Zzzzzz——!
Above the Quartz Plateau's aerial battlefield, two figures, one large and one small, confronted each other aggressively.
The collision of black and deep red formed two intersecting shockwaves, engulfing Dark Lugia and Bewear within.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh——!
The black and red intertwined energy shield continued to expand, blowing away everything around it.
Streaks of dark red lightning and jet-black flames intertwined, flickering intermittently.
If Wallace, Cynthia, and Alder, who had just arrived, hadn't released their full teams to rescue people, countless more would have been caught in the blast.
"It's starting!"
"That, that Pokémon, is Bewear from Alola, right? Although it's a relatively rare Pokémon, it, it's actually fighting Dark Lugia! ?"
"And what's with the red flashes emanating from that Bewear? It's actually evenly matched with Dark Lugia!"
The impact of Dark Power and Conqueror's Haki (Color of the Supreme King) covered the entire battlefield, instantly knocking out anyone below the Elite Four level.
However, below, Guzma, the boss of Team Skull, and Su Sheng, who had arrived as reinforcements, stood firm.
On Guzma's side, the Legendary Birds guarded him.
On Su Sheng's side, a peculiar Altaria spread its wings, using its fluffy feathers to shield its master from the storm.
Boom boom boom!
The atmosphere shattered, and the red light waves in the lower segment were gradually suppressed.
Finally, with a "swoosh," it transformed into a swift shadow, flying backward and crashing down with a thud!
The red swift shadow crashed heavily back to the ground.
The already devastated land now had a super crater thousands of meters deep.
Swoosh——
However, before the smoke could dissipate and people could see the scene inside.
A large area of thick smoke scattered from the impact, and a swift shadow landed back beside Su Sheng.
It was Bewear!
And in the sky above.
Dark Lugia was also forced back a dozen meters.
In the first round, Dark Lugia clearly had a slight advantage.
However, even so, it was enough to shock the whole world.
Don't forget, ever since Guzma released Dark Lugia, that monster had been taking out a Champion-level opponent with at least one move!
And now, someone could actually go toe-to-toe with it!?
Whoosh—Boom!
As Bewear returned to Su Sheng's side, a top-tier Legendary-level Dark Spiral Impact fell from the sky again.
Dark Pulse!
Several of the League's top combatants had fallen under this move before.
Facing a Dark Pulse powerful enough to instantly kill an ordinary Champion-level Pokémon, Su Sheng leaped up and sat on the back of his Mega Altaria, ascending into the sky.
Meanwhile, Bewear stepped on the void, allowing the Dark Pulse to almost graze the soles of its feet as it landed on the earth.
Boom——!
A deafening roar rose from beneath Bewear's feet, but the gale that erupted, splitting the earth, seemed to propel Bewear faster towards Dark Lugia in the sky.
As if a rocket was launching, Bewear swung its right fist, and golden lightning burst forth.
It was Thunder Punch!
But the next second, Mustard, the Electric-type Gym Leader, and Volkner, the new Sunyshore City Gym Leader responsible for defense in Sinnoh, widened their eyes in astonishment.
The golden lightning on Bewear's right arm transformed into dark red lightning.
Take this!
Haki-Infused Thunder Punch!
The dark red Thunder Punch in an uppercut motion slammed heavily into Dark Lugia's silver-gray abdomen.
Dark Lugia's scarlet eyes narrowed slightly.
A large, dark purple sphere of protective shield appeared on its body surface.
Protect!
It would be troublesome to take that move head-on.
Dark Lugia thought to itself.
And Dark Lugia's behavior also made Guzma, sitting on the throne, frown secretly.
It actually forced Dark Lugia to use a defensive move.
Thud——
Shining with a different color than ordinary golden lightning, the dark red lightning-like Thunder Punch slammed hard on the surface of the dark protective shield.
Although it's not an absolute defense like in the games, the Protect move is indeed one of the best defensive skills in the Pokémon world.
Unless your level far exceeds your opponent, you have to think about breaking through this move by force.
Almost all Pokémon do.
And in terms of overall level, Bewear is certainly not as good as Dark Lugia.
Thud!
However, at this moment, a muffled sound came from the sky.
A huge fist mark appeared on Dark Lugia's gray-black abdomen.
The Dark God, who had been reigning over the battlefield like a demon, opened its mouth for the first time, spitting out a white foam and revealing a painful expression.
"What!?"
This time, it was finally the Team Skull's turn to panic.
What exactly happened?
Didn't Dark Lugia's Protect block that bear's fist?
Why was it still hit!?
