Chapter 105: Giovanni's Plan
Sweetie Void recovered and stopped herself quickly enough that Team RR's HQ was just a few dozens meters bellow her, but the castle was quickly getting away. But before she could do anything to return in it, she saw the Dynamaxed Shadow Mega Mewtwo charging at her with what seemed to be a Dynamax version of Mega Punch. Sweetie immediately countered the punch with her own punch, causing the two to clash for several seconds before they separated to face each other. The Shadow Mewtwo then quickly used Dynamaxed versions of moves such as Light Screen, Reflect, Psychic Terrain, Agility, Bulk Up, and some others to boost itself. Psychic Terrain was a particularly nasty surprise because it boosted the damage of all Psychic-type moves while Light Screen and Reflect assured that the damage of Sweetie's attacks were reduced by half.
She didn't want to fight it. She rather wanted to just teleport back to Giovanni to end all this right now. But looking at the Shadow Mewtwo, and how its eyes were glowing, she knew that any attempt on Giovanni would fail. Mewtwo was keeping Future Sight activated, and a very nice ability that this move gave was the one to see a bit into the future, but the Pokémon had to remain very focused and it cost it a lot of energy to do this passively even if it didn't use the offensive part of the move. As such, it should have difficulty focusing on attacking as long as it had it activated.
But it didn't look like it wanted to go on the offensive, and Sweetie understood. It was gaining time, and it could see that going on the offensive wouldn't work very well. So it was remaining on the defensive, ready to avoid or counter any attack Sweetie would send at it.
"You want to play like this?" the filly growled out before she let out all her power, making her mane, tail, and eyes turn into pure darkness, and called her ten cannons. Then, she began to fly all around Shadow Mewtwo so rapidly that, even with its Future Sight, it had difficulty following her. Then, Sweetie Void with to punch it from the left, and it saw it and intercepted it with its arm. The next instant, Sweetie was at the opposite side and Shadow Mewtwo used its right arm this time to intercept another punch. It still saw what was coming next but wasn't able to react in time as Sweetie destroyed the Light Screen and Reflect shields. Then it teleported away only to immediately have to duck to avoid a charge from behind, then teleported again to avoid beams fired by the ten cannons from all sides.
Shadow Mewtwo decided to follow the HQ as it was flying away, not wanting to lose it, and quickly moved aside to avoid a large ball of energy, then used its tail to try to slap Sweetie like a fly as she was approaching him at a speed that would put Sonic to shame. But the filly avoided the tail at the last moment by teleporting and Shadow Mewtwo had to intercept another punch with one of its arms. Each time that it intercepted a punch, it had to use Recover as the punches were so powerful that they broke the bones of its arms. However, it wasn't able to intercept the next attack in time and it was violently punched on the face. This punch was followed by a storm of punches all over its body, Sweetie Void just a blur as she flew around. It almost looked like Shadow Mewtwo was surrounded when it wasn't the case at all.
Shadow Mewtwo was eventually able to push Sweetie Void back with a extending psychic forcefield, gaining some respite, before it pointed an arm at where the filly was sent flying and gathered a huge quantity of Shadow energy before its fingers. Then, it sent the ball which divided into dozens of smaller balls of shadow that all flew in Sweetie's direction. But then, dozens of copies of Sweetie Void appeared from behind the balls as they avoided them and flew toward Shadow Mewtwo while the cannons were in sword mode and were cutting open rifts to fire space beams.
The only reason why Shadow Mewtwo wasn't feeling fear right now was because its feelings were locked in its heart.
Nothing much remained of the Spear Pillar. All that was left was the extremity where the staircase to the Hall of Origin was supposed to appear. Not sure if the staircase would be able to still appear if this area was destroyed, and not wanting to have Giovanni on his back if this wasn't the case, Cyrus made sure to protect this area, even placing himself there while Dawn was forced to fly on the back of a Togekiss.
Cyrus almost only ordered his three Pokémon to respectively use Shadow Roar (the Shadow-type version of Roar of Time for Dialga), Shadow Rend (the Shadow-type version of Spacial Rend for Palkia), and Shadow Force (which was pretty much the same move than usual for Giratina, excepted that it was Shadow-type instead of being Ghost-type), and Phantom, Apple Death, and Dawn's Giratina had to do their best to avoid these terrible attacks.
While Dynamaxed Pokémon had a number of new moves thanks to their size and the Dynamax Energy, most of their panoply from their usual size remained, excepted that they had more oomph thanks to the bigger size and the Dynamax Energy added to them. As such, Dialga, Pakia, and Giratina still had their signature moves, but with a Max added in the name and with more power.
You didn't want to be hit by Roar of Time, Spacial Rend, and Shadow Force (Ghost-type).
You didn't want to be hit by Shadow Roar, Shadow Rend, and Shadow Force (Shadow-type).
You didn't want to be hit by Max Roar of Time, Max Spacial Rend, and Max Shadow Force (Ghost-type).
You ABSOLUTELY DIDN'T want to be hit by Max Shadow Roar, Max Shadow Rend, and Max Shadow Force (Shadow-type).
