Chapter 89: Ghetsis
Magolor, at the head of his little group that had been resting on the beach and that was quickly growing, being joined by others that were around and that saw or heard the Rockets warp in, faced the small army of Rocket grunts led by Ghetsis without showing any fear despite the rockets outnumbering the beings present on the island. Counting Magolor's kin and the humans but not the Pokémon, they were a good total of over sixty. The Rockets, however, visibly numbered well over two hundreds, and Magolor had the feeling that many of these grunts were the elite ones with very well-trained teams of Pokémon that could go toe to toe with the best teams from Gym Leaders.
This was an assault group sent here to absolutely crush any resistance encountered and either take over or destroy the complex and the portal.
Ghetsis walked to be at the front of the grunts and to face Magolor, looking down at him with amusement. "So you are the aliens. I'm disappointed. I expected you to look more impressive and threatening. You are nothing more than floating eggs."
"Hey! You know what he says the floating egg?!" one of Magolor's group shouts angrily as he raises a hand only to be stopped by Magolor placing his hand between him and Ghetsis.
Then, giving his best impression of a host, Magolor calmly said, "Before we give you the welcome esteemed guests such as you deserve, can I ask why you are here?"
Ghetsis smirked. "We simply got interested in this portal you built and wanted to have a closer look at it. Study it. Add its technology to what we already have. And just so you know, we won't take "no" for an answer."
"Oh, don't worry. I don't intend to say "no". I will just say that you are making a terrible mistake and that you should leave while you still have the occasion. I don't expect you to listen but at least people won't say I didn't try to be nice. And you never know, you may be one of the very rare smart ones. But I seriously doubt."
Ghetsis chuckled. "You talk a lot. Enough losing time."
At this, Ghetsis signed with a little movement of his head to his men to start the attack. The next instant, they began to spread out, forcing Magolor's group to spread too to intercept them and stop them from reaching the complex. The humans in the two sides then sent out their Pokémon, and even some of Magolor's friends sent a few that they captured while they were building the portal. However, like with the grunts, the Pokémon in the Rockets' side greatly outnumbered the Pokémon in Magolor's side despite many of the trainers having brought more than six Pokémon now that the League had removed the restriction.
And to make it worse for Magolor's group, the Rockets' Pokémon were clearly better trained than most Pokémon in Magolor's side, a good tenth of them were Ultra Beasts, and about one fifth of them were Shadow Pokémon including the totality of said Ultra Beasts.
Seeing Shadow Ultra Beasts scared many trainers in Magolor's side, not prepared at all to face such monsters.
The Rockets really had all the advantages. There was no doubt they would win and take over the complex, probably turning it into some outpost for them.
That would have been the case if they had been facing only trainers.
But they were also facing Magolor and others descendants of the Ancients, all more or less great mages.
Especially Magolor as he quickly proved by teleporting among the grunts and their Pokémon before opening a black hole that sucked in many of them, taking them off guard. But many Pokémon quickly reacted and successfully escaped the pull of the hole by running or flying away, and the bigger and heavier Pokémon weren't much affected by it so they didn't have to do anything. After a few seconds, everyone that was trapped inside the hole was violently thrown out, either colliding with other grunts or Pokémon or crashing into the sand of the beach or into the ocean, heavily injured. All the grunts victim of it were either knocked out or too hurt to get up. However, that wasn't the case for most of the Pokémon, especially the Ultra Beasts.
However, the Shadow Pokémon of the grunts that were out immediately started to go on a rampage, attacking both friends and foes. This started the hostilities, the grunts ordering to attack the defenders and the rampaging Shadow Pokémon, the defenders doing the same, and the rampaging Shadow Pokémon attacking everything that moved, even other Shadow Pokémon.
Needless to say that it was chaos, but as everyone thought, the Rockets quickly took advantage over the defender trainers. Magolor and his mages, however, quickly proved to be superior as they could send various elemental projectiles, create shields, teleport, and heal for the few that knew how to use healing magic. And Magolor, who had a great mastery of the Dark Matter Energy also known as the Void Energy, quickly showed that he definitively not harmless.
Well, after the black hole he created, the grunts had already understood that they had underestimated the aliens, but he made it even more clear as he caused spikes of dark energy to sprout out of small portal-things in the ground right under half a dozen Pokémon, choosing ones that were weak to Dark-type moves. Then he used an Ultra Sword (that he believed was counted as a Steel-type move) to slash at a good number of Pokémon that had surrounded him before he teleported away, causing the Pokémon to hit each others when they attacked back at him. Magolor read about the types so he knew that he had to choose carefully which attack to use depending of which Pokémon he was facing. He didn't know the types of all the Pokémon he was facing but most of them were obvious.
A bird? Flying-type. A fish? Water-type. Something that looked more or less like a bug? Bug-type. A Pokémon that looked like a boxer, a wrestler, or a user of some martial art? Fighting-type.
