Retribution's body burned with power as he connected with the Salamence with a Meteor Mash and then used thunderbolt three times in a second to blast it all the way to the other side of the arena. The Salamence roared in pain and anger as it hit the ground and the other trainer cried out for her Pokemon and Retribution turned to Bonnie.

Should I end this quickly, or give the thing a chance he asked and Bonnie didn't know what to do, the Salamence was already wounded and weakened from all of the other attacks and so Bonnie looked at Retribution and nodded thinking 'make it quick'.

I will Retribution said and then his body flared silver, and then his armor appeared and the flare gained it's power, and then another was blasting the arena air back away from Retribution. Another covered the entire battle-floor and then another flare covered the entire battle arena and time seemed to freeze. The silver power of Retribution's flares stayed in Retribution's vision and Retribution did a quick look around to see if what he did worked and then he rushed the Salamence frozen in it's roaring state just as it had finished getting up during Retribution's second to last flare, and time resumed to normal as Retribution shot forwards with a speed that not even the camera's could slow down and slammed into Salamence. The power that flowed through Retribution's body transferred into the Salamence and then there was a large explosion and once the dust cleared it showed Salamence knocked out, and Retribution was standing over its unconscious body. It's eyes were now completely black and its body frozen in place, hovering just three inches off of the ground.

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Percy looked down and saw that he had skin once again, human skin, pale and covered in scars. He looked slightly over and saw that he was strapped down, to a vertical table. Then a door opened and Kronos came back in, and Percy paled. This wasn't supposed to happen, he hadn't knocked himself out, or caused anything that made a flashback, so why was this happening.

"You aren't real" Percy said and Kronos chuckled "you're dead"

"Oh but you don't know that for sure do you?" he said and Percy struggled and strained as he grabbed a knife and put it against Percy's throat.

"Look you can make this as painless as possible, or you can struggle and strain all you like, but I'll just keep cutting until you cut to the next scene" Kronos said and Percy stopped.

"Last time there was only one scene" he said and Kronor smiled

"Well this time you are in a triggered flashback, and in doing so created five layers of pain that you have to suffer through while your other world watches your pain" Kronos said "you're what now? A Poke-man?"

"Pokemon" Percy growled and Kronos smiled before moving faster than light and cutting a thin line across Percy's chest. Percy didn't feel the pain until a second later when he grit his teeth to keep from screaming.

"Retribution Return!" Bonnie's voice came flying through the dream-space like a gust of wind.

Kronos chuckled as Bonnie's voice make his armor whistle as it went through, and his arm flashed again and a line appeared from Percy's fore-head across his right eye, and across his nose to the bottom of his jaw on the left side of his face.

"Oh you haven't told her your real name, your name before you were turned into a...creature" Kronor smiled and stabbed the knife he held into Percy's left shoulder, and grabbed another knife off of the table beside him. Percy let out a shout of pain, but quickly closed his mouth to not scream in pain.

"I am going to make you scream" he said "and then I am going to make you beg, beg me to end your life and send you to the next level. That one will be worse than this level, then the next after those will be worse, and worse, and worse until your sanity shatters and then you'll come out back into your world.

Everyone in the arena watched as Retribution's body rose slightly higher, an inch or so and a glowing line appeared on the chest of the creature, and faded into a newly made scar, and then one on Retribution's muzzle just over his eye, and then once Ash, Alain, and Clemont got to the bottom of the arena they pushed their way in and ran up to Retribution and Bonnie watched in horror as her open Poke-ball showed black, empty space inside of it.

"All of the injuries that I make in this world will parallel into the life that you have, so I suggest you get beggin'" Kronos said making a slow cut that made Percy grit his teeth and growl in pain as the blade cut into the skin of Percy's leg and went down, down, down all the way to his ankle.

"I will never beg you for an end to my pain" Percy said and Kronos smiled

"I didn't expect you to start begging me immediately" he said "no you are going to mean it soon, very soon" he then stabbed the other knife into Percy's uninjured leg and left the knife there, as he had with the one still in Percy's left shoulder. Both knives made Percy's Body throb in pain and Kronos slowed down time as his hand thrust forwards with a smaller knife than the others and when it left Kronos' hand it flew through the air straight and true about cut into Percy's right eye, slowly, and as painfully as possible.

Ash and Alain both had let all of their Pokemon out of their balls and were working on making a ball of ice when another line of light went down Retribution's back left leg, and Clemont looked at it in surprise and a little sadness as he worked on a band of metal.

Serena was keeping Bonnie back, and faced in the other direction, and a giant shield of water started to rise on the edges of the arena, starting to block out the crowd's view and once the dome reached the top the entire thing froze over from the top to the bottom as Pangoro jumped high enough to land an Ice Punch on the dome of water as it closed together.