Each time that Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina used them, huge chunks of Mt. Coronet and the mountains around were destroyed. In the case of Max Shadow Roar and Max Shadow Rend, these chunks were purely erased, their atoms scattered across time and space.
Apple Death was the one who had to avoid the Max Shadow Roar this time, but instead of going after Shadow Dialga, she targeted Shadow Giratina alongside Dawn's Giratina who had to avoid the Max Shadow Force. So Phantom was left to deal with both Shadow Dialga and Shadow Palkia after she teleported to avoid the Max Shadow Rend.
Phantom used her Phantom powers to materialize giant chains to hold the two Legendaries in place but, after a few seconds, they were easily broken. These precious seconds were still used by Apple Death and Dawn's Giratina to gang up on the Shadow Giratina. The filly sent ghostly purple flames while Dawn ordered her Giratina to use Shadow Force. Ghost-type being weak against itself, these attacks were very effective against Shadow Giratina.
Meanwhile, Sonic and Tail arrived at Veilstone City, almost entirely destroyed as lava now covered some of the streets and some of the buildings were destroyed, or even toppled. It wasn't hard to spot the Dynamax Shadow Groudon in its Primal form rampaging across the city while fighting the members of the Pokémon League and their allies.
"Reminds me a bit of Perfect Chaos, excepted that instead of water, there's fire and lava," Sonic commented.
"How do you intend to attack Groudon? Apparently, touching it will burn you right away. Something about magma in its body," Tails wondered.
"By being too fast for the heat to register," the hedgehog answered confidently before he ran toward a building that was still more or less intact, up its wall, and then from roof to roof, followed by the fox.
Since the Shadow Groudon was too busy attacking Gold's Lugia, it didn't see Sonic coming. The hedgehog reached the giant Pokémon and began to attacking it with homing attacks all over its body. When it understood what was going on, all it could see was a blue blur bouncing here on its shoulder, then there on the back of its neck, and so on.
"Use Max Eruption!" they heard Maxie shout from a nearby building.
The Shadow Groudon roared before it raised its mouth toward the sky and launched numerous giant fiery boulders from it. The boulders began to fall all over the area like a rain of meteors, causing huge damage to the city and to many Pokémon, both allied and foes. Sonic and Tails had to move around the city to avoid the falling boulders while saving as many allied Pokémon and trainers as they could.
Once the boulders stopped raining, Sonic stopped on a roof and looked at the Shadow Groudon, letting out a sigh. "Yep. One of these fights. I wish I had the Chaos Emerald."
The Mario Brothers and Yoshi also reached one of the enemy Legendaries: Shadow Xerneas, in Pastoria City. It was a large town built in a forest, between marshes and the ocean. The perfect environment for the stag-like Legendary Pokémon.
Many were already present to fight Xerneas, including Rosa and Calem. However, because Xerneas was a Fairy-type, which was immune to Dragon-type, Rosa couldn't use her Reshiram and Kyurem without heavy risks, while Calem's Yveltal had a disadvantage as Dark-types were weak against Fairy-types. Calem also had Zygarde but... Dragon-type... And sadly for Rosa, Hilbert was the one who had Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landarus, the Forces of Nature. She did have Cobalion, Terrakion, and Virizion, but the three were Fighting-types which were also weak against Fairy-types. Only Cobalion didn't mind Fairy-types thanks to its double type Steel/Fighting, Steel being effective against Fairy.
But all in all, the two Champions were rather disadvantaged against Xerneas with their own Legendaries, forcing them to rely on other Pokémon. At least there were many others fighting alongside them, including N and a few other Champions/ex-Champions. But the help of the Mario Brothers was more than welcome. Especially when Luigi took out his Mega Mushroom Pills. However, he hesitated a bit as he looked between the box and Mario.
"Uh... It's your turn, Mario."
Mario sighed. "Fine. But then, you will be the one taking care of these guys with Yoshi and the others' help." He pointed at the Team RR grunts and their many powerful Shadow Pokemon that were fighting the allied trainers and Federation soldiers that were present.
So Luigi had to choose between fighting the super powerful giant God-like monster or the army of more or less smaller and less powerful (but still powerful) ones (there were also a few other Dynamaxed around).
With a whine, he took a pill and turned giant, ready to face Xerneas. The Pokémon immediately faced the new threat only to be punched on the face before Luigi took it by the antlers and used them to lift it and slam it on the ground, targeting a group of enemy Shadow Pokémon by the same occasion.
Things were going slightly better for the group fighting Shadow Kyogre, excepted that Luna knocked out Archie, leading to the Shadow Kyogre going on a total, uncontrolled rampage. The ocean was absolutely out of control and it was only thanks to the constant work of water Pokémon that nobody drowned yet. Most flying Pokémon had to go away to not be caught in the many waterspouts that appeared more and more. And pretty much all lands on the West Sinnoh had to be abandoned to avoid the huge waves that were constantly coming, water even passing the mountains to reach the East.
Luna had the unconscious Archie on her back while she and everyone else attacked the Shadow Kyogre. The Pokémon used Max Shadow Chill on Ruby's Dynamax Mega Rayquaza, but the serpentine dragon of the sky tanked it, allowing Ruby to heal it with a Full Restore before it used Max Hyper Beam alongside Luna and Magolor who both also sent their own, most powerful beam attack. The three beams hit the Shadow Kyogre and were able to send it on its back.
