Chapter 72: Assault On Team Rainbow Rocket's Hideout
In a matter of seconds, they were back to Earth. During the brief time it took to travel, Sweetie Belle quickly explained to Rosalina what happened with the Cankens and Crakkthulx. Rosalina had actually heard about the story of the Cankens as well as of a few others like the Dark Star, and she was glad that she won't have to worry about them anymore.
Once the Observatory stopped above the atmosphere of the planet, Sweetie Belle teleported everyone (excepted the Lumas) to the surface, back on the cliff where the fillies last saw Mario and the others.
Who were in the middle of fighting each others. Apparently, Bowser thought that it was the occasion to return to his old habits and was trying to kidnap Peach. Of course, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, the Kongs, and even Little Ghost and some other ghosts were stopping him, but the Koopa King was helped by his son and his troops. Wario and Waluigi just remained on the side, watching with disinterest. And E. Gadd had run away to not be caught in the fight.
In the middle of the action, nobody saw the fillies and Rosalina appear. When she saw what was going on, Apple Bloom facehoofed and groaned.
"Uuugh!!! Bowser! The world just got out of a crisis! Ya couldn't've waited at least one day?! Or even one. Freaking. HOUR?!"
Sweetie Belle let out a sigh. "Let me deal with this." She then teleported right in the middle of the fight between Mario and Bowser, making the two of them stop in surprise at her sudden appearance. Bowser stopping the fight caught the attention of others who also stopped, which caught the attention of even more and so on and so on. "Hey! Crakkthulx is dead and the universe is safe!"
"You were able to defeat that thing?" Luigi asked.
"With the help of my friends, yes," Sweetie Belle said as she pointed at Phantom and Apple Bloom.
"Woohoo! I knew you girls could do it!" Mario said.
"Yeah. That's great. I had the feeling that you would somehow pull it off," Bowser said.
"I suppose that it's why you thought that it was a good idea to attempt to kidnap Princess Peach again, am I right?"
Sweat appeared on Bowser's forehead. "Uhhh..."
"You know, after a whole night of fighting, I wouldn't mind some peace. So, how about you put your kidnapping attempt on hold so we can all return to our homes and have a good rest? I really need one."
"Y-you think that I will let a pipsqueak tell me what to do?!" Bowser shouted after some hesitation.
The next instant, he was punched in the face and sent flying out of his shell into the sky where he disappeared.
"Yes," Sweetie Belle answered before she looked at the Koopa Troops around. "Any objection?"
"Uh... Nono!"
"Not at all."
"No objection!"
"We're good."
"I was getting tired anyway."
"Great!" Sweetie Belle said before looked at the shell that Bowser left behind. "Mmh... I think that I will keep it as a souvenir. Could make a nice sled too."
"Ya may consider getting rid of the spikes then," Apple Bloom said.
Phantom huffed. "Seriously Apple Bloom?"
"I agree with Scootaloo! Removing the spikes would make it lame!" Little Ghost said.
"Because a giant turtle shell isn't already good enough?"
"A giant turtle shell with spikes is much better!"
"I see Apple Bloom's point. The spikes could hurt someone. But I'm sure that I can do something to make them less lethal. I don't want to remove them too," Sweetie Belle said.
While the fillies bickered, Peach approached Rosalina. "Rosalina! You are here too. You helped Apple Bloom and her friends in their fight?"
"I sadly wasn't able to. The scale of the fight was well above what I could do. But no help has been needed in the end. They were able to eliminate Crakkthulx without too much problems."
"That is impressive! Crakkthulx was the size of a mountain! I already knew that Apple Bloom had become very powerful after she became the new Spirit of Death of her dimension, but it seems that her new friends are not left out."
"That's an understatement. I saw them do feats that put to shame even the more powerful Stars."
"Will you remain a day or two?" Peach asked.
"Probably longer. I will offer my help and the Lumas' to rebuild."
"Thank you very much. We accept this offer."
All traces of the Cankens were destroyed. What remained of the pyramid-turned-pentacle and its unnatural black stone was disintegrated by Sweetie Belle.
After that, using the airships that Sweetie Belle repaired, everyone agreed to return to the Mushroom Kingdom to have some rest, the Koopa Troops returning to their castle. Bowser Jr., Kamec, and the Koopalings took a different direction as they first went to find Bowser wherever he landed. Wario and Waluigi also just decided upon arrival to the Mushroom Kingdom to go in their way, probably to sleep in an inn. Rosalina also returned to her Observatory.
Apple Bloom sent Little Ghost to warn her family and friends that she won't come home right away, and also to tell the good news about the Cankens' defeat and Crakkthulx's death.