"Could it be… Unseen Fist? No, that's not right, it should be some other reason…"
Mustard, far away in Galar, subconsciously thought of his Urshifu's exclusive ability—Unseen Fist.
A powerful ability that can ignore defensive skills like Protect and Spiky Shield, directly hitting the target's body.
But that's not right!
As the strongest Fighting-type specialist trainer of this era, Mustard himself knows a lot about the Fighting-type Bewear and is very clear that Bewear does not have the Unseen Fist ability.
Moreover, although Unseen Fist can ignore most defensive skills, it will still be blocked when facing defensive moves with too high intensity.
Such as "Max Guard."
And Mustard felt that his Urshifu was not capable of breaking through Dark Lugia's "Protect" just now.
"Eeoo woo~~"
The Dark God showed a painful expression for the first time since being released.
The huge body staggered in mid-air, not enough to fall to the ground, but it did lose its balance briefly.
And the dark protective shield that originally protected this huge body gradually became transparent and disappeared.
Step! Step! Step!
Bewear's feet continuously stepped in mid-air, constantly closing the distance with Dark Lugia.
Dark Lugia quickly recovered from the pain, opened its mouth, and vaguely saw the ultimate Dark Power from the depths of its mouth.
You're dead!
Step!!!
However, Bewear took the next step, strengthening its power output, and exploding with a faster speed than the previous steps.
A metal-lustered forehead directly hit the center of Dark Lugia's throat, swallowing the Dark Impact that the Dark God had planned to release back into its throat.
Iron Head!
"Don't Oh!"
The next second, Tapu Bewear shouted, its arms tightly hugging Dark Lugia's slender throat.
Its waist twisted.
In an over-the-shoulder throw posture, it lifted Dark Lugia over its head.
Rumble——
Under the unbelievable gaze of the world.
The Quartz Plateau, which had only half its area left and stood in the clouds, began to shake again.
Soaring smoke rose everywhere.
And the location where Dark Lugia fell, its head was exactly aligned with Sonia, who was teleported to the battlefield by a certain yellow mouse, and Lorelei, who temporarily lost her ability to act.
Looking at the Dark Demon God lying in front of them, the two women felt a sense of suffocation surge into their brains.
"Chumimi~"
Only a certain yellow mouse, hugged in Sonia's arms, who forgot to hide its cry, looked at the other party up close with big eyes after jumping down from Sonia's arms.
A black Lugia!
I haven't seen one before~
Instantly, Dark Lugia, who was thrown to the ground, suddenly opened its eyes.
The fierce scarlet eyes startled the fake yellow mouse, and it fell to the ground on its butt.
"Pikachu! Come back quickly!"
Sonia was so frightened that she wanted to rush up and hug the other party back.
"Million-Ton Kick!"
Su Sheng's voice came from the sky.
Sonia and Lorelei raised their heads and looked at the sky.
Bewear was like a meteor, falling rapidly in a high-split posture, and dark black arcs flashed around it.
In the last moment when Bewear's heel was less than three meters away from Dark Lugia.
Suddenly, Dark Lugia, facing away from Bewear, opened its mouth slightly.
Sonia's face changed drastically, and she shouted out loud:
"Doctor be careful, he—"
Before Sonia could finish her words.
Dark Lugia suddenly turned its head and released the Dark Impact that had just not been fired.
Dark Squall!
Dark Lugia's exclusive skill!
Bewear's face changed drastically as it maintained its high-split leg movement.
Boom——!!!
The next second, a super explosion erupted in the sky above Quartz Plateau.
A bottomless hole was blasted out in the center of the clouds.
Boom——!!!
However, just when the world was once again shocked by Dark Lugia's exclusive skill.
A sonic boom that was no less powerful than the Dark Squall just now, detonated on the ground.
Immediately afterwards, under the incredible gaze of the people at the scene and around the world.
The Dark Squall came to an abrupt stop, and Dark Lugia, as the initiator, flew up with a painful expression.
From that huge body that was obviously losing its balance, and the fist mark on its lower jaw.
It was obvious that it was not flying up by itself, but was knocked up!
"Wh, what happened? What just happened?!"
In Pewter City Gym, Brock, hugging a group of younger siblings, opened his squinted eyes wide.
Brock's strength as a trainer, even in the late stages when he mastered the Mega Evolution of Steelix, could only be said to be barely passable in the ranks of top trainers.
But his ability as a breeder and his ability to observe battles were first-rate.
Many times when Ash was in a bottleneck, Brock, as a male mother, enlightened him from the side.
But even so, Brock didn't see what had just happened.
Why was Dark Lugia, who used a killing move, knocked away instead?
