Message #69258

[Scarlet Spider]

Donovan finally arrived in Veilstone City.  He looked at the Galactic Base in the distance.  Mars was probably guarded by a bunch of Grunts in there so he wouldn't try to get after her.  What he needed to do was get stronger.  He strode towards the Gym and entered.  The place was filled with various boxing rings, filled with Fighting Type Trainers.  Everybody in this whole virtual world looked and felt so real.  Donovan needed that technology.  He didn't even know where it came from, but it would make him infamous if he controlled it.  He sent out his Tropius and commanded it to use Gust on the various Fighting Pokémon in the area.  Despite his loss to Mars, he was back in action and more brutal than ever.

"What are you doing?!" yelled the Gym Leader; a girl named Maylene "You can't just come in here and knock down everybody unfairly!"

"What is fair exactly?" laughed Donovan "I'm here to challenge you to a battle."

"I won't battle somebody without honour!" Maylene yelled.

"Don't battle me, fine.  That doesn't mean I won't battle you.  I'll take that badge from you if I have to."

Maylene clenched her first "Some poser in a suit can't beat a whole Gym full of trained fighters."

"I don't need to.  I have a Gyarados to do that for me.  This Gym and all its fighters won't be standing when I'm through unless you decide to have a Gym Battle with me" Donovan explained nonchalantly.

Clenching his fist harder, Maylene finally relented "You abuse the right to have Pokémon.  I don't want to battle you, but I will if I have to.  Threatening with a Gyarados is a low blow..."

"I frankly don't care about what others think.  I want my creatures to be as strong as possible and win this game so I can get the code I want."

"You make no sense" said Maylene "I'll defeat your Pokémon and then we'll beat you down too."

"Hah.  That's the spirit I'm looking for" Donovan laughed.

Maylene threw her Pokéball and sent out her first Pokémon; a Meditite.  She commanded it to use Confusion on Donovan's Tropius.  Tropius attacked with Gust, defeating the Meditite quickly.

"I have the advantage and so your weak Pokémon are just a very nice burst of EXP points for my levels" Donovan laughed "I'll give you a fighting chance though, come on out Monferno, he needs levels too."

Donovan switched out his Tropius for his Monferno.  Maylene sent out her second Pokémon, which was Machoke.  Monferno ran towards Machoke, smashing it with a Mach Punch.  Machoke yelled out before initiating its counterattack on Monferno.  The monkey Pokémon skillfully danced around Machoke's attacks before making a final blow.  Maylene clenched her teeth before sending out her last Pokémon.  The aura Pokémon itself - Lucario.  Lucario struck down Monferno with a Critical Hit of Force Palm.  Donovan laughed this off and sent out his Gyarados.  The mighty Water Pokémon thrashed about angrily, wacking Lucario over and over.  Lucario Fainted.  Donovan signalled Gyarados to keep going.  Lucario was struck again and again.

"What are you doing!" Maylene cried "You defeated Lucario already!  Stop hitting it, you'll hurt it for real!"

"Nothing is real!" Donovan exclaimed "Not yet anyway!  Not until it belongs to me!"

Maylene rushed to her Lucario and returned it to the Pokéball.  Donovan chuckled and recalled his Pokémon too.  He grabbed a badge that was on display and walked out of the Gym.  Maylene cried as one of the Gym Trainers brought over a healing device to heal her Pokémon up.  Lucario would be fine, but even so, Donovan was a monster.

Putting his badge in the Badge Case he had when he manifested in the game, he walked over to the Pokémon Center to heal up his Monferno.  It may have fainted but it did well even so and was close to evolving.  Donovan would have the power he desired.  Moments later, as he walked out of the Pokémon Center after healing, somebody blocked his path.

"I saw what you did there" said a man; a man with blue hair "I don't like it at all.  People like you are why I'm going to change things."

"You don't have to worry about me, Cyrus.  I'm not from this world and soon I'll be out of this cesspool" replied Donovan.

"Oh, well then in that case, you'd be unaffected if it was destroyed.  Would you like to destroy this world?" asked Cyrus.

"If you are asking me to help, I guess I could.  Once I've gone back to my own...'dimension', you can do whatever the hell you like."

Cyrus smiled, well as close to a smile as anybody without emotions could get to "Then I'd like you to find something for me."

"What exactly?" asked Donovan.

"From what I've heard, it calls itself the Multitude.  It's some kind of blight upon the Universe.  It wants to destroy everything too.  I'd like to weaponise it."

"That's quite a big aspiration there" said Donovan "Though, I didn't realise 79's handiwork was here.  I think we can afford to take that too."

Donovan and Cyrus shook hands.  They didn't like eachother but would find eachother useful.  If Donovan reverse engineered that too, he'd have even more power.