Apple Bloom also informed Sweetie Belle that she didn't have to worry about any time difference between this world and Equestria. Discord used his powers to ensure that it was the same in both world.
"He can do that?"
"Ya didn't know?"
"I guess that I never thought to ask."
"But he can't abuse it. It really tired him out when he did it."
"Well, now, we have three Discord, so I'm sure that it won't be that much of a problem anymore."
After that, they went to sleep.
Because the night had been well advanced by the time they fell asleep, almost dawn, everyone slept until well after noon the next day. Then, once they woke up, and after a nice breakfast (or late lunch), Sweetie Belle thought that it was a good time to tell the locals why she was here in the first place. She hadn't gotten the occasion, first because of Bowser, then because of the Cankens. And for the next days, they will certainly be busy rebuilding all that had been destroyed because of the Cankens and the battles against them, so it was now or never (or at least not until the next time she would visit this world).
But first, as Rosalina and a few Lumas floated down from the sky, Sweetie Belle teleported to New Donk City to bring Cranky and the other Kongs as well as Pauline to the Mushroom Kingdom. The Kongs was mostly to reunite them with DK, Diddy, and Dixie while Pauline was because Peach wanted her to be present for the talks about rebuilding since New Donk City was hit pretty badly because of the terrible battle that happened there. For a similar reason, Sweetie Belle also teleported to Sarasaland to bring Daisy.
Secretly, Sweetie Belle understood that it was also because Peach wanted to have a nice day with her friends after last night's events.
And she was glad for this as it meant that there will be more people, leaders even, to listen to her when she will talk. The more the better.
She also went to Starven to give the Elemenstars to the Elder Star Sprites who would certainly know what to do with them.
Once everything was ready, she and her friends joined the princesses and mayor as well as the Mario Brothers, the Kongs, Starlow, E. Gadd and Stuffwell, and Toadsworth.
"Ahem!" Toadsworth cleared his throat. "Now that the Canken Crisis is over, thanks to the combined actions of our heroes and even of rivals and enemies, it is time to talk about the afterm-"
"Sorry to interrupt," Sweetie Belle suddenly said. "But before we broach this topic, I have something to say. It is about why I originally came to visit this world before the Cankens appeared."
"It wasn't just for a visit?" Mario asked.
"There is that," Sweetie Belle answered. "but there is another reason." And she proceeded to explain everything.
"Come on Superfish, use Water Pulse!" Scootaloo shouted.
Despite being stuck in a Bind, Superfish, Scootaloo's Goldeen who evolved into a Seaking during the battle against Team Rainbow Rocket in Mt. Moon, sent a pulsating blast of water at Brock's Onix. The attack hit the giant stone serpent right on the face and sent it on the ground, freeing the fish from its Bind.
The Onix was out.
"And you win," Brock said. "Not a surprise."
"Heck yeah!" Scootaloo pumped her leg in victory before she went to hug Superfish. "You were awesome Superfish! I knew you could do it!"
Brock approached her, giving her a grey badge that looked like a boulder. "Here is your badge. You deserve it. That was a good fight."
Scootaloo took the badge with stars in her eyes. "Ohmygosh! Thanks!" She then called Superfish back into her Poké Ball and ran toward her friends who watched the battle and were in the process of congratulating her. "I have my first badge! I have my first badge! You saw that?"
"Yeah, we saw that! That was awesome!" Rainbow Dash said as Scootaloo reached her and gave her a hug. "Now, it's my turn!"
"What? Ah thought it was mah turn!" Applejack said.
"I don't remember that," Rainbow Dash countered.
"Hum..." Brock cut in. "My Pokémon need rest after these two fights, so how about you take this time to discuss this? Then we will battle in... one hour?"
The two mares agreed.
While they talked, Scootaloo showed her new badge to Apple Bloom. "Now, we both have one!"
Apple Bloom took her own badge. "Ah can't wait ta show it to Sweetie Belle."
"Oh boy, she will be jealous! She was supposed to be the first one to get one!"
"Ah wonder if we'd try ta get a second badge."
"Would we even have time? Spring Break must already be almost over in Equestria."
"Uh... Ah don't remember... What was the time ratio between this world and Equestria, again?"
"One day in this world equals a bit less than five days in ours," Twilight, hearing them, answered. "You girls still have until... around tomorrow noon before you have to return for school."
"Thanks! So this should give us enough time to get a second badge," Scootaloo said.
"The one in Cerulean City, just after Mt. Moon, is the closest if Ah remember correctly. But it's a Water-type specialist Gym, so it won't be at yer advantage again," Apple Bloom informed.