Seeing that the Kyogre wasn't moving anymore, and with nobody conscious anymore to heal it and protect it, Ruby quickly used a Snag Ultra Ball to capture it before it could sink into the ocean. Almost immediately, the ocean calmed down. However, without Kyogre, the weather entirely let place to heat
"Yeah!"
"We did it!"
"This is a great victory, but this is not over yet," Luna reminded Ruby and Magolor.
This calmed down Ruby who looked around at everything and sighed. "I will have a lot of work once this is over..."
"You won't have to do anything," Susie said. "Your Groudon will be the one doing all the work getting all this water away."
This made Ruby chuckle.
Archer, who was still somewhere Route 216, ended up encountering one of the three Twilight Sparkle along with an Applejack and Steven. As guessed, he was the one now possessing the stolen Entei, which was turned into a Shadow Pokémon, and right now was also Dynamaxed.
Entei being a Fire-type Pokémon, this forced Steven to avoid using his famous Metagross. Instead, he used an Aerodactyl, against which Fire wasn't effective.
The battle started with Steven making his Aerodactyl use Stone Edge, followed by Twilight levitating several boulders to throw them at the giant Pokémon. Applejack followed her example with her lasso, wrapping it around boulders before using it to send them at the Entei. The Shadow Pokémon countered with Max Shadow Fire, sweeping the area to target its three opponents one after another. It was stopped by an Arwing passing not far above while firing at it, and Applejack used the occasion to start to climb the giant dog to go on its head where she began to buck its skull.
Where the battle against Archer was just starting, the one against Petrel was already over. When Link put on the Fierce Deity's Mask, he easily defeated all the Pokémon that he faced, both from Petrel and from the grunts around. Some resisted more than others, but never too long. And while he dealt with the Pokémon, backed up by Zelda, Samus used the occasion to approach Petrel and the grunts in her Morph Ball form before dealing with them with bombs.
Ariana was already knocked out by Apple Death's friends' combo attack. A fight never started between them.
And then, there was Kirby who was trashing the Shadow Masuryu. Even if the dragon was able to dodge most attacks, the puffball was just too fast, teleporting, flying around, and attacking with everything it could use. Masuryu, however, regularly used Rest to heal itself, a move that Ghetsis made it learn after its fight against Sweetie Void, much to everyone's annoyance.
"Mewtwo, come back," Red said.
A Psychic-type against a Dark-type was out of the question, no matter how powerful Mewtwo was. Dark-type moves were super effective against Psychic-type Pokémon while Dark-type Pokémon were totally immune to Psychic-type Pokémon.
Red looked at his Pikachu and, with a sign of his head, the little mouse Pokémon went to face the Darkrai.
"Your Pikachu again. Let's see how it will fare against Dynamaxed Shadow Legendaries!" Giovanni exclaimed. "Darkrai! Max Anathema!"
From Darkrai, shadows spread to cover both everyone in the room in a bubble of darkness. Pikachu then seemingly began to see something because it escaped and fought back something nobody else could see. What Pikachu was seeing were several silhouettes of Pokémon, mainly Ground-type ones but also some Legendary ones like Mewtwo or the Legendary birds, that attacked it. They were clearly illusions, but Pikachu felt that it should avoid their attacks at all cost. When an attack grazed its tail and it felt it, even leaving a scratch, it confirmed its feeling.
Instead of remaining focused on the shadow illusion constructs, Pikachu went after Darkrai itself. While doing its best to avoid and push back the shadows, it Quick Attacked toward the Dynamaxed Pokémon and began to attack it with quick Thunderbolts. The Max Anathema eventually ended with Pikachu taking minimum damage.
"Max Shadow Mist!" Giovanni shouted, and Darkrai released a shadowy mist that covered the arena. Pikachu could still see Darkrai, but it now had difficulty distinguishing stuff. Still, it continued to attack Darkrai, damaging it more and more with each attack. It also used the respite to replace the Thunderbolts with the more powerful Thunders which asked a bit more time and focus to use. But then, Giovanni ordered Darkrai to use "Max Dark Pulse!" and the Pokémon sent rings of dark energy at Pikachu. And because of the Shadow Mist, Pikachu could barely see them.
Pikachu still avoided the attack with several jumps to the side before it decided to approach the Darkrai to climb it. Once on its shoulder, it used Iron Tail merged with Electro Ball repeatedly on its head. Pikachu's tail was just a blur with how fast it was moving, and after dozens of hits in just a few seconds, the Darkrai finally collapsed, unconscious.
Giovanni chuckled, but didn't bother to call back Darkrai. "Not bad. Genesect!" He opened another capsule and threw another Shadow Master Ball which sent out a Dynamaxed insectoid bipedal Pokémon with a robotic body and a saucer-shaped head. Because it was also a Shadow Pokémon, its body was mostly of the same dark purple with some lighter gray parts.
It was a Bug/Steel-type.
Meaning that it had a double weakness to Fire.
"Come back, Pikachu!" Red called back his Pokémon before he threw a simple Poké Ball. "Go, Charizard!"