After, secondary types were less obvious most of the time, which caused problem... And there were Pokémon like the Ralts evolution line where he was less sure of their types. He was certain that the Gallade had the Fighting-type, and Gardevoir looked like the kind to be a Fairy-type, but these Pokémon used a lot of Psychic-type moves so he wondered if they were actually Psychic-type Pokémon despite not looking at all like they were Psychic-types.
The Shadow Pokémon generally being dark purple and light grey/white made it even less obvious for many of them. If he didn't already know that Ampharos were Electric-types, he wouldn't have known just looking at it. Usually, the yellow color of Ampharos was a clear indication (generally, when a Pokémon was yellow, they were Electric-type) but, as a Shadow Pokémon, it didn't have that color anymore and there was nothing else indicating that it was an Electric-type contrary to, like, a Pikachu with its lightning bolt-like tail.
So, after a moment, and especially after taking a lightning bolt on the back followed by some Shadow move he couldn't identify, he went "screw it!" and began to attack with everything he had without caring. He rained dark orbs on the Pokémon AND their masters before he teleported high in the sky and, by the time the enemies spotted him, was able to fire one of his giant laser beams down at them. When the beam hit the ground, it caused a huge explosion that propelled many Pokémon and grunts in all directions. It wasn't as powerful as when he had the Master Crown so the explosion wasn't that big, but it still did its job in clearing a small part of the beach of enemy presence.
All kinds of Pokémon that could fly, however, immediately went after him and he quickly disappeared before they could start peck or scratch or do whatever else to him from all sides. He then reappeared where most of them had gathered and opened another black hole. But after the first time, the surprise wasn't here anymore and many of the Pokémon avoided being sucked in. Still, it forced them to disperse, allowing Magolor to take them down one by one for a time until they reorganized themselves.
Many Pokémon then began to fire at him from the ground and he was almost hit by a stream of fire before he teleported away, back to the beach. He appeared right above a Shadow Tyranitar where he charged a huge dark orb before he smashed it on the Pokémon's skull in a small explosion. It didn't do much to it however as it just stumbled forward a bit before it recovered. Seeing this, Magolor quickly materialized his Ultra Sword again before the Tyranitar could turn around to attack him and slashed its back, making it roar in pain. He then quickly teleported before the Pokémon and slashed again, this time at its belly, and the Shadow Tyranitar fell unconscious.
Before Magolor could enjoy his victory however, he was rammed from the side by a Buzzwole, one of the Ultra Beasts that looked like a giant buffed mosquito. It was a Shadow Pokémon so most of its form was a dark purple with some white parts here and there, but the sacs full of fluid that looked like its muscles were still red. As soon as Magolor recovered, he turned to face the Ultra Beast and attacked it with waves of sharpened wind that counted as a Flying-type move before he was tackled from the side by a Shadow Guzzlord, another Ultra Beast that was a huge obese looking beast that actually had two heads, a small one on top that looked like the head of a stereotypical dark lord while the second was its huge spherical belly which had a very, very big mouth with lot of sharp teeth and no less than three tongues including two long ones with pincers at the extremity. One of the most dangerous known Ultra Beasts because it made Kirby pass for a light eater. Seriously, from what Magolor read about it, it could eat mountains!
Dark and Dragon types... What was it weak to again? Right, it was especially weak to Fairy-type moves, but Magolor wasn't sure if he had anything in his repertory that could count as one. Instead, he used a smaller version of the Grand Hammer that he used while controlled by the Master Crown, so he hit the Guzzlord with a huge hammer that spread ice from the impact point, something that could probably count as both a Fighting-type and an Ice-type move which the Guzzlord was also weak to, but less than Fairy-type moves. This sent the Guzzlord on its back, terribly hurt, but it got up ready to continue the fight.
And then, the grunt possessing it called it back and used one of these Dynamax Capsule on it before sending it out of the now bigger Poké Ball, the Guzzlord now being the size of a building. A few other grunts repeated his example and Dynamaxed one of their Pokémon, most of said Pokémon being Shadow ones.
Wrong moves, Magolor immediately went after these grunts and started to knock them out, causing the Dynamaxed Shadow Pokémon to start a rampage and to attack each others and anything else that moved. Their attacks were apocalyptic and caused huge damage in large areas, greatly reducing the number of enemies.
However, Magolor remarked then that almost all his allies were out. Thankfully, one of them had used a phone to warn the League so reinforcements were starting to come, starting with people using Teleport to appear directly on the island. No doubt that dozens of other trainers were currently coming on the back of Pokémon that could fly or swim.
It was just a matter of holding on until they arrived.
But Magolor was worried, and not just because of the Dynamaxed Shadow Pokémon. Ghetsis hadn't intervened yet. He had remained out of the way of the battle, simply watching the chaos. Magolor had no doubt that he possessed a very powerful team that will certainly include at least one Legendary, probably from Unova. So, either Reshiram, Zekrom, or Kyurem, or maybe two of them or even the three of them. And there was the possibility that he merged either Reshiram or Zekrom to Kyurem to become the powerful White Kyurem or Black Kyurem.
