Masuryu, which barely managed to move its head out of the way. But then, it saw a giant hammer on fire on a collision course with its cheek.
"POYAH!"
This one it wasn't able to dodge, and its head almost made a 360° when it was hit. But it quickly recovered and attacked the winged pink puffball with lightning japs of its claws, forcing said puffball to teleport away.
When he appeared not far of them, Elio and Victor could finally have a good look at Kirby.
"What are you?" Victor asked, bemused.
"Friend!" Kirby answered simply and happily before he focused back on Masuryu, an Ultra Sword appearing on each of his arms.
A blue blur moved through the region, ramming Pokémon and Rocket grunts left and right like a bowling ball. Pokémon weren't Eggman's robots however. Ramming them and sending them flying wasn't enough to deal with them for good. Every single one of them got back up after being hit. Tails, who followed Sonic, tried to finish the job by hitting them with his tails but that wasn't enough. This forced Sonic to take time to return and attack them again, shifting to a hit-and-run tactic until his targets finally collapsed. Ghost-type Pokémon, however, weren't affected by Sonic and Tails' attacks, to their frustration. And some Pokémon were fast or skilled enough to be able to defend themselves against the hedgehog's speed. This became worse when they encountered a Psychic-type, a Rapidash from Galar, that managed to catch Sonic in its psychic hold, effectively immobilising him.
"Hey! Not cool!" Sonic shouted.
He was thankfully saved by Tails who attacked the unicorn-like Pokémon, breaking its focus on the hedgehog.
"Ugh... Reminds me-" He moved out of the way of a jet of water. "of Silver." He avoided a tornado. "And these guys are-" He ducked to let some sharp leaves pass above him. "starting to get-" He jumped above a Sandslash attacking him with its claws. "very annoying!" He attacked the Sandslash with a Homing Attack on its head, sending it on its back, but it quickly got up, ready to fight again. Sonic didn't let it time to attack again and Spin Dashed into it before he used it to change trajectory to ram another of the Pokémon surrounding him. Like a pinball ball, he bounced from target to target, hitting them repeatedly and randomly until they eventually finally fell down unconscious. Tails took care of the few that managed to get away. And again, the only ones that remained were the Ghost-types.
"How do we deal with these ones?!" Tails pondered.
"Leave them to us!" a nearby trainer shouted. "Thanks for the help! We won't have any problem dealing with these Ghost-types!"
Sonic gave them a salute. "Then I'll be off to help elsewhere!"
The hedgehog then ran to another area, quickly followed by Tails.
Back in the tunnels, a grunt was taking the Poké Balls of a trainer that he injured with a surprise attack with his whip, when suddenly...
"FALCON KICK!!!"
The grunt was kicked on the face by Captain Falcon who burst out of nowhere in a rush of fire, and he was violently sent crashing head first into the tunnel's wall.
Captain Falcon then jumped toward the grunt's Shadow Steelix and "FALCON PUNCH!!!" The Steelix's head crashed on the ground, the Pokémon out. A Shadow Golurk attempted to avenge the Steelix and readied itself to punch the Captain, but then... "PK Freeze!" The golem-like Pokémon was frozen by Ness. Poo then came and shapeshifted into Golurk before he used a Shadow Punch (Ghost-type move) on the frozen Pokémon, breaking the ice but also sending the Pokémon on its back, out.
Captain Falcon raised an eyebrow under his helmet. "The kid can shapeshift?"
"That's his ability, Mirror," Jeff confirmed. "He can take the appearance of the enemy he is facing, gaining their abilities."
"Impressive."
"I should say the same. You knocked out that giant worm of steel in one punch, and you don't even seem in pain. I mean, you punched steel."
Captain Falcon chuckled. "I'm just very good at hiding it," he said before he rubbed his hurting knuckles.
The Mario Brothers plus Yoshi were currently fighting their way through many enemies as they were going toward Pastoria City where the closest enemy leader was. They wanted to help in dealing with one of them at least. It was the least they could do.
But the enemy Pokémon revealed to be quite the hindrance. Really nothing to do with Goombas and Koopas. Fighting Pokémon was more like fighting Bowser's elite minions. The heroes had to give everything to defeat them, especially the more powerful ones.
Mario used Luigi's shoulders to bounce very high before landing on a Shadow Pangoro's head, violently stomping it. Then he bounced again and stomped on the head again, repeatedly until the Pangoro forced him away with a swipe of its claws. Luigi used this to do a Green Missile and ram head first into the Pokémon's belly, making it bend in pain, out of breath. Then, Yoshi came and jumped to do a series of kicks on the Pokémon's head, Flutter Jump-style, by rapidly moving his legs as if he was running on air so it somehow allowed it to remain floating for a few seconds. With a groan, the panda-like Pokémon finally dropped unconscious, and Mario quickly used his hammer on the grunt who used it to stop her from reviving it with a Max Revive.
