[I've come to help you!]
Xerneas's voice echoed in Johan's mind.
"The main force is here!" Johan shouted to Steven.
The main force!
To truly restrain Yveltal, relying on just Johan and Steven, plus Regieleki, definitely wouldn't be enough. At most they could only delay for a while.
Unless Johan was willing to call for backup.
But given the current situation, at most he could only call Giratina.
The problem was, the Order God Zygarde was right there on his shoulder. Johan's understanding of it was limited to their previous communication and what he'd seen in anime. What kind of situation it really was... was hard to say.
If he called Giratina over, one representing death and one representing antimatter having a big battle... this forest would probably be completely destroyed. What Zygarde's reaction would be then...
Fortunately.
Xerneas was also in this forest. It was impossible for it not to sense Yveltal's awakening. As long as they could delay a bit until Xerneas arrived, things would be much easier.
Xerneas moved gracefully, leaping lightly like a deer, landing on a high slope with its antler-like branches blooming with seven-colored halos.
"Screech—!!"
Yveltal immediately noticed its "arch-nemesis" and temporarily abandoned its suppression of Regieleki, flapping its wings and stirring up black clouds while releasing wind blades that seemed almost physical.
Bang bang bang!!!
The air-formed blades were blocked by an invisible wall before they could reach Xerneas.
At the same time, the branch-like antlers atop Xerneas's head bloomed with moonlight-like radiance. In the dark clouds gathered by Yveltal, it was as if a hole had been torn open, with a beam of moonlight shining down.
Moonblast!
Boom!!
Yveltal raised its head and was immediately struck by the falling moonlight. It let out a long cry, using both wings to protect itself while bursting with thick blood-colored mist.
Bang—
Its wings suddenly spread open, the scattered moonlight shattering into crystalline fragments. Yveltal's wings showed some scorched marks, but under the floating blood-colored mist around it, they visibly recovered at an incredible speed.
Xerneas's attack completely enraged Yveltal, which let out a sharp cry and fired an extremely terrifying destructive beam.
Crack!!
Xerneas's barrier shattered instantly, the terrifying impact directly hitting its body, causing a mournful cry as its form was shrouded in mist.
However.
If even Yveltal could recover itself by absorbing life energy, then naturally Xerneas, as the Life God, could do the same. Another brilliant Moonblast fell.
But this time.
Yveltal, gradually recovering from its awakening, actually dodged with a flash, using blood mist as a substitute to avoid the Moonblast.
Buzz—
Vigorous life force spread from Xerneas's body, a circle of life-aura energy radiating outward with it at the center.
Wherever it passed.
The originally lush forest became even more abundant, trees sprouting new branches, flowers blooming new buds, grass growing tender shoots.
Even in those decayed areas destroyed by Yveltal, new life burst forth.
Fairy Aura!
It collided with Yveltal's Dark Aura on the level of auras.
But seeing this scene, Johan couldn't help frowning.
In the anime, Yveltal and Xerneas hadn't fought. After seeing Xerneas appear, Yveltal had immediately left.
Theoretically, the Life God and Death God, these corresponding Pokémon, should have similar strength.
Even more so, as a Fairy-type Pokémon facing the Dark-type Yveltal, Xerneas should have the attribute advantage.
And indeed, Xerneas's Moonblast left Yveltal only able to dodge and defend.
But the problem was...
Yveltal could fly.
This became quite troublesome.
As everyone knew, in Pokémon battles, flying was quite "cheap." When one side could fly while the other couldn't, the initiative often belonged to the flying side.
After all, this wasn't a game where moves could hit regardless of whether you could fly or not.
In the real Pokémon world, flying Pokémon simply had more mobility than those that couldn't fly.
Moreover.
Xerneas's signature move was Geomancy.
[Geomancy: Charges for a turn, then when charging ends, the user's Special Attack rises by 2 stages, Special Defense rises by 2 stages, and Speed rises by 2 stages.]
It looked like a very overpowered buff move.
