Chapter 7- Total Devastation
~It has come down to this… the final
desperation move of Team Rocket, Giovanni is the last one left. With his
ultimate weapon, this mechanical steel giant, he will try to crush us in one
final effort, or die trying. To think that he would go this far against us is
surprising… and perhaps that crushing and humiliating defeat from Sky Render
only fuelled his hatred (frankly, I don’t blame him for that one… that was
pretty freaking humiliating). Now, this will be our final battle with Team
Rocket… with my friends by my side, and the Super Fiends fighting alongside us,
we shall put an end to the organization… once and for all…
-Ash
Ketchum
(Location- Emerald Jungle)
“Holy…” Everyone stared up in horror at the giant
metal monster that stood before them… nothing could have prepared them for this
sight. The machine was impossibly huge… to them it looked as tall and wide as a
mountain. Compared to this titanic mech, all of them looked like tiny
insignificant ants…
Up in the mech, Giovanni looked down and growled.
He could see those people who have fought against him were like ants. Giovanni
smiled to himself, just like he did when he was a child, using magnifying lens
to fry the ants, this is what he was gonna do. Taking control of the laser
cannons, he aimed down on his enemies…
“WATCH OUT!” Twin Dreamer exclaimed as a giant
laser shot down on them “TWIN DREAM!” Twin Dreamer fired a beam of energy to
counter the laser. The Twin Dream attack hit the laser dead on… but it wasn’t
strong enough! The psychic beam was completely overpowered by the laser cannon!
“MOVE!” Goth grabbed him by the back of the shirt and pulled him before the
laser shot him. The laser was gigantic and completely incinerated the ground
and left a large burnt crater, a crater that could’ve been Twin Dreamer
“I can’t believe it! My attack did nothing to
it!” Twin Dreamer was in a state of shock
“Quit whining! It’s no time to panic!” Jolt said
as he pulled out the bazooka and fired a huge missile at the giant. It crashed
and exploded, but didn’t even scratch the paint, “Okay… now’s a good time to
start… AGH!” He exclaimed as everyone dove for cover
when another giant laser was fired
“EBI SHIELD!” Ebi leapt forward, the shield orb surrounded his body and clashed
with the beam. Both the shield and beam cancelled out one another, and Ebi
stood there unharmed… “Everybody! We can’t win like
this! We need a strategy! RUN!” Everyone retreated for cover in the thick
jungle.
Giovanni laughed, he would have no trouble
getting to them this way “Take this!” Giovanni fired another beam of laser from
the cannon
“Laser weapons are all fire-based, meaning it’s
no different from a pokémon’s attack! CAPTURE!” Ash
shouted as he fired an EC ball at the beam. The beam was absorbed into the ball
and Ash grabbed it, “Heh! I think I’ve got the solution to our… AGH!!!” Ash exclaimed as the fire attack ball grew unstable
and exploded in his hand “What was that!?” he gasped, having let go of it
before taking any damage
“The beam was too strong!” said Ebi, “That’s why
the EC ball can’t take it! Hurry! Let’s get back to Jolt’s Base! We’ll be safe
there!”
“But if he knows where we are, he could find my
base and break it open!” said Jolt
“Not if I can help it!” Said
Ebi as he pulled out the EbiDex, “Let’s go!
“What’s this?” Giovanni asked, seeing the strange
device sitting outside in front of him… “AAAAAAGH!!!!” he screamed as it
suddenly flashed a bright light, like a sun in the night sky, completely
blinding him!
“Now let’s get out of here!” They all ran
(Location- Jolt’s Bunker)
“Misty…” Ash said happily, seeing her for the
first time in days.
“I’ve already given her the medicine. She’s
unconscious, but she’ll be okay” said Ebi
“That’s a relief” said Ash, holding onto Misty’s hand.
Looking at her now… knowing that she was gonna be all right… it almost brought
tears to his eyes…
All of the sudden the lights dimmed. Ebi had used
the EbiDex as a projector and he showed a holographic picture of the giant
mechanical monster.
“As you can see, this is Team Rocket’s final
weapon, Devastator Titan. It’s impossible to determine exactly just how
powerful it really is. Its armour’s a metre thick and it’s got heavy weapons
all over. Its main weapons are the Heavy Laser Cannons located on the
shoulders, while its secondary weapon is a nearly infinite amount of
mini-missile stored all over. There are many more weapons located on the giant,
but it would take days simply to scan it all, and even longer to give you the
full information.” Said Ebi as the lights went on, “Right now… there is no
strategy I can think of that can help us against an opponent like this”
“That’s the thing about this enemy. It’s such a
slow and simple enemy, so much that no real tactics can be used.” A new voice
spoke up… everyone turned around to see who entered the room… it was Sky
Render! And that wasn’t all…
“We have to think of it as less a living being
than it is a secure fortress. The only way to topple it is to overpower it”
said Aquamarine
“WA!” Ash exclaimed and let go of Misty’s hand,
getting up and preparing for a fight
“Hmph… relax, I’m not here to kill you… this
time” said Aquamarine, “But even with the two of us around, I’m not sure if
it’ll provide enough power. We need more of it, and I have more, but I need the
right tool to bring it out” he said
“Right tool?” asked Ebi
“I need a trident,” said Aquamarine, “It is the
weapon I’m by far the most proficient with, and through it I can focus my
energy better and unleash my strongest attacks”
“Okay…” said Ebi, “I’ll make one, but only
because we’re gonna take down this metal monster. Ebi turned to Ash and handed
him his regular clothes, “Take these”
“Thanks Ebi” Ash moved into the next room, and
came back dressed in his regular outfit.