Out of the ball came a draconic orange Pokémon who had the particularity of having the tip of its tail on fire. Red then immediately put on a bracelet with a Key Stone and used it to Mega Evolve Charizard into a sleeker form with three pointed horns on its head, the Mega Charizard Y.
The Charizard then used Inferno, flying up a bit before breathing a powerful stream of fire at the feet of the Genesect. From the impact point then came a column of fire that covered the Genesect, causing huge damage and putting it on fire, causing burn damage. The Genesect was already on its knees.
But Giovanni grinned and shouted, "Use Max Self-Destruct!"
Both Red and Charizard got wide eyes before the Pokémon flew to its master and covered him with its body. The Genesect then exploded, and the two were caught in the blast which sent them crashing into the wall. Thanks to Charizard, Red was alright, but the Pokémon was badly injured as a result. He quickly used a Max Revive to heal it, but the damage were so great that it wasn't enough. So Red called it back in its Poké Ball, hoping to quickly have a nurse to look at it.
Red then looked up to see that Giovanni escaped the explosion thanks to a giant ring that created a portal before him, the blast of the explosion going through it to who knew where. The portal closed, revealing a huge six-armed Pokémon, the arms being disconnected from the body. It looked like a demon merged with a djinn, with large horns and an arrow-pointed tail and lots of rings on its arms, legs, and horns. Being a Shadow Pokémon, it had a dark purple body with light gray parts, including the hair (which was in a ponytail) and beard.
This was the Pokémon known as Hoopa, in its Unbounded Form.
And of course, it was Dynamaxed too. Unbound Hoopa was already pretty huge, but here, it was GIANT!
Psychic/Dark-type.
Double weakness to Bug.
And Red knew that it couldn't learn moves such as Explosion or Self-Destruct.
"Go, Butterfree! Use Bug Buzz!"
"Max Hyperspace Fury!"
As the Butterfree sent sound waves from its wings at its adversary, Hoopa sent its rings to form portals all around the butterfly Pokémon. Hoopa tanked the sound waves and sent its arms through the portals to repeatedly strike Butterfree. The butterfly was able to avoid some of the punches but was eventually hit, badly. But Butterfree resisted and used Bug Buzz, this time sending the sound waves through the portals to hit Hoopa and its arms. This took Hoopa off guard and made it stop its attack, and Butterfree quickly used this to fly until it was right in front of Hoopa's face before it used Bug Buzz again, finally defeating the Legendary.
Weakly, Butterfree flew back to Red and fell into his arms where the trainer used a Full restore to heal it.
Speaking of, Red looked at Giovanni suspiciously, wondering why he wasn't healing his Pokémon. He was certain that he had a stock of Full Restore and Max Revives, so why wasn't he using them? He wasn't even bothering to call them back, leaving them out and unconscious!
Instead, Giovanni sent out, Dynamaxed again, an unicorn-like Pokémon with a large, ridged horn and little protusions above its eyes.
Keldeo, in its Resolute Form. Water/Fighting-type. No double weakness this time. But it was weak to Electric.
Without Red even needing to say or do anything, Pikachu returned on the arena and immediately began to repeat its usual tactic. Quick Attack around the arena and attack the enemy with whatever worked best, in this case Electric moves. However, Keldeo was a rather fast Pokémon so Pikachu also used Agility, and it did well as Giovanni made Keldeo use Max Shadow Sword, a Shadow version of Keldeo's signature move: Sacred Sword.
Keldeo's horn was covered in a long blade of shadow energy and it moved to slice Pikachu, again and again and again, moving like a master swordsman. It even used the blade to block some of Pikachu's attacks, the electricity not spreading on the shadow energy of the blade. At a moment, Pikachu was forced to use Iron Tail to parry the horn, but it was still badly hurt and was knocked back by the force of the giant Pokémon.
But like with Darkrai, all of Pikachu's attacks gave their toll to Keldeo and it eventually fell on a knee, then lost consciousness, but not before attempting one last time to slice Pikachu only for the mouse to avoid the blade with a jump before clinging to Keldeo's face and hitting it with a full powered Thunder.
Finally, Giovanni sent out a Dynamaxed Shadow Deoxys. As the fight started and he ordered it to use Max Shadow Mist followed by Max Anathema, Giovanni was then distracted from the fight by Faba Teleporting behind him.
He was grinning victoriously before he showed to Giovanni a Poké Ball which looked like it was made from crystal with pieces of different colors covering it, the whole ball glowing in a dark energy.
"It is done, Boss! The Shadow Deity Ball! From the Origin Ore and the Plates! With it..." Faba's grin turned more excited. "Arceus is yours!"
"Wh-? All that just to create a Poké Ball to catch Arceus? Why bother when you already have Master Balls?" Red asked.
"Eheheh. You see, Red, it's simple. Master Balls aren't enough to catch Arceus. Its avatar, yes, but not THE Arceus," Giovanni explained before he took the ball and showed it to Red. "This ball is made from Arceus' energy, from both the Origin Ore and the Plates. It's the All Powerful Poké Ball. It will be able to trap the God itself. All of it."