If placed on an ordinary Pokémon, it would indeed be so, but placed on a legendary Pokémon that mastered partial authority...
Authority power was the foundation for them to defeat other legendary Pokémon.
In other words.
Xerneas had more than enough defense against Yveltal, but offense... depended on the situation.
No wonder last time Xerneas needed to borrow the power of the Fairy Plate to completely defeat Yveltal.
Screech!!!
Another long cry. Seeing its Dark Aura being pushed back by Xerneas's Fairy Aura, Yveltal didn't hesitate to release the beam of Oblivion Wing!
Buzz—
Xerneas once again raised a barrier constructed from life energy.
In terms of pure power confrontation, both sides were evenly matched.
"Still need to get involved..." Johan sighed lightly, nodding to Steven.
"Dragonite, Thunder!"
"Regieleki, Thunder Cage!"
"Victini, Victory Star!"
"Mega Metagross, Meteor Mash!"
Under the low, dark clouds, light from move releases flickered.
"Vii~!"
Victini revealed itself, showing a fang-toothed smile as it made a cheerful "yeah" gesture toward Yveltal.
Yveltal seemed to sense something, quickly folding its wings to abandon suppressing Xerneas, rapidly maneuvering. Regieleki's Thunder Cage barely grazed its edge as it dodged.
Bang!!
The Thunder Cage hit the ground, exploding large amounts of dirt.
Boom!!
Mega Metagross's Meteor Mash, fired from its crossed four massive arms, was also blocked by the rising blood-colored mist from Yveltal.
But these attacks from "insects" made Yveltal angry again, letting out a cry full of rage.
Bang!!
Before it could even cry out fully, a bright, massive lightning bolt struck straight down, hitting Yveltal and cutting off its cry abruptly.
Dragonite's Thunder!
Huh?
Steven, half-crouched on Mega Metagross's back, couldn't help looking at Teacher Johan and his Dragonite with surprise.
Regieleki's Thunder Cage and Mega Metagross's Meteor Mash hadn't hit, but Dragonite's Thunder had connected?
This move with naturally low accuracy without rain support...
Even more so.
Sizzle—
Sparks of electricity rose from Yveltal's body.
Paralysis?
Though it didn't affect Yveltal much, still...
"Worthy of being Teacher." Steven murmured.
"Xerneas, you said earlier... Yveltal also has a Plate fragment, right?" Johan asked using aura.
Hearing this, Xerneas was stunned.
[Yes, yes it does.]
"Then feel free to go all out. The matter of restraining Yveltal's mobility..."
Johan took out the key stone from his pocket that was radiating heat, glowing with rainbow colors!
Gengar grinned, appearing behind Yveltal under its somewhat surprised gaze.
"Ka-kaah!"
Johan held up the key stone: "Gengar, Mega Evolution!"
"Ka-kaah—!!"
Brilliant evolutionary light burst in mid-air.
Under everyone's gaze, Johan raised the key stone high, creating a resonance bond with Gengar.
Gengar showed a fierce grin, opening a golden eye on its forehead, fists sprouting spikes, body expanding while black mist spread.
"Is this Teacher Johan's Mega Evolution?" Korrina below watched with shining eyes, clenching her fists.
This was exactly the kind of Mega Evolution she and her Lucario longed for.
Though she'd seen it several times on TV broadcasts, witnessing it firsthand felt completely different.
"Johan... Gengar..."
Diancie clasped her hands to her chest, pink pupils reflecting the Gengar wrapped in brilliant colors.
Facing the legendary Yveltal, Diancie felt weak just looking directly at it. She hadn't expected Johan and Gengar to be able to confront it.
"Believing in your own power?"
In Diancie's pupils, a crystalline light faintly flickered, becoming brighter and brighter.
The most surprised was actually Xerneas.
What Korrina and Diancie couldn't sense, it could.
On Gengar's body, Xerneas sensed a power between life and death, and this power...
"Screech!!"