“Thanks for giving these back Ebi, but they feel
somewhat different” said
“You noticed? You see, while you were gone, I had
nothing to do, so I began to make armour out of your clothes” said Ebi, “With
the help of Amaebi, we’ve opened them up and put in a mesh of tiny interlocking
chains made of the same material as the QuickSilver in yours and Gary’s
clothes. Sure, it’s a bit heavier, but that’s a small price to pay for
protection. You can now take swords and bullets without getting injured. They’ll
still hurt, but the pain only comes from the force of the impact and the
maximum you’ll take will be simply bruises, so long as it hits a clothed spot
of your body. Your hat especially is very good protection, because it’s got a
thick layer and can even take sniper bullets and armour piercing weapons”
“Hey, thanks Ebi!” said Ash
“He also did the same for my clothes, as well as
Misty’s (it was Amaebi who changed her clothes, so don’t kill Ebi!)” said
Tracey
“I’m fine with what I got. Don’t need any help
from four-eyes” growled Brock
“When will you let go of this stupid grudge?”
asked Ash
“Never…” Ebi growled and he and Brock approached
each other…
Before the two started fighting, Ash separated
them, “Guys, now is not the time to fight. Just make a trident for Aquamarine
so we can stop Giovanni once and for all!”
“Fine…” Ebi walked into another room
“I’ll help” Aquamarine stepped in with Ebi.
Everyone else left to go to different rooms, leaving Ash with the sleeping
Misty
“Well…” Ash sat on the bed next to the
unconscious Misty, reaching over to her hand and holding it tight “all we can
do is wait and hope he doesn’t find us. Most of all, I hope you get better.”
Ash leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. “Just try to get better
quickly, okay?” Ash got up and stretched. He felt a bit weird with his regular
outfit being changed into armour, but it was gonna be beneficial…
BOOM!
The ground shook and Ash fell over to the ground
“What was that?!” Goth ran in
“Giovanni’s found the base!” said Sky Render
“I’ll come out and join as soon as I’ve completed
Aquamarine’s weapon!” said Ebi
“Be careful everyone!” said Amaebi as the others
ran outside
“Ash, one more thing!” Ebi stopped him and grabbed
the QuickSilver. From the EbiDex came a screwdriver, opening up the board. He
removed the Nitro Ball and EC Ball Transporters and put different ones in
“What are you doing Ebi?” Asked Ash
“These new transporters will give you the new
versions of the Nitro and EC balls!!” said Ebi, “The new Nitro balls have twice
the explosive power of the first, while the new EC balls are capable of
capturing those beams! Use it!” said Ebi
“All right! Thanks Ebi!” Said Ash as they ran out
to confront Giovanni…
***
(Location- Emerald Jungle)
“WHERE ARE YOU!?” Giovanni shouted, as two
gigantic laser beams were fired down, scorching the earth and jungle below.
“Are you here?! OR HERE? Wherever you are, I’ll find you! You can’t hide from
me!”
“TWIN DREAM!” A voice shouted
“Hmm?” Giovanni wondered what was that he heard?
CLANG!
The sound of metal clashing rang through the air
as the psychic beam hit and rocked the giant mech. “What is this?” Giovanni
asked himself as he saw the group and Super Fiends down there, launching
attacks at him
“All right! Attack with UNISTRIKE!!” Ash shouted.
The four elements joined into a single element, flying through the air and
slammed into the chest of the Devastator!
“UNGH!” the robot shook violently when the beam
hit. However, the mech was still standing, “Why you!” Giovanni took control of
the arm and swung it down
“Watch out!” AntiArctic shouted
“GRAH!” Jolt raised his arms into the air as the
giant hand swung down at them. Jolt growled as he pushed with all his might to fight
off the giant’s hand. As Jolt was occupying with the hand, AntiArtic jumped
onto it and began to run up the arm towards the head Jolt couldn’t keep this
up, “AGH!” he let go and jumped to the side, panting, while AntiArctic
continued to run up the arm, towards the head
“Get ready Giovanni!” AntiArctic pulled out his
Ninja-to… he was going to break through the glass and finish off Giovanni
directly!
“I think not! CLUSTER ROCKETS! FIRE!” Giovanni
shouted. The missiles flew into the air, before turning back at the robots arm
to where AntiArctic was
“AAAAGH!!!!!” He jumped off the shoulder,
straightening himself up so he landed on his feet. “I can’t believe it! He
fired on himself just to get rid of me!”
“Believe it all right!” said Twin Dreamer, “The armour’s
so thick that it wouldn’t matter if he shot himself all day, those cluster
rockets can’t do a thing to that giant!”
“Then what can we do?!” asked Tracey
“We attack together!” said Ash, “Keep it from
moving, we disable the legs! CHAAAARGE!!!!!” Ash and everyone ran towards the
legs of the giant
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
More of those cluster rockets rained from the
air. Giovanni had a huge supply of them, and he wasn’t being stingy using them.
“AAARGH!” The mini rockets rained down on the
group, stopping them in their tracks. They were all fortunate enough to have
not been hit directly by any of them, and they were all able to endure the
series of explosions thanks to either their armour or plain toughness. Ash, Sky
Render, Goth, Bonsai and Cleft kept running, and had finally reached the legs.
“HA!” Goth swung his razor sharp scythe. It cut
through the armour, but only left a tiny slit in the leg, nothing close to any
real damage!
“RHAAA!” Sky Render roared as he swung his blade
at full strength. His sword had cut right through the metal plating on the leg,
but it was just so big that his weapon barely did any damage! “Damn… the thing
was too well designed!” he growled. Seeing the thing’s size, it was obvious
that everyone would automatically attack the legs, and therefore they had the
thickest armour! “But it doesn’t matter how thick armour is… the weak points
are always the joints! HAAA!!!” He whirled his sword through the air once more,
and struck directly at the ankles… cutting right through the armour. The
machine’s leg stepped again, but it was losing balance…
“GRR!” Giovanni growled and stopped the machine
before it fell. That annoying Sky Render had damaged the leg! “I’ll show you!”
From around the ankles and shins, small turrets
began to open up and dozens of laser guns aimed down at them. “WHOA!” Ash
exclaimed. The lasers shot him and burned when they hit his arm. He crouched on
the ground and tucked his arms and head in so that the lasers would only hit
his back, the part on his body that was most well protected and didn’t burn so
much, but he could still feel the heavy hits from the multiple laser guns.
