"Damn it!", The moment the ground cracked, Ash leapt up ten-odd meters holding Pikachu in one arm and charged at Giratina.
"You bastard, how dare you hurt my Pikachu, I'll fight you!"
Almost instinctively, Giratina felt his scalp go numb.
His battle instincts kicked in, white motes of light appearing subconsciously throughout his body.
A shield formed in an instant.
"What's going on?"
"Holy, a Trainer can fight a Legendary!"
"Mommy, I'm seeing cartoons come to life. There really is a Naruto who can fight a god with his own body."
Someone clicked their tongue, "Isn't Giratina the craziest part? Being hit by a human Trainer, he's just standing there guarding like a fool..."
One after another the onlookers stood dumbfounded. A human body facing a god-pokemon. This was something that belonged in anime, not reality.
You ask for fantasy and they actually made it realistic?
"Damn! Damn! Damn!" While others kept talking, Ash kept striding forward, closing the distance to Giratina.
Finally...
BOOM!
A huge impact.
The whole scene fell utterly silent.
They saw that when Giratina's Guard skill blocked that punch, it actually gave a faint dent for a moment.
That proved it, without that shield, Ash really could have hurt Giratina.
["Human, you have thoroughly angered me."]
Giratina was both astonished and fearful. Astonished that this human could actually damage him, fearful that Arceus might have abandoned him.
Almost without thinking, he invoked his divine power and tried to lock Ash into the Reverse World.
Giratina's claws traced the air carrying reversal power; the image of the Reverse World appeared between him and Ash.
With a light push he could make Ash slip and fall into that world.
But the next moment, Giratina's eye twitched.
'Damn it, I forgot I already locked the gate!'
By the time he reacted, Pikachu had reappeared in midair wrapped in endless thunder and struck down hard.
Although the Trainers couldn't understand Pikachu's words, Giratina heard them clearly, ["You dare try to hurt my master, I'll fight you!"]
Giratina helplessly extended a hand, using a skill to bluntly clash with Pikachu's Thunderbolt, and again sent Pikachu flying.
"You dare hurt my Pikachu — I'll fight you!"
Giratina: "???"
'Are you two stuck in an infinite loop or what?'
Even more absurd, though they said the same line each time, each iteration somehow became creepily stronger than before.
Giratina deeply suspected they were exploiting a bug...
'Who the hell could beat you with this playstyle.'
Giratina felt it was time to retreat.
These two were clearly getting stronger as the fight went on, and on the other side that old man and the man in the long suit were eyeing him covetously.
If he didn't leave soon, Giratina felt he really might not be able to get away.
["Roar! Wait for my return."]
Giratina saw the world had changed; Trainers of this era were very important.
["There are Trainers everywhere in this world, I'll pick one at random and take my revenge!"]
Giratina snarled out the threat, though inside he felt a bitter ache.
This duo called Ash and Pikachu clearly weren't powerful, yet because of a special bond they stood undefeated.
But so what?
He'd seen Trainers even stronger than this.
Although he said he'd pick someone at random, in truth he'd already locked onto Axel.
If he could make Rayquaza master an instant-release move, if Gardevoir could simulate Reikou, he himself was the Reverse Dragon; going there would only make him stronger, right?
'Screw it, let's do it!'
Seeing Giratina make to flee, Pryce didn't react much; he just glanced at Giovanni and then turned away.
He'd already seen that Giovanni's strength was not what it used to be.
Not to mention that mysterious Mech Mewtwo of uncertain strength, even Beedrill, under Giovanni's command, could briefly explode with god-tier battle power.
Before Giovanni found Silver, Pryce was unlikely to capture a time god.
Since that was the case... he might as well head to Unova first and see if he could take one of the Unova Three Dragons.
Even if Giovanni interfered later, he'd still have the credentials to contest him.
Giovanni didn't have much of a reaction to Pryce's departure; he simply walked through the crowd to where Jessie stood.
Meowth's eyes lit up as he looked at Giovanni expectantly, "Leader Giovanni... Gym Leader, did you come here just to save us?"
Giovanni's eyes flickered with amusement; his neck tilted back at an insincere forty-five-degree angle.
"No way!"
"Um... where's James? Why isn't he with you guys?"
Jessie, Meowth: teary, touched faces.
'Truly worthy of being the boss!'
———
[Lily of the Valley Island Beach]
Nine Trainers fell from the sky, dozens of white lights flashed, and a large number of Gym Leader–level Pokémon appeared, watching cautiously toward the island's center.
They were the supporting Gym Leaders who'd come with Flint.
"Brothers!", Flint's gaze burned; the smile usually on his face was gone.
"You all saw the news, Axel and Cynthia are in the distant frontier, and Giratina the Renegade Dragon has already come here."
"This battle is Sinnoh's fight for life and death!"
'Every one of you here is the backbone of the League; each has a trump card, each has a specialty type."
"Our test has come!"
After he finished speaking, Flint turned and looked at Infernape, speaking low, "This time... pee if you gotta, master has put this face on the line for Sinnoh!"
Suddenly, an overwhelming tide of Ghost- and Dragon-type power surged in from afar.
Giratina's massive form appeared in their sight.
Volkner blinked, "Why did the Renegade Dragon come? Did he feel we were too strong and want to take out the biggest threat first?"
Crasher: "..."
'I don't mind you overestimating yourself, but could you not drag me into this?'
While they hesitated, Flint and Volkner exchanged a glance and, without hesitation, charged out with Electivire and Infernape.
"Giratina, if you want to destroy this world, you'll have to step over our corpses first!"
Giratina sneered and looked down at the nine on the ground with contempt.
["Step over your corpses?"]
'People today will do anything to defeat me.'
'Are you afraid that if I have a Trainer I'll gain the power to destroy the world?'
'You must want me to kill people so I can't find a strong Trainer!'
'Too bad...'
'I, Giratina, have not killed a single person in thousands of years, that is my capital in finding Trainers.'
["Humans, put away your petty calculations."]
["I, Giratina, today must make Axel my Trainer!"]
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