Being hit by Thunder and sensing the Mega-evolved Gengar appearing directly behind it, Yveltal became completely furious.
These weak insects not only dared attack it, but even dared come to its side?
Did they really not know how to write the word "death"?
Buzz—
Yveltal didn't even turn around, a surge of death aura spread out again, extending toward Gengar.
Johan's expression was odd.
Don't you know about "evolution invincibility"?
Moreover...
Gengar was already a ghost—what was there to fear from death aura?
"Ka-kaah!"
As the rainbow-colored Mega Evolution symbol flashed and disappeared, Gengar successfully evolved into Mega Gengar!
And.
A black mist also spread from its body.
This was Ghost-type energy.
Huh?
Xerneas raised its head, the surprise in its eyes growing stronger.
It felt like...
The Ghost-type energy released by Mega Gengar was somewhat similar to its Fairy Aura and Yveltal's Dark Aura?
Ghost Aura?
Similarly.
Yveltal, which had originally wanted to use Dark Aura to suppress Mega Gengar, also sensed Gengar's Ghost-type energy fluctuation.
Actually, if we traced Gengar's Ghost-type energy back to its origin, it started with Agatha, one of Kanto's Elite Four.
From Agatha's Gengar, or more precisely, from the "Ghost Legion" Gengar belonging to Agatha, it learned some applications of Ghost-type energy.
The difference was.
Agatha's Gengar relied on a massive "Ghost Legion" to provide Ghost energy supply, thus constructing Agatha's "Ghost Legion system."
Johan's Gengar didn't have such a massive legion, so under normal circumstances, Gengar couldn't release Ghost-type energy to this extent, but after Mega Evolution it could.
If someone looked down from satellite through the thick clouds right now, they would discover.
Yveltal's Dark Aura and Xerneas's Fairy Aura formed two colliding energy forces in the forest.
And at the center of these two energy forces, in the middle of the blood-colored death circle and emerald life circle, appeared another black energy circle, much smaller.
It really had figured out something... Johan was somewhat surprised.
Earlier he'd jokingly thought Gengar's ghost energy coverage was a "Ghost Field," but now it seemed more like a "Ghost Aura."
Yveltal's Dark Aura hadn't petrified Gengar as it intended.
Its aura was blocked by the equally "death"-attributed Ghost energy.
"Gengar, Will-O-Wisp!"
After Gengar completed Mega Evolution, Johan's commands didn't slow down.
"Ka-kaah~"
Mega Gengar smiled as it grabbed ghostly blue flames and threw them at Yveltal.
Sizzle—
Signs of burning appeared on Yveltal, which had failed to petrify Mega Gengar with its Dark Aura.
For Johan to truly confront Yveltal was a bit much, but if it was just slightly restraining Yveltal and creating output opportunities for Xerneas, that was Johan's specialty.
"Screech!!"
The burned Yveltal violently flapped its wings, wind stirring up wind blades that mercilessly slashed toward Mega Gengar.
"Ka-kaah~"
But Mega Gengar chuckled mischievously, having prepared long ago. It tore open the space beside it and dove in with a diving posture, avoiding Yveltal's attack.
Before Yveltal could use life energy to recover from the burn, another bright lightning bolt fell from the sky.
Rumble!!
Thunder rolled.
The golden sparks on Yveltal became even more intense.
Taking advantage of the sluggishness caused by the electric current, the interference and restraint brought by Mega Gengar, Regieleki's second Thunder Cage finally successfully bound Yveltal.
"Now!" Johan's voice exploded in Xerneas's mind.
Xerneas, surprised by Mega Gengar's abilities, quickly reacted. The clouds in the sky tore open another hole, moonlight shining down.
"Screech—!!"
The pained Yveltal roared.
"We really suppressed it?" Korrina rubbed her eyes.
This was the legendary "Death God"! According to some people, a first-class legendary!
It was actually being restrained by Teacher Johan leading his Pokémon?
Creating output opportunities for Xerneas.
Steven also smoothly joined in.