“AH!” Sky Render moved back after one shot grazed
his arm. Quickly he began swinging his blade and deflecting the rest of the
beams
“ENOUGH!” Goth slashed with his scythe, slicing
the guns apart
“SPIRAL CLEAVER!” Sky Render shouted as he swung
his Katana in a circular motion, creating a razor sharp wind in the direction
of the guns. The laser turrets were all destroyed, sliced by the wind.
“If we destroy just one leg, it shouldn’t be able
to move!” Cleft said, punching it with his armoured knuckles. The shock from
his strong punches passed right through the armour and was rattling the inner
wirings and circuits! He was doing some real damage!
“NO!” Giovanni exclaimed “TAKE THIS!” He hit a
button, and wires shot out of the robot, entangling Cleft, as thousands of
volts of electricity surged forth.
“AAAGH!!!!!!” Cleft screamed, being electrocuted
by the powerful current
“NO! CLEFT!” Bonsai exclaimed and ran over to
help him, trying to cut the wires, “AGRH!” he gasped, getting thrown back… the
voltage went right up his weapons and shocked him when he tried to help!
“CAPTURE!” Ash shot one of the new EC balls. It
his the leg and the electric attack was absorbed into the ball, making it an
electric attack ball
“GRR!” Cleft growled, his arms trembling. When it
came to durability, he was the best among the fiends, and he hadn’t been
knocked out yet “I’m not gonna let you get away with that… GROUND ZERO!” The
powerful hit sent a shock through the entire leg of the giant, shattering it
completely. “ALL RIGHT! TAKE THAT GIOVAN… eep.” Cleft sweatdropped, “RUN!!!”
Everyone turned around and ran as the giant fell
“AGH!” Giovanni exclaimed. He took control of the
arms to make them straighten up the giant. The right leg had been totally
destroyed, but he was far from helpless! Even if he can’t move, he could remain
stationary and still do some major damage! “Cluster Rockets! FIRE!” he shouted.
From the multi missile launcher on the shoulders, hundreds of mini missiles
were shot into the air and down at our heroes
“TWIN DREAM!”
“FIRE SPIN!”
“HYOHEN!”
“HELIX SWORDBEAM!”
“THUNDERBOLT!”
“STORM CANNON!”
Everyone did their attacks, whether it was themselves
or calling their pokémon to do it, they detonated about half the rockets. But
there was still the other half…
KABOOM!!!!
Sky Render had jumped high into the air, above
the explosion. He looked in horror at the ground. The smoke cleared and everyone
lay face flat on the ground. They were all knocked out, except for Ash “Ash!”
Sky Render called down, “We need to take things up a notch! Use the power of
one! Use it to heal your friends and make them stronger!”
“Sorry Sky… but I still haven’t really learned
how to call it up!” said Ash
“Well I have!” Sky Render raised his sword into
the air, bringing up a familiar golden glow. “I’m fine the way I am, I don’t
need to use the power of one on myself, I’ll use it to heal my friends! If you
don’t know how to use it for making them strong, then at least do it on
yourself!” The golden glow surrounded the super fiends, then changed colours
for all of them. A Green Glow on Bonsai, a brown glow on Cleft, an ice-blue
glow on AntiArctic, a bright yellow one on Jolt, a silver glow on Twin Dreamer
and a black glow on Goth. One by one they got up, being covered completely in
light. There was a bright flash of colours from each one, and they each stood
there, completely transformed…
Bonsai was now dressed in a new green outfit. He
had a long green scarf, and vines covered with thorns were wrapped around his
arms. Instead of war fans, there were two gigantic scythe blades on his arms.
“Thank you Sky, I’ve been waiting for this moment… introducing, the new and
improved, EDGE BLOSSOM!”
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EBIDEX
SCANNER |
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Name |
Weapons |
Techniques |
Fighter
Class |
Stats |
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Edge Blossom |
Arm Scythes ×2 Poison Thorns |
Dance of Blades Thorn Ravage |
Martial Arts Master Pokémon Trainer Rank A |
Pokémon Strength- High Attack Power- Very High Speed- Legendary Fighting Skills- Superhuman Toughness- Average Endurance- Superhuman Mind Power- Average Intelligence- Average Determination- Average |
Cleft’s yellow hardhat was replaced by a full helmet
that covered his ears and had sunglasses attached. His arms were thicker than
before, and his gauntlets were now outfitted with drills on the knuckles. “I
feel like I can take on the world, ‘cus now I’m strong enough to break it in
two! HA!” He punched the ground, and the mountains in the distance shook and
crumbled. The new Cleft turned around and looked at the Devastator Titan
carrying Giovanni “But I think I’ll start with that! You can call me,
EARTHBREAKER!”
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EBIDEX
SCANNER |
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Name |
Weapons |
Techniques |
Fighter
Class |
Stats |
|
Earthbreaker |
Drill Gauntlets |
Giga Ground Zero |
Grand Brawler Rank A |
Strength- Very High Attack Power- Very High Speed- Average Fighting Skills- Average Toughness- Legendary Endurance- Legendary Mind Power- Average Intelligence- Average Determination- Average |
AntiArctic was different as well. His outfit was
now darker ice blue, and he now wore a mask over his nose and mouth. He also wore
some sort of body armour made completely out of ice over his torso and parts of
his arm, legs, feet and hands. His presence seemed to make everything colder.