"Well, thankfully, I have Speedy so it shouldn't be a problem. I will just need to train him a bit before."
"Without forgetting the Grass-types ya got in Viridian Forest."
"Of course."
Suddenly, Brock received a call that he immediately answered after seeing who was calling.
"What is it, Gold?"
...
"Really?"
...
"Very well. I'm gathering backups and we're coming," Brock finished before he ended the call and turned to the ponies. "We found the Rockets' hideout."
"Already?" Spike asked.
"The Rockets suddenly massively attacked Hoenn, from Mt. Chimney to the Seafloor Cavern, led by Maxie and Archie. The Hoenn League managed to push them back with the help of Team Aqua and Team Magma, and Ruby was able to put a tracker on a grunt before they teleported away. And it turns out that the Rockets' hideout, or at least one of them, is on some random island in the ocean just South of Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn. As such, the three regions are preparing a coordinated assault, with all the Gym Leaders, Elite 4 members, and Champions involved, and as many trainer volunteers as possible. The volunteers must have at least two badges however. They don't want to take any risk.
"Darn. This means that we won't be able to participate," Scootaloo complained.
"We wouldn't have allowed you to join the fight anyway," Twilight said. "I know that children tend to accomplish miracles in this world, but who knows what will await us in this hideout. In the worst case scenario, we could end up fighting the whole pantheon of this world. And this means that you won't come too, Spike."
The dragon sighed. "Alright..."
"I doubt that we will encounter all the leaders there," Brock pointed out. "But just a few legendaries would already be pretty bad. Maxie and Archie will probably be there. We know that Maxie has Groudon, and Gold reported to me that Archie used Kyogre in his battle against Ruby."
"Wow. Between Kyogre and Groudon, the weather must have been pretty crazy over there during the battle," Twilight said.
"I can only imagine. Battles between Kyogre and Groudon are known to be apocalyptic, and that's not counting when Rayquaza intervenes," Brock said. "And if Maxie and Archie are present, with Ruby coming, then we will find ourselves with two Groudons potentially ending up fighting each other."
"Oh boy, this will be one heck of a battle!" Pinkie shouted excitedly.
"Are you sure you want to come?" Brock asked the mares. "Half of you don't even have Pokémon, and the ones who have don't even have a badge yet."
"That may be the case, but this isn't the first time that we end up in a battle," Twilight said.
"Yeah, we know how to fight," Rainbow Dash confirmed as she did a few jabs with her front legs.
"As unladylike as it is, I confirm," Rarity added. "I can throw some punches if needed. And while I am not as proficient in it as Twilight, my magic could be useful."
"Hum... As much as I would like to come with you... I... I would prefer remaining here. If that's okay with you," Fluttershy then timidly said. "I could keep an eye on Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Spike."
"Of course, Sugarcube, we understand," Applejack reassured.
Brock gave them a nod. "Very well then. But you will be careful, alright?"
The mares nodded.
Soon enough, Brock spread the news, and a team of volunteers was quickly formed. After that, they quickly traversed Kanto until reaching Vermilion City, a port, where everyone that will participate to the assault against Team Rainbow Rocket was gathering and embarking onto a ship prepared for that. It was here that the ponies got to meet the other Gym Leaders as well as two of the Elite 4 members, Surge and Sabrina, who decided to embark here while the two others were embarking in Olivine City, in Johto, along with Gold.
Red was also present, of course, which reassured many trainers and even some of the Gym Leaders.
Many were curious about the ponies but weren't surprised as the news about them had already spread.
After a few hours, the ship left the port with everyone onboard and started its journey to the island where the Rockets' hideouts was supposed to be. On the way, they were quickly joined by the ship from Johto, and then, a bit later, by the ships from Hoenn.
Three ships actually came from Hoenn. One of them transported members of the Hoenn League as well as the trainers who accepted to come. A second transported the members of Team Magma, with their emblem having been quickly painted on it. The third ship was actually a blue submarine modeled to look like a Sharpedo, a shark Pokémon, with Team Aqua's emblem (a white skull-and-crossbone in the shape of a "A").* Obviously, it transported the members of Team Aqua.
The rest of the journey was uneventful. Many, however, felt more and more tense as the ships approached the island. Team Aqua even went underwater just in case the Rockets had an underwater ambush ready. And to make things worse, as they neared the island, a mountain visible in the horizon, a storm started. Not to the point that giant waves suddenly appeared to overturn the boats, but the vision became very limited.
"Just our luck..." Applejack said.
"Pfff, come on! I understand that the weather isn't controlled in this world, but don't they have attacks that allow to change it? What are they waiting to do it?" Rainbow Dash wondered.
