While Steven and Cynthia were thinking about their own future, Axel was gambling his in tide battle. The combined body of Aegislash and Ceruledge was not something that he expected to see right now.
"Charles, you are out of the team. Marcus, Magnus, and Meg will handle this battle. Marcus, you will be the leader of the team in this battle. Magnus, make sure that you are on the sidelines giving support.", said Axel.
He had to change his strategy. Since this abomination was the combination of both of the Pokemon and it consisted of the properties of both of them, Charizard was useless in this battle because of Ceruledge's 'Flash fire'.
Magnus was an ice-type Pokemon, so it was also at a disadvantage. Even though the abomination had not ranked up and reached pseudo-king rank, Axel didn't take it lightly. He believed that Pokemon would be more powerful than both of them combined.
Shedinja looked at the abomination and towards its team. It could tell the motivation was down, and they might lose the battle this way. It looked towards Nidoking and Slowemperor and said,
"Just support me from the back. I will be the primary attacker."
"But boss, you might get hit.", said Nidoking in a concerned voice. It knew that Shedinja was weak against ghost-type moves.
"Don't worry about me. Just give me your full support.", said Shedinja.
Shedinja was then covered in solid armor made of rocks. This was done by Nidoking. Even with the rock armor, its speed was extremely high. It instantly moved towards the abomination and used the move 'Night slash'.
The abomination was also very fast. It could tell that Shedinja was going to attack at a close range. So, it slashed its sword, and the sword hit Shedinja.
Poof!!
That was a substitute. Shedinja then fired multiple 'Shadow ball' towards the abomination. The move was very fast, and since there were many of them, Axel knew that its only option was to defend the attack.
So, it used the move 'King shield' to cover itself.
BOOM
BOOOM
BOOOM
The abomination was not hurt even a little bit. The 'King Shield' was a powerful defensive move. Axel was surprised to see that the abomination could use the powers and the moves of both of the Pokemon.
It then used the move 'Iron defense' and then used 'Substitute', and then a fiery copy came out of it like before. This was the move called 'Fire incarnation' of Ceruledge.
It was ready to move.
All 3 of them moved towards Shedinja, but suddenly, a barrage of purple balls came rushing towards them. This was 'Poison ball' of Nidoking.
BOOM
BOOOM
BOOOM
The substitute could not dodge the attack, and it was hit by it. Yet, the substitute was not down. It slowly started to stand back up and moved towards Nidoking.
Shedinja also used its substitute again, and now there were 4 of them. All of them used the move 'Shadow ball' as multiple 'Shadow balls' came rushing towards the abomination.
The abomination used the move 'Heatwave' on Shedinja but was surprised to see that Shedinja was immune to fire-type moves. It had realized its mistake, but it must also pay for it.
It had to deal with numerous amounts of 'Shadow ball'.
BOOM
BOOM
BOOOOM
ROOOAORRR
The abomination gave a powerful roar. One of the things that had drastically changed after it combined was its defense and health. Its health and defense seem to have rapidly improved.
It could tell that fire-type moves could not hurt Shedinja. So, its only answer was a ghost-type move. This was very bad because Ceruledge was a fire-type Pokemon. Even though Aegislash had a ghost type core, it was not an attacking Pokemon but a defensive Pokemon.
Ceruledge increased its speed to get close to Shedinja. Its sword was now shining in blue ghost-type energy as it slashed towards Shedinja. Yet, Shedinja was able to dodge it perfectly.
Why?
It had used the move 'Shadow sneak'. Unlike before, 'Shadow sneak' had been upgraded.
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Shadow jump (Shedinja): (Level 40): It can teleport within 10 10-meter radius of another shadow.
(Level 45): It can teleport within 20-meter radius of another shadow.
(Level 50): It is difficult for the target to notice shadow jump.
(Level 55): With the help of invisibility, the user can teleport without being found out. However, powerful Pokemons would not a problem finding it out.
(Level 60): The speed of the teleportation has increased.
(Level 65): Can connect with Shadow sneak for greater flexibility.
Shadow Sneak (Shedinja): (Level 40): Shedinja will extend the shadow of around 5-meter radius
(Level 45): Can extend up to 8 meters.
(Level 50): Can extend it up to 10 meters
(Level 55): Can cover a radius of 15 meters for 5 minutes where the speed of the user is at maximum
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So now, Shedinja's shadow had extended to cover a radius of 15 meters, and now it could teleport anywhere in these 15 meters. This was a huge boost. The fire incarnation was able to deal with three substitutes, but Shedinja was able to play with both of them easily.
It used moves like 'Night slash' and 'Shadow ball' with minimum stamina. Shedinja knew that the battle would be long, and it had to save its stamina.
On the other hand, Nidoking was able to deal with the substitute, and after some time, with relentless attacks, Shedinja was able to deal with the fire incarnation.
At that time, the time for 'Shadow Sneak' had already expired, but the abomination was not doing well.
"Give up, now!!!", shouted Shedinja.