If you stood a few feet from him, it made this hot jungle feel like colder than
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EBIDEX
SCANNER |
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Name |
Weapons |
Techniques |
Fighter
Class |
Stats |
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Hellfrost |
Ninja-To |
Ma-Hyoken (Demonic Ice Fist) Ma-Hyohen (Demon Ice Shards) Kogoeshinu (Freeze to death) |
Ninja Master Rank A |
Strength- Average Attack Power- Very High Speed- Superhuman Fighting Skills- Very High Toughness- Average Endurance- Very High Mind Power- Average Intelligence- Average Determination- Average |
Along with the three new Shining Super Fiends
Edge Blossom, Earthbreaker and Hellfrost, there were familiar faces, the shining
G.I. Jolt, Grand Dreamer and Chaos Reaper. Only difference is that this time
they had no intents of fighting Ash and his friends, they were here purely for
defeating Giovanni.
“This battle is over… now that I have arrived”
Aquamarine spoke as he entered the scene. Over his shoulder he held a trident.
Smirking, his feet shifted and he moved into a fighting stance, “Now it’s my
turn”
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EBIDEX
SCANNER |
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Name |
Weapons |
Techniques |
Fighter
Class |
Stats |
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Aquamarine |
Harpoon gun Multi javelins Fishing net Coral Mace Trident |
Ocean Lance Tidal Spear Harpoon Strike Javelin Rain Black Squall Deep Skewer Capture net Coral Cudgel Terror of the Deep |
Warrior Pokémon Trainer Level II Chosen One Rank S |
Pokémon battle skills- High Strength- Superhuman Attack Power- Superhuman Speed- Very High Fighting Skills- Superhuman Toughness- Very High Endurance- Superhuman Mind Power- *&^$% Intelligence- @$#!@ Determination- Legendary |
Sky Render pulled out his sword. Not the wooden
one, but the real one, the SkyFall Katana. It was the moment where he was going
to fight for real. Giovanni and Devastator Titan were no regular enemies. “It’s
not often there would be an enemy where you need all the Super Fiends,
including myself, along with the one who’s supposed to be my greatest enemy”
Sky Render looked at Ash, “But now’s not the time to think about these things.
Be careful guys.”
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EBIDEX
SCANNER |
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Name |
Weapons |
Techniques |
Fighter
Class |
Stats |
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Sky Render |
Wooden Bokuto Skyfall Katana |
Blade Storm Helix Swordbeam Spiral Cleaver Sky Diving strike Rising Render |
Samurai Chosen One of Wind (Level III) Rank SS |
Strength- Very High Attack Power- Superhuman Speed- Very High Fighting Skills- Legendary Toughness- Very High Endurance- Superhuman Mind Power- Very High Intelligence- Superhuman Determination- Legendary |
Ash stood there. He took a deep breath. He had never
seen this many powerful beings in one place before. Even if Giovanni in the
Devastator Titan was far bigger than them and armed with god knows how many
guns, Giovanni didn’t have a purpose, and they did. Ash’s thoughts flew over to
Misty. He was going to make sure they both come out of this alive, and no one
was gonna stop that. Not Aquamarine, not Giovanni, no one! Ash looked at his
right arm, he could see The QuickSilver beginning to glow gold, and he could
feel strength running through his body. Armed with the power of one, and the
knowledge that he was fighting for the one he loved, Ash prepared himself, for
a real battle.
“All right” Giovanni adjusted the controls of the
Devastator Titan “I’ve never heard of this ‘Power of One’ hoo-ha you keep blabbering
about, but I don’t care. For all I care, it can turn you all into monsters a
hundred feet tall with millions of claws, gnashing teeth and a baboon’s butt,
it makes no difference to me! There’s more to this war machine than meets the
eye. There is nothing in this world that can match this marvel of technology!
Now… COME AND GET ME!”
“All right…” Everyone stood ready before the
Devastator Titan. This was for real, they were gonna defeat Giovanni, and it
was now or never. “CHAAAARGE!!!!!”
“LASER CANNONS FIRE!” Giovanni shouted and hit
the button. The laser cannons on Devastator’s shoulders fired the deadly beams.
“Heh… laser guns, how cute. GRAND DREAM!!!” Grand
Dreamer fired the gigantic beam of psychic energy. The two beams collided in
mid-air and cancelled out
“Watch out! There’s the other one!” Ebi called
“I’m on it!” Edge Blossom jumped into the air and
began to spin rapidly, “DANCE OF BLADES!” he spun in the air, his arm blades
acted like a mirror to the beam and sent it breaking off in different
directions, “Heh! I’m good!” Edge Blossom landed on the ground and smirked
“CLUSTER ROCKETS! FIRE!” Giovanni shouted and the
machine responded to his voice. In the air, hundreds of mini-missiles and
cluster rockets flew
“I’ll take care of this!!! MAHYOHEN!” Hellfrost
shouted. Pulling out tons and tons of icicles, he threw them like darts to the
missiles in the air. Not one icicle dart missed their targets and they each
blew up. After taking out about, three hundred of them, there were still more coming
at them.
“Let me show you how a pro does it! BLACK
SQUALL!” Aquamarine spun his trident through the air. The winds blew violently
as he controlled the weather. The missiles were caught in gust and not one
escaped, “Go back to the sender!” Aquamarine aimed it at the Devastator Titan.
Hundreds of small explosions rang through the air, shaking the giant mech
violently.
“Now this kind of battle I like!” said Jolt as he
pulled out the Big Shot, “THUNDER MISSILE!!!!” He fired out a gigantic missile
crackling with electricity at the robot. The missile exploded with a blast that
run through the air like thunder!
“GRR!” Giovanni growled as he struggled to keep
the machine upright after taking these powerful attacks. As the group was
charging towards him, he took control of the arm. Swinging it through the air
and down at them…
SMASH!
Everyone jumped to the side and evaded the
attack.
“HAA!” Chaos Reaper pulled out his whip and
caught the arm with it. Giovanni pulled the arm back, but Chaos Reaper didn’t
let go. “Heh!” he held onto the whip, letting the arm pick him up. He let go of
the arm and sailed through the air, towards the face of the robot…
SWAT!
“URGH!” Chaos Reaper went flying as the other arm
slapped him out of the sky and crashing into the thick jungle growth… “Grr…” he
growled, sitting there, his body embedded into a tree
“You okay C-Reaper?” Grand Dreamer called towards
him
Chaos Reaper got up, “I’m just fine, GeeDee!”
