[Alamos Town]
Cynthia walked wearily to the town square and stood on a raised platform.
The ice-cream vendor, passing customers, and some nearby shopkeepers all turned their eyes to Cynthia, wondering why the busy champion would come to such an unremarkable little town.
Cynthia pushed her messy golden hair back, and, using Lucario's aura, carried her voice across the whole square.
"Everyone, there might be a disaster in Alamos Town soon, please don't panic. Everything is within controllable limits, and there should be no unexpected incidents."
"Disaster?", At those words, some faces changed color.
"Could it be that terrifying guy again?"
"Ever since he appeared, I've been having nightmares almost every night. I didn't expect even Champion Cynthia to be alarmed!"
"That damn guy, if he shows up later I'll have my Doduo attack him a few times, let out some steam!"
Cynthia frowned. From these cycles, she already knew that Darkrai only looked ferocious; in fact, he was a very good Pokémon.
It was just that when he guarded Alamos Town he unintentionally leaked some of his power, and that power awakened the authority of "Nightmares," causing the townspeople so many nightmares that they thought he was an evil god.
"Everyone, don't misunderstand Darkrai. He's actually a good deity.
If he hadn't intervened, this town might have been destroyed before I even arrived."
"What?"
Hearing Cynthia's words, the crowd in the square was shocked.
"You mean that thing that gives us nightmares is actually a good Pokémon?"
"But… but I've been so sleepy because of him these past days that I even lost my battles at the Alamos Cup."
Some people didn't believe Darkrai was good, but then more people began to scold those doubters.
"How dare you question what Champion Cynthia says?"
"Champion Cynthia is always right!"
"Anyone who says Cynthia is wrong is a heretic!"
Seeing so many people rebut them, the first few who had spoken fell silent and sheepishly smiled, not daring to continue.
A faint smile tugged at Cynthia's lips.
It was precisely because of these people's admiration and trust that she chose to keep guarding them.
Just then, a faint black mist appeared beside Cynthia and took the shape of a Pokémon.
He looked like a shadow, with constantly billowing pitch-black hair covering half his face, only a pair of bright blue eyes visible, giving off an evil impression.
After appearing, Darkrai looked clearly exhausted. He stared at Cynthia, and his telepathic voice entered her mind.
["There's no need to explain too much to these people. You can use this time to rest a bit."]
Cynthia shook her head and answered seriously, "You saved so many people, I can't let them misunderstand you."
Darkrai sighed, and a flicker of feeling passed through his tired eyes.
["All right... get ready to fight."]
"Mm!", Cynthia waved her hand, "Everyone on the square, evacuate now, danger will appear soon. Try to hide along the edges of the town. While we're battling, nobody should try to help. Also... remember to cheer for Darkrai!"
After she finished, the townspeople nodded and ran toward the edges of the town.
Cynthia waved to the sky, and behind her Lucario skillfully released an Aura Sphere into the heavens.
While people turned to look back at Cynthia and Lucario, puzzled why they would attack the sky, a strange fluctuation suddenly descended, almost splitting Alamos Town's sky in two.
Above the clouds, red and blue lights swept across and soon enveloped the whole town.
On the blue side stood a four-legged Pokémon with metallic parts all over its body.
On the red side stood a bipedal, pale-purple Pokémon covered in purple-black stripes.
They were the Temporal Pokémon Dialga and the Spatial Pokémon Palkia.
The moment the two dragons appeared, Lucario's Aura Sphere, as if foreseeing it, struck Dialga hard on the head, causing him to lightly turn aside.
Dialga bared his teeth fiercely and glared at Cynthia behind Lucario, even temporarily abandoning his attack on Palkia.
He remembered this person, he had thwarted Dialga many times before.
No matter how far Dialga sent him back in time, this person always returned.
Though Palkia didn't know the details, he also fixed his gaze on Cynthia.
He planned to deal with the people below first, then settle the score with Dialga.
Dense purple energy condensed around him, forming a huge black-purple fluctuation.
Under the influence of that fluctuation, tiny spatial rifts began to appear around.
If another Pokémon shattered space, that might not be dangerous. After all, few can truly wield spatial power, and even if rifts appear, it's usually like altering an environment.
But Palkia was different.
As the Pokémon that controls space, those rifts seemed to be part of his body.
Under his control, the rifts kept converging and merging, soon forming a massive slashing strike that fell toward Cynthia below.
Cynthia merely glanced up at the sky, pulled at the corner of her mouth with indifference, and still focused her gaze on Dialga.
After fighting the Temporal and Spatial gods so many times, she and Darkrai had already formed a tacit understanding.
Dialga is her real enemy.
Sure enough, the moment Palkia's attack fell, a huge black hole appeared above Cynthia and absorbed all the spatial rifts.
Along with the rifts, it even swallowed Palkia himself, the so-called master of space.
"Dark Void... it truly is an incredible attack."
Even after seeing it many times, Cynthia couldn't help but praise it.
There really are space-type moves that can imprison a god of space.
Praise Arceus for such wonder.
If not for this miraculous Pokémon's help, Cynthia felt she wouldn't have held on this long.
"Luckily that blue-haired kid said Axel would come later today.
Garchomp, Lucario, let's all do our best."
Cynthia's gaze fell on Dialga, and the aura around her instantly changed.
"Just two more holds at most, then we'll surely win!"
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