"BROTHER? I HAVE A BROTHER?!"
Edgar shouted at the top of his lungs, he could not believe what he was hearing. A few days ago he had lived nothing but a normal life, nothing out of the ordinary, nothing. Now all of a sudden, he had been not only been demonized and worshiped all at once, but he had just found out that he happens to be a secret weapon developed by a ruthless syndicate who wishes nothing more than world domination. And to top it off, his father might be a pokemon morph, the very same one who he had known since he was a kid. And now he had a brother, who shared the same traits as he did. Edgar began to curse his very existence.

He straighten himself and gave everyone in the room a serious look
"Ok... I can handle the fact that I am not human. But tell me, who is my brother?"
Edgar turned to face Silth, his face showing signs of impatience at him. Silth stood up, and sighed, he turned to face everyone in the room
"I am afraid that he is the one we should be afraid of at the moment"
Edgar slammed his hand against the table with such force, that the table snapped in half, its two pieces falling neatly side to side, Edgar's hand was turned into a fist, he turned to face Silth, anger filling his every breath
"ENOUGH OF THIS STALLING!! I WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH NOW!!"
His hands began to glow a searing red, Silth knew what was happening, Edgar was beginning to get furious, and that meant that something else was slowly taking over his body and mind. Darkrai looked simply horrified at what was happening, he still remembered vividly the vicious beating he had received, and now, it appeared as though Edgar was beginning to lose control once again.

Edgar began to shake; he grabbed his shoulder with his right hand, emphasizing some kind of pain. As he did, he began to stumble from side to side. Finally, he let out a yell of pure rage as he punched the wall with an immensely powerful Giga impact. The force was so great that the entire wall was torn asunder, almost as if an explosion had just occurred. The room was filled with dust that impaired everyone's vision. Suddenly, there was another blast that rocked the conference room. The room was filled with even more dust. After most of the dust cleared, they could clearly see two figures standing side by side. One was Edgar, the other was a hooded figure, he seemed to be radiating the same type of energy Edgar was. At first, Edgar was stunned to see somebody else in the room; Sain and Mephisto only stared at the mysterious being. Sain was filled with foreboding at what might happen; Mephisto on the other hand, was simply staring at both of them. Sain turned to face him
"MEPHISTO, WHAT ARE THE POWER LEVELS ON BOTH OF THEM?"
Mephisto used the HUD in his helmet to scan the power levels of both beings, their power was Identical, but he was shocked at the levels that both of them had. No one but the most powerful of legendary beings had such power; both of them had power levels that rivaled that of gods! He was lost for words. Sain became impatient
"MEPHISTO!!"
He raised from the ground and shouted at the top of his lungs
"ITS OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sain could only gasp in disbelief, his next reaction was the same as Mephisto
"WHAT? NINE THOUSAND! BUT THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!! NO ONE HAS SUCH POWER LEVELS!!!!!"
Mephisto kept scanning both of the beings. Edgar and the stranger only locked eyes; they had entered a fierce staring contest that seemed to have no real end. Finally Edgar broke the intense silence
"Who the hell are you?"
The stranger responded by removing his covering. As the coat fell to the floor Edgar only let out a laugh, he pointed at him with his finger
"So you must be my brother; correct?"
The stranger shook his head, the stranger raised one hand, and a strong gust blew what was left of the dust away, revealing what he really looked like. Everyone in the room gasped in shock at what they were seeing. Had it not been for the armor this guy was wearing, he could as well have been another Edgar. Sain shook his head and managed a shallow laugh
"Oh great! It's attack of the freaking clones!"
The strange being that had caught everyone's attention stood in place, staring at his counterpart. His eyes filled with both amazement and sorrow. He spoke in a sad tone
"Why did it have to come to this? You could have done so much good to the world... but now, I fear you are too deep in to save..."
Edgar shook his head; he had no Idea what this guy was talking about
"Just what the hell are you talking about? And just who the fuck are you?"
The stranger bowed
"My name is 567401; most commonly know as 'Rapture' and I have but a single purpose in life..."
He raised his face to met with Edgar's eyes
"To neutralize the beast"
And before Edgar even had a chance to do anything, Rapture slammed him in the face with his open hand.

Rapture's finger penetrated his skin. For a few moments, both of them simply stood still, time itself seemed to be watching the events unfold. After what seemed like hours, Rapture proceeded to pull his hand free with immense force, so much that he ripped Edgar's skull right off his head. The rip had been so flawless, that the Edgar's skin simply flapped over his sides, like an airless balloon. Within seconds of his skull being removed, a new one grew under the loose skin. Edgar was now sweltering mad!
"What the hell was that for? What the hell did I do?"
Rapture kept quiet. He only eyed Edgar with deep intrigue. He spoke with a dark tone
"So... head removal wont work... you are no normal Imperfect..."
Edgar did not wait for an invitation this time; he lounged at his attacker in full speed, his hand glowing with a red aura. But before he could land a blow, he was struck in the head, with his own skull. For a few moments Edgar found himself stunned, then Rapture began a merciless barrage of strikes using Edgar's own skull. Sain began to laugh extremely hard, he managed to get some words out of his laughter
"Well! Guy getting beaten with his own skull! You don't see that everyday! Gives new meaning to the word 'skull bash'! HAHAHAHA!"
As Sain kept laughing, all the others in the room turned to give him an angry stare. He kept laughing anyway. Finally, Edgar managed to recover from his temporal stun, and managed to catch Raptures hand before he managed another strike at him and shattered his own skull. The moment he did, all of his Brains spilled on the ground. Edgar was starting to loose his control. Rapture eyed him with more intrigue as he jumped back to avoid Edgar's punch. He looked at him and realized that there was only one thing that could hurt him. He raised his hands and summoned what looked claws, but as Edgar found out, they were no claws, they where knuckle blades, built to perfection for punching and cutting, they were big, and at the same time, graceful. Edgar knew where this was going, so he summoned his own blades, two disk blades; both of them had different ornaments, one of them had what looked like Arceus's arches, the other had spikes of some kind. They looked as tough they where built out of bone. Both Edgar and Rapture locked eyes, Edgar's visage filled with inhuman rage, Rapture's on the other hand, had a cool, almost sadden tint to them. Edgar started to speak, but his voice was heavily distorted
"You fool, you think you can match the power of a god? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE WORLD OF PAIN YOU'RE ABOUT TO ENTER!!!"
Rapture stood still, he simply charged his blades with what looked like light energy, it was white, and it was as bright as the sun. Edgar charged his own blades, but instead charged them with dark energy, they glowed a deep pitch black, like a black hole. Everyone in the room had grown quiet, even Sain had stooped his laughter as he stared at both beings. It was obvious now that Edgar had lost his mind, or had he? Silth only eyed both beings with some worry.

