The crimson pool turned into a blood-colored lake, and a giant cocoon densely covered with evil aura broke through the soil!
In an instant, black clouds obscured the sun, and cold winds howled.
That's right, at the end of midsummer, a piercing cold wind actually blew through the forest—
An invisible aura spread across the Allearth Forest. This was something completely opposite to Xerneas's Fairy Aura...
One represented life and resurrection, the other... represented death and destruction.
Consciousness seemed to be frozen as if falling into an ice cave. Facing the violent wind, the Hoenn Champion's blue hair flapped wildly.
He was a bit dazed: What... happened? What is going on?
Faintly feeling that he had committed a grave sin, Steven gulped, turned around, and looked at the young man.
"Sir Lorze, do you know something about the current situation?"
Lorze was also somewhat annoyed—annoyed that he didn't inform Steven about Yveltal beforehand.
Because he felt there was no need: In the movie, Ash's group activated the Y Bird because they accidentally stepped into the pool where the Cocoon of Destruction slumbered while entangled in protecting Diancie. Now that the two strongest Trainers in Hoenn were here, could Diancie still be snatched away?
Facts proved that indeed she wouldn't be, but...
It was hard to say whether it was that confidence or arrogance that harmed everyone, but Yveltal's awakening was like an inevitable event on this worldline, unavoidable and inescapable.
"That is... the existence opposite to Xerneas in the Kalos region, the Dark and Flying-type Yveltal. It has awakened now."
Sensing the emergence of a crisis, Mewtwo immediately came out of her Poké Ball. This aura was full of the scent of death, even surpassing Rayquaza's previous oppressive aura. Even she sank deep into the haze of fear.
But Mewtwo knew she was the strongest existence in the team. She had to pretend to be calm, otherwise everyone would definitely fall into disarray.
Since things had come to this, it was absolutely impossible to sit idly by. She had to quickly take Lorze and the other little sisters away from here.
Immediately understanding Mewtwo's intention, Lorze glanced successively at Diancie, her three followers, and finally Steven.
"Everyone, please listen to me. Yveltal is absolutely not an opponent we can contend with. Fortunately, Xerneas is not far away. After sensing Yveltal's aura, It will definitely rush over."
"As for us... let Big Sister Mewtwo take everyone and use Teleport to leave here first! While Yveltal hasn't fully awakened yet, there's still a chance. Otherwise, it will be extremely dangerous later!"
But Steven remained unmoved, just staring intently at the dense source of the Dark Aura.
"Mr. Steven?"
"Sir Lorze, even if Xerneas returns here, Yveltal will definitely wreak havoc on the forest, right? Since this matter started because of me, I will stay behind no matter what. Both for you all and for the other Pokémon in the Allearth Forest... I will buy enough time for everyone to evacuate and hold on until Xerneas arrives."
Turning sideways to meet Lorze with resolute eyes, it was as if Steven at this moment was not wearing that dirty mining uniform, but a neat suit and leather shoes.
A resounding voice rang out:
"Because I am the Champion."
Lorze froze.
What kind of weight and spirit lay in those six short words? At least he felt he couldn't say the same thing.
Being able to steadily overpower Steven in matches and combat power, to say he didn't have a little secret joy would be unrealistic. But compared to the current Steven, Lorze only felt ashamed of his own unworthiness—I am a bit too petty.
The word "Champion" never just represented the strongest; it also meant heavy responsibilities on one's shoulders.
Even though he wasn't the Champion of the Kalos region, Steven still consciously took up those burdens. Even if he lost to Lorze, Steven had always been that strong and powerful Hoenn Champion, and this position belonged to no one else but him.
My ideological awareness is still too low... Shaking off the emotion of shame, Lorze also stepped forward and stood side-by-side with Steven—If I run away again at this time, I'd be too much of a coward, right?
"Then I'll stay too!"
Steven was first a bit surprised, then felt very happy—Sir Lorze is indeed a trustworthy person! It is truly a great blessing to make friends with such a person.
It was just that for Lorze...
He turned his head to look at his Pokémon. This was a decision made in a moment of hot-headedness after all. The girls had no responsibility to wade into muddy waters with him, especially the weaker Kirlia and Braixen.
But they didn't back down; instead, they gathered their courage and followed Lorze.
Mewtwo, taking the lead, put her large white finger on the young man's shoulder. A trace of intellectuality and gentleness flowed in her eyes.
"If you want to bear something, let everyone join you, because... we are family."
"Kirlia will follow Big Brother Lorze forever!" "Latias too." "Master Zako~ There's definitely no suspense about that kind of thing~"
Every cute or playful face wore a determined expression. Lorze was a bit dazed, couldn't help but call them silly in his heart. Meeting them was truly a blessing.
