Chapter 565: Peeking From the Shadows
"What's the other preparation?"
"This place isn't far from Celestic Town. Call Druddigon and Victini over. It's a pity N accompanied Ash to Alola, otherwise we could have called him and Reshiram too."
Will grinned.
In the movie, Darkrai couldn't defend Alamos Town alone.
And even caused the energies of Palkia and Dialga to clash and annihilate.
Then.
What if a few more Champions came?
Will believed the pressure of fighting the gods of space and time would definitely be much less than fighting the seven gods.
"Okay, should we call the two mothers too?"
"No, don't let them worry about this kind of thing."
Will immediately shook his head, looking at Cynthia with a serious expression.
The two old mothers are getting on in years.
Not suitable to participate in such major events, even though they are still very strong.
"Mm."
Cynthia nodded gently.
She knew.
Will's protective personality was acting up again.
"Then should I leave too?"
Cynthia looked at Will and asked.
She was directly confronting the issue from two years ago.
"No, I need Cynthia's strength."
Will shook his head.
Before, when fighting the seven gods.
He didn't have any certainty of winning, so he absolutely couldn't bring Cynthia along.
But this time.
If he could call Big Fool and Victini over, plus Cynthia's first team.
Adding up to a total of 5 upper-tier Champions and 4 mid-tier Champions, he didn't know how they could lose.
Even if it was against Master-level gods of space and time.
Stalling until Oración was played should definitely be no problem, right?
"Oh."
Cynthia nodded.
No look of joy appeared on her face.
It wasn't right.
This feeling wasn't right.
What she wanted was that even if the road ahead was destined for death, Will would tightly hold her hand and die together for love.
Not wait until it was certain they could overcome the difficulty together before being willing to keep her by his side.
Buzz~
Suddenly, a sharp ringing sound, like something submerged underwater, reached Will's ears.
He widened his eyes, looking up, and murmured:
"They're here so fast?!"
How is that possible?!
In the original work, before Palkia and Dialga appeared, besides the spatial tremors, there should have been many, many other warning signs of problems in Alamos Town.
For example...
Darkrai running out to drive humans away.
Spatial distortion causing dreams and reality to intertwine.
Certain buildings suddenly collapsing.
But right now nothing had happened, and the gods of space and time suddenly appeared!
"What?"
Cynthia was stunned for a moment, hurriedly running to the window.
"Good heavens! What's going on?!"
Alice covered her mouth looking at the scene outside the window.
Only to see the entire isolated island where Alamos Town was located was wrapped in a dark space. The darkness in the distance was like flowing sewage, giving off a very ominous feeling just looking at it.
"Such powerful energy!"
Tonio, who had been staring at the computer, had a drastic change in expression.
The energy bar on the screen was off the charts.
"The spatial rift."
Will gritted his teeth and muttered.
It seems there's no way to call for external help.
Right now, in the outside world.
The isolated island where Alamos Town is located has probably disappeared from the lake.
Even if the Sinnoh League noticed something was wrong, they couldn't get in.
Only Palkia has the ability to return Alamos Town to the Sinnoh land.
"Cynthia, Alice, ride Garchomp immediately to the top of the Space-Time Tower and play Oración!"
Will handed the Oración disk in his hand to Alice.
The reason he didn't give it to Cynthia.
Was because playing the music disk required a bit of operation.
Cynthia had never learned it before, so going up alone she might not be able to play the disk smoothly.
"Okay!"
Cynthia nodded immediately.
"I'll go too!"
Tonio hurriedly followed, taking out his Poké Ball,
"My Pokémon can fly me up."
"Mm, let's go together."
Alice reached out and held Tonio's hand.
Looking at their tightly held hands and the way they looked at each other.
Cynthia felt somewhat envious in her heart.
Clearly Tonio and Alice were so weak, but when facing danger, they could recklessly walk forward hand in hand.
Why couldn't they, who were so powerful, do the same?
Cynthia turned to look towards the window.
Will had already flown out, his whereabouts unknown.
She gathered her emotions, flipped out the window, and in the blink of an eye mounted Garchomp.
"Alice, come."
"Okay!"
Alice was also a brave girl.
Unhesitatingly jumped out the window.
They didn't dawdle, immediately heading towards the very top of the Space-Time Tower.
Tonio was a step behind, riding his Noivern closely following.
In the sky above Alamos Town.
Will crossed his arms over his chest.
He floated in the air with his eyes tightly closed, the ribbon-like appendages on his head fluttering in the wind.
At a certain moment.
His eyes suddenly snapped open, pushed off the air, and flew towards the sky above the Space-Time Tower:
"Found it."
At the same time.
In a courtyard on the other side, a black shadow suddenly flew out, heading towards the same target at a speed completely not inferior to Will's.
It was precisely the Darkrai hidden in Alamos Town!
Will exchanged a glance with it.
Neither paid attention to the other, continuing forward.
"Eee-onn!"
Accompanied by an ethereal shriek.
The pink-and-white Palkia was the first to drill out of the sky, as if being chased by something.