"This storm isn't natural," Red told her. "I think that I know what is its origin, and I don't think that a simple attack will be enough to get us rid of it."
Some of the ponies gulped. "You mean...?" Twilight hesitantly began before she was interrupted by someone.
"SOMEONE IS ON THE WATER! AND I'M NOT KIDDING! THEY'RE STANDING ON THE WATER!" the vigil shouted to be heard through the storm.
Among several exclamations of "What the heck?" or others, everyone went to the bow of the ship to see who it was.
And right there, as the vigil said, someone was standing on the water. The crews of the ships quickly pointed lights at him to reveal who he was.
It was a bearded man in a blue full body swimsuit possessing a golden necklace with an anchor and a short ragged black cape connected to a gold chain around his waist. He also had a light blue bandanna with a familiar emblem: a white skull-and-crossbone in the shape of a "A".
The man was just standing there, feet in the water, arms crossed and with a confident smirk despite being alone against all of them.
"IT'S ARCHIE!!!" someone shouted from the Team Magma ship.
Team Aqua's submarine then emerged before one of the grunts came out. "WATCH OUT! HE'S ON-"
He didn't have time to finish however as whatever Archie was standing on emerged too, revealing itself to be some kind of deep blue whale or giant orca-like Pokémon with two huge fins that ended in square-shaped claws. It had a white chin area as well as white stripes on its belly near the tail, white spots above its eyes, and white extremities on its fins. Its body was partially translucent with a bio-luminescent golden light emitting from inside. It also had circular marks both on its fins and on its forehead, as well as lines that were generally blue excepted the ones on its black that were translucent. finally, it had a tattered tail that separated into four trails, each with a line in the middle glowing like the rest of the body.
Not only was it HUGE, but it also possessed razor-sharp teeth that it showed very clearly.
And Archie was standing on its back, his smirk growing.
"As I thought..." Red muttered. "Kyogre. In its Primal form. That's bad. We're in its element."
"Wh-What can we do?" Twilight asked as the ponies looked worriedly at the legendary Pokémon that could destroy the world by flooding it if it wanted. And this time, Sweetie Belle wasn't present to deal with it like she dealt with Groudon.
Red smiled reassuringly at her. "Don't worry, we have it."
"Eheheheh. I'm afraid that I can't let you go any further, my friends," Archie then said before he eyed Team Magma's ship and Team Aqua's submarine. "Team Aqua and Team Magma working together. And Team Aqua isn't even trying to expand the seas. What kind of crazy dimension am I in? Bah, it doesn't matter. No matter who you are, if you are opposing Team Rainbow Rocket, then you are my enemies. Team Rainbow Rocket promised me to help me spread my ideals to as many world as I want, to free as many of them from human civilization as possible. How could I have refused? Even if it means that I have to work with that idiot Maxie," he said the last part with visible annoyance. "So. I'm sorry, but it's time for you to disappear in the depths of the ocean. Kyogre! Use Surf!"
With a terrible sound similar to the one of a whale that the ponies understood as "Yes, Master!" Kyogre answered before he created a giant wave that he rid on, the wave advancing toward the ships.
The majority of the people on the ships began to panic. But in the middle of it, both Red and Ruby threw a ball, calling out Articuno and the legendary titan ice golem known as Regice. Immediately knowing what to do, they fired their most powerful Ice Beam at the wave, causing ice to spread from the impact points. In just a few seconds, the wave was frozen, and it didn't stop as the ice spread all over the ocean, around the boats, around the island, and until reaching the horizon.
"Holy Arceus!" a trainer shouted.
"Legendaries are scary!" another shouted.
Kyogre had no problem freeing itself from the ice, with Archie on its back visibly trying to control his temper.
"So you want to do it the old way, uh?" he asked.
Ruby, grinning, sent out another Pokémon: Primal Groudon. As it appeared, it made a small island rise out of the water to land on it. Then, seeing Kyogre, its eternal rival, it roared at it, which Kyogre answered.
With Groudon's appearance, the weather began to alternate between storm and intense sun.
"You can say that," Ruby then said. "We didn't really finish our battle in Hoenn, so how about we settle it?"
Archie wasn't as certain of his chances now. But then he saw Maxie being Teleported on the ice not far at his right.
"So much for not needing help," Maxie said before he called his own Primal Groudon who also created a small island to land on.
"I had the situation well in hand!" Archie shouted at him.
"Really?" Maxie asked with a raised eyebrow. "I always knew you had a poor judgment, but I didn't think it was that poor."
"We're in the middle of the freaking ocean! Kyogre's domain! There's no way I would have lost even if they outnumbered me!"