“How many times to I have to say, don’t call me…”
SMACK!
“THAAAAAAT!” Grand Dreamer was sent crashing to
the ground when the Devastator Titan swung its arm and hit him directly… a blow
that powerful could crush a normal human being like a bug. Grand Dreamer wasn’t
anywhere near as tough as Chaos Reaper, and a hit from this machine whose
strength was beyond comparison was far too much for him… “Urgh… first to fall…
in my transformed state no less. They’re never gonna let me live this down…”
those were his last words as he blacked out, and reverted back to Twin Dreamer
“Damn! He took down TD before he could do any
damage!” Jolt cursed and looked up, “AH!” A gigantic hand came down and
attempted to crush Jolt. Edge Blossom and Earthbreaker ran to the side as the
hand came down, but G.I. Jolt stood there, “GRRRR!” he pushed back at the hand,
he wasn’t gonna let it win.
“Hee…” Giovanni smiled unpleasantly. He added
more strength to the hand, and show Jolt just who was stronger
“URGNH!!!!!” Jolt growled, pushing back the giant
metal hand. Giovanni growled. “I… WON’T… LOSE… TO A MACHINE!!!!” Jolt roared…
“RRAAAGH!!” he threw aside the arm, causing the whole robot to stumble,
“There’s no one stronger than me…!”
“True. Power you have, but brains…” Giovanni
smiled unpleasantly and took control of the other arm
“Hmm?” Jolt looked to his right, “AGH!”
WHACK!
“AAAARGH!!!!!” Jolt was sent flying when a metal
fist came from the side. It was too fast for him to react and he took the
direct hit. Jolt flew twenty metres away before painfully hitting the ground,
but Giovanni didn’t stop there. He aimed every single missile launcher at Jolt
and fired off hundred of rockets, there was a huge smoking crater with the
regular non-shining Jolt lying unconscious in the centre.
“…is another story!” Giovanni laughed, “Two down…
soon to be three!” Giovanni took control of the laser cannons. His target this
time was… Edge Blossom!
“I think not!” Edge Blossom ran quickly from the
lasers. Though he wasn’t nearly as strong as G.I. Jolt, he was far faster and
the lasers couldn’t touch him.
“TERROR OF THE DEEP!” Aquamarine fired the
crystal-coloured aura beam through the air while Giovanni was distracted. There
was a large crash as it slammed into the head of the giant robot, where the cockpit
was located
“UGH!” Giovanni felt the shock from the hit,
“GRR!” He fired the beam at Aquamarine
“TIDAL SPEAR!” Aquamarine roared, energy
surrounded his trident as he swung it with a sweeping motion, cleanly
deflecting the laser beam!
“CLUSTER ROCKETS!” Giovanni shouted again. Soon,
hundreds of tiny rockets sailed through the air towards the Super Fiends
“JAVELIN RAIN!” Aquamarine threw several loads of
javelins
“MA-HYOHEN!” Hellfrost threw the icicle darts,
combined with Aquamarine’s javelins, the entire barrage of missiles were wipe
out…
“GIGA GROUND ZERO!” Earthbreaker punched the
ground with all his might. The earth surged and the Devastator Titan felt the
full force of the shockwave
“WHY YOU!” Giovanni growled. While Giovanni was
concentrating on Edge Blossom, Hellfrost, Earthbreaker and Aquamarine at the
front, Ash, Ebi, Chaos Reaper and Sky Render rushed along the sides…
“We have to find a way to break into it!” said
Ebi as Ash swung his shining fist into the side of the mechanical titan, his
punch leaving a large dent in the metal
“No problem! If one hit doesn’t do it, then I’ll
keep punching till it breaks!” Ash shouted as he kept punching, trying to break
through
“Keep trying!” said Ebi, calling out the Ebi
Sword and slashing at the metal.
At the same time, Sky Render and Chaos Reaper
were busy breaking their own entrance “HA!” Chaos Reaper swung his scythe,
cutting through the metal plating
“BLADE STORM!” Sky Render swung his sword again and
again with incredible speed. Each swing from the sword and scythe only left a
thin cut, not nearly enough to be considered any real damage to this mechanical
monster, but the number of cuts were growing… soon they’d be able to break
through!
“GRAAAA!!! TERROR OF THE DEEP!” Aquamarine shot
another beam the same time Giovanni fired a laser from the cannon. The Terror
of the deep tore through the laser and reached the cannon.
CRASH!
“NO!” Giovanni shouted. The Terror of the Deep
had destroyed the laser cannon on the right shoulder! “WHY YOU… AGH!” the
entire machine rocked violently from another one of Earthbreaker’s shockwaves.
If anything, Earthbreaker was doing the most damage! Even though he wasn’t
hitting it directly, those shockwaves kept passing right through the mech and
was damaging it from the insides! If this kept up, the entire machine would
cease function! “Relay Ninety percent of energy to left Laser Cannon…” Giovanni
said as he took full control of the weapon, aiming it towards Earthbreaker,
“Target Locked… FIRE!!!”
“AH…!” Earthbreaker gasped, frozen in his place
as he saw a light heading towards him… he couldn’t run away…! “HMM!” Quickly he
punched the ground, and a layer of rock suddenly erupted in front of him,
acting as a shield… while he braced himself, digging his feet into the ground
and crossing his arms in the ‘X’ position…!
BOOM!!!!