In any case, the moment Ghetsis would decide to intervene and to sent his Legendary certainly turned into a Shadow Pokémon, things will go very wrong. No doubt about this. Especially if Ghetsis Dynamaxed it. This island could get the same fate than the one with the Rockets' hideout.
So Magolor went to do the smart thing: he teleported out of view of everyone to not be interrupted as he charged another laser to fire directly at Ghetsis, hoping to get rid of him before he could send his Legendary. And hopefully, this would convince the grunts to give up. However, one of the grunts spot him and immediately orders his Shadow Stakataka that he just Dynamaxed to protect Ghetsis and, with just a jump, the Stakataka reached the Rocket leader, its body above him and its four legs around him. The Stakataka being a massive Rock/Steel Ultra Beast that looked like a walking tower made of stone bricks (the stone bricks actually being stone lifeforms stacked together), its Dynamaxed form had no problem resisting to the beam which was considered as a Normal-type move which wasn't at all effective to it.
Magolor let out a curse but quickly went for a different plan, attempting to skewer Ghetsis with one of his dark spikes. However, Ghetsis was now on his guard and saw the portal-thing out of which the dark spikes come under him before he avoided it with a plunge. Magolor had to avoid massive boulders hurled at him by the Stakataka* before he continued to attempt to hit Ghetsis with his spikes, but Ghetsis then took out one of his Master Balls and sent a Shadow Cofagrigus, a sarcophagus-like Pokémon with four ebony hands made of shadows coming out of it. Ghetsis then immediately ordered the Pokémon to use Shadow Ball (the Ghost-type version) on Magolor, but the mage had no problem avoiding the attack by floating aside only to be hit by a boulder from the Stakataka.
Recovering from this, Magolor got the idea of teleporting right under the Stakataka to battle directly Ghetsis. There was no way the Stakataka would dare to try anything to him like crushing him under its body with Ghetsis here.
He had to hurry, the defenders were being utterly slaughtered by the Dynamaxed Shadow Pokémon despite the reinforcements.
Ghetsis looked very angry that Magolor had dared to target him. "You are proving to be more annoying than initially expected. But your end is coming. Cofagrigus, use Shadow Wave!"
The Cofagrigus sent shadowy waves that went toward Magolor who put one of his star-shaped shields to defend himself before he attacked with several of his dark orbs. They all hit and were super effective to the Cofagrigus. Before Ghetsis could order something else, Magolor then hit the Cofagrigus with a dark spike that sent it on the ground before he teleported right above it and sent more dark orbs at it until it was knocked out.
Making an annoyed sound, Ghetsis called back the Cofagrigus and sent a Bouffalant, a large bovine-like Pokémon with an affro. "Shadow Rush!"
Exuding a shadowy aura, the Bouffalant charged horns first at Magolor. Instead of moving out of the way, Magolor materialized his Grand Hammer again and smashed it on the Pokémon's head, crushing it against the sand of the beach and freezing it a bit with the hammer's ice. Magolor thought that that was it but then, the Bouffalant's eyes opened and, without even waiting for an order from Ghetsis, covered its horns in a shadowy aura before it attempted to skewer Magolor with them. Magolor barely avoided it but the Bouffalant then moved its head to the side so one of its horn hit the mage like a blunt weapon. Magolor was still able to grab the horn with one of his hands to avoid being sent flying before he placed his other hand before the Pokémon's head and sent fireballs at point blank one after another. The fireballs exploded on the Bouffalant's head again and again and again, each explosion making it step back with a bellow of pain. Magolor only stopped when it fell and stopped moving.
But Magolor then got hit by a bolt of dark electricity. to his surprise, Ghetsis already sent his next Pokémon, an Eelektross, a levitating eel-like Pokémon with clawed, paddle-like arms. Since it was levitating, then any Ground-type move, the only weakness of Electric-types, were totally ineffective to it. Magolor will have to play it violent to knock it out, but he was starting to feel weak after all the hits he took. Shadow Moves really hurt.
But Magolor continued to fight, sending dozens of his dark orbs at the Shadow Pokémon while avoiding another Shadow Bolt.
The Dynamaxed Stakataka was still above them. It looked like its master decided to leave it here, probably to ensure that nobody would mess with their leader's battle.
But then, something came from the sky and slammed violently into the Stakataka, sending it flying far into the ocean to everyone's shock, stopping all battles excepted the few Shadow Pokémon still rampaging because their masters were knocked out. The culprit then landed beside Magolor, revealing herself to be Sweetie Belle.
"I knew that I felt Void energy being used and immediately knew that it was you."
Magolor was very surprised to see her. "Sweetie Belle? You are back?"