He and Mega Metagross couldn't restrain Yveltal, but they could output damage like Xerneas.
"Metagross, Meteor Mash!"
"Gong!!"
Mega Metagross clenched its four iron fists, metal-gleaming shock waves following the moonlight, smashing into Yveltal.
After successive attacks and restraints, Yveltal fell toward the ground.
But it quickly controlled its body, rapidly recovering through absorbed life energy while turning its vengeful gaze toward Johan.
Those crimson eyes made Johan's heart skip a beat.
Oh no.
I've become the MT.
"It's trying to recover!" Johan rode Dragonite to quickly distance himself while giving commands again.
"Ka-kaah!"
Mega Gengar emerged from a space rift, facing Yveltal which was trying to recover. Without hesitation, it threw Toxic, then turned and dove back into the rift.
Poison spread.
Regieleki transformed both arms into dozens of surging lightning bolts, full firepower!
Before Xerneas arrived, as the Electric Pillar, it had also been the "main damage dealer."
Rumble!!
Rampant lightning washed over Yveltal, interrupting its life energy recovery.
But Yveltal seemed fixated on Johan, recognizing that he was commanding from the center. It simply abandoned recovery, blood-colored wings flapping as it shot crimson Oblivion Wing beams.
"Run!"
Johan told Dragonite without hesitation.
"Garruu—!!"
Dragonite didn't hesitate either, violently flapping its wings. Its speed instantly peaked as it flew toward the distance.
The Oblivion Wing beam followed closely behind. Just as it was about to catch up, Dragonite's body glowed white with faint green mixed in.
Extreme Speed!
Damn.
Johan, gripping the protective gear tightly, cursed internally.
Too fast!
"Metagross, Hyper Beam!" Steven provided timely support.
The Yveltal releasing Oblivion Wing was the perfect target.
"Gong!!"
A bright white beam shot from Mega Metagross's pincers, the fierce impact directly catching Yveltal off guard and forcing it to interrupt its Oblivion Wing.
Xerneas, like Mega Metagross, wouldn't miss this opportunity, dropping another moonbeam.
But this time Yveltal seemed to have really lost its temper.
After forcibly taking attacks from Mega Metagross and Xerneas, it actually flapped its wings and chased after Dragonite.
"Son of a..."
This time Johan couldn't hold back and cursed aloud.
What the hell!
Yveltal was actually targeting him?
Then Korrina below watched as...
Teacher Johan rode Dragonite fleeing in front while Yveltal rolled blood mist chasing behind. Ninetales on the ground did its best to condense ice walls for interference, and Tinkaton threw large rocks...
Mega Gengar appeared behind Yveltal in completely unexpected ways, throwing restraint moves.
To prevent Yveltal's Dark Aura from further damaging the forest, Dragonite was still flying in circles in the sky.
Regieleki and Mega Metagross provided damage from the middle.
And the main force Xerneas, positioned at the edge and unable to reach Yveltal, could only provide ranged support.
Watching Yveltal's injuries worsen and the negative effects on it increase, yet it stubbornly refused to give up chasing Johan.
Korrina stood with her mouth agape, somewhat incredulous at this scene.
No matter how she thought about it, she never would have imagined the final situation would turn out like this.
Shouldn't it be Xerneas and Yveltal having a direct confrontation, with Teacher Johan and Senior Steven providing support from the sides?
But honestly...
"Teacher Johan is amazing."
Anyone else in his place definitely couldn't outfly Yveltal.
Screech!!!
Yveltal fired Oblivion Wing again.
And possibly because its awakening process continued, this time Yveltal's attack was not only not weaker due to physical damage, but actually became faster and stronger.
Johan's face was pale, his stomach very uncomfortable.
But there was no choice.
Facing Yveltal's "kamikaze" fighting style...
He patted Dragonite's back, preparing to enter Outrage state.
Being uncomfortable was better than being petrified.
Witnessing this process wasn't just Korrina, but also Diancie.
It found that it wanted to help Johan, but... seemed unable to do anything.
