It birthed civilization. It engraved history whole.
The red chains in his backpack suddenly reacted!
A pair of colossal crimson eyes appeared, superimposed over the starry cosmos, ringed by flowing teal light!
That vast form, so similar to the god of creation, was not the usual shape of Dialga. It was a changed, primordial posture!
This form is said to be its original appearance, possessing the power to twist, destroy, and regenerate time itself.
In the world where it exists, the direction of time's flow will constantly shift, and its speed is never fixed.
Origin Forme Dialga VSTAR!
The Teal Dialga glanced at the twin dragons of truth and ideals, then felt the power of the red chains.
Its mood was far from as calm as it looked.
The Red Chain can summon the gods of time and space, including alternate-universe versions of itself. This is a rule laid down by the various Arceus.
If it was only one Red Chain, it truly wouldn't care.
But if the number of Red Chains reached two or more, things got troublesome.
And unfortunately, the chains in front of it really were two in number!
Moreover, judging from the news of Palkia getting smacked around…
This human was also carrying the Time-Space Orb.
Seriously, are you even human?
Teal Dialga suddenly felt the trial target of this whole crappy ordeal wasn't the human at all.
It was itself.
Where did you even dig up so many busted "cheat items"?
I'm supposed to fight you?
For real?
Can I even win?
Damn it, the god of time can't flee from a fight at the last second!
Ahem.
Offer up a soul, and the Great Platinum Orb is born.
Offer up a heart, and the Great White Gem is born.
In exchange, the lesser jewels beneath them will be granted to the challenger.
As the ruler of "civilization," what it itself needed was the Great Adamant Orb, the rarest of all.
Diamonds are adamant—brilliantly radiant and incredibly hard, revered as treasures among treasures.
[The battle will end immediately. The very beginning will be the end. You will strike me down in an instant… but that instant will be very long.]
[You will face an endless tide of powerful enemies!]
In a straight one-on-one, it would just become a target of mourning in a heartbeat.
So it needed to make full use of the power of "civilization"!
Since you came here carrying two Red Chains and the Time-Space Orb, it saw no reason to cling to any notion of "honor."
Time illusions began to manifest.
Behind Teal Dialga, a bizarre spiral gate roared open. It spun, projecting scenes of bygone civilizations into the present. What each person saw in it was different.
Gate of History!
When Dialga's heart beats, time flows. By controlling that flow, it can move to both the past and the future.
Intense time distortion dragged fragments of history out of the past, warping even the space of Area 10 into something strange.
The twin dragons roared. Suddenly, they were seized by a nameless frenzy. In their eyes, they saw the illusions of the "Twin Dragon War" from three thousand years ago!
The twin heroes seemed to rise from the grave, reaching out from history and crying for their aid. In an instant, this threw the black and white dragons into confusion.
The Unova Founding War!
Area 10 and Area 9 vanished completely, replaced by a new time-space. At the same time, history rolled back, and in an instant they were on a battlefield from thousands of years ago!
Teal Dialga let loose a savage roar.
Endless Pokémon—come forth!
With each subsequent roar, more and more historical phantoms poured out!
Ancient Pokémon clad in steel armor, called "demonic beasts," marched into battle alongside soldiers of human kingdoms. They bore shields and blades, driven to slaughter enemies they had never even known existed.
The age of the ancient castle's glory. The reign of King Harmonia. The era of the twin heroes. The age of warring city-states…
Civilizations rose and fell in turn, shaping a tumultuous and grand history. The power the teal Dialga represented was exactly this.
Those armored Pokémon legions stormed toward Hikaru, making it impossible to tell whether the scene before his eyes was an illusion—or if they had truly traveled back three thousand years.
"Yo!"
Poké Balls popped open one after another. Led by Aegislash, all his partners leapt out.
Now that something this terrifying was happening, there was no way they were staying inside their Poké Balls.
Protect our side's crystal!
The golden greatshield opened wide, blocking several incoming Hyper Beams from afar without letting any through.
"This looks just like the kingdom war in the Lucario and the Mystery of Mew movie."
They weren't just battling a Shiny Dialga.
They had to fight against the civilizational might of all recorded history.
In theory, this was an impossible challenge.
But if Unova's legends were true…
Even such a majestic and vast army could be reduced to ash by the twin dragons' thunder and flame.
"Reshiram, Fusion Flare!"
"Zekrom, Fusion Bolt!"
The twin dragons, freed from confusion by a surge of psychic power, shook off their status. In the illusions, they caught sight of the twin heroes standing at the far end of the army. Their eyes filled with deep nostalgia.
But nostalgia was nostalgia. When it came time to fight, they wouldn't show mercy.