At this moment, something came through the roof and crashed right on the Deoxys, interrupting the fight. The thing revealed to be Shadow Mewtwo, now unconscious and badly unjured, with Sweetie Void standing on it.
"Piece of cake," she said before she turned to face Giovanni. "Now, time to end this!"
"Faba!" Giovanni shouted.
"Y-yes! Go, Necrozma!" Faba opened a capsule and threw a Shadow Master Ball, sending out a Dynamaxed Shadow Necrozma in its Ultra Form. Instead of being made of light, it was made of shadows. "Max Shadow Laser!" the Ultra Necrozma attacked Sweetie Void by sending shadow lasers using prisms.
The filly quickly teleported from the Shadow Mewtwo who was hit by the lasers, which weren't effective on it before Shadow-type wasn't effective on itself. She then rammed the Ultra Necrozma right on the face, slamming it head first on a wall.
While this happened, Giovanni quickly ran to his Shadow Mewtwo and used a Max Revive to heal it before he called it back in its Master Ball, not bothering with the now unconscious Deoxys.
"Pikachu! Stop him!" Red shouted, and Pikachu used Thunder on Giovanni.
But the man silently grinned at them before he warped away just before the Thunder could hit him.
"Oh no... Sweetie Belle!" Red shouted, gaining the filly's attention as she was burying Necrozma's head into the wall where she slammed it. "Go after Giovanni! I'm sure that he teleported on Mt. Coronet! Don't worry about me! Go quick! You must stop him!"
Sweetie Void understood and let go of the Necrozma before she opened a rift and passed it.
Giovanni didn't lose time as he appeared on what remained of Spear Pillar, just beside Cyrus. Upon seeing Giovanni, Cyrus immediately sent a Houndoom, a Honchkrow, and a Weavile to guard him as Giovanni took out the Azule Flute and played.
The notes could be heard from very far across Sinnoh, and many recognised what they were.
Dawn ordered her Giratina to attack Giovanni but Cyrus stopped her with his Giratina. Phantom and Apple Death both teleported to stop him but Cyrus' Pokémon were ready and intercepted the fillies.
Giovanni then finished playing, and in a flash of light, a stairway made of light appeared, seemingly going on forever into the sky.
He let out his Shadow Mewtwo, not Dynamaxed and not in its Mega form this time, just as a rift opened, Sweetie Void coming out of it.
"Stop her from following me. Come at me as soon as you don't see me anymore. And this time, don't get beaten. I will need you to do you-know-what," he instructed before he started to climb the stairway.
"Oh come on! I already defeated it once!" Sweetie Void shouted, exasperated.
"Less whining, more fighting!" Phantom admonished as she returned to attacking Shadow Palkia, hitting it with several bombs that she created with her illusion powers. But the Pokémon resisted and used Max Hydro Pump in return, forcing Phantom to fly away.
Wordlessly, Sweetie Void unleashed her full power again and punched the Shadow Mewtwo on the face, almost knocking it out in one hit, but the Shadow Mewtwo resisted and used Recover to heal itself. It was then joined by Cyrus' Pokémon, Cyrus ordering them to support it.
To everyone's surprise, the Shadow Giratina was then hit by a Max Hyper Beam on the face originating from Ruby's Dynamax Mega Rayquaza.
Upon seeing him, Dawn quickly approached him with her Togekiss. "Ruby!"
"Hey Dawn! Good news! We got Archie and his Kyogre! And most of the grunts in the West are defeated! The others are taking care of the remaining ones! Need help?"
"Any help is welcomed!" Dawn said happily.
And so Ruby joined the battle against Cyrus.
All over Sinnoh, battles were reaching their climax. Steven was able to defeat Archer's Shadow Entei with his Aerodactyl using Stone Edge with Twilight bashing repeatedly Entei's head with a boulder. Entei used Max Flare on them, but Twilight teleported to avoid the attack while the Aerodactyl was hit and was finally knocked out after everything it took, but not before using Stone Edge one last time before losing consciousness. That last attack was too much for Entei and it lost consciousness too. Archer attempted to use a Max Revive, but he found himself lassoed by Applejack.
Kirby avoided a claw from Masuryu and counterattacked with a stream of ice - he was told that ice worked well on Masuryu - that the dragon avoided only to be hit by a Prismatic Beam from Elio's Ultra Necrozma. Kirby used the occasion to grab Masuryu by the beard while covered in electricity from the Spark Ability. Electricity wasn't effective on Masuryu, but it still caused damage that accumulated. Kirby then pulled on the beard to bring Masuryu's face to him before he punched it, then pulled on the beard again and punched the face again and repeated the process several dozens times until Masuryu fired another its shadow beam attack just before it could be punched again only for Kirby to deflect it with Mirror right into its mouth. Kirby then quickly materialized a giant bomb and dropped it into Masuruy's mouth where it exploded.
Masuryu used Rest yet again to heal, but Kirby used this to grab the dragon's beard again while it was sleeping before he flew toward the sky with it.
"Where is that thing going with my Masuryu?!" Ghetsis yelled from where he was watching the fight on the cliff not far of the ruins of the Sinnoh Pokémon League.