It took them over two minutes to defeat this panda, they didn't want to lose more time repeating it especially when they also still had to deal with a Shadow Yanmega who was constantly using Bug Buzz against them, forcing them to always move. And then a Mismagius came, replacing the Pangoro.
A Ghost-type.
Contrary to Boos and most other ghosts in their world, Mario and Luigi couldn't hit the Ghost-type Pokémon here. Not with physical attacks like the usual jumps, punches, kicks, and hammers. Not attacks that were considered "Normal" or "Fighting".
Thankfully, they weren't alone since allied trainers were around, also battling the grunts and their Shadow Pokémon (some of which were Dynamaxed). Among them, Leon, former Champion of Galar, saw that they had a problem and immediately sent his Mega Charizard X to deal with the Mismagius. Like many others, he didn't dare to Dynamax it because of the enemies' Shadow Master Balls, but the Mega Evolution was good enough.
This allowed the Mario Brothers to deal with the Yanmega and get an opening to continue on their path to Lysandre, having to jump above a small crack that had formed on the way and that was slowly growing as the earth continued to regularly shake, courtesy of Dynamax Shadow Groudon.
The three sets of Element Bearers and the three Luna spread out into smaller groups among the tunnels and the mountains to cover more ground, so it was inevitable that one of these smaller groups ended up encountering the second Team Rocket admin: Ariana. The ponies who encountered her were none other than Sweetie Ghoul, Scootabot, and Little Ghost.
Of course, the admin was already in the middle of battling several trainers alongside grunts when the fillies arrived, so their arrival was pretty much unnoticed. They used this to their advantage to attack by surprise, starting with Little Ghost who levitated Ariana's Shadow Vileplume before sending it to crash right into her. Sweetie Ghoul then began to sing to boost everyone's strength, and Scootabot turned into her scooter form and rolled at full speed toward Ariana's Shadow Pheromosa. Just before reaching it, Scootabot jumped, turned back to her pony form, and used the momentum she gained added to Sweetie's boost to land a powerful kick on the Ultra Beast's face, sending it crashing right into the Vileplume, which sent the both of them again toward Ariana who had been in the process of getting up.
"Ah! Combo!" Scootabot shouted before she gave a high five to her ghostly friend.
Magolor and Susie were flying above the flooded area of West Sinnoh, joined by one of the Luna who decided to help there. Despite being in the air, they had to fight quite the number of flying Shadow Pokémon, some of which were Dynamaxed. They thankfully received help from Star Fox as their Arwings began to patrol the sky and shot down some of the enemy Pokémon, opening the way for them as they saw from afar Ruby's Dynamax Mega Rayquaza battling Archie's Dynamax Shadow Kyogre. The presence of waterspouts around the two greatly helped in spotting them.
It wasn't just them. The water was also full of Pokémon battling each others, like the air, but nobody dared getting too close in fear of being caught in Kyogre's attacks. It was already hard enough to fight with how the fight and the violent storms still regularly popping up caused the water to rage.
Luna didn't lose time and immediately teleported herself right above the Kyogre.
"PREPARE TO RECEIVE JUSTICE, YOU FIEND!" she shot with the Royal Canterlot Voice before she fired a huge magical beam at the submarine inside of which Archie was, in the cockpit, from which he used a speaker to give his orders to Kyogre.
The beam pierced the submarine from top to bottom without problem, but it didn't seem that she hit anything vital because it did nothing special beside causing the submarine to start to sink, water entering through the bottom hole. The Rockets inside quickly used their Pokémon to escape through the top hole caused, including Archie thanks to a Shadow Sharpedo.
Seeing that Ruby had the upper hand over Kyogre, Magolor and Susie decided to join Luna and to go after the Rockets that came out of the submarine, Magolor sending his dark balls while Susie fired with her gun.
On a mountain neighboring Mt. Coronet, Donkey Kong gave a storm of punches at a Shadow Kommo-o, overwhelming the Pokémon before Spiky grabbed it from behind and suplexed it. A Shadow Umbreon attempted to attack the dragon of yarn but Diddy Kong suddenly jumped on its head, hung on, and pummeled it. The Umbreon erratically moved to get rid of him, but Diddy had a strong grip. Then, Donkey Kong came and smashed his fists on the Umbreon's back, only to be bitten by a Seviper, getting poisoned as a result. Thankfully, a nearby allied trainer was able to heal him with an Antidote while a Federation trooper shot the Seviper.
Then Gordon ordered a big black eagle-like Pokémon with wings made of shadows, an Emprumbra, to send tornadoes at the grunts that commanded these Pokémon while he himself punched a Shadow Incineroar, then used the Snag Machine he had to turn an Ultra Ball into a Snag Ball before violently hitting the Incineroar with the ball still in his hand, capturing it.