A colossal red flame and a colossal blue bolt of lightning crossed paths. When these two moves collided, their power would be boosted even further.
Teal Dialga wasn't about to just watch. Its eyes glowed orange, the diamond in its chest blazed with light, and the fin-like protrusions on its back flared wide.
It opened its maw. A deep blue orb gathered before it, then fired as a massive beam.
Roar of Time!
"Tini!"
Victini beat its little wings, utterly awestruck by this ancient war. It had lived for a long time itself, but not for three thousand years.
On this chaotic battlefield, it wanted to contribute too. The V-shape on its forehead blazed to life.
"Victini, use V-create!"
At the same time, Hikaru raised the Time-Space Orb, further empowering V-create.
Within the linked dimension, the V-Roulette spun.
Victory Aura!
Today, the power of Fire-type Pokémon would be greatly boosted.
And V-Wave's fixed effect further multiplied Attack and Special Attack by 1.5 times.
The strongest Fire-type move was the power that forged victory itself.
The ferocious flames of victory smashed through Roar of Time. Teal Dialga stumbled backward, pulling the assembled legions in front of itself as a shield.
"So cowardly?"
Hikaru sighed. If he couldn't get close to Teal Dialga, the Red Chains were useless. They were counterfeit chains and not sturdy at all—easy to rip apart from the outside.
And in this war-torn history, there were maniacs flinging Hyper Beam everywhere. A base-power-150 move thrown out like that, with zero windup.
If even one hit his fake Red Chains, they'd be blown to pieces.
Still, it wasn't like he had no options.
"Genesect!"
Hikaru jumped directly onto Genesect's back. Shift Gear activated, boosting its Speed and Attack in succession, and then—
Extreme Speed!
Speed is power!
[Extreme Speed, huh…]
Seeing Genesect tear across the battlefield at insane velocity, Teal Dialga's heart sank.
The Red Chains were coming.
But would it really be that easy?
It roared toward the battlefield. The gear-shaped Gate of History spun faster and faster, and even Genesect's movements began to rewind and repeat.
Temporal Reversal!
In Dialga's TCG cards, that power had been revealed.
In the movie Giratina and the Sky Warrior, Giratina had also been harried by this power.
In the manga, Dialga had used it to repeatedly rewind time, rewriting the "fact of being defeated" into a "moment where it had not yet been beaten."
[Mere speed cannot surpass time.]
Dialga's roar shook the cosmos, and even the stars outside the skyscraper began to whirl at high speed.
VSTAR Power.
Star Chronos!
After this turn ends, it can take another turn immediately.
[Time is flowing backwards.]
[This is the power of the god of time.]
The twin dragons could also feel it. They couldn't approach the warped time-space around Teal Dialga. From the Gate of History, the armies pouring out were endless, while the challengers' time kept looping.
Hikaru activated his Spacetime Explorer class.
As someone with a special class from the Mystery Dungeon world, the power of time reversal had little effect on him. On top of that, he could still use the pendant's power.
Miracle Diamond, Mystic Pearl!
The aura of time-space erupted together. Within the temporal current, he continued to move forward, while the surrounding time-space rushed backward at high speed.
Teal Dialga was stunned.
A Spacetime Explorer?!
This unique occupation appeared only in the Mystery Dungeon world and a certain special world—and yet it was seeing one here.
It suddenly felt a chill.
This was bad.
Not that a Spacetime Explorer was completely immune to temporal turbulence.
But in most cases, such a person was far less affected by time-space attacks.
Holding the Red Chain reduced that impact even further.
Those who had traveled long and often through time carried a special power in their bodies. Soaked in it for a long time, they became something beyond ordinary humans and gained immunity to temporal assaults.
Teal Dialga immediately roared toward the distant cosmos.
The stars began to spin at blinding speed.
The battlefield's environment changed with them. Civilizations from different eras represented different temporal nodes. Under the starlight, ancient cultures reversed and receded—past the era of mysterious science, reaching further back still.
One hundred years, two hundred, five hundred, a thousand, five thousand…
Ten thousand, twenty thousand…
And still it pressed further.
As light flickered in the Gate of History, the era of a distant, savage past surfaced—an age of wild natural power, when human civilization was just learning to walk, and the very first artificial Pokémon, Baltoy, had appeared.
The wild force of nature had not yet declined, and the new age of civilization was still muddled and half-formed.
From that era, countless Pokémon were summoned forth.
Whoosh—
At the same time, the feral winds of that age blew into the modern world.
Genesect's sharp eyes swept the depths of the Gate of History.
This feeling was very familiar.
In the visions of the Gate, it could faintly see an ancient colossal jungle. Strange plants twisted and entwined everywhere. Savage roars and earth-shaking impacts echoed from far away—or perhaps not so far.