Cracks could vaguely be seen on the pink crystal on its left shoulder.
Clearly in an injured state.
"Get out!"
Darkrai roared angrily, its pitch-black fist smashing straight over.
Boom!
Palkia was caught off guard by the sudden vent-anger move, and translated horizontally for a dozen meters.
Will, who had deliberately waited on the side for two seconds, swept a glance.
Confirmed that Darkrai's level had reached around Lv. 92. No wonder it could participate in the battle of the gods of space and time.
And the reason he deliberately waited for two seconds.
Was waiting for Dialga.
"Mmmmm-ommm!"
A melodious and heavy sound like a great bell came from the hole.
Another deep blue figure emerged from the hole left by Palkia.
Will, who had already rubbed out Hone Claws and Focus Blast and waited for a long time, immediately rushed up, raised his hand, and slammed it down fiercely.
Bang!
A golden Focus Blast directly blasted Dialga back into the hole.
Will breathed a sigh of relief seeing this.
If he could successfully stop Dialga from coming to this world, it could be considered a disguised way of stopping this war.
However.
Right at this moment.
An incandescent beam shot out from the other end of the hole.
With a bizarrely fast Roar of Time, Dialga forcefully stopped the shrinking of the wormhole, then accelerated and knocked away Will, who was blocking the entrance, and rushed out.
Looking to the side.
Darkrai wanted to press the attack.
But was slashed flying by Palkia's teleporting Spacial Rend, crashing into the buildings of Alamos Town below, crushing many buildings, and seemingly injuring several people and Pokémon.
Everything happened too suddenly.
The residents and Pokémon staying in Alamos Town completely didn't have time to flee.
Many people didn't even know what was going on yet, looking blankly at the gods of space and time in the sky.
"Tsk."
Will smacked his lips.
The scene ultimately turned out like this.
And the problem is huge!
He might have underestimated the combat power of Dialga and Palkia in his eyes.
During the previous battle of the Super Djinn.
The consciousnesses of the gods of space and time were slumbering, and they barely used their exclusive abilities at all, so much so that Will forgot their unique abilities were quite tricky.
For example.
Palkia's Spacial Rend can teleport.
Dialga can accelerate itself and Roar of Time.
These are abilities the gods of space and time completely didn't display from beginning to end during the Super Djinn battle.
Moreover.
At that time, the gods of space and time were only seven or eight meters tall.
Looking at them now.
They are basically two behemoths forty or fifty meters tall fighting.
However.
Cynthia and the others should have arrived at the top of the Space-Time Tower by now.
As long as Oración is played...
"Roar!!"
A roar full of brutality came from the other side of the world.
The moment he heard this sound.
Will's pupils shrank slightly, immediately turning his head to look in the direction the sound came from:
"Giratina!"
And when he saw Giratina appear outside the top of the Space-Time Tower.
His heart stopped beating in that second.
Ten minutes ago.
The other side of the world—the Distortion World.
When Giratina felt the spatial tremors once again.
It suddenly opened its eyes, full of rage. It couldn't stand it anymore!
It must find those two guys, and then beat them to death!
Harboring such determination.
Giratina began to perceive the auras of those two bastards, the gods of space and time, through the connection between the Distortion World and the real world.
Finally.
Near Alamos Town, it noticed something was wrong.
As if to confirm its perception.
Alamos Town was teleported into the spatial rift in the next second.
What is the spatial rift?
In the setting of the Pokémon world, the spatial rift is a gap located between countless alternate worlds. It is a place of nothingness where no living creature can survive.
But...
It also connects all alternate worlds.
It can be said that whether it's the Creation Trio or the Lake Guardians, those Pokémon living in separate alternate worlds and alternate dimensions, as long as they possess a bit of space-time traversal ability, can come to this intermediate zone, allowing gods who originally couldn't meet to meet here.
For Giratina.
Palkia bringing Alamos Town to the spatial rift simply played right into Giratina's hands.
Due to being exiled by Arceus.
Giratina generally cannot leave the Distortion World and go to the real world.
Even if it was pulled over by the Shadow of Hoopa, it would be forcefully repatriated after a few minutes if Palkia didn't bring Alamos Town to the spatial rift.
Then Giratina could do nothing, only watch helplessly and wait for an opportunity to act later.
But he actually gave Giratina an opportunity to intervene.
And just as the Renegade Pokémon was quietly observing and waiting for an opportunity to secretly attack, it suddenly discovered two loathsome auras that seemed familiar.
Subsequently.
Its gloomy gaze noticed Will and Cynthia.
One was the dog it had seen two years ago.
The other was the blonde two-legged beast.
Both were old enemies.
Seeing Cynthia's blonde hair, Giratina recalled the man who controlled it a thousand years ago!
For it, that was simply an extraordinary humiliation!
Feeling the aura of the same bloodline on the two of them.
Giratina's target immediately shifted to Blonde-kun.
Finally.
At the moment when Cynthia and the others were focused on playing the music disk.
Giratina drilled out from the shadows, opening its giant mouth and biting towards the Space-Time Tower.
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