Meanwhile, Sweetie Void and Red were running in the maze-like interior of the HQ, easily fighting their way through the few grunts that remained while they searched Giovanni. They eventually found where the Shadow Master Balls were mass produced and Sweetie quickly destroyed everything before they continued. Then they found what seemed to be the castle's own arena, inside a huge dome, and here was Giovanni waiting for them. His Shadow Mewtwo was already out of its ball, in its merged XY Mega form, and Dynamaxed, acting as his bodyguard.
"We see each other again, Red. And this is the little equine who has been giving us so much problem," Giovanni said.
With a simple move of his head, Giovanni ordered the Shadow Mewtwo to act. Without warning, it caught Sweetie Void with its telekinesis before it sent her through the dome's roof. Then it teleported after her.
Red frowned. "Do you really think this is a good idea to separate yourself from your Mewtwo when I still have mine?"
At this, his Mewtwo, who was out of its Master Ball and already in its Y Mega form, advanced, ready to fight.
Giovanni only smirked at this before he grabbed a Shadow Master Ball. "Don't underestimate me. I wouldn't make such an error when I'm so close to reaching my goal."
He then broke a capsule to send Dynamax energy into the Shadow Master Ball before he threw it, sending out a Dynamax Shadow Darkrai.
Red muttered a curse.
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Wait... Decidueye is a Ghost type. A punch shouldn't affect it, unless Gordon somehow used a move like Foresight beforehand.
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..isint there an item in one of the games that lets you hit ghost type pokemon??
Could Kirby in theory absorb a dark pokemon and clean it? In Smash he could copy Pikachu and Jigglypuff
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Darn, I thought that Decidueye was a Dark-type. Frankly, its ability to fire arrows at shadows looks more Dark than Ghost. Then I will replace Decidueye with Incineroar. This will only make Gordon look more badass since Incineroar is a Pokémon wrestler.
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I went to look and there's such an item, Ring Target, but the foe must hold it. This means that you must somehow give it to your foe with a move.
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You mean a Shadow Pokémon? Not sure that it would purify it.
They're a bit short of five last I checked.
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Sounds better than "high one".
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Yeah the Dodging system in the Forgotten Land Does take off a good Chunk of Flavor to the Bosses.
Still a great Game tho.
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..the move throw if i remember right throws the held item at a target Pokémon..dealing damage and FORCING the target Pokémon to hold the item
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There are also Switcheroo and Trick that work.
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true
...o lord...just thinking now about what the hek is gona happen next chapter or a few chapters from now...
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Let me tell you, you have NO idea of what is Giovanni's real goal. And by "you", I mean all my readers. Nobody is ready.
And once you finish reading the next two chapters, you will be thinking "That's only the First Saga's climax?!" And to this, I say: "This is not even the real Final. What will happen will be the equivalent of the battle against Void. There is still the equivalent to the fight against Kirby next."
Not ready, I say.
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hhhehehehehehhe HAHAHAHA!!
this is going to be REALY good then!
especially since if there is going to be an equivalent of when she fought kirby...then a universe will be at the razors edge of being DELETED
..and that
is
going
to
be
EPIC
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Not that equivalent. I meant more like Void was that seemingly all powerful "final boss". He was the most powerful enemy, his shadow and threat was present for a big part of the story, he was the origin of pretty much everything, and all. So that was pretty much the big climax of the story. But then, Kirby revealed himself to be the real final boss. While Kirby wasn't as powerful, he concluded the story on a still very high note, with a lot of stuff. Of course, there was after that whole part with Sweetie's Soul who is pretty much the real real final boss and the real climax, but we are just at the First Saga so don't expect something like that. The equivalent to the fight against Sweetie's Soul would be the one against DD, at the very end of the story.
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oooooooooooh yea...almost forgot about the whole DD and sweetie void going to need to battle echother to see who is going to eat who...wonder if kirby got dynamaxed somehow or gained a HUGE power boost by consuming a higher tier god or something that he might also become a god on par if not stronger than sweetie will be at the end
So, I happened to stop by the TvTropes page for Cuphead and I'm pretty sure I only need two words to convince you to include the Delicious Last Course: Saltbaker Soul.
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This is something to think about.
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Is the next chapter almost ready by now? I want to see the end of RR already after what they did to Cynthia
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Sorry, I caught the Covid and I wasn't able to work much on the chapter. It doesn't help that the chapter is a difficult one, because Pokémon battles and all that stuff. I'm not sure of when exactly it will come out but it should be some time this week.
So... I know Mario saga is over, but recently I was watching a video, and is curious what could you found... There was a racism about a Black Yoshi in a official Nintendo comic
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Different time, I guess.
Gordon is clearly not scared to throw hands against actual Shadow Pokémon.
the light blue highlight has no errors technically, besides the fact that Flipper is actually called Pinball here in the United States, but typically called Flipper in other countries, but it does make the relevant noise run through my head. I am pretty sure everyone at least knows someone who is familiar with the sound of that ball going nuts across that board at pretty notable speeds.