A fierce and overwhelming aura was drawing near.
"Tini!"
Suddenly a familiar voice sounded. Hikaru felt something on his head and reached up to touch it. A small fennec-like creature with big ears dropped its invisibility, chirping in a soft, sugary voice.
It was Victini.
Victini's spirits were sky-high.
It flapped its little wings and flashed a big V-sign with both hands.
Hoo-hoo~ Coming to an unknown world—this whole journey had been so thrilling!
Captain, let our Mirage Exploration Team keep fighting like this!
Victini felt that leaving Liberty Garden Island had absolutely been the right choice.
The outer world was just way too fun!
In that case, the owner of those golden eyes in the depths of history should be about ready to charge out, right?
"Tini!"
Victini whistled toward Genesect, and Genesect immediately swung its cannon toward the source of that aura!
From the whirlpool of history, the monster Teal Dialga briefly summoned was—
"Graaagh!"
A massive red-scaled lizard, draconic in shape, leapt out violently!
One punch from it could shatter the earth!
The creature in front of them was—
"The Winged King!"
Better known as Koraidon!
Koraidon had a long, thick tail, powerful jaws filled with teeth, and razor claws. Its design fused iguana-like features with reconstruction images of feathered dinosaurs.
Its red-and-blue color scheme, upright posture, and massive neck frill resembled a motorcycle. The inflatable sac on its chest looked like a front wheel, and when it curled up its tail, it formed something like a rear wheel. The protrusions on its shoulders resembled handlebars.
"Graaagh!"
A Full Collison slammed into Genesect, blowing the ground open.
Yet Genesect didn't budge an inch.
Smoke rose from its steel body. It countered with an Iron Head that made the Winged King cry out in pain and stagger back several steps.
Genesect, by contrast, was fired up.
"Genooo!"
Prehistoric atmosphere?
That was fantastic.
Granted, it still differed from the environment it had lived in three hundred million years ago…
But at least it had a faintly similar "feel" to it.
So its current state felt like returning to its homeland.
It was downright delighted.
Then—
"Fairy Drive—load!"
"Genesect!"
"Use Techno Blast on Koraidon!"
A huge pink radiance gathered at the muzzle. The intense Fairy-type energy looked like it could pierce the heavens.
As Koraidon roared wildly, a base-power-120 Fairy-type Techno Blast struck it head-on.
One cannon to scatter the prehistoric soul!
"This Koraidon may not be the one from the story's main plot!"
Unlike Miraidon—
Koraidon didn't need "artificial creation" in its backstory. In the Scarlet Book, they were described as ancient forms of Cyclizar. In other words—
There was more than one Winged King.
Sure enough, from the temporal vortex, Koraidons were summoned one after another.
Even in the normal timeline, there were two Koraidon.
Paradox Pokémon existed as entire populations.
"Dragon-taming, huh? I'm best at that."
"…Though this might be a bit much."
Three Koraidon stood before them now. With numbers like that, it didn't matter anymore whether any of them were the "storyline pair." Genesect's Fairy Techno Blast aimed at all of them—but from the Gate of History, an even greater power was steadily emerging.
Boom—
A blue evil dragon with an image roughly similar to Salamence, yet distinctly different, roared into view. Its wings spread like a new moon, and those blood-red membranes covered the sky above the Gate of History.
And there wasn't just one.
"That's… Roaring Moon!"
Roaring Moon, this Paradox Pokémon, resembled a phenomenon observed in Salamence in other regions, yet the true relationship between them remained unclear.
It shed feathers as it flew at high speed and attacked prey everywhere. Its ferocity was thought to surpass even Salamence. If you ever had the misfortune to encounter one, you absolutely had to avoid contact.
"This is turning into a proper all-out brawl."
Koraidon and Roaring Moon from the Paradox prehistoric age had entered the field. Teal Dialga held the rear, commanding the dragon legions of all civilization and history.
"But doesn't Unova have…"
"…a specialist made to face down dragons—the super-ancient giant!"
How do you awaken Regigigas?
Simple—
Hikaru took out the Giant's Key. A similar time-space pulse spread forth, and the Lunar Gate manifested within the Gate of History, opening across time-space.
The white giant king, its body shining with three-colored dots, kicked into high gear!
Dragons, are you?
At the sight of Regigigas, even Teal Dialga was shocked.
Hold on, something's off with that giant king's aura…
"…?!"
Where had its Slow Start gone?
Right then, Regigigas grabbed hold of one Koraidon.
"Use Crush Grip!"
The new "Herculean Unlicensed Ability" activated!
One grab, and it was refined to nothing in an instant.
(End of Chapter)
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