"Yep! I was about to send Apple Bloom and Scootaloo back to Equestria when I saw the news. I immediately went to help. I didn't know the exact location of the island so I had to search a bit before I felt all the energies being used here."
"Well, your help is more than welcome."
"I saw that. Rainbow Rocket really upped its game since last time. But now-" Sweetie Belle was suddenly hit by a Shadow Bolt from the Eelektross, interrupting her. She didn't let out a scream like one would expect but Magolor could see everything in her tighten in resistance to the pain. When the electricity disappeared, she breathed out loudly, smoke coming out of her nostrils, before she glared at Ghetsis and the Eelektross. "Do you mind?!"
Ghetsis was impressed at her resistance to a Shadow Move but quickly hid this behind a smirk. "You seem strong, little one, but don't think that-"
A huge laser suddenly engulfed his Eelektross and passed right beside Ghetsis, interrupting him. The laser continued behind him, engulfing more Pokémon and some unlucky grunts before going above the ocean and disappearing beyond the horizon.
Black husks barely alive were all that were left of its victims.
Part of Ghetsis' cloak was scorched just by the laser grazing it. His eyes slowly moved, terrified, at where the laser had been, then at the scorched part of his cloak, sweating. He looked back at Sweetie Belle who looked smugly at him. Clenching his teeth, not even calling back his Eelektross (or the Bouffalant which was still out too), he then grabbed two Master Balls and sent a Shadow Bisharp - some humanoid Pokémon that looked like a soldier with an armor with blades on its helmet-like head, around its torso, and on its metal glove-like hands - and a Shadow Hydreigon - a three-headed draconic Pokémon with six thin wings, the middle head being bigger than the others -.
Before he could even open his mouth to give them orders, Sweetie Belle suddenly appeared right between the two Pokémon and extended her forelegs, turned into big claws, to grab them before repeatedly smashing them into each other before she released them. The Bisharp was already out, but the Hydreigon was slowly getting up. Sweetie Belle stopped it by giving the middle head a powerful iron hammer kick on its skull, burying the head into the sand. The two other heads slumping onto the sand eyes closed indicated that, this time, it was out too.
Ghetsis was now growling in rage as he grabbed his last Master Ball, again not bothering to call back his Pokémon. He then broke open a Dynamax Capsule, Dynamaxing the ball and the Pokémon inside.
"Masuryu! Turn them into dust!" he shouted before he threw the ball.
What came out of it was a HUGE (normal since it was Dynamaxed) oriental dragon of the same dark purple than other Shadow Pokémon in addition of a white-grey underbelly. It looked very old, had a very long white beard, and had very long white hair that floated despite the absence of wind, not unlike Celestia and Luna's mane, reminding of these stereotypical old martial art masters. The dragon was so big that its body was at least one hundred meters in length so it curled in the sky like a snake.
Everyone was impressed and scared by the huge dragon, excepted Sweetie Belle who was thoughtful.
"Masuryu? I don't think I saw anything about it in the books or the Pokédex."
Ghetsis couldn't believe that the filly wasn't even reacting to the Legendary the way he thought she should. "You wouldn't. Masuryu is the legendary Original Dragon from Unova. The very one that separated itself into Reshiram, Zekrom, and Kyurem a long time ago. All informations about it were lost excepted some mentions in legends."
"Ooh! This explains it. So you reformed it? Not bad."
Everyone, both defenders and Rocket grunts, quickly moved away from the direct area around Sweetie Belle and Masuryu. The defenders made sure to move the ones who were unconscious, even the grunts and their Pokémon, even the Shadow ones, when they could. Some of the grunts actually followed their example and moved their comrades.
Only Magolor remained beside Sweetie Belle but he was slowly floating backward as he said, "Have fun!"
Sweetie Belle nodded at him, grinning, before she flew up to face the dragon. She then surrounded herself in Dynamax Energy and grew until she was the size of a building like all other Dynamaxed Pokémon, to everyone's shock, again.
She waited for Ghetsis to give an order but the man remained silent. So she pointed her horn at Masuryu and fired a giant purple beam. To her surprise, however, Masuryu easily avoided it and readied one of its claws surrounded with a shadowy aura as Ghetsis finally yelled, "G-Max Shadow Pressure Hailstorm!"
Before Sweetie Belle could react, she was hit a first time by a claw, then a second time a split of a second later, then a third time, and before she knew it, she was hit all over her body by what looked like a dozen claws. When the attack ended, she collapsed on the beach in insufferable pain and her body refused to move, totally paralysed, and she couldn't even breathe. Even her magic was disabled.
Thankfully, she had other things than magic so she easily healed herself and made it so she could move again, allowing herself to get up.
This really annoyed Ghetsis who yelled again, "G-Max Shadow Pressure Hailstorm!"
