Chapter 142: Ho-Oh: You Want Me to Fight Black Rayquaza?

At this moment, over the sea between the Kanto and Hoenn regions, high in the sky, a large, rainbow-glowing bird Pokémon was flapping its wings at incredible speed.

It was Ho-Oh.

"That human actually ran this far!"

Ho-Oh cursed inwardly; it had been enjoying a lava bath just fine, even considering taking a nap.

Instead, an inexplicable throb snapped it back to awareness; it was precisely that special rainbow feather it had previously given to Mamen.

Clearly, Mamen was calling out to it.

Ho-Oh felt helpless, but since it had promised, even though it was extremely reluctant, it could only leave its lava bath with great reluctance.

Yet, with just that one sensation, Ho-Oh wanted to curse.

That guy is actually this far away? Damn it, does he really not treat me as a person?

But with matters already at this point, what could it do? It could only rush over.

These were debts it had incurred in the past.

And Most Important, that inexplicable throb was coming once every little while.

Hmm, this indicates that human is frantically urging it, and what can Ho-Oh do?

It could only flap its wings harder, increasing its speed.

"You better have a good reason!!"

Feeling that throb again, Ho-Oh cursed inwardly but still flapped its wings with force.

It was also curious: why did that human suddenly call it so urgently? Did it encounter some enemy?

Hmph~! But then again, since he found a noble and powerful being like itself, it must be some opponent difficult to match, right?

Ultimately, that human's black Pokémon, though strong, was still not its match.

Fine, let the beautiful and powerful my lord Ho-Oh lend you a hand!

No matter what kind of opponent, the invincible my lord Ho-Oh declares it can completely handle it, yes!

After a rough estimate, Ho-Oh felt it should arrive at the location of that rainbow feather soon.

Saffron City.

Dark Mewtwo and Deoxys were meditating, while Primal Groudon flew high, sending a beam of ice-blue light attacking the black Rayquaza.

"Ice Beam!"

The Ice-type Ice Beam, although under the effect of Delta Stream, the Flying-type weakness of the black Rayquaza had vanished.

But it was still doubly weak to Ice!

A massive, winding beam of ice-blue light tore through the air, shooting toward the black Rayquaza, whose dragon eyes were majestic and cold.

Raising its upper body, it gathered pure dragon light in its mouth, and a dragon-shaped wave fiercely met it head-on.

Dragon Pulse!

Dragon Pulse and Ice Beam collided violently in mid-air.

But after merely holding for two seconds, Dragon Pulse shattered the Ice Beam, which continued its momentum to strike Primal Groudon.

Boom!

Dragon Pulse exploded heavily; amidst the violent blast fire, Primal Groudon let out a cry of pain, its massive body flipped over.

"Groudon, did you hold back?"

Seeing this, Mamen frowned slightly and asked Primal Groudon in his mind.

"I did not hold back!"

Primal Groudon replied awkwardly; although this Dragon Pulse did not counter it, being hit by it still hurt quite a bit.

It hadn't expected this either; this black Rayquaza was even stronger than the female Tyranitar that had beaten it and Groudon for these few thousand years!

What the hell, what kind of things are the Rayquaza species!

Being this strong was one thing, but they even have a species? Oh my god, open your eyes and look!

Is there any justice in this world?

Mamen narrowed his eyes; without holding back, facing head-on, it was overwhelmed by the black Rayquaza so quickly?

The attack power of this black Rayquaza was simply too high, but in the movies, didn't it just scratch Giratina?

No, perhaps it was better to say that Giratina in another form had exceptionally high defense?

Mamen glanced at Dark Mewtwo and Deoxys; both had successfully meditated once.

Mamen naturally let them continue meditating; since they were going to strengthen, of course, they would strengthen to the maximum.

"Roar~!"

The black Rayquaza's dragon roar rang high, its magnificent black dragon body swimming forward at high speed.

"Blizzard!"

Mamen ordered without hesitation.

Primal Groudon flapped its wings and took flight, a storm of ice-blue snow and ice surging wildly from its mouth.

A mighty blizzard swept across the sky, the white snow and wind enveloping even the horizon.

An extremely powerful blizzard!

"Hiss~ This blizzard!"

Below, Wallace looked in amazement at the falling snowflakes; even their position was affected by the blizzard!