“AAAAAAARGH!!!!!” The Super Fiend’s scream echoed
through the air…
“NO!!!” Edge Blossom exclaimed, as the area his
comrade earlier stood was enveloped in smoke… “No…!” he gasped when he looked
down… he could see the yellow helmet belonging to his friend on the ground…
cracked… and the smoke cleared. There lay the body, of the Super Fiend, now
returned to his original form… “Cleft…! No! Talk to me!” Edge Blossom ran to
his injured companion, holding him up
“Oh shut up already… your whining is giving a
headache…” Cleft muttered… “Urgh… Heh… this is embarrassing… sorry, but I’ll
need you to tell me how the battle turns out… because I’m completely out for
the rest of the fight… ungh…” he blacked out
“Idiot…!” Edge Blossom growled, turning around to
Giovanni, “YOU WON’T GET AWAY WITH THAT! RAAAGH!” As Edge Blossom charged,
Giovanni fired a beam, “VINE RAVAGE!” He shouted, leaping aside and aiming his
arm forward. From around his arms, the thorn vines extended, all the way to the
Titan’s head, and like a grappling hook he pulled himself towards the face,
“YOUR HEAD IS MINE GIOVANNI!” he roared, holding up his arm blade…
“How pitiful… Lashing out due to anger, charging
in headfirst… and putting yourself in that vulnerable position! CLUSTER ROCKETS
FIRE!!!” Giovanni shouted. Edge Blossom gasped, as he sailed towards the head,
he was practically defenceless, and all around him hundreds of miniature
missiles were flying his way…!
BOOM!!
“AAAGH!!” He screamed as he was thrown back by
the explosion, and hit the ground… landing next to Cleft… “Urgh… heh… sorry
buddy… but I don’t think I’ll be seeing the whole thing either…” he spoke
weakly, his eyes closing… he blacked out, and reverted to Bonsai.
“HAAA!!!” Hellfrost fought hard, trying to
deflect all the missiles and lasers and everything that was now targeting him…
but even the ninja master’s skills couldn’t compete with this firepower! As he
continued to strike the cluster rockets raining down on him, he gasped as he
was suddenly caught by surprise, one of the titan’s arms swung towards him from
the side! The impact was too much for him to take, and he was thrown through
the air, hitting the ground and blacking out… there, AntiArctic lay, he had
been defeated
“Giovanni and that monstrosity of a machine… we
have to stop him” said Brock
“How are we supposed to do that?” Asked Tracey,
“He’s wiped out most of the Super Fiends already!”
“AAAAGH!!!!” They heard a scream. They looked and
saw Ash and Ebi, along with Sky Render who was holding up an unconscious Goth
“That damn Giovanni!” Ash spat, “More of those stupid hidden weapons! Took us
by surprise, took out four of my pokémon! We barely made it out!” Ash was
gasping for air, and pointed at some burn marks on his shirt and head, “Damn
laser weapons! I really HATE them!”
“Also attacked us with some missiles and
high-volt weapon” said Ebi, “The missiles took out four of Ash’s pokémon, and
then those electric cables shot out of nowhere and hit Chaos Reaper with so
much force even he was knocked out”
“We broke through the layer of armour, but when
we got through that first metre-thick layer, we found out that there was just
another one! It’d take days for us to get through!” said Sky Render, “Every
inch of this machine is riddled with weapons! There’s no angle we can attack
from that isn’t defended!”
“There’s one thing that can win… I created it
before coming into battle… but it may not work…” he held up the EbiDex, it
opened up and a cylinder of some sort “This is a special bomb, it has no effect
on life forms, but it can destroy any electronic object! It is called EMP! (Ebi
Magnetic Pulse) If this weapon is activated, it will set off a chain reaction,
and the Devastator Titan would be destroyed from the inside by the very weapons
it carries! The problem is… the mech is shielded! Unless I can get this through
the armour, it will be completely useless!”
“Tell me… is this EMP able to be captured by an
EC ball?” Asked Ash
“Well yes… after all, it is an electric-based
weapon, though specially designed to destroy electronics, but I hardly see what
doing this would accomplish” said Ebi
“If it can be absorbed by an EC ball, then it can
also be absorbed into the Ultimate attack!” Ash said as he threw all his
pokéballs, releasing his pokémo
“That’s right! The UniStrike! This time we’re
going to use every element we’ve got! If we merged EMP with UniStrike, we can
break through the front and bring the EMP Wave into Devastator Titan’s body and
destroy it completely!”
“All right…” Ash stood there, looking around him.
A lot of his friends were unconscious, and pokémon needed to perform this
technique had fainted. “I know we may not have all the right elements and moves
for the job, but we’ll still have to try! And we have help!” He turned to the
remaining Super Fiends… there were only two left! Sky Render and Aquamarine…!
“They have elemental powers, and their attacks could’ve been added to the strength
of the beam… but there’s no one left!” Ash growled, checking his remaining
pokémon. He had no fire or water types left… but Tracey still had his Maril
ready, and Ebi had the EbiDex. “I think we have what we need to do a completed
UniStrike… but all we need now is time…!”
“Then that’s where I come in!” Aquamarine stepped
up, “Go ahead and prepare your Unistrike or whatever you call it, I’ll take on
Giovanni myself! And I suggest you hurry, because I just might finish him off
myself before you even get the chance!” said Aquamarine, but turned around and
looked at Ash, “But don’t get me wrong Ash Ketchum. I’m only helping you win
because Misty’s life is on the line. I promise I’ll resume killing you after
the battle!”
“Uh…” Ash sweatdropped as Aquamarine charged
towards the giant.
“OCEAN LANCE!!” Aquamarine fired the energy bolt
SLAM!
The attack slammed into the robotic titan, and
Giovanni retorted “CLUSTER ROCKETS FIRE!” Giovanni shouted
As hundreds of rockets flew towards Aquamarine, Aquamarine
pulled out the net, “CAPTURE NET!” He threw it and caught a large bundle of
mini rockets. Spinning around and holding onto the rope, he then let go and
threw them to more of the missiles, causing a series of explosions and a chain
reaction that detonated all of them “OCEAN LANCE!” Aquamarine fired another
bolt of energy
“HAA!” The giant robotic fist swung down at
Aquamarine
“DEEP SKEWER!” Aquamarine charged and thrust his
trident forwards…
CRACK!