Everything came too suddenly, causing those in front of the TV, and even Cynthia, Lance, and others who were at the scene but far away, to not see the specific situation clearly.
Only Sonia and Lorelei, who were less than ten meters away from Dark Lugia, saw it clearly—
Just now, Dark Lugia pretended to be weak, showing a posture that it couldn't get up for a while.
When the descending Bewear came to a position where it could not avoid it, it suddenly turned its head and released its exclusive skill, Dark Squall, at the close-range Bewear.
It can be said that 99% of Pokémon, no, even top legends.
Would not be able to avoid it in this situation.
However, Bewear seemed to see the future.
The powerful kick was stepped down in advance, and like before, it used air as a foothold and used Moonblast to be less than one meter away from Dark Lugia's big mouth in the last moment of life and death.
With a "snap", it avoided the Dark Squall with Moonblast in the last moment of life and death.
The Dark Squall almost brushed past Bewear's side fur and poured into the sky, breaking a hole in the Nine Heavens.
But no matter how strong your ultimate move is, it is useless if it does not hit.
And Bewear, who transformed the Haki-Infused Million-Ton Kick into Moonblast to avoid the Dark Squall, stomped on the ground with one foot again after landing, turning into a swift shadow and blasting to Dark Lugia's face, who was still releasing Dark Squall.
Haki-Infused Thunder Punch!
The heavy punch covered with dark red lightning slammed hard on Dark Lugia's cheek in an uppercut manner.
In this way, Dark Lugia was heavily knocked into the air.
"Did Bewear's attack hit?"
Cynthia blinked her right eye that was not covered by bangs.
She was relatively far away and did not see what happened specifically.
But at this moment, the smoke on the barren earth had dissipated, and Bewear beside Su Sheng raised his right arm and made an uppercut posture.
Coupled with the appearance of Dark Lugia being knocked away in the sky.
Anyone who was not blind could basically guess the cause and effect.
"Roar——!"
At this time, Dark Lugia, who was knocked away, had already flapped its wings to stabilize its body, but extreme anger turned into a stern roar at this moment.
In the giant sound, countless dark brown giant light bullets fell like meteorites, launching indiscriminate attacks on the ground.
A barrage of Aura Spheres!
Rumble!
Rumble!!
Rumble!!!
The Destruction Cannons, which were more like Aura "Cannons" than Aura Spheres in terms of volume, smashed one deep pit after another on the already devastated earth.
In the cities near Quartz Plateau, such as Viridian City in Kanto and New Bark Town in Johto, it really looked like meteorites were falling from a distance.
Dark Lugia is angry!
"This place is about to collapse! Quickly move the wounded onto the plane! Others use Flying-type Pokémon to escape!"
Wallace pointed to Diantha, who was still unconscious behind the battlefield, and released a Pelipper at the same time.
This Pokémon was at the bottom of his team in terms of combat power, basically responsible for raining and acting as a flying vehicle.
"Take them away."
Su Sheng made a gesture to the yellow mouse who was addicted to watching the excitement with his back turned.
He took two steps forward.
Rumble!
The next second, a giant Aura Sphere fell, just hitting the position where Su Sheng was standing just now behind him.
To be precise, it erased that piece of land from Quartz Plateau.
And so was Bewear.
Without panicking, he used speed to dodge or used powerful moves to fight against Dark Lugia.
Instead, he moved left and right like walking.
But every time, he could let countless meteorite groups in the sky brush past his body.
"This can no longer be explained by perception."
Cynthia, lying on Garchomp's back, stared blankly at this scene, "Could it be that they can see the future!?"
"Now is not the time to watch the excitement, Cynthia!"
Korrina, letting Hawlucha grab her shoulder, reminded.
"We need to leave quickly! Quartz Plateau is about to…"
"Roar Roar Roar——!!!"
Before Korrina could finish her words, everyone heard Dark Lugia in the center of the clouds burst out with an even more annoyed roar.
Dark Lugia raised its head towards the sky, energy filled with the aura of destruction constantly gathering in the dome above, as the earth gradually became covered in dark energy.
In cities closer to the Indigo Plateau, such as Viridian City and New Bark Town, the people and Pokémon living there suddenly felt a sense of oppression as if they were drowning.
"Pika, Pika..."
Pikachu, no longer tied with a leash, but perched on Ash's shoulder like in the anime, tilted its head and was about to fall off, but Ash was quick-witted enough to catch it in time.
If Pokémon so far away felt like this, let alone those at the scene.
Whether it was Cynthia and Diantha on their Garchomps, or Hawlucha.
Or Lance, Wallace and others who had already arrived at Victory Road with the help of Dragonite and Pelipper.