"Hey, Eternatus, look!" he suddenly heard, making his heart skip a beat. He turned around and looked up at the origin of the voice: Victor who was still on the back of a Braviary, flying alongside his Eternatus. "Here's the trash! How about we take it out? Dynamax Cannon."
Ghetsis panicked and immediately warped away.
He appeared in the Rocket HQ in what was known as the Warping Room so members of the team could warp into the HQ without risking to appear on someone else's path only to be welcomed by a Thunder that knocked him out right away.
Littering the room with dozens of unconscious Rocket grunts, scientists, and guards, and standing against the wall was Red and his Pikachu who was awaiting his next victim. It didn't take them long to take care of Faba, especially after Sweetie already pretty much dealt by herself with his Shadow Ultra Necrozma.
In Veilstone City, Sonic Homing Attack repeatedly a weakened Shadow Groudon. As the giant Pokémon looked around, trying to follow the hedgehog, Tails then jumped from a nearby Pidgeot to attack directly its head with his tails. Hilbert then attacked it in turn with his Zekrom, using the diversion to approach and attack with Dragon Claw. Zekrom being an Electric-type, it mostly remained at a safe distance, waiting for such occasions. Then Gold attacked with Ho-Oh using Fire Blast, and many other trainers attacked from all around.
All other grunts in the city and around were defeated, Maxie and his Groudon were the last remaining enemy, but they were darn resisting, causing a huge amount of damage to the whole region. Cracks caused by the Groudon had now divided the region into several smaller floating islands, especially the East part, and more and more volcanoes were appearing, even where there weren't mountains. And the level of the West ocean had dramatically diminished.
Groudon used Max Eruption again, sending fiery boulders to rain everywhere yet again.
But then, something came from the sky and crashed right on the Groudon at a speed superior to the one of sound.
"Woaaah!!!" The shockwave created by the crash sent almost everyone around flying including Sonic and Tails, as well as many debris.
Sonic quickly recovered when he landed and ran to see what happened, only to see a certain puffball standing beside the now unconscious Groudon as well as Masuryu, looking as if he finished a simple everyday task.
Sonic rubbed his head, not sure what to think. "Jeez... You just stole our 'kill', you could at least look smug, or proud of yourself, or something. Well, whatever. Good job!"
"Poyo!" Kirby replied happily.
All that remained was Lysandre and his Shadow Xerneas, but not for long. The Xerneas avoided Luigi's hammer only to be hit by a Hydro Pump from Calem's Greninja, a bipedal blue frog-like Pokémon that looked like a ninja with its tongue wrapped around its neck like a scarf. This opened the Xerneas to another attack from Luigi with his hammer, followed by N using a Bisharp to attack with Iron Head. As Xerneas was attacked from all directions, it used Max Moonblast to attack around and force many to stop attacking before it attacked Luigi with Max Megahorn. As Xerneas charged at Luigi with its horns down, he readied himself and jumped to stomp on Xerneas' back. Then he jumped again and dropped back on Xerneas, this time with his hammer, badly hitting its spine.
Calem then finished Xerneas with a Sky Attack from his Yveltal after he made sign to someone to deal with Lysandre to stop him from reviving his Pokémon. And this someone was Yoshi who caught Lysandre with his tongue from behind and ate him before laying an egg with the man trapped inside it.
All remaining Team RR grunts were being defeated. The ponies, Captain Falcon, and Ness and his friends defeated them everywhere inside the tunnels of the mountains, or around them. Sweetie Void's Pokémon and Spiky also fought well, and with Petrel and Ariana beaten, Link, Zelda, Samus, Apple Death's friends were able to join the hunt.
Team RR was being decimated.
In total, only a few minutes passed since Giovanni began to climb the stairs to the Hall of Origin.
Sweetie Void rained dark beams on the enemy Pokémon, dealing huge damage to the Shadow Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina while the Shadow Mewtwo was able to avoid them by moving and teleporting around. Phantom tried to slice it with Infinite's sword but the Pokémon caught her with its psychic power and threw her away right on the path of a Max Shadow Roar, but Apple Death caught her just in time to get her out of the way while Shadow Mewtwo teleported out of the way of a giant fireball sent by the ghost filly. At the same time, a Max Hyper Beam fired by Ruby's Mega Rayquaza hit Cyrus' Shadow Palkia while Dawn's Giratina and Cyrus' Shadow Giratina repeatedly used Shadow Force (the Ghost-type move for one and the Max Shadow-type move for the other) against each other. The two Ghost/Dragon-type Pokémon were flying around, regularly disappearing before reappearing charging at their adversary only to miss because the adversary disappeared too to attack. However, because of sweetie Void's beams, Cyrus had to use Full Restores on his three Pokémon.
As for Cyrus' Houndoom, Honchkrow, and Weavile, they were knocked out a long time ago and he didn't bother to revive them.
Sweetie Void punched Shadow Mewtwo in the belly, making it bend in pain with its breath knocked out. It still managed to grab Sweetie by the head before violently slamming her on the ground only to take a beam on the face fired from one of her cannons. A psychic forcefield pushed the cannons back, and it was saved from Sweetie's retaliation by Shadow Palkia attacking her with Max Shadow Rend. It used the occasion to use Recover to heal itself again.
But it was starting to be exhausted.