"This power is truly astonishing."

Diantha sighed deeply; is this the power of true legendary Pokémon?

After all, Primal Groudon didn't even have the Ice type.

However, the black Rayquaza's eyes showed no change; its speeding form did not halt at all, the crackling sound of electric current buzzing incessantly.

The black Rayquaza's entire body was covered in golden electric currents as it accelerated once more, charging toward Primal Groudon.

The Electric-type Extreme Speed!

Like a golden blade, the black Rayquaza plunged directly into the blizzard, the icy sky being forcibly torn open by lightning.

The blizzard could not stop the charge of Extreme Speed!

"Protect!"

Mamon did not hesitate.

Primal Groudon immediately abandoned the blizzard; a green Protect light flared, and a barrier appeared before Primal Groudon.

Boom!

The next moment, Extreme Speed crashed heavily against the Protect barrier; wild golden electric currents splashed outward, causing the Protect barrier to tremble from the impact.

Through the Protect barrier, Primal Groudon's golden beast eyes gazed at the black figure within the golden currents; it was just a little bit off.

If not for that human's reminder, it would not have used Protect, but would have continued to frantically drain its internal energy to intensify the blizzard's assault.

But in that case, it feared it would truly have been struck by that powerful Extreme Speed.

The Electric-type Extreme Speed counters Primal Groudon.

It seems this human is indeed still useful.

"Do not be careless! Be careful!"

But just then, Mamon's voice hurriedly warned.

Primal Groudon came to its senses; the Protect barrier's duration had ended, and what met Primal Groudon's eyes was a tail wreathed in cyan light.

The Dragon-type Hyper Beam!

Boom-boom-boom!

The violent explosion deafened the ears; Hyper Beam detonated, releasing destructive energy that blasted Primal Groudon completely away.

The next moment, the black Rayquaza gathered pure dragon light in its mouth.

A Dragon Pulse shot forth, heavily striking the flying-back Primal Groudon.

Boom!

Primal Groudon's massive body crashed into a high-rise building; the violent impact force made the building completely unable to withstand it, and the building was directly snapped in half.

Roar~!!

Having felled Primal Groudon, the black Rayquaza let out a domineering dragon roar once more, then looked down with a proud gaze at the thick smoke and dust below.

That was the location where Primal Groudon had fallen.

Is that it?

The black Rayquaza did not continue the pursuit; it had thought this fathead fish might have some "surprise," but it was only this level after all.

The black Rayquaza glanced again toward the directions of Dark Mewtwo and Deoxys; it could see that these two fellows were strengthening themselves.

But bugs are bugs; even after strengthening, can bugs defeat a mighty dragon?

Truly laughable; do they think that after strengthening they can challenge itself?

The black Rayquaza was disdainful of this, but even so, it had no time to play games with these two bugs.

The black Rayquaza gazed at Deoxys, its dragon eyes cold light congealing; filth from the cosmos!

"Not continuing the pursuit of Groudon, but setting its sights on Deoxys instead?"

Although it did not know what the black Rayquaza's thoughts were, Mamon understood that the black Rayquaza was not ignoring Dark Mewtwo and Deoxys; this was not good news for him.

Mamon urged Primal Groudon in his heart.

Although it had just been completely hammered by the black Rayquaza, Extreme Speed had not landed, so the injuries on Primal Groudon's body were acceptable.

Primal Groudon's constitution was also very strong.

"Groudon, get up quickly!"

"Hiss~ Human, I am in great pain."

"Who told you to get distracted during the battle?"

Mamon had a headache; wild is wild, and this fathead fish's combat literacy was truly quite average.

But then again, although it had lived for who knows how long, Primal Groudon, an existence born at the top of the food chain, had no natural enemies.

On this land of Hoenn, only things that could not fly and flying Caterpies could fight it.

And aside from competing with Primal Groudon for natural energy, and then being "mediated" by Mega Rayquaza, Primal Groudon probably had not fought much.

"Moreover, Groudon, did you not say you and Rayquaza were a 70-30 split?"

"This Rayquaza counts separately..."

Primal Groudon fell silent for a while before finally replying.

This fathead fish was truly a bit cute; Mamon could not help but laugh.

"Ice Beam!"

"Woo~!"

A low, melodious wooing sound spread across the sky again; Primal Groudon's body, overflowing with faint cyan divine radiance, soared high.