So Masuryu repeated his attack. This time, however, Sweetie Belle was prepared and was able to parry and block every single strikes, making Ghetsis stare in disbelief before he growled and repeated, "G-Max Shadow Pressure Hailstorm again! Don't stop!"
Masuryu obeyed and continued his strikes that were continuously countered. Ghetsis yelled the move again and again, more and more frantically until, "Max Wyrmwind!"
This came so out of nowhere that Sweetie Belle was almost hit by it but she flew backward just in time as a pair of giant draconic wings came out of the ground and spun, creating a powerful tornado where she had been one second earlier.
"Max Shadow Breath!"
Masuryu fired a huge blast of shadow breath at Sweetie Belle who fired back a beam that immediately overpowered it and hit the dragon, causing a huge explosion that sent Ghetsis flying. Both him and Masuryu got up, hurt but ready to continue.
Enraged, Ghetsis revealed a bracelet with a certain black crystal before he moved like Giovanni did on the hideout island. An aura appeared around him and Masuryu before he yelled, "Z-Max Shadow Core Breaker!"
Sweetie Belle didn't like how it sounded, especially when Masuryu readied its whole fist, not just a claw. Then, in a blink of an eye, Masuryu approached her and struck, only for Sweetie Belle to teleport at the last microsecond. She then reappeared lining against Masuryu, smiling smugly at it.
"Miss."
She was joking, but deep down, she was sweating. She felt that this attack had been targeting her spiritual core, the very essence of her being. If it had hit, she wasn't sure if it would have killed her, but she would have definitively felt it. It would have damaged her soul, probably causing her to become instable or something like that, and she wasn't sure how long it would have taken for it to heal.
Yep, an attack to avoid at all costs. It could very well spell Game Over for her.
Without giving time for Masuryu and Ghetsis to react, she then punched the dragon right where she determined was its diaphragm, cutting its breath as it doubled over in pain.
"Once we turn you back to normal and free you from your jerk master, I would like you to teach me how to hit pressure points like you did. I already know some martial art, as you can see. I had a good teacher."
"What are you waiting for?!" Ghetsis yelled. "Attack! Do something! Kill her!"
Masuryu went to attack with one of its claws again, but Sweetie Belle avoided it by flying down before she grabbed the dragon by its very long beard.
"So much facial hair! It just asks me to do THIS!"
She tugged on the beard, bringing Masuryu's head to her.
"Try to dodge THIS!"
She punched it on the muzzle, propelling the dragon away. However, she kept a grip on the beard and tugged again. She punched it, tugged, punched it, and repeated this a few more times before she spun it around and threw it into the sky.
So, if Sweetie Belle guessed right, Masuryu seemed to be a double types Dragon/Fighting. A quick reminder of what were weak and what were strong against Dragon-type and Fighting-type and she concluded that Masuryu had a double weakness to Fairy-type and was also weak, but less, to Ice, Flying, Psychic, and Dragon.
Well then...
Sweetie Belle teleported on Masuryu's path and stopped it with a punch covered in ice on the face before she used a Max version of Fleur Cannon at point blank. Masuryu quickly recovered and used its G-Max Shadow Pressure Hailstorm without Ghetsis ordering it (being too far below to be heard now). Again, Sweetie Belle countered all the stabs only for one of them to pass through her defense and to hit her on the heart, causing a heart attack. Sweetie Belle immediately restarted it but the distraction allowed Masuryu to hit her more times before he fired a Max Shadow Breath, also at point blank. But before Sweetie Belle could be propelled too far away by the attack, Masuryu wrapped her with its serpentine body and began to squeeze hard, threatening to break her backbone.
But Sweetie Belle teleported and appeared right above Masuryu before she turned one of her hooves into a giant claw and grabbed the dragon's head. She then flew down toward the ocean and used her powers to turn where they were about to crash into ice. So she slammed Masuryu's head against the ice before she dragged it violently on it following a trail she was creating. At the same time, she was attacking it with beams filled with love and other positive feelings that could count as a Fairy-type move. But after several seconds of this, Masuryu was able to hit the back of her claw with one of its own claws, apparently touching another pressure point that forced her to release it. Immediately, it flew away from her to gain some space, returning above the island, before it fired another Max Shadow Breath. But like the first time, Sweetie Belle countered it with a beam of her own that overpowered it and exploded on the dragon.
This time, Masuryu fell on the island, out, to Ghetsis' visible horror as he watched it return to its normal appearance.
It was revealed that, when it wasn't in its Dynamax, or Gigantamax form, Masuryu looked like an eastern dragon like most other dragon Pokémon or the ones back on Equus. It was however smaller than other Dragon-type Legendaries and, like in its Gigantamax form, looked very old, keeping its beard and its hair. It also looked very frail and decrepit. A very misleading appearance as its fight against Sweetie Belle reminded. This old dragon was dangerous, especially as a Shadow Pokémon.
Sweetie Belle, back to her normal size, landed before it and looked at it thoughtfully.
