Archie turned to face Maxie and hid his anger. He tried not to let his anger show on his face. He spoke loudly, "Maxie, do not be so proud! Did you forget? That man is near here right now. Do you want him to wait and take all the rewards for himself?"
Natsui was hiding in the bushes. He felt very surprised when he heard this.
He thought the "man" Archie mentioned was definitely him.
But he wondered how Archie knew he was near. Had they been seen?
Then he thought this was probably just a trick by Archie. Archie wanted to trick Maxie and make him wait. This would give Archie more time to catch Groudon.
Archie was good at taking action, but he was not very good at planning.
Natsui was not the only one who saw through the trick. Maxie heard the words and did not believe them.
"That is rare. I did not think a wild man like you would try to be smart," Maxie said. He looked at Archie with a mean look. "Do you really think a small trick like that can scare me? I already control Kyogre. I can make it use Primal Reversion at any time. When I control Groudon too, what can he do with only one Deoxys?"
Maxie also expected Natsui to come and help. But in Maxie's plan, everything would be finished before Natsui arrived. At that time, Maxie would have two ancient Pokémon. No one could beat him then.
Even if Rayquaza appeared, Maxie would command his two ancient Pokémon to attack it together. Rayquaza would have to run away.
Archie did not expect Maxie to be so calm. He did not expect Maxie to be so sure. Kyogre was coming closer and closer. Matt and the other workers could not stop it. Archie's eyes became hard. He felt very angry and desperate.
He thought that everyone thought he was weak. He decided that if he could not have Groudon, no one would have it.
He did not wait. He turned around quickly. He looked at the healthy Groudon and used the Red Orb.
"You bastard!" Maxie shouted with a lot of anger. He hated Archie for this.
Maxie controlled Kyogre, so he knew the danger. It was very dangerous to control an ancient Pokémon while it was healthy. He knew Archie wanted to destroy everyone.
"Kyogre, stop him quickly!" Maxie held the Blue Orb high. He tried to make Kyogre stop Archie. But it was too late. A red light came out from the Red Orb in Archie's hand. The red light hit Groudon in the middle of the lake.
The red light covered Groudon. Groudon roared at the sky. Its body started to change a lot.
"This is bad!" Maxie cried out in fear. Archie started to laugh in a very loud and proud way. Groudon was three meters tall, but now it grew to over five meters. It looked very powerful. Its skin became orange and yellow like hot lava. It looked like it was covered in magma.
Several symbols shaped like "Ω" appeared on its arms and knees.
Five meters was very tall. Its body was now as tall as a two-story building. Everyone felt a lot of pressure from Groudon.
Everyone could see that Groudon was now in its Primal Reversion form.
Misty was in the bushes. She stared at the Pokémon and its great power. She whispered, "Primal Reversion... is this what it looks like after it evolves?"
"You are wrong," Natsui said. He shook his head and corrected her. "Primal Reversion is not evolution. It is when ancient Pokémon return to their original forms. This Groudon is now in its true form. It is the form from the start of the world before the earth was divided."
"Its true form..."
Primal Groudon lost all control. It did not listen to the orb. It was full of anger and heat like magma. It only wanted to destroy everything.
It attacked the Team Aqua members around it first.
The power of Primal Groudon was much stronger than before. It was a Fire-type now, so Water-type moves were strong against it. But its attacks were so powerful that they defeated many Pokémon at once. The other Pokémon could not even hit back.
It did not move much. It roared once, and the whole island shook. Large cracks appeared in the ground. Magma shot up from the ground like fountains. The magma went over ten meters high.
The magma came from under the ground. Groudon always slept near volcanoes. That is why magma flowed out when it came out from the ground.
But the magma did not cause most of the problems. The magma only made things chaotic. Primal Groudon's great strength defeated Team Aqua.
One Fissure move could defeat many Team Aqua members.
It did not kill everyone. It looked at Kyogre.
They had been rivals for thousands of years. Groudon always wanted to fight Kyogre. Even though its mind was messy, it wanted to attack Kyogre most of all.