Shedinja could already tell that this creature had a lot of life force, and the battle would not end so fast. So, it wanted the abomination to surrender as quickly as possible.
"If you don't surrender, then I will have to be crueler. 'Shadow Control'!!!"
Suddenly, chains made of shadow came out of the ground and bound the abomination, making it unable to move.
The move had also been upgraded and now it could cause hallucination.
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Shadow control (Shedinja): (Level 40): The tentacles have mini blades that could shred the target.
(Level 45): After completely covering the target, it would explode.
(Level 50): Can use chains instead of tentacles. It has higher binding power
(Level 55): The binding power of the move has increased. High chance for the opponent to go into illusion.
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At that time, Shedinja used the move 'Hypnosis' on the abomination. It wanted the abomination to fall asleep and into illusion. It was ready to use the move 'Dream eater'.
But how could the abomination give up so fast?
BOOOM
Suddenly, a wave of powerful firestorm erupted from the place where the abomination was standing. Shedinja could tell that it had come out of 'Shadow control'.
ROOOARRR
Axel could already tell that the abomination was using its pre-domain move and it was going to use its strongest move.
So, he said, "Magnus, use your 'Ice age'"
BOOOM
The surroundings immediately changed. A blizzard came and the snow surrounded everyone.
'Ice age' was the pre-domain move of Magnus. One of the most interesting things about this move was that the user could protect himself and their allies while using this move.
The fire from the abomination could not do anything to Shedinja and Nidoking.
Shedinja realized that it had made a mistake. It decided to finish this battle as soon as possible. So, it directly used 'Shadow darkness domain'.
While Shedinja's pre-domain move was more about control, the abomination's pre-domain move was more about pure destruction.
Everything went dark for the abomination as it fell that it was sinking inside the darkness. The movie 'Shadow Darkness domain' had improved a lot, too. The move would not only overpower Shedinja but also cast multiple hallucinations on the target.
Shedinja then used the move 'Shadow control' to bind the target and then used the move 'Dark breath'.
It had already used 5 stacks of 'Darkness zap' on the target. So, the resulting power of 'Dark breath' had increased by 300%.
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Darkness Zap (Shedinja) (Level 40): The speed of the attack has increased.
(Level 45): The user could create multiple darkness zaps around the target instead of one or two.
(Level 50): With the 5 stacks of this move, the next darkness type move will have 300% increase in power.
Dark breath (Shedinja): (Level 40): Increase the effect of dark-type attacks like Hypnosis, Darkness zap and Dream eater.
(Level 45): It has a sticky property that would stick to the target or any object. This sticky dark substance would eventually increase the power of moves like 'Hypnosis', 'Dream eater', 'Dark breath' and 'Darkness zap'
(Level 50): The move has become faster and it now has high penetrating power.
(Level 55): A big chance to cause illusion.
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With the use of 'Shadow darkness domain', the power of this move was extremely high.
BOOOM
A massive explosion occurred. Since the abomination was inside the pre-domain move of Shedinja, it felt that even with all that powerful attack, the abomination had not died. Instead, the abomination had separated from each other, and both of them were now extremely injured.
Shedinja decided to cancel its pre-domain move as it was sucking a lot of energy.
When the dust and debris settled, Axel looked at the battle that was already over. Both of them were seriously injured, and they could not fight right now.
Aegislash was trying to stand up, but Ceruledge had already fainted, then it suddenly woke up. When it woke up, it looked around in confusion, and then it moved towards Aegislash and slashed its blade against Aegislash and killed it, dividing it in 2 halves.
All of them were surprised to see the action of Ceruledge. Why had it killed its own friend?
Ceruledge turned towards Shedinja and gave a deep bow saying, "Thank you for saving me."
Shedinja asked, "What do you mean?"
"I was under the influence of Aegislash. It had used its dark arts on me and even though I could tell what I was doing, I could not control my body. After you defeated both of us, the control that Aegislash had on me disappeared. So, I was able to kill it with my own sword."
This was a revelation that Axel had not expected. He had heard stories about Aegislash and how it had manipulated the human kings during ancient times, but it was just a story.
This Aegislash was able to control a tier 3 king-rank Pokemon.
"Not only me, Brambleghast was also controlled by it. That is why we were following it.", said Ceruledge.
"So, do you plan to fight us again?", asked Shedinja.
"No, I have no intention of doing that. I just want to spend my time doing nothing.", said Ceruledge.
Others might not understand it, but Shedinja did what it meant by that. Doing nothing was one of the virtues of ghost-type Pokemon. Since they had long lives, learning to do nothing was an important trait of a ghost-type Pokemon.
"And why should I believe you? You must be planning to attack us in the future.", asked Shedinja.
"No, I don't have any reason to do so. If you don't believe me, then you can kill me. I have nothing more to prove myself."
Shedinja was facing a hard decision. So, it looked towards Axel for help.
"You will train your newly created moves to my Pokemon for a month. If you can do that, then I will let you go.", said Axel.
This was a new type of Pokemon that he had never seen before. There might be a lot of secrets behind it.
"I agree."
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