"Now, how to free its heart...?"
She began to more her horn to it faced its heart only for Ghetsis to jump at her in rage, dagger in hand.
"I won't allow you!!!"
Sweetie Belle easily deflected the dagger and sent it flying out of his hand before she grabbed him on the neck with her magic. She then levitated him a few centimeters above the ground as he struggled.
"Let me go you little...!"
"You are in no position to order me around," Sweetie calmly said.
Ghetsis glared at her, and then at the grunts that were still up and just looking in fear. "Why are you doing nothing?! Come and help me!"
In turn, Sweetie Belle glared at them too, daring them to try anything. And none of the grunts were up to the challenge. Sweetie Belle also spotted some Gym Leaders, Elite Four members, and even Victor with his Eternatus - a giant Pokémon that vaguely looked like the skeleton of a dragon but was dark-violet-colored with red highlights - out. Probably he rode on it to reach the island. Looking around, she saw more and more trainers approaching the island from the air or the ocean to help against the Rockets, including Gold on his Lugia. Many others were still appearing with Pokémon using Teleport. With Ghetsis and his Masuryu out of the game and with them witnessing her power, the grunts knew that it was no use fighting anymore even if they could still battle all these trainers. It seemed that they still had many Dynamax Capsules as well as healing items such as Potions and Revives so they really could continue the fight.
Speaking of, she put Ghetsis upside down and shook him violently, making him drop all the objects he had excepted his Master Balls which were firmly clasped on his belt under his cloak before she grabbed the objects that fell in her magic and levitated them away. She won't give him the occasion to heal Masuryu.
"Damn you!" Ghetsis growled as his cloak covered his face.
"That was very impressive," Victor finally said as he approached Sweetie Belle. "So you are Sweetie Belle?"
"Yes, that's me. Is everyone alright?"
"Nothing that some Potions and some rest won't heal," Victor reassured.
But then, Sweetie Belle felt something from the sky and looked up to see a Dynamaxed Shadow Mewtwo now present, paw raised and creating a huge ball of shadows that was growing more and more. This gained everyone's attention, and the trainers immediately recognized what was going on.
"That's Giovanni's Shadow Mewtwo! And it's using its Z-Max Shadownova! It will destroy the island!" Victor shouted in panic.
Sweetie Belle groaned. "Oh, come oooon..."
She then dropped Ghetsis and flew toward the Dynamaxed Shadow Mewtwo to stop it. Immediately, Ghetsis got up and called back all his Pokémon before he warped away without even bringing the grunts with him. However, more warping followed as the grunts were called back to wherever their HQ was. But many left their Pokémon behind, having not gotten time to call them back.
Many let out a curse at the Rockets escaping again.
The Mewtwo then threw its Shadownova at the island before Teleporting away, and Sweetie quickly called her ten cannons before she fired an Ultimate Doom Laser at the giant ball. Her laser made the ball explode, saving the island, but this still caused dark clouds to cover the sky to pour the hurtful dark rain and Sweetie had to destroy them too.
Once she was done, she returned to the island only to look upset when she saw that the Rockets escaped. And already, the leftover energy of the warps was gone so she couldn't follow it to wherever their HQ was.
"Stupid Giovanni doing diversion with his stupid Mewtwo..." she grumbled. She started to wonder if she should do like Phantom and if she should have just twisted Ghetsis' neck.
At least, many Pokémon were left behind by the Rockets, and Sweetie got her hooves on several Dynamax Capsules for the eggheads to study. If they could reproduce them, then the trainers could fight fire with fire, and the only advantage the Rockets would still have would be the Shadow Pokémon.
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That was amazing
I love your take on the original dragon
Maybe next time she should try to knock out one of them or use some mind reading spell... Too bad Harry Potter is not part of Smash for Sweetie to learn Legilimens
11232504
Even if she reads the location of the HQ from one of them, remember that the HQ is a fortress constantly moving. By the time she would move to the location she found out, the fortress would already be elsewhere. This is why Elio hasn't yet found it even after Palkia showed the location where the Rockets warped from after the assault on the hideout.
And knocking them out wouldn't work. The guys at the HQ would still be able to warp them back. They would need to find the devices I spoke about in the Author's notes, but nobody outside of the Rockets has any idea of their existence.
Masuryu...so a fusion of "master", "Unova" and "ryu" for dragon?
Also...
"Ghetsis used child murder! It didn't affect Sweetie Belle..."
11232516
Not Unova. Like I said in the Author's Notes, "Masu" comes from masutā (マスター Master). That's what I found when I went to a English-Japanese dictionary.
11232533
Either way, you did good.
11232513
True, but if she could read mind she could know "Where" to search... one thing is to know "The base is moving around X city" and other many things is "The base is in X city and five minutes ago was in Y position" and who knows how much the Rainbow Rocket grunt could know if Sweetie read their mind, for example the existence of these devices.