Each and every one of them was drenched in cold sweat, feeling their breathing becoming increasingly difficult.
"That Dark Lugia is even using Dark Weather."
Alder, who had also teleported to Victory Road using Alakazam's Teleport, said in a deep voice.
"Dark Weather?"
Lorelei, riding on Galarian Moltres, asked with a puzzled look on her cold face.
"One of Dark Lugia's exclusive skills, turning the battle environment into 'Dark Aura'. Any non-Dark Pokémon will have their HP reduced over time, and... the power of Dark moves will be greatly increased!"
As soon as Alder finished speaking, Dark Lugia's body surged with dark flames again.
Its already enormous body tripled in size.
Here it comes!
Dark Rush!
Rumble——
As if in response to the strengthened Dark Lugia.
A bolt of lightning struck from the center of the dark clouds, as if acknowledging Dark Lugia's power, or as if blowing the horn of attack for this enhanced Dark Rush.
"Impressive, at this rate, even seeing the future won't help you dodge."
*Thud!*
Bewear took a heavy step forward.
Dark red arcs of electricity erupted from its entire right arm.
Overdrive·Armed Million-Ton Punch!
Faced with Dark Lugia's full-force attack, Bewear no longer held back, unleashing its strongest attack.
To be honest, Dark Lugia, with the weather buff of Dark Aura, had already surpassed any strong person Su Sheng had seen in his previous life in the One Piece world.
However, the good thing about Haki is that it can become stronger as the user becomes stronger.
As the lightning fell, Dark Lugia's dark power completely erupted under the Dark Aura, and the scene of it pressing down with all its strength was like the sky collapsing.
And Bewear also jumped up, in a Superman-flying posture, its seemingly tiny right fist meeting the attack, all its strength concentrated on one point, striking towards the center of Dark Lugia's brow.
Rumble——!!!
The full-force contest between the two sides lasted for several seconds.
The Indigo Plateau, which had been transformed into a sky city, completely collapsed under the two extreme forces, and even the ground of Victory Road, hundreds of meters away, cracked and spread around.
If you looked closely, you could see that the dark flames attached to Dark Lugia's body were slightly reduced.
However... the energy in Bewear's right arm was reduced even faster!
*Crack!*
Finally, a crack appeared in the Conqueror's Haki barrier protecting Bewear.
*Rumble——*
A flash of lightning flashed across the sky, suddenly brightening.
And at that moment, both sides suddenly increased their power to the maximum.
Guzma revealed a grim smile, because anyone could see it.
Dark Lugia, had the upper hand!
Rumble!!!
An earth-shattering sound came.
Two figures, one large and one small, passed through each other in the air.
The aftershock above the sky fell like a meteor shower, each one creating a small explosion on the ground of Victory Road.
Like a weakened version of Arceus's Judgment.
*Thud!* *Thud!*
Bewear and Dark Lugia landed on either side of the top of Victory Road at the same time, back to back.
After a stalemate of about five or six seconds.
"Beww..."
Bewear staggered.
Guzma's smile became even more rampant.
Dark Lugia had won.
"You did a great job, Bewear."
Su Sheng, riding on Mega Altaria below, rushed over and hugged Bewear.
With his other hand, he took out a Poké Ball, already prepared to forcibly recall Bewear, and gestured behind him with the other hand.
Under his wholehearted training, Bewear's strength had definitely surpassed the original work, but it was still far from reaching its limit.
Having just mastered Future Sight and Overdrive not long ago, it was within Su Sheng's expectations that it was no match for a top legend like Dark Lugia.
But Bewear had already performed well enough, she had reduced Dark Lugia's HP to yellow, or even close to red.
Next, all that was needed was for Zoroark to...
"Roar~~"
Dark Lugia behind Bewear also staggered two steps, but did not fall.
Compared to Bewear, who started from scratch, it had a huge advantage, which was that it had a lot of HP!
But even so, Dark Lugia was also seriously injured, as could be heard from its trembling tone.
Dark Lugia turned its head, its scarlet eyes fixed on Bewear held in Su Sheng's arms, and opened its mouth slightly.
"Kill them, Dark Lugia!"
Guzma shouted at the top of his lungs.
Su Sheng also said in a low voice at this time: "Move, Zoro..."
However, just as Dark Lugia was preparing to make the final blow, and Su Sheng was also about to reveal his trump card.
Above the sky, a red meteor fell from the sky and slammed **** into Dark Lugia's back.
Su Sheng paused.
This move is... Max Flare!?
Dark Pokémon are really hard to beat, anyone who's played the games knows that after the Shadow event, you have to enter the Red and Blue era, and then the Ash and Gary era.