The Maxie who was a friend was looking at the two arguing from the bow of his ship and rubbed his face with a sigh. "I can't believe we were that bad."
"We still are!" friendly Archie shouted from his submarine with a chuckle, much to Maxie's annoyance.
Meanwhile, Red, Gold, and Ruby exchanged smirks before they sent out more of their Pokémon. Thus, Red sent out the two other Legendary Bird, Gold sent out Lugia, Ho-Oh, as well as the three Legendary Beasts, and Ruby sent out Regirock, Registeel, the red humanoid alien Pokémon known as Deoxys, and the green, giant, flying, serpentine Pokémon known as Rayquaza, which Ruby then proceeded to Mega Evolve before jumping on its back.
This caused Archie and Maxie to stop arguing, the two now rethinking their choices. Even their Kyogre and Groudon didn't feel as certain as before, especially when they looked at Rayquaza.
"How can they have so many freaking Legendaries?" Archies asked.
Maxie didn't have any answer to give.
Ruby laughed at their faces. "You should have called your friends! And be lucky that Dawn isn't here!"
"You aren't calling Mewtwo?" Blue asked to Red.
Red answered with a shake of his head. "I'm keeping him for later just in case."
Meanwhile, Gold also jumped, getting on Ho-Oh's back before he looked at the ships. "Lugia, levitate the ships to the island."
"Deoxys, help Lugia," Ruby instructed to his Pokémon.
The two Pokémon did so, levitating the ships out of the ice and toward the island with their psychic powers.
"I leave it to you," Red said to the birds as Kanto's ship passed beside them, and the birds nodded.
Archie and Maxie didn't attempt to stop them. They knew it was no use as they stared at the small army of Legendaries that faced them.
"Get ready everyone!" Blue shouted. "I have the feeling that these two were just the first line of defense!"
At his words, many trainers grabbed a Poké Ball, readying themselves to call their Pokémon as the ships slowly lowered toward the beach of the island.
I'm cutting the chapter here. It was starting to take too long and, well, did I say how much the Pokémon Universe is difficult to write? Especially the battles? Well, as you can guess, the next chapter is my hell... 
I already started it, but I want to bang my head against a wall.
*Funny story. Team Magma stole the submarine, and Archie found it intolerable that Team Magma got to have a submarine while Team Aqua was supposed to be the sailors. So Archie decided after the events of the game to build his own submarine (while Team Magma gave the submarine they stole back).
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Now that I think of it,isn’t the fact that there are differences in time Between dimensions going to mess with everyone’s Age?
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Of course. It's already happening. Sweetie Belle has gained at least one month on her friends since she began her adventures. And let's not forget that Apple Bloom (Spirit of Death) herself, eventually joined by her friends and Twilight, spent several months in the Mushroom Kingdom back when Discord hadn't yet changed the time-flow and only a few days had passed in Equestria.
Too bad they don't have some dimensional phone to call Sweetie Belle. Maybe next time.
I just have the image of Sweetie Belle in the middle of the fight against Crakkthulx when suddenly the phone began to sound.
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Dimensional phones, they will have to wait for Tails to develop more of them (the same phones he used in Sonic Generations during the fight against the Time Eater).
But yeah, it would have been funny if this happened. However, there's the time difference to take into account. Considering that one day in the Mushroom World equals to one day in Equestria, and that one day in Equestria equals to a bit less than five days in the Pokémon World, then Sweetie's words would have come out of the phone so fast that they would have been impossible to understand. Inversely, the words of the ponies in the Pokémon World would have come out of the phone very slowly. Like, a sentence of only a few seconds would last a few minutes. So unless something is done about that, dimensional phones wouldn't be really useful between dimensions with a time difference too big.
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Huh,wonder how Pinkie Will dealt with that on everyone’s Birthdays.
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She will have to do some serious maths.
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D'uh, the answer is simple... The simple answer of "It's Magic" or "Discord did it"
Magic phones is the answer for why they could comunícate without any time problem, and how they do it? It's magic
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It isn't even the magic bit that would matter because phones actually transmit electrical signals, not sound. The guy on the slow end will have to deal with longer pauses but... wait a minute, they could just text each other and remove the issue. I'm dumb.
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Uh. I hadn't thought of texting.
Don't feel too bad; that cutoff is because I thought of it at roughly that point in typing the comment and decided to leave in the part I'd already made.
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It worked with The Simpsons, with the "A wizard did it" so why could it not work for Sweetie? Also, I imagine it could be a little hard for hoofs to send a sms or whatsapp, I think it should be better something like voice recordings, they record the message and send it to each other.