In the vast, endless desert, the Pokémon from both sides were locked in a tense standoff.
In the end, it was still Hoopa Unbound that couldn't hold back any longer and let out an enraged roar.
As if it had received an order, the Legendary Pokémon on both sides of Hoopa Unbound all moved at once.
A deep draconic bellow echoed out.
Dialga shimmered with diamond-like blue sacred radiance, and blue energy condensed in its mouth—like something out of a dream.
"Roar of Time!"
"Origin Pulse!"
Damian ordered it immediately.
Primal Kyogre let out a low, ancient hum.
The already dim sky grew even darker.
Heavy pouring rain crashed down.
Primordial Sea!
At the same time, four huge orbs of water lit up in front of Primal Kyogre.
Four watery-blue beams approached.
Water-type Origin Pulse!
Boom!
Roar of Time and Origin Pulse collided violently in midair, then shattered with a thunderous blast.
A brutal shockwave surged outward.
But before the smoke and dust could fully disperse—
a green silhouette streaked in with terrifying speed.
Like a blade with its edge bared.
Mega Rayquaza's Dragon Ascent!
"Rayquaza!"
Shiny Rayquaza let out a sky-shaking draconic bellow.
The gorgeous jet-black dragon body.
Green motes of light gradually blazed.
Dragon Ascent!
Bang!
The two attacks clashed head-on in midair.
Same Dragon Ascent.
Same Rayquaza.
Violent winds screamed as the green gust waves raged and shook everything apart.
For a moment—
it was dead even.
Damian raised a brow when he saw it.
"It can actually tank Shiny Rayquaza's Dragon Ascent?!"
"Mom's strength is extremely strong."
"She's only a little behind Dad."
Little Rayquaza's dragon face twisted in a very human, awkward dilemma.
Seeing its parents fight in a straight-up face-off, it didn't even know who it should cheer for.
"Looks like deciding the winner won't be something that happens in a short time."
Damian clicked his tongue.
"That means there's no way Shiny Rayquaza can beat this Mega Rayquaza quickly."
"I'll go deal with this Mega Rayquaza."
"I can suppress it."
Dragon Kyurem was itching to go.
Last time in Unova, Shiny Rayquaza had beaten it.
If it said it had no grudge, that would be a lie.
But it had lost before.
No arguing with that.
And today—
this wasn't just an opportunity.
The opponent was Shiny Rayquaza's wife!
"Don't rush."
"The other side hasn't used everything yet."
Damian steadied Dragon Kyurem.
And just then—
with a sharp, high-pitched cry—
a ring of crystal-like radiance swept across the sky and the ground in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, the rain clouds that had been covering everything under Primordial Sea were instantly cleared out.
A clean, bright blue sky appeared.
Primordial Sea was cleared?!
Damian's brows twitched.
But this clearly wasn't caused by Mega Rayquaza.
The entire world was too clear and clean.
It didn't look like something Delta Stream could do.
"That Terapagos."
Damian's vision locked onto the Stellar Form Terapagos on the other side—
the one shining so brightly it looked like light pollution itself.
That's right.
It was Terapagos.
"Teraform Zero…"
"It cleared even Primordial Sea."
Damian was genuinely surprised.
Normally, Primordial Sea—top-tier weather ability—could only be overridden by another top-tier weather ability like Desolate Land or Delta Stream.
But the third god of Gen IX, Terapagos—
was also the natural enemy of all weather and all terrains.
Under Stellar Form, Terapagos's ability turns into Teraform Zero.
Teraform Zero: make all weather-based statuses and terrain-based statuses vanish to zero.
That's Stellar Form Terapagos's ability.
A weather-and-terrain finisher.
"Strength probably helps too."
Damian's eyes shimmered slightly.
This Terapagos's strength was quite strong.
Otherwise, even if Teraform Zero was truly the weather-killer…
fully zeroing out Primordial Sea wouldn't be something this easy.
Because in the real world—
strength is the root.
Otherwise, if you threw a Terapagos with weak strength in here, Teraform Zero likely wouldn't succeed either.
And just like that—
the sky that had suddenly turned clear and blue because of Teraform Zero—
darkened instantly.
One by one, black spirit entities floated like ghosts.
They covered the sky.
Creepy and quiet.
"Mewtwo!"
Damian's eyes sharpened.
The black horse Sovereign and Steed Damion was riding right now was holding up its right arm.
Shadow Rider Calyrex's signature move—
Astral Barrage!
With Shadow Rider Calyrex's right arm slammed down hard, a terrifying amount of black spirit entities poured down at once.
Mega Shadow Mewtwo Y immediately shot up into the air.
Its deep purple psychic power turned into a massive barrier.
Boom—boom!
The explosion sounds were deafening.
Astral Barrage's spirits were wildly slammed into Mega Shadow Mewtwo Y's psychic wall.
Strong gusts erupted wildly.
Mega Shadow Mewtwo Y's eyes kept shimmering with deep purple light.
The intensity of that attack…
"That's weird."
"Why does it look like it's riding a horse?"
Damian watched Shadow Rider Calyrex—
its body wasn't large, but it was absurdly dignified.
And he was genuinely puzzled.
Calyrex, revered as "Sovereign and Steed," and "The King of Bountiful Harvests"—
was the king from ancient times of the Galar Region, reigning over the entire Galar Region.
But later, Calyrex's kingdom collapsed.
And humans stopped putting faith in Calyrex.
As the power of belief drained away, Calyrex's strength weakened.
Even its beloved steed—Spectrier and Glastrier—left Calyrex.
In the games, a Calyrex with barely any strength left got its power back only after being helped by the protagonist.
Then it gave the protagonist a chance to challenge and catch it.