An ice-blue beam shot toward the black Rayquaza, which was preparing to attack Deoxys.

The black Rayquaza lowered its head, its slender body moving with ease to dodge the Ice Beam.

It seems the strike was still too light; it actually dared to attack itself.

Cold light flickered in the black Rayquaza's dragon eyes as it slowly swirled its black dragon body, swimming toward Primal Groudon.

Sensing the chill in the black Rayquaza's eyes, Primal Groudon felt its fish skin go numb.

"Blizzard!"

Primal Kyogre opened its mouth again, condensing an Ice-type blizzard, but before it could fire the blizzard.

A flash before their eyes, a black dragon shot forward at high speed, slamming heavily into Primal Kyogre's head.

A Normal-type Extreme Speed!

Bang!

Primal Kyogre let out a muffled grunt; the next second, Primal Kyogre opened its mouth, the blizzard aiming to coat the black Rayquaza entirely.

But the black Rayquaza moved just as fast, golden lightning crackling around its body, as it slammed down hard on Primal Kyogre once more.

An Electric-type Wild Charge!

Wild Charge bore straight through the blizzard's impact, crashing hard into Primal Kyogre's body.

Primal Kyogre emitted a pained low cry, its massive body pushed down by the black Rayquaza, falling continuously until it crashed heavily onto the ground.

The entire ground trembled violently, fierce golden lightning shooting skyward.

Mamen frowned; Electric beats Water! This Wild Charge hit Primal Kyogre quite hard.

Currents hummed faintly in the air as the black Rayquaza, still flickering with arcs of electricity, slowly rose into the sky.

This was the recoil damage from Wild Charge, but mere recoil damage was something the black Rayquaza didn't care about at all.

The black Rayquaza gazed at Primal Kyogre's blurred figure within the thick smoke; its dragon eyes were indifferent and cold, its massive dragon body radiating terrifying power.

"This is way too strong?! Kyogre is completely no match for it!" Wallace was stunned.

"Indeed, this Rayquaza's individual strength is terrifying." Steven's expression was equally shocked.

"Mewtwo and Deoxys on Mamen's side have finished their enhancements; let's see if they can turn the tide of battle."

Cynthia looked toward Dark Mewtwo and Deoxys; the two had not participated in the battle up until now.

They had been using Calm Mind to enhance themselves, and now Calm Mind was fully stacked.

"It still feels very difficult." Sakaki shook his head; he felt that to defeat this Rayquaza, Mamen's current lineup would need to think of a good plan.

"Chirp~"

At that moment, a melodious, high-pitched cry echoed from the distant horizon.

A beautiful rainbow stretched out from afar as a gorgeous bird-like Pokémon, shimmering with Jin Guang and colorful light, flew in from the distance.

The black Rayquaza turned its gaze toward the sound, its dragon eyes narrowing slightly.

"Finally here."

Seeing this, Mamen couldn't help but reveal a smile; it had finally arrived, Ho-Oh!

The legendary Ho-Oh arrived with flapping wings, landing above Mamen.

"Human, you..."

Ho-Oh's androgynous, slightly feminine telepathic voice rang out, but before Ho-Oh could finish, its voice paused.

Ho-Oh noticed the black Rayquaza standing in the air at the corner of its eye; its body instantly stiffened. A shiny Mega Rayquaza?!

This utterly terrifying, formidable aura instantly triggered alarms in Ho-Oh; or rather, its mind was screaming warnings.

"Ho-Oh, you've finally arrived. The first favor I need you to do is help me defeat this shiny Rayquaza."

Mamen got straight to the point, speaking to Ho-Oh.

This was a promise Ho-Oh had made to him.

"???"

Ho-Oh's bird eyes widened to roundness; its wings stopped flapping as it looked at Mamen in disbelief.

"Human, what did you just say?"

Ho-Oh's tone was full of shock.

"You want me to fight that Rayquaza???"

Ho-Oh pointed its wing, in a human-like gesture, toward the pitch-black black Rayquaza.

Is this human insane?! It is just a Ho-Oh; asking it to fight the black Rayquaza?!

Ps: I'm late, I'm late; so many relatives came to my house.

Aaaaaah! I want to write!

Bounty-added chapters: I currently owe everyone four chapters; I remember it.

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