"I can feel the humans trying to help you at this moment" Kronos said "the Bonnie one calling your 'fake' name, the two powerful ones protecting the crowd from the sight of your torture in this world, the show-girl trying to heal you with a sort of fairy power, and the smart one trying to fashion some sort of machine to put on you that may, or may not help. The blade was three inches from Percy's eye and Percy tried to move his head to the side, tried to close his eye, but nothing would help, the time made it impossible for him to move fast enough. The blade cut into Percy's eye a couple minutes later, the seconds making minutes seem like hours, and even through Percy couldn't move normally. Kronos could and Percy saw his at his left side watching in glee as the blade finally punctured Percy's eye. It entered slowly, and at first Percy felt a slight prick in his eye, and then it turned into a burning heat, and then into unbearable pain, and Percy finally screamed in pain.

A small light appeared at Retribution's eye and slowly got brighter and brighter and Clemont rushed up to Retribution and jumped before sliding the metal band over his snout and the thing activated on it's own and tightened to keep Retribution's mouth closed just in case it screamed or let loose some power in the form of a blast from it's mouth like they've all seen. They were just in time as the light coming from Retribution's eye became brighter than any of the other cuts that they've seen so far and Retribution's body tensed up and an inhuman screech came from it's muzzled mouth. Clemont's contraption readjusted and tightened to keep Retribution's mouth closed but it wasn't enough apparently and the galaxy Pokemon broke the clamp in half and Retribution's mouth opened fully as his scream tore through the small space they were in. The sound wave was unbearably strong and it caused all of the other Pokemon, the trainers, and Bonnie to cover their ears and fall to their knees as the sound wave shattered the dome around them and the trainers' Pokemon acted quickly. Clearing the debris of falling shards of ice from around them all and keeping all of the trainers safe, but Serena's Sylveon had already switched from trying to heal Retribution to casting an illusion around the space that would hold.

"What's wrong with him Bonnie?" Ash asked "and when were you going to tell us that you had found, no caught Retribution?"

"I-I was going to, but we got too caught up in our travelling to think about it" she said "and I thought that you would know what's wrong with him" she said looking at Alain "after all you both have a similar past, right?"

"No. Yes" Alain growled frustrated that he didn't know what to say about this "his past is a-lot worse than mine, and mine doesn't come back and give me scars and pain like this" he pointed to Retribution who had now stopped screaming and was now deathly silent.

The next three hours were hell, Percy didn't give Kronos the satisfaction of another scream, even after his first scream when Kronos made Percy half-blind and Percy had no doubt that in his other life he was also going to be without one eye, and it made Percy very mad at Kronos, but he never opened up his mouth. Not once. So Kronos made the three hours feel like three weeks with every day being a different form of cutting. Then Kronos just growled at Percy on the last day and straight out stabbed him in the chest.

A bright light appeared at the center of Retribution's chest and then it's eyes closed and Retribution crashed to the ground, the scars all over it's body pulsing with fading light as the others watched as every single one appeared and when Retribution crashed to the ground Bonnie immediately rushed up to it and hugged it. A deep rumble in Retribution's throat told Bonnie that he felt her, and then the illusion disappeared and the other trainer jumped over the side of the rail and put a wary hand on Retribution's head. The other people had been ushered out quickly and there was a giant stretcher ready at the entrance that Bonnie came through, and once they saw that the illusion was down the Pokemon and the Pokemon care-giver rushed over. The nurse's Pokemon used their psychic powers and lifted Retribution off of the ground a couple inches, floated him slowly over to the stretcher and then gently set him on it.

A crowd of reporters were storming through the tunnels, but once they saw the injured Pokemon being set onto the stretcher, they immediately halted their pursuit and backed out of sight. The nurse and her Pokemon strained to pick Retribution up, but with it still in it's second form, the armor disappearing as soon as the dream state took over, the galaxy Pokemon was still heavier than any other Pokemon that they've cared for, or lifted before. And it was smaller than a Gyarados but being completely built of pretty much entirely of muscle and not to mention that it's power made Retribution pretty much impossible to pick up in any of it's forms, at any size or strength.

Then they used their powers to lift it up and Serena's Sylveon helped and they carried Retribution to the back-up Poke-center, which wasn't that far away from the arena, just in case something bad like this, but not nearly as serious, happened in battle and the Pokemon wouldn't be able to make it to the actual Poke-center.

Thanks for reading and I am going to another Writer's Block, but really only for this book, I need a break from this book specifically for now, but I'll be writing other books if y'all are interested in any of my other books that I've read.