11232597
That's true. She still needs to get the idea.
Attack, Defense, and their Special counterparts are multiplicative. Pressure Strike, as described, would attempt to divide by zero.
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I don't understand what you mean.
In Pokemon, damage is multiplied by your offensive stat, divided by the target's defensive stat, and a bunch of other stuff that's less relevant to this discussion. If you tried to "ignore defense" at the sorts of levels Masuryu should be, it would end up doing hundreds of times the normal attack damage, Much like the core-attack, that is ludicrously more powerful than you were intending.
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Darn. I didn't know that. So what would be the correct description to give to Pressure Strike? I really see it as a move that is not affected by defense. After all, you can't defend against something that targets the very weakness of your body beside blocking and dodging.
The closest I can think of that works within the game mechanics is stuff like Seismic Toss or Super Fang where they don't use the normal damage formula at all. I honestly don't know how you'd make it do enough damage to function as a primary attack
without being brokenoh yeah, we don't have to care about that because we're talking about the Original Dragon.11232680
Aah! Thanks! I think that I see how this would work.
Pressure Strike: Inflicts damage equal to the user's Attack multiplied by 2 without taking into account the victim's Defense.
What do you think? Does it work better?
Remember that the Original Dragon has the same base stat total as Arceus; that's going to one-shot virtually anything when it's an actual Masuryu using it, and I'm only willing to entertain the idea because it probably should be overpowered.
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Where is it said that the Original Dragon as the same base stat total than Arceus? If that's the case then I can simply reply that Masuryu doesn't have much Attack, Defense, Speed, and HP for a Legendary, but has a HUGE amount of Spe Attack and Spe Defense. You know, because of the Chi/Ki/whatever it's spelled.
Normal Kyurem has 660, Reshiram and Zekrom have 680, fused Kyurem has 700, and guess who has 720?
The lowest base stat of anything with Zekrom/Reshiram's base stat total is Unbound Hoopa's 60 Defense. Even an attack that low means that Pressure Strike comes close to one-shotting Mew and pals with similar levels of stat investment, and Unbound Hoopa has 3 ridiculously high stats to Masuryu's 2 with a slightly lower total to boot.
Also worth mentioning: you can give it the highest Special stats that the game engine can actually support and still have 210 total points left over for the remaining 4, which you may note ends in an average only slightly lower than the above. That's more Special Defense than Shuckle and with an offensive stat to match.
Masuryu's numbers are just unfairly huge and that's fine because it's the whole point of him. (Remember, click blue words if you're confused by something I said)
I've seen both and "Qi" depending on the source. So has my spellcheck. I've seen "Shii" at least once but spellcheck doesn't like that unless I take one of the "i"s out.
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Wow. Alright. But you forget something that will twist all this around.
All these Legendaries look to be at the peak of their power. They look "young", strong, and so on.
Masuryu, however, is a decrepit old dragon, barely bigger than a Charizard. Like these guys:
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This is the fun part. Masuryu is actually "weaker" than even Reshiram, Zekrom, and Kyurem. It is frail, it looks like a breeze could topple it, and everything. And anyone seeing it for the first time would go "WTF?! That's the Original Dragon?! Are you kidding?!" and would underestimate it. But then, they would discover its nice little signature move and its absurdly high dodge rate and would understand that even the likes of Arceus, Mega Rayquaza or Ultra Necrozma would bow in respect to it.
Thinking about it, once we reach the Fire Emblem arcs things are gonna get wild. Especially since continuity in that series is dodgy at best, and Three Houses in particular seems to be a separate universe from the other games. Actually once you get around to Byleth that's going to get even more complicated, since there's four routes (five with the DLC). Out of curiosity, are you planning to stick to one route or to have five Byleths from multiple universes involved?
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Just one route. And again, I'm thinking of making Sweetie Belle come during the Academy part of the game, before the time ellipse.
Actually, the Dragon Max Move is Max Wyrmwind.
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I can see how her showing up during the lower-stakes pre-time skip section of the game could lend itself to some rich comedy. I feel like there'd be a lot of Sothis trying to figure out what the hell is going on. And also that'd probably lead to the best possible ending since I could see Sweetie trying to maneuver Fódlan through its political turmoil with the fewest possible casualties on all sides.
It would be interesting if pokemon could empower themselves with the Tree of Harmony's power like in "Twilight's Kingdom Part 2" as a means of countering the Shadow Pokemon.
But anyway, that was a scary fight. Especially since Sweetie actually almost died...maybe...
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Thanks. Corrected.
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Exactly! Or the whole academy could be forced to ally to face a common threat coming from outside the universe, like the Subspace Army or Galeem and Dharkon.
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Yeah, it could work, but I have no idea of how they would empower themselves. The Mane 6 only got themselves empowered by opening the Tree's chest.