"Thank you everyone, I understand!"
"I also want to be with everyone—"
Diancie, who had just voiced her desire to fight alongside them, was rejected by both Steven and Lorze. Even her three little followers had quite a few complaints about her behavior.
"Our initial purpose for this trip was to protect Diancie's safety, so you must stay away from here, Diancie!"
"Exactly!"
Seeing the Princess of the Diamond Domain being pulled away into the distance by the three little ones, Lorze and Steven no longer had any worries. One mounted Latias, and the other mounted Skarmory.
Even after talking big, Lorze knew very well he was just putting up a brave front: Between him and Steven, they couldn't even scrape together a single Pokémon that resists Dark-types. The situation is probably quite grim...
So right from the start, the two top Trainers went all out—
"Mega Evolve!"
Three clusters of rainbow-colored light erupted in the sky above the Allearth Forest. Metagross, Mewtwo, and Latias all transformed into their Mega forms!
At the same time, Yveltal fully awakened, shaking its giant wings and ascending to the high sky.
Looking down at the Allearth Forest, all living creatures seemed insignificant. There were also a few annoying mosquitoes buzzing non-stop in its ears.
Casting its gaze towards one of the mosquitoes, just a single look made Lorze on Latias feel sick: He was also a Psychic, with strong and sensitive perception towards Dark-types. Let alone the current Yveltal, he could only think of one phrase to describe It.
—When it rouses itself and flies, its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky.
A sharp screech rang out. The angry Yveltal spewed surging dark purple energy from its mouth, sweeping straight towards Lorze's direction!
"Latias, use Agility to dodge!"
"Mhm, yes!"
"Swoosh!"
Latias executed a highly difficult fancy flight maneuver, barely dodging this Oblivion Wing using extremely deceptive techniques, and then, like a jet plane, went full throttle and suddenly accelerated!
But the forest swept by the beam suffered. With lingering fear, Lorze looked down: A straight line extending from here all the way to the edge of the forest had all turned into stone because of Oblivion Wing!
This is the true strength of a regional deity...
"Mr. Steven, whatever you do, do not get hit by that move, otherwise you'll turn into stone!"
"Understood!"
Mewtwo, Latias, and Lorze, as well as Metagross, Steven, and Skarmory all tacitly changed their formation, spreading out their positions—
"Big Sister Mewtwo and Latias use Ice Beam to interfere. Kirlia, Moonblast. Braixen, Mystical Fire!"
With Mewtwo and Latias's strength, they could fire instantly, shooting two surging ice-blue beams from different directions. Kirlia also raised both hands, tossing a giant energy sphere resembling the lunar surface alongside the Ice Beams towards Yveltal!
With Its size, the current attacks would definitely hit at least one!
But the Y Bird just flapped its wings and looked up at the sky, screeching while releasing black wave energy from its body, overbearingly deflecting all three attacks!
Under the Dark Aura, the form of Dark Pulse was more flexible, suitable for both offense and defense. But the terrible thing was...
Just the aftershock of Dark Pulse made Latias and Mewtwo retreat in pain. Did it trigger the flinch effect of Dark Pulse?
You've gotta be kidding me, that was just the aftershock...
Instead, it was Braixen, who was half a beat slower, whose Mystical Fire passed through the gradually dissipating Dark Pulse with a slightly bizarre trajectory and hit Yveltal's massive tail!
Great, this way the Y Bird's Special Attack will drop... right?
The blue light ring symbolizing a stat drop did not appear. The secondary effect actually didn't work!?
Could it be that conventional Pokémon combat mechanics no longer apply to Legendary Pokémon of this magnitude?
Realizing its tail was itchy, Yveltal was enraged. The next second, the massive figure resembling the Grim Reaper flapped its wings and arrived above Lorze's head, completely covering the entire sky above the young man!
The sky, already covered in dark clouds due to Yveltal's appearance, became even darker.
A terrifying atmosphere enveloped the young man. The Y Bird's speed was even faster than imagined...
"Vwoom!"
The giant, beak-like mouth opened, and a massive Shadow Ball with a diameter of fully three meters was fired towards Lorze!
"Braixen, Kirlia, use Protect!"
That Latias could maintain her posture and not crash was already a blessing in disguise. This hit had to be blocked by Kirlia and Braixen!
A double-layered barrier deployed, and Lorze also used his telekinesis to reinforce it. The moment that Shadow Ball smashed into the Protect barrier, the group plummeted rapidly due to the downward momentum! The two layers of barriers also showed faint signs of shattering because the power of the Shadow Ball was too strong—
But as if dissatisfied, Yveltal opened its big mouth again: Then, how will you deal with the second one?