But then, it remarked that it couldn't see Giovanni anymore and knew that it was time to join him, so it began to fly up the stairs.
Sweetie Void blasted Shadow Palkia and quickly went after it, leaving her friends to finish the battle. After flying up a few dozens stairs, they seemingly disappeared.
Just at this moment, Kirby flew in and sliced Shadow Dialga before attacking Shadow Palkia by dropping bombs on it. Despite the surprise of Kirby's arrival, everyone quickly acted and attacked.
It turned out that the stairway led through some kind of dimensional barrier. One moment, they were in the dimension where Sinnoh was transported into, and the next, they were... somewhere else.
Somewhere in space, above what looked like the atmosphere, glowing blue-green with aurora lights, as far as the eye could see. Above was the void of space itself, black, with countless stars.
The Hall of Origin itself was present at the end of the stairs, some kind of giant glowing glass-like platform surrounded by the aurora lights, with strange patterns sculpted in the platform itself, full of symbols that historians specialising on Arceus would probably know the signification of.
Sweetie Void immediately spotted Giovanni who was joined by his Shadow Mewtwo...
And he was facing Arceus.
The instant Sweetie thought of attacking Giovanni, Shadow Mewtwo teleported beside her and attacked her with a Low Kick that she avoided before she punched it back, sending it away.
Done with Mewtwo for now, she quickly turned to look again at Giovanni and saw that Arceus was attacking him with Judgment, its signature attack that could take on the type of the Plate currently used by it. Since Arceus had no Plate, then the move was actually Normal-type.
Not that the type of the move mattered. If Giovanni was hit by it, then he would end up, at best, badly hurt, at worst, killed.
And yet, Giovanni didn't try to dodge the attack and instead threw the Shadow Deity Ball before being hit by the attack which sent him on his back groaning in pain. Arceus saw the ball and its eyes barely had time to widen when it recognized what it was before the ball touched it and opened.
It wasn't just Arceus that turned into red energy. The whole universe seemed to take a red teint before the red started to be sucked into the ball. Among this red were particles of red light that appeared out of nowhere.
And in just a few seconds, all the red was gone, and the ball closed before dropping on the platform.
With a groan, not even trying to get up to go get the ball, Giovanni yelled "Mewtwo!" and the Pokémon teleported to grab the ball. Sweetie Void recovered from her shock of seeing Arceus being captured and immediately fired a powerful dark beam that would disintegrate Giovanni, but Mewtwo acted and pushed the man out of the way with its powers before it gave the ball to him. Mewtwo then intercepted a punch from Sweetie Void only to have its head grabbed and slammed onto the glass platform just as Giovanni opened the ball.
What came out of it, Sweetie wasn't sure. There was just a... moment where everything was black, and then the black was gone, everything seemingly returning to normal with no Arceus to be seen.
Excepted that there was now a giant... disk seemingly made of particles of shadow covering most of the space above, hiding the stars. It was difficult to say how far it was, and so how big it was. It could either be close and so it wasn't that big (but still big), or it was far and so it was VERY big, potentially the size of a galaxy or even more.
And deep down, as she looked in awe at the disk, Sweetie knew that it was just an eye, and that the being it belonged to was unimaginably huge.
An omnipotent God with a real form beyond any mortal comprehension, and who was now corrupted.
Then, coughed some blood, Giovanni yelled "Now! Do your thing, Mewtwo!"
The Shadow Mewtwo, whose head was still on the ground under Sweetie's hoof, on the brink of losing consciousness from the exhaustion and everything, unleashed its powers one last time, its eyes glowing.
And Giovanni's body turned into light that moved toward the eye.
The eye seemingly closed for a moment before it opened again, now specifically staring at Sweetie Void.
Giovanni's voice echoed inside her mind.
I win.
Sweetie whimpered.
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Welp, it seems that Giovanni has achieved apotheosis. Calling that "unideal" would be quite the understatement, not just for the Pokémon multiverse, but for the omniverse as a whole. I feel like the coming fight can only be resolved in one of three ways:
1) Some result of it rapidly accelerates Sweetie's development towards Godhood, bringing her inevitable confrontation with DD from "sometime in the next few centuries" to "probably within a couple years."
2) DD gets directly involved Itself as to not risk the meal It's put quite a bit of work into. Given how confident DD has been that Sweetie can do this on her own, though, I find this unlikely.
3) Void gets involved. This option probably has the highest amount of collateral damage, as Void and Arceus are both creator deities and would likely inadvertently destroy several entire universes should They go all-out, and with Giovanni controlling Arceus, going all-out is likely.
No matter what, this promises to be...interesting.
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The problem with Void is that he is not omnipotent, contrary to Arceus. Void can't do stuff like erase someone's existence or a whole universe with just a thought. Arceus can.
interesting indeed,wonder How this could be topped by future Saga's Finale.
Being a Keldeo main, I feel bad that he was defeated, but I'm honestly not that surprised. His defensive stats and health aren't very good, and his physical attack is terrible. Excelling in special attack, Dynamax Shadow Keldeo would have done much more damage with Secret Sword, a special move, than the physical move Secret Sword. It's also worth knowing that canonically, his speed stat is deceptive; the Pokedex says that in his Resolute Form, he becomes too fast for the human eye to follow.