In the end, it was beaten by the protagonist—
and then it went on a journey with the protagonist.
But the Calyrex in front of them—
being a riding form—was clearly a bit off from the game's plot.
Looks like it was different.
But that was fine.
"Mewtwo."
"Go deal with Calyrex."
After successfully blocking the Astral Barrage attack,
Damian made the decision without hesitation—
and ordered Mega Shadow Mewtwo Y to deal with Shadow Rider Calyrex.
"Kyurem."
"Go defeat Zygarde."
"No problem, right?"
Then Damian went straight on the offensive.
"Zygarde? That's exactly the kind of dragon matchup I love."
Dragon Kyurem bared a savage smile.
Tail turbines lit up with lightning.
It charged straight at Complete Forme Zygarde.
Blue lightning kept sizzling, turning into arcs that completely enwrapped Dragon Kyurem.
Ice-type Freeze Shock!
Seeing Dragon Kyurem rush in with a brutal momentum, Complete Forme Zygarde didn't even flinch.
Its giant body rocketed upward.
A massive open maw in its chest suddenly widened.
Pure, concentrated dragon glow condensed.
The next moment—
a super thick green beam curled out like a serpent.
It drew a Z-shaped path in the air.
Dragon-type Core Enforcer!
Boom!
Core Enforcer slammed into Freeze Shock with brutal force.
A terrifying roar burst upward.
The raging green motes of light illuminated the horizon.
Complete Forme Zygarde's power was extremely shocking!
But within the roar—
Dragon Kyurem's Freeze Shock somehow forced its way out of the energy anyway.
In Complete Forme Zygarde's stunned eyes.
Boom!
Freeze Shock slammed into Complete Forme Zygarde.
Crack, crack—
That scalp-tingling freezing sound rang out nonstop.
In an instant, thick frost formed at Complete Forme Zygarde's chest location.
Complete Forme Zygarde let out a painful bellow.
Its entire massive body got knocked flying by Dragon Kyurem, crashing into the desert hard.
It kicked up sand waves more than ten meters high.
"Roar!!"
Dragon Kyurem let out a towering head-up cry with dominating presence.
An "ecological order enforcer," huh?
All that boasting—
and it still got knocked down by one move from me.
"Wah!! Kyurem!! So intense!"
Seeing this, Mischief Hoopa was completely stunned.
It stared in awe.
That was Complete Forme Zygarde.
Even in the past, it had to handle that kind of opponent carefully.
But Dragon Kyurem—
directly fought it head-on and flipped Complete Forme Zygarde over!
That was just too savage.
Reshiram and Zekrom, was that all you did to "supplement" it?
"As expected, it's Kyurem."
Damian praised it.
To be honest—
a three-in-one Kyurem is just a beast.
But this also had something to do with Complete Forme Zygarde not being an offensive top-tier legendary.
Complete Forme Zygarde's strongest point was—
its stamina.
Among top-tier legendaries, its stamina was basically on a whole different level.
If it were Shiny Rayquaza—
it probably wouldn't look like this.
But right at the next moment—
countless dense green energy arrows shot into the sky.
They surged at high speed toward the Dragon Kyurem in the air.
Ground-type Thousand Arrows!
This was Zygarde's signature move too.
Among legendary Pokémon, Zygarde was one of the ones with the most signature moves.
It had a whole four signature moves.
When the sand waves fell—
Complete Forme Zygarde stood there, planted in the sand.
As a land dragon, strictly speaking—
the ground was Complete Forme Zygarde's home field.
Dragon Kyurem roared.
It opened its mouth and blasted a brutal Blizzard.
Blizzard!
Blizzard and Thousand Arrows slammed into each other hard.
Green motes of light arrows and icy-blue blizzard winds clashed violently in midair, smashing into each other nonstop.
And you could clearly see with your own eyes—
Blizzard was slightly suppressing Thousand Arrows.
Complete Forme Zygarde's attacks were obviously not as strong as Dragon Kyurem's.
"Kyurem can suppress Zygarde."
"Beating it shouldn't take too long."
Damian still had a lot of confidence in Dragon Kyurem.
After all, it was a perfect, fused three-in-one complete dragon.
It didn't seem to have fully reverted back to its original Unova form either.
But Dragon Kyurem's strength could already be called top-tier in the world.
And even more so—
Complete Forme Zygarde was four-times weak to Ice.
So whether it came to combat power or typing—
Dragon Kyurem had the advantage.
Beating Complete Forme Zygarde wasn't that difficult.
"Giratina."
"Go deal with Palkia."
"What do you think?"
Damian looked toward Hoopa Unbound.
Hoopa Unbound, Stellar Form Terapagos, Origin Forme Palkia.
Origin Forme Giratina's dragon eyes were calm and fierce.
Its giant, centipede-like body slowly swam forward, charging straight at Origin Forme Palkia.
For Giratina to deal with Palkia—
it was more than happy to do it.
Giratina could still suppress it!
"If we weren't worried about causing even more chaos and riots…"
"we could just cleave them with Rage of Thunder."
Damian clicked his tongue.
Giratina could use a space-time rift to drop Rage of Thunder and trigger the Legendary Pokémon's rage and uprising.
That way, the resentment Hoopa Unbound had over them would naturally no longer matter.
But the problem was—
Rage of Thunder would have even worse effects.
Even just the uprisings of Origin Forme Palkia and Dialga would open up time-space confusion and create space-time rifts.
And then add Complete Forme Zygarde—
those top-tier legendaries too.
If you really used Rage of Thunder to hit them like that…
before long, Arceus would probably have to step in to clean up the mess.
Come to think of it—
with a scene this huge, Arceus definitely couldn't have failed to notice it.
So it probably was hiding somewhere, munching on snacks like nothing was happening, right?
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