Just like when it wanted to save the kingdom as Diamond Kingdom's princess and condense new "Eternal Crystal," but could never manage it.
How am I so useless... Diancie's heart filled with dejection.
"Go Teacher Johan!!" Korrina cupped her hands like a megaphone and shouted toward the sky, then felt it wasn't enough. She said to Diancie beside her, "Diancie, let's cheer for Teacher Johan together."
"Cheer..." Diancie looked up, full of dejection.
"Can we... only cheer?"
Only cheer?
Korrina clenched her fists, contrasting sharply with Diancie's dejection.
"Right now... yes."
She raised her fist, extending her finger to point at Johan, "But in the future, I'll definitely become a trainer like Teacher Johan! My growth will definitely surprise the teacher!"
Seeing the fire in Korrina's eyes, Diancie was stunned.
"Believe in yourself, Diancie." Korrina gently punched Diancie's shoulder encouragingly.
"Believe... in myself."
Diancie looked down at its hands.
Slowly clenching them bit by bit.
At the same time.
Johan suddenly felt something heating up in his pocket. After brief hesitation, gripping the protective gear with one hand, he reached toward his pocket with the other.
Huh?
A diamond?
Taking it out to look, it was actually the pink diamond Diancie had given him a few days ago.
Hadn't it already dispersed?
At the time, Diancie couldn't control its power, and diamonds would dissipate on their own within ten minutes at most. To avoid affecting Diancie, he hadn't touched it much, pretending the diamond was still there.
Schrödinger's diamond.
As long as he didn't take it out, the diamond would always be there.
He just hadn't expected this diamond to actually still exist!
At the center of the pink diamond, a Mega Evolution symbol flickered faintly.
In the manga, Diancie gave a diamond to Bonnie, and that diamond never disappeared...
Looking at this diamond, Johan had a thought. Using aura again, his voice echoed in Diancie's mind below.
"Diancie, the diamond is still here!"
"Huh?"
Diancie looked up.
It saw Johan in the sky, riding on Dragonite's back, waving at it. That crystalline pink diamond was particularly eye-catching.
"The diamond... is still here..." Diancie's eyes grew brighter.
The diamond was still here!
"This is your power, Diancie. Believe in yourself!"
Believe in yourself!
Buzz—
Brilliant evolutionary light suddenly burst from Diancie's body.
"Diancie?" Korrina beside it was greatly surprised.
The diamond on Diancie's head became heart-shaped, the diamond crown dropped white veils, the crystalline transparent diamond dress was like wearing a perfect, flawless wedding gown...
"Mega Evolution?" Korrina murmured.
The sacred Diamond Princess!
Mega Diancie!
"Mega Diancie?" Steven also noticed this scene, looking at Mega Diancie's current appearance with slight distraction.
"This is my power!"
Mega Diancie raised both hands, pink life energy gathering in its palms.
Ding ding ding—
Crystalline pink diamonds instantly formed, sweeping toward Yveltal in a diamond-based storm.
Diamond Storm!
When this storm reached between Yveltal and Johan, it gathered into an enormous pink diamond, the Eternal Crystal!
Yveltal's Oblivion Wing struck it, trying to absorb the abundant life energy within, but the diamond radiated brilliant sacred light, blocking all the blood-colored energy outside the diamond.
It blocked it!
This was Oblivion Wing from Yveltal after it had fully recovered from its awakening state!
Yveltal's gaze also fell on Mega Diancie, eyes showing surprise.
Another one?
That's right, another one!
Taking advantage of Mega Diancie blocking the Oblivion Wing, Xerneas's attack followed immediately.
At this point.
Johan led Mega Gengar, Dragonite, and Regieleki in restraint, Steven and Xerneas provided damage, Mega Diancie handled defense...
Yveltal found itself unable to advance or retreat.
Moreover.
As the restraints deepened, the negative status effects stacking on Yveltal increased. Even as a legendary Pokémon, it couldn't withstand Mega Gengar constantly applying negative effects.