In the nick of time, the reliable silver-white figure finally took action!
"Metagross, Meteor Mash!"
"Me-tag—"
From right above Yveltal, utilizing free fall and its own acceleration, Metagross tucked its four massive front claws together and plummeted straight down like a meteor, crashing heavily onto Yveltal's head!
The Y Bird's head sank abruptly, swallowing the Shadow Ball that had just gathered in front of its mouth. Unable to control it, the ball exploded in its mouth!
"Very good, Thunder Punch!"
Pinning the horns on Yveltal's head with two clawed fists, the electricity on the other two giant claws crackled. The fists shining with electric light smashed solidly onto Yveltal's forehead punch after punch, hitting flesh with every blow!
Just a moment's respite also allowed Latias to regain her senses. She immediately used Psychic to change the direction of the Shadow Ball that was about to break through Protect, sending it flying back towards Yveltal—
"Boom!"
Injured successively by its own Shadow Balls, the humiliated and enraged Yveltal immediately released Dark Pulse to knock away Metagross, then flipped its body and used its tail to violently swat away the mosquito harassing its head!
Fortunately, Mewtwo used telekinesis to stop Metagross from plummeting straight to the ground, thus avoiding fall damage.
The next second, Mewtwo raised both hands, using her large purple fingers to manipulate the dark clouds overhead with psychic power—Sudden thunder!
"Rumble!"
Swift lightning fell from the clouds and struck Yveltal's massive wing. The Y Bird lost its balance momentarily, its body tilting to the side, while letting out a screech of pain and anger.
Having been thwarted again and again, It no longer had any interest in playing around with these guys. It immediately began releasing Oblivion Wing randomly and indiscriminately!
Wherever the ray passed, lives were devastated. Even the waterfalls of the Allearth Forest turned into dark red dead water, no longer showing the babbling vitality of the past.
"Everyone pause attacking and take cover, whatever you do, do not get hit by Oblivion Wing!"
Skarmory and Latias both exerted 120% of their spirit, dodging Oblivion Wing while using Agility to close the distance with Yveltal—
Metagross cleverly used the punching speed of Bullet Punch to crash into Yveltal. Its four giant claws tightly gripped Its wings, also managing to avoid the petrifying ray!
Mewtwo constantly used Teleport to adjust her position, making her the easiest at dodging among all the Pokémon.
For a moment, the ray of Oblivion Wing brushed past Lorze. Decay mixed with despair assaulted his face. He almost thought his role was over.
Looking casually into the distance, at the end of the forest was a snow mountain under dark clouds.
Xerneas... why hasn't it arrived yet!!
While the two top Trainers of Hoenn racked their brains fighting the giant figure in the sky, Diancie finally arrived at the scene of the battle.
"Her Highness Diancie, we shouldn't come out..."
"But, I also want to help Mr. Lorze and Mr. Steven!"
Skarmory, having maintained high-intensity flight for so long, finally ran out of stamina. Steven had no choice but to make a forced landing on the ground, and immediately spotted Diancie nearby.
"Diancie? Why did you come over!"
"I, I—"
But before Diancie could finish, Steven noticed that Yveltal's next direction was somewhat amiss...
"Diancie, watch out!"
Rushing in front of the Princess of the Diamond Domain to shield her, the Oblivion Wing swept past Steven's leg!
"Run, survive..."
This was the last sentence Steven left for Diancie before being petrified.
"Mr. Steven!? Mr. Steven!!"
Skarmory, who had just made a forced landing, opened its bird beak wide and witnessed the entire process. Its unbelievable sorrow turned into a chest full of resentment. Flapping its wings again, it pierced the sky and charged towards Yveltal: To actually do that to my Trainer... you bastard, I'll self-destruct and take you down with me!
Lorze on the other side was also extremely shocked. Mr. Steven got petrified!?
His brain crashed for a moment: This is bad! Losing strong command, Metagross's strength is greatly discounted. My girls have also suffered injuries to varying degrees and consumed a lot of stamina. If this continues, it will be even harder to hold out alone...
But Yveltal wouldn't give him a chance to space out. It suddenly retracted Oblivion Wing, instead flapping its wings and charging towards Lorze and Latias, using its body and tail to violently knock the dragon sister unconscious!
Latias instantly reverted from her Mega form, plummeting towards the ground along with the three people she was carrying—
Fortunately, Lorze exerted his current level of telekinesis with all his might, so that he and the crashing Pokémon wouldn't suffer fatal injuries. But even so, Braixen still fainted with all four paws in the air.