Too bad, because Sweetie Belle is there, there is no way to go back to the past and stop Giovanni. If only Sweetie Belle took the battle more seriously and stopped limiting herself
P.S:
I don't remember her cannons
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It was fast, but Pikachu was fast too, and Keldeo was limited by its size and the size of the room, and trying to not accidentally kill its master.
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Sweetie Belle wasn't limiting herself this time. She really was giving her all, but again, she still had to be watchful to not accidentally kill Shadow Mewtwo (who is also a victim of Giovanni), someone else, or destroy the whole freaking mountain or region. And you read it, she went after Giovanni, but Shadow Mewtwo was doing its darn best to protect him. Shadow Mewtwo was pretty much Giovanni's body guard slash meat shield.
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Please tell me this arc is almost over. I want to see the SSB arc already.
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I thought her all was when she was singing
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When she sings, she is ready to blow up planets and stars and small dimensions. Far too overkill against Shadow Mewtwo.
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The next chapter is the last one of this arc.
I had to check because the type chart has changed since I last played a real game, but they are in fact super-effective.
Primal Groudon gains the Fire-Type it probably should have always had, which more than cancels out the bonus from the sunny weather. Fire Blast is such a hard-hitting attack, though, that it probably still outdamages most of Ho-Oh's coverage moves in this situation.
Is that a Jojo's reference? Probably not; Araki isn't the only one who has his villains say stuff like this shortly before losing. And if he were actually paying attention, he'd know that he's looking at somebody he needs to destroy now... if that isn't what's needed for her to ascend to match him, and she could probably do it herself if that turns out to be the case.
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Maybe, but because it's overkill she did not use, even when Shadow Mewtwo is blocking the way to a God that now is captured and brainwashed, if she used it neither Mewtwo nor Giovanni could win
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Thanks, corrected.
I forgot that Groudon gained the Fire-type in its Primal form, and so Fire moves didn't effect it much anymore. But yeah, thanks to Desolate Land, it probably caused usual damage, but Future Sight would have probably worked better. Sky Attack too but it takes time to charge, and Burn Up was out of the question.
He has good reason to believe that he won. He just became an omnipotent God. Nothing is supposed to be able to stand against him. He could just erase from existence anything resisting him. Even Sweetie Void. Only another omnipotent being could fight him now. Not even Void has that power.
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That was the moral dilemma. Kill Shadow Mewtwo to stop Giovanni from capturing Arceus, or not. But now, for her, there's still the hope of saving Arceus, somehow. Free it from Giovanni's control.
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Depends, if it's like Pokemon with him limited to four pokemon attacks maybe it could be easy
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Nope. Pokémon don't have the gameplay limits. They have access to ALL the moves they learned.
But it doesn't really matter here. This is not Arceus the Avatar Sweetie has before her, but Arceus the Omnipotent Creator. Its powers won't be limited to simple Pokémon moves.
Oh, also, Sweetie always had cannons. Remember, she has that weapon that can turn into a whip, a staff, and that can divide into ten sections that are each cannons that can let out beam swords and fire all kinds of projectiles.
Another full on god huh? Will Sweetie need to go all out again despite the pain that form almost caused her before?
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I guess I need to re-read Sweetie Dreamland (I got stuck at chapter 20 during re-reading and forgot) Also, with him being a God, it's going to be hard for Sweetie as she is in his domain and can do everything, if we think that any damage could be negated before Sweetie do it, have infinite energy, can see everything Sweetie is going to do (Something that surprise me a little as with his power, it could be very easy to move away from a human like Giovanni, or just stop him with his will or turn back/stop time) and even more
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Arceus is omnipotent, but not omniscient and omnipresent. It can't see or foresee everything. Or else, it would be a third category God and DD would have already made a meal out of it.
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But Arceus should have Future Sight like Mewtwo, or at last a high agility, not to say the same powers of Palkia and Dialga. Also, maybe DD just didn't found him or was under his radar
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DD knew of Arceus' existence the moment Sweetie Belle entered the Pokémon World the first time. They would know right away if Arceus is a third category God or not.
And yes, Arceus has Future Sight, but it needs to use it and to keep it activated to foresee stuff when it uses its Avatar (because it follows the Pokémon rules when using it). Now that Arceus isn't limiting itself to its Avatar and the Pokémon rules, it will be as if Future Sight is constantly activated, but Arceus still can't see everything. Future Sight only allows to see a few seconds into the future, and not what's going on everywhere in the universe.
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And few seconds is not enough to evade Giovanni?
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Like I said, in its Avatar form, Arceus needs to use the move first. It used Judgment instead to get rid of Giovanni.
and now the god eater is going to eat giovani. downside of fighting a fledgling goddess, then taking over a god's body. you attract attention you may not want, like the god eater that is tracking Sweetie's whereabouts in anticipation for the final clash, and possible meal.
"Kirby, on the other hand, didn't think too hard on how long this dragon had been able to stay in the fight, or on how it was able to fall asleep despite the constant assault. He just kept attacking."
EDIT: Kirby did complete an everyday task for him, do you not know his history?