And yes, for probably the first time in this story, that was a close call. Not even Crakkthulx had been that close. Damaging Sweetie Belle's body is alright, she can survive and regenerate at will as you saw against Bowsertriops. But going after her soul, there it is where it starts to get serious. Not even she knows yet how to target someone's soul, or the fight against Crakkthulx would have been shorter.
And that’s it Folks! For that seed just got Planted and on Sweetie Belle Lies what happens with it.
Seriously tho, this really excites me!As monstrous as Ghetsis is, it is Always in Hero 101 rule #1 that "If it Can be Effectively Be Contained/is not a Completely Corrupt Being, a Hero Shall never Kill a Villain no matter what."(by the way,I made this up.)
And no,no Kirby Villain that was Killed Counts as there WASN’T any way to effectively Contain them/Were Pretty Much Far Too Evil in nature or Too Gone to meet salvation.
and there is a chance that this may or may not lead to a Deeper✨Character Development ✨
And I’m a sucker for that.watch it Out Sweets,You Know what they Say about the abyss and what is the Abyss made of?
Darkness and Void….
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All these adventures are making Sweetie Belle lose her childish naivety. She can still be merciful. But when her... merciful generosity is pushed too hard, she can now become very nasty. It doesn't help that she is getting very frustrated of enemies escaping her by teleporting. And the worst part is that she knew that the Rockets had means to teleport so she knew that she should have done something. But no, she still tried to be the nice filly and did nothing beside playing with him a bit. And now the guy was gone, free to threaten more lives with his Masuryu. It doesn't mean that she will kill him as soon as she encounters him again, especially if she manages to find a way to ensure that he won't escape again, but now the kid's gloves are off. Next encounter with him, if another encounter there is, she will be less nice.
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And that, in his own right, is fine and adds Deep to Sweetie as a Character. Keep up the Good Work Lucar!
knew it. they lost. but damn was it a near close call. Moves that MIGHT actually affect goddess sweetiebelle? a brand new legendary that is the perfect fusion of reshiram, zekrom, and kyurem? interesting surprise.
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I don't know all the moves, but I'm pretty sure that Pressure Strike and its Z and G-Max variants aren't the only moves that could actually wound Sweetie Belle in a deeper level. Probably there are at least some Ghost and Dark moves. But probably nothing as serious as the Z-Max Shadow Core Breaker.
Most Dark moves are mundane dirty fighting. It's been described as 'literally just "ASSHOLE TYPE"' even though stuff like Dark Pulse still exists.
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ah..ok..was kinda wondering how a max revive would work at all in that universe...but also...could they use the local being of time to rewind time in that one spot to teleport her to the future right when the blast hit so she would be a ok?
..also..i said local being of time since i full on forgot his name...was it dialg????
its bin a while since i looked at the name so i dint fully remember
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Dialga could do that, but it doesn't see why it would rewind time just for one human. As a divinity, it only sees the greater picture.
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i mean...there ARE Pokémon moves that can one shot ko other Pokémon...so not a big surprise that there are moves that can REALY harm a goddess of the void
..also..lucar..is there going to be a dynamaxed pokemon using self destruct as a type of nuke in the near future???
..just saying cause that would be awesome to see...specially with how sweetie is going to prevent it from killing people.
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true..but also...there is the fact that she IS there for the challenge of other trainers...
..also..wonder if sweetie is going to ask them or do something for them to rewind time to the specific moment....
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No there will not.
The problem with rewinding time is that it would undo every advancements so far.
Without forgetting that it would remove all the drama and the tension.
So I will stand with what I said. Dialga will not rewind time no matter what just to save a single human. Even asked. Time is something that it is taking very seriously, and playing with it even to save lives is a big nono.
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bbbut...there is ONE loophole i can see...its something like this...
what if they GRAB Cyinthia from RIGHT when the attack's hit her..so she would still technically be erased from existence..
but she would still be brought back once the hole rainbow rocket team has bin taken out.
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Then it would be considered as time travel. And as previously stated, time travel wouldn't work because, due to DD's influence turning Sweetie Belle and everything she interacts with into an anomaly, there is no past and future to travel to anymore.
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ah...forgot about that to be honest...
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How many chapters will you use for the current Pokemon world arc?
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In the next chapter, we should wrap up the current matter and move on to the next world. Then there will be two more adventures before we end this whole Rainbow Rocket Saga. I'm not sure of how many chapters this will take, but this shouldn't be more than 20. Maybe 15.
Honestly, I’m kinda hoping that the “eggheads” discover a kind of opposite version of shadow Pokémon that are light versions. Maybe the tree of harmony or elements could cause such a thing, but however it happens, it would be cool.
MARIO STRIKERS BATTLE LEAGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Coming back while re-reading, this still seems like a cool idea.
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The TCG agreed with you, long before Shadow Pokémon even technically existed.
If there is anyone in real life or fiction I can get behind referring to with the 'it's, that one would be Ghetsis.