“WHAT?!” Giovanni screamed, not believing what he
saw…
“GRRR…” Aquamarine growled, the end of his
trident pressed against the knuckle of the machine. He had not been pushed back
at all, and as a matter of fact, his trident had pierced the robot’s hand!
“(Pant… Pant…) I… won’t… lose to anyone…” he spoke, sweating profusely…
“RHAAAA!!!! TIDAL SPEAR!!!” he swung his trident, literally ripping off the
robot’s hand and sending it flying to the side.
“GRRR!!! WHY YOU…!!! MAXIMUM POWER!!! FIRE!!!!”
Giovanni hit the button
“TERROR OF THE DEEP!” Aquamarine fired the huge
beam. This time the laser was the same strength and the two beams pushed
against each other, “I have trained to get strong… I wanted to be worthy of
Misty…” he said as he fought the laser beam with his own, “After getting this
close… ungh… I’m not gonna lose…” he growled, “NOT WHEN I’M THIS CLOSE TO BEING
WITH MISTY!!! RAAAAAARRRRRGHH!!!!!!!!”
CRASH!!!!!
He was literally emptying everything into the
attack. The Terror of the Deep grew in size and power and tore right through
the laser, smashing through the cannon. That wasn’t all, but the entire left
shoulder had been blasted, and its left arm fell to the ground, now useless.
“AGH!” Giovanni screamed. That boy alone had
destroyed both laser cannons, ripped off both the robot’s right hand and
completely took off the entire left arm!!!
“Heh…” Aquamarine smirked, satisfied with the
damage he has done. “Beat that Ketchum… TERROR OF THE DEEP!” He screamed,
emptying the last of his energy
“Is everyone ready?!” Ash shouted above the noise
“YES!” Everyone shouted
“Hope is the last thing we have. Hope is all we
have. We have to try! It’s all or nothing from this point!” Said Ash. Next to
him stood the remaining pokémon, along with Ebi and Sky Render, whose
wind-based could also be used in this technique
“It’s a little much to hope this’ll work, but we have to try!” said Ash,
“Get ready for the ultimate attack… UNISTRIKE!”
“BAYLEEEEEEF!”
“BULBASAAUUR!”
“PIKACHUUUUU!”
“MAAARIIIIIIIIIIL!”
The different elements flew through the air. They
held together thankfully, but they didn’t join yet!
“EBI FLAME!” Ebi shouted, launching flames into
the attack
“HELIX SWORDBEAM!” Sky Render shouted, sending a
vortex of razor sharp wind…
With fire as part of it, the four necessary
elements were altogether and it joined into the ultimate attack, the UniStrike!
CRRRASH!!!!
The beam of power shot forwards and slammed the
metal titan square in the chest, along with the Terror of the deep “Ebi, use
the EMP!” Ash shouted
“Not yet! Not until it breaks through!” said Ebi
“And with all these elements, it should have done so by now! Something’s
wrong!” he looked at Maril. This tiny water pokémon could only do so much.
Sure, they had four elements needed for the beam and balance… but how long
could that pokémon last?!
Ash realized what was wrong. He looked up in
horror at the UniStrike beam, he could see the energies starting to shake, they
weren’t gonna hold as Maril began to tire! Without water, one of the four base elements
needed to form the attack, it would not hold together! And if this stopped
working then it’ll all be over! “NO!” Ash said, “This can’t be! It’s hopeless…
no!”
“It’s not as hopeless as you think!” a new voice
spoke up “PSYCHIC!!” it shouted. A large burst of psychic energy flew forwards
and joined with the beam… more than that, it also seemed to be holding the
water in, keeping the beam from breaking apart!
“Wa?” Ash turned around… “AH…!!!” he gasped in
shock, “M… M… Misty…!”
“That’s me!” Misty smiled. Psyduck had used the
psychic attack that held the beam together, “Now I know you’re lacking in
water, and that happens to be my specialty!” she threw her pokéballs, releasing
the water pokémon, “HYDRO PUMP!” she shouted. All her water pokémon obeyed and
fired with all their might. With the extra power of the water added to the
beam, the UniStrike fell back into perfect balance of elements… and began to
grow tremendously in power…!
CRRRAAK…!
The chest on the titan began to bend…
“Now!” said Ebi, holding up the EMP bomb. “HA!!”
He hurled it with all his strength, it shattered as it contacted the beam and
released a white trail of energy that rode through the UniStrike bream,
straight into the open chest of the Devastator Titan…!
KABOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!
Many explosions rung through the air as the Ebi
Magnetic Pulse spread through the Devastator Titan, all its weapons were set
off from the inside…! “NO!” Giovanni shouted as he hit the button. The head was
immediately detached from the body right before it exploded. “GRRRRR!!!! DAMN
YOU! DAMN YOU ALL!” he screamed as the head flew into the air. The sides of the
head opened up and airplane wings appeared. Boosters flared as it took to the
sky and flew, “I WILL BE BACK! I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE! One day… TEAM ROCKET
SHALL BLAST OFF AGAIN!!!!” his voice echoed as the aircraft flew over the
horizon, out of sight.
“Yes… we did it… we…” Aquamarine panted, looking
up, “oh… cr-”
CRASH!
Aquamarine didn’t finish what he was saying… not
after several hundred tonnes of scrap metal came crashing down upon him,
burying him completely.
“Whew…” everyone sighed and fell to their knees.
That was the most exhausting battle they had ever fought.
Ash didn’t fall to his knees. The Golden glow in
his right arm faded, as tears were forming in his eyes as he looked at Misty,
tears of pure happiness, “Misty…” he said
“Ash…” Misty looked at him
“MISTYYYYYYY!!!!!” Ash cried as he ran to her,
dropping the QuickSilver to the side
“ASH!!!!!” Misty opened her arms wide…
Ash held her tight and spun, holding her in a
passionate embrace. As he settled down, Misty could see that he was crying, out
of joy, “You’re safe!” he said, hugging her tight, “I was so scared and I
thought that I… I’d lose you for sure!” he said, “I couldn’t bare to live
without you! I love you so much!”