Natsui and the other two were also affected by the shaking ground in the bushes.
The shock made Natsui fall on top of Shelly. He held her down against the ground.
He felt very nervous. The position was very uncomfortable. It was like how he sometimes was with Sabrina or Erika. He was surprised and tried to get off Shelly quickly.
He knew she could be very mean with her words. She had complained before just because he looked at her. He thought she would say something bad now.
But he was clumsy because he was in a hurry. One of his hands pressed on Shelly's chest.
He squeezed her by instinct.
His face changed quickly because he realized what he did.
But Shelly did not say anything about it. This was very rare.
He was still pressing there. She finally spoke in a calm voice. "Well? How much longer do you plan on holding that?"
"Huh? Oh... sorry..." Natsui felt a bit better. He stood up quickly. He looked ahead and tried to act like nothing happened.
Shelly stood up and fixed her clothes. Her next sentence made him almost choke.
"Was it good?"
"Cough... cough cough..." Natsui knew she would say something like that.
Natsui did not look at Shelly's face. He looked back at the battle.
Primal Groudon and Kyogre started to fight.
Kyogre had a type advantage, but it did not matter now. Primal Groudon punched Kyogre very hard in their first fight.
Misty climbed up from the ground. She did not see what happened between Natsui and Shelly. She rubbed her head and looked at the lake.
"Such incredible power! It knocked Kyogre out of the sky with one hit?" She was very surprised. She turned to Natsui. "Natsui, it's time! Let's move!"
"Do not be in a hurry," Natsui said. He touched his belt and waited. "Wait a little longer. Groudon and Kyogre just started. If we go now, Maxie might run away. We will wait until he makes Kyogre use Primal Reversion. When both Pokémon are fighting hard and cannot escape, we will go out."
Maxie did not make them wait.
Maxie had to do it because no one could stop Primal Groudon. He wanted to win, so he used the orb to make Kyogre use Primal Reversion.
A blue light covered Kyogre. Its body began to change.
Kyogre grew much larger. It was now almost 10 meters long.
Its body became clear like glass. It had a yellow light inside it. Symbols shaped like "α" appeared on its head and fins.
Primal Kyogre appeared on the island after Primal Groudon.
The two ancient rivals were now both in their legendary forms.
Primal Kyogre was still under Maxie's control.
It did not attack everyone. It only attacked Primal Groudon.
Maxie stood on his ship and held the Blue Orb. He looked at the two Pokémon. He felt very proud.
He thought no one in the world was as strong as him.
With Primal Kyogre, he was the strongest person in the world.
If he could get Primal Groudon too, no one could beat him.
He could easily finish all his goals.
BOOM! Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre hit each other.
It was a simple hit, but it changed the weather. The sky had dark clouds and lightning. There was a lot of thunder.
A shockwave went out. The whole island felt like it would break. Many small whirlpools appeared in the sea.
The power of Primal Pokémon was very scary.
Maxie thought this power was amazing. He wondered if he really owned this power.
Maxie started to smile, but then he stopped.
A person flew out from the bushes on the other side of the lake. The person was very fast. He reached Primal Kyogre quickly. A strong attack hit Primal Kyogre before Maxie knew what happened.
Maxie was very surprised because it happened so fast.
One second later, he saw what attacked Kyogre.
"Deoxys!"
Maxie shouted the name. He expected Natsui to come, but he did not think it would happen now.
He knew Natsui was there because Deoxys was there.
He looked at the bushes. He saw a man and two women walking out.
"Natsui!" Maxie looked very angry.
He did not understand why this man always appeared at the worst time.
Archie was also surprised to see Natsui. Then he started to laugh.
"Hahahaha!" He laughed until he was tired. "So that is it! I see! You were hiding here. I thought this was a secret, but you found out. You even came in here and no one saw you. I failed!"
He looked at Shelly. Shelly was next to Natsui. Archie did not say anything.
He knew she helped Natsui.
Shelly looked at Archie calmly. She did not feel upset.
Her past was over. Now she had a new life and a new person to help her. She was not part of Team Aqua anymore.
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