No wait.
Paralysis, burn, poison, freeze, plus occasional sleep interference—even Mega Gengar was getting relaxed, gaining opportunities to beat up Yveltal.
"Ka-kaah!"
Mega Gengar spat on its fist, then appeared behind Yveltal and delivered a close-range Giga Impact to its head.
Bang!!
Yveltal fell from the sky, this time unable to control its body mid-air, crashing heavily to the ground and raising large clouds of dust.
Looking at the fallen Yveltal, Xerneas was briefly dazed.
Honestly.
It had battled Yveltal many times over the long years, and they would fight every time they met, but never had it been this easy.
Even last time when it carried the Fairy Plate and suppressed Yveltal, it hadn't been this relaxed.
They'd suppressed it just like that?
Not only it was dazed, but also Johan's shoulder-riding Zygarde core.
It wasn't that Johan's strength was so powerful as to shock Zygarde.
It acknowledged that Johan and his Pokémon did have the strength to briefly confront Yveltal, but...
That confrontation and restraint method made Zygarde's heart tremble.
Good grief.
All those negative effects on Yveltal made even it feel scared.
The Zygarde core perched on Johan's shoulder glanced at him, secretly deciding this human could only be friend, not foe!
Winning or losing aside, those continuous, expertly applied negative status moves... were enough to give anyone a hard time.
Moreover, their coordination was truly seamless.
When Gengar used poison, other Pokémon absolutely wouldn't also use poison, but would use burn, freeze, paralysis and other status effects, highlighting perfect... coordination and expertise.
More importantly...
These negative effects actually worked on legendary Pokémon.
Gengar's poison, burn, Ninetales' freeze, even Johan's hypnosis...
A human's hypnosis could actually affect legendary Pokémon—who would believe that?
Yveltal didn't even get chances to use life energy for recovery.
Of course, without Xerneas providing main damage and Diancie's awakening defense, Johan and Steven alone trying to suppress Yveltal would be nearly impossible.
[Stop!]
Just as the next attack was about to land, a hoarse voice filled with suppressed anger roared in their minds.
This voice...
Yveltal?
"You can talk?" Johan, riding Dragonite as it landed, looked surprised.
He'd thought Yveltal couldn't communicate, was just a being existing purely for destruction, so he'd given up trying to communicate with Yveltal from the start.
Yveltal: "..."
[What do you want?]
Yveltal's gaze swept over.
Old rival Xerneas, the mighty Mega Metagross, thunder giant Regieleki, the elusive Gengar, the sacred and beautiful Mega Diancie... finally its gaze still fell on Johan.
Actually, Yveltal's sixth sense was quite accurate—it felt that everything before it was brought by this human, so it had fiercely chased Johan earlier, trying to eliminate him first.
However, things went against its wishes. It stubbornly attacked with various negative effects, ultimately becoming a living target.
"Stop," Johan said simply, just two words, noticing Yveltal's gaze.
[I am death. How can I stop?]
Life and death were inherently "rules." When life became too abundant, death would appear to harvest the excess.
"Then there's no choice."
Johan rolled up his sleeves, took out the Wheel of Time, and said to Mega Gengar: "Call for backup!"
"Ka-kaah!"
Gengar grinned, tearing open a space rift to reveal the Distortion World.
At the same time, the calmed Yveltal finally sensed the auras on Johan besides Arceus—Ideal and Truth, Space and Time...
Good grief!
Was this human even human?
[Stop, stop, stop! I'll stop!]
Yveltal roared.
At worst, it just wouldn't harvest all life in one go. It could take it slowly...
Seeing the roaring Yveltal, Johan nodded with satisfaction.
"I heard... you have a Plate fragment?"
Yveltal looked toward Xerneas, who slightly turned its head away.
Damn.
[Here, here, here, can't I give it to you?]
Hearing this, Johan showed a brilliant smile, radiating "kind" aura.
"Then... nice to meet you, Yveltal."
Yveltal: "..."
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