“Oh Ash… I love you too” Misty closed her eyes
and hugged him. Their eyes met as they soon followed by a long and passionate
kiss.
“Hmm…” everyone sighed, deeply moved by this
display of emotion
***
(Location- G.I. Jolt HQ)
Ash’s companions and the Super Fiends, fully
healed and all cleaned up, were gathered in the bunker and celebrating their
victory. Forgetting about being enemies, everyone was just having a great time.
Ash and Misty however were sitting alone together in another room, talking in
private. “I can’t believe it!” Misty said to Ash, when he finished telling her
the story, “You actually joined Team Rocket?”
“Yeah…” Ash rubbed the back of his head, “I had
to do all sorts of crimes and stuff that I’m not proud of” he said sadly, “I
had to poach and illegally capture pokémon… but then again, since the fiends
are gonna scatter again, they agreed to take the pokémon with them and free
them along the way. It feels pretty weird getting their help, but I guess by
now we can trust them… It’s funny, you know? It feels like just yesterday they
were our enemies…”
“Ash…?” Misty put her hand on top of Ash’s. “I
really appreciate all you’ve gone through for me”
“Aw… don’t worry about it Misty, if it’s for you,
I’d do it all over again!” said Ash
“You’re so sweet” she leaned forwards and kissed
him on the lips. “After all your hard work, I think I should find some way to
thank you”
“Oh… I… eh-heh-heh…” Ash seemed really flustered
as he could only imagine how she would thank him… when he noticed everyone was
standing at the doorway watching the two of them, some of them were even
sharing a bag of popcorn… “BEAT IT!” he shouted, chasing them out of the room… running after them a bit and hurling
a whole sofa in their direction. “Whew…” Ash sighed, calming down… they were
all gone “Wa?” he suddenly felt Misty’s arms wrap around him from behind…
“I believe it’s time I say thank you in my own way…”
Misty winked, smiling mischievously. Ash soon returned the same smile… and
swung the door close…
From inside the hallway, outside the closed room,
the door opened only once more that night, only slightly as Ash’s hand could be
seen, slipping a ‘Do not disturb’ sign on the knob.
(Meanwhile, Outside)
It was dark outside, and a cool wind was rustling
the trees. All the Super Fiends were gathered, standing in a circle…
“So looks like Team’s Rocket’s finally finished”
Bonsai yawned “Who knew Giovanni had a weapon like that? It sure gave us a
headache…”
“That battle could have resulted in casualties
among us… had Ketchum not been around to help us… speaking of him, is he still
our enemy? I mean, we respect him, we fought alongside him, and when Red Kaiser
defeated me and probably would’ve let that beast eat me or something, he came
along and got rid of it too” said Cleft
“Personally I’ve got nothing against him and much
rather be his friend than his enemy, especially because he’s already surpassed
most of us…” said AntiArctic, “But it’s his strength that’s making Sky want to
fight him, not as an enemy, but for the sake of honour. Ketchum may seem like a
decent person, but what if he’s just another ‘Fiend Fighter’ who’s blinded to
all reason in determination to fight us?”
“That’s why we fought him in the first place. We
cannot take any risks” Said Sky Render, “Ash may be exceptional, but he still
doesn’t know the truth… him and his friends, and all the people out there who
seek to defeat us… they are all unsuspecting pawns… and that’s practically the
whole world. But would Ash Ketchum even believe us when we tell him the truth
of what’s really happening?”
“I dunno, and I’d doubt it too. I didn’t believe
it when you first explained everything to us, but when I saw it all first hand…
I still couldn’t believe it,” AntiArctic said, “Ketchum fights for justice and
defends people, but he doesn’t know of the deceiver”
“And speaking of which, when we defeated Team
Rocket, did we do the right thing?” they all wondered, “By eliminating Team
Rocket, we might have cleared out the Kaiser Cult’s most dangerous competitor,
and for all we know, we’ve helped them”
Everyone sighed.
“Though Ash Ketchum will only fight for justice,
the question is what he defines as justice. He had shown us in
“Hmph… when the true evils have already taken a
form the world can’t see, merging with the very powers that run this world…
even if we are fighting for a higher justice… no matter happens, it makes us
the villains…” said Bonsai, “Frankly, we can’t call ourselves innocent either.
Annihilating everybody who challenges us, resorting to thievery, siding
ourselves with the bad crowds, never keeping a low profile… we haven’t done a
good job in making ourselves look good.”
“Sad. All those people have no idea about what is
really going on… and unfortunately that includes Ketchum…” Goth sighed “We are
the only ones standing up to this menace, yet the people blindly charge at us,
supporting the side their on with no idea of the truth, and we have no choice
but to fight through them. But if we lose, then it’ll be all over… for us… for
them… everything…”
They all sighed. There was silence for a few
minutes, until one of them spoke up “Ketchum and his friends cannot stay this
way. Even if they don’t believe us at first, they will see. Just like when Sky explained
it to us, we could clearly see the truth of the matter, and so will they…” Said
Jolt
“We’re not fighting for the law, world peace,
justice or anything like that! What we’re fighting for is the survival this
world itself! This world belongs to everyone, and we’ll keep it that way!” Said
Twin Dreamer
BANG! BANG!
“DAMMIT! I’M TRAPPED DOWN HERE! SOMEONE GET ME
OUT! I CAN’T BREATHE!” Aquamarine’s voice shouted, he was still trapped beneath
the ruins of Devastator Titan
“Shouldn’t we help him out?” asked one of the
fiends
There was silence for about a minute, and then
they all spoke up, “Naaaaah”
Poor Aquamarine! The Rockets have been
defeated and Misty is cured, but are things back to normal? What exactly are
the Fiends talking about, this evil whose existence no one knows? Find out next
time on Pokémon: Shadow of the Deceiver!
► TO BE CONTINUED