Losing Mr. Steven, Latias, and Braixen all at once, what should I do next...
And Mewtwo was inherently at a disadvantage in typing. After being easily repelled by the roaring Yveltal, a deceptive offensive move from the Y Bird made Mewtwo immediately use Teleport to leave. But Its true target... was Lorze.
Realizing she was fooled, Mewtwo wanted to use Teleport again, but she found that her stamina was also running low, and she couldn't teleport to Lorze's side in time... Oh no!
And right now, the only one Lorze could rely on beside him was that tenacious girl, Kirlia.
Dark Pulse had already swept fiercely from Yveltal's mouth towards Lorze. The young man subconsciously closed his eyes.
I guess I'm really done for this time, right? Being turned into stone by Oblivion Wing could still be reversed by Xerneas, but if my body is smashed to pieces by Dark Pulse, there's no way.
Fortunately, the girls landed some distance away from me. This Dark Pulse shouldn't affect them.
Various scenes of his past life flashed through the young man's mind like playing a movie. Is this... a life flashing before one's eyes moment?
But the parts before transmigration in those scenes were very, very few. Most of them were bits and pieces of getting along with the cute Psychic-type Pokémon since coming to the Pokémon world—even though it hadn't even been a few months.
Big Sister Mewtwo, Kirlia, Latias, and Braixen...
Among those rapidly flashing images, the one that made his blood boil the most was the crazy, immoral copulation with Kirlia a few nights ago. He clearly recalled how Kirlia's petite, tender, fair body was forcibly pinned beneath him, and how that yet-to-fully-develop, but exceptionally tight and hot pink little hole struggled to swallow his thick, hard, vein-bulging meat rod.
"Ah ha... Big Brother Lorze... it's too big... Kirlia's little tummy is going to burst... woo woo..." The girl's sweet, crying pants seemed to still echo in his ears. He remembered being dominated by intense animalistic lust, mercilessly gripping her soft, easily graspable waist, wildly thrusting wide and forcefully like a pile driver, ruthlessly chiseling the scalding glans into the deepest part of that delicate flower core time and time again.
The crisp "slap, slap" of flesh slapping accompanied by the "squelch, squelch" of lewd water, a large amount of transparent love nectar mixed with the thick white turbidity he overflowed, mashing the place they joined into a muddy mess. In that ultimate pleasure, Kirlia hugged his neck tightly with teary eyes, her delicate body convulsing violently, passively receiving wave after wave of his scalding internal creampies like a high-pressure water gun. She trembled in the afterglow of climax, making a lust-filled vow close to his ear: "Big Brother Lorze... Kirlia will definitely grow up quickly... evolve into Gardevoir... and use a mature body to squeeze all of Big Brother's essence dry..."
Lorze laughed out of sheer absurdity. What is all this? Aren't life-flashing-before-one's-eyes moments supposed to help you find a solution to the current problem from past experiences? Is this reliable at all?
Lorze felt strange: I'm clearly about to die, I thought my inner self would struggle more violently, but in fact, it's not like that. I'm surprisingly very calm.
But being able to see my most beloved Pokémon one last time before dying, dying surrounded by happiness seems pretty good too? Perhaps the only regret is not being able to fuck Sis Gardevoir once before dying, even though it would have been very soon...
After a burst of random thoughts, Lorze found that the imagined instantaneous severe pain didn't strike. Instead, an ethereal female Pokémon's cry reached his ears.
"Sou!"
Wait, this cry is!? Isn't that exactly what I've been dreaming of and longing for day and night...
Opening his eyes abruptly, he found Kirlia had come in front of him at some point, propping up Moonblast with both hands to resist Yveltal's Dark Pulse!?
And the reason why she could briefly contend with Yveltal was that the girl's body was bursting with the dazzling light of evolution!
Could it be...
Although Lorze's brain activity was very rich, it was only an instant. And in this instant, Kirlia did three things.
First, used Teleport to come in front of Lorze, shielding her Master behind her.
Second, raised her hands to release Moonblast to meet the Dark Pulse. Even if it was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, she didn't hesitate.
Third, released all the energy she had accumulated for a long time—right here, right now, evolving to protect her beloved Master!
To transform from the graceful Kirlia to the tall Gardevoir, all that was needed was determination and an opportunity... and love for Lorze.
"Sou—" (So what if you're the Grim Reaper? Gardevoir won't let you hurt Big Brother Lorze!)
Fully mobilizing the Fairy blessing obtained from Xerneas, Gardevoir pursed her small mouth, closed her eyes tightly, and forced her hands to continuously push Moonblast forward... actually managing to repel the Dark Pulse!!