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Rasputin and Olivia where still locked deep within their staring contest. Both putting every ounce of strength to it. Finally, after minutes of intense staring, both of them eased their stares as both of them fell on their backs tired from the mental strain. Both eyed one another and started to laugh. Olivia was the first to break the silence
"You know, this is kind of pointless, he cares for both of us the same way; so I see no reason to fight over it!"
Rasputin stopped laughing and looked at Olivia with a dead serious look
"That may be true, but remember he can only take one of us as his mate, and that is why we must fight"
Olivia gulped, as Rasputin rose from her sitting position
"Only one of us gets the price"
As Rasputin was nearing Olivia, she felt a strong surge of energy, one unlike anything she had ever felt before in her life, it was so immense, she could feel herself being burned by it. Olivia felt the same way, such immense power could not be generated by Edgar... this was something different though... something much more lighthearted. Both Rasputin and Olivia turned to face one another; both of them knew what was happening. Olivia nodded, Rasputin replied
"You feel it too?"
Rasputin nodded
"I guess our little dispute will have to wait, Olivia..."
Rasputin held her hand forward in a sing of good sportsmanship
"May the best girl win"
Olivia shook her hand, all while maintaining a serious look. After a few seconds of handshaking, both of them nodded as Olivia concentrated at the source of the energy, and before any one of them could do anything else, they disappeared.

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Edgar and Rapture only kept charging up their energies, though invisible to the naked eye, the huge amounts of energy where already beginning to tear the room apart. The paint was pealing, the floor was cracking, electric charges where flying through the air. Mephisto only kept his visor pointed at both of them, suddenly, another huge wave of wind slammed everyone in the room. Sain turned to face Mephisto as he fought the wind, trying to keep his tail flame up, Mephisto only stood there, shaking. Sain could not see his expression due to his skull helm, but he could tell it would have been an expression of shock. Finally managing to speak through the gust of wind
"MEPHISTO!! WHAT ARE THEIR NEW POWER LEVELS?"
Mephisto was quick to respond, in a shaky voice
"The scanner can only register one power level for both of them..."
Sain was eager to know just how high their new power levels really where
"So then, what is it?"
Mephisto turned to face Sain, his voice filled with the one thing that Sain would have never expected from him; pure untainted fear
"INFINITY! THE SCANER ONLY SAYS INFINITY!!!"
Sain's jaw only dropped, by this time, the gust of wind had died down considerably. Sain knew where this was going. He looked at the two figures, whose energy levels where off the charts, both of them where still gathering it. It was becoming so intense that the floor and ceiling began to crack, pipes full of steam and water ruptured, and most of the glass in the room began to shatter. The whole room began to fall apart. Sain managed to regain most of his posture
"Everyone get the hell out of here! THIS COULD GET BAD QUICK!!!"
Silth simply sank into the floor, so did Giratina and Darkrai. Mephisto threw one of the chairs at the window, managing to break it. He then pulled what looked like a grappling hook and threw it at the nearest wall, and he then jumped and landed neatly on the other side of the next building. Sain was still in the room when everything began to disintegrate from power surges. He managed to jump out the window in time to avoid been torn molecule by molecule. Using his wings, he hovered over the spot where he would have fallen, his eyes widened in surprise at the damage. The entire room where they all had been prior no longer existed, the walls and ceiling gone, nothing left to show their previous existence. These two hadn't even started fighting, and already they had erased an entire room from existence. Edgar was the first to make a move; he lunged at Rapture with such incredible speed that Sain had trouble keeping up with it. He lunched the first attack directed straight at Raptures head, but Rapture simply blocked it with his own blades. He then countered by doing a sweep kick that knocked Edgar off his feet, Rapture then grabbed his leg in mid air with such incredible speed, Sain could have sworn that it happen in less than a second. Rapture then slammed Edgar on the floor, which then gave away; both of them fell into the lower floor. When both of them had landed, Edgar jumped into his feet once again directing his attack directly at Rapture, this time, striking flesh with one of his disk blades. But rapture seemed unshaken by the attack; in fact he seemed almost glad that Edgar had landed a blow on him. His retaliation was swift; he once again grabbed Edgar by the leg, but this time, he slammed him back and forth on the floor, everytime leaving a crack and blood where Edgar landed. Finally, Rapture tossed him up high into the air, slamming against what was left of the upper floor. Edgar continued his flight upwards towards the stratosphere. Rapture concentrated and teleported where Edgar would be. Once Edgar got there, Rapture proceeded to unleash a barrage of merciless pouches and kicks at Edgar. Sain watched in awe as he saw Rapture delivering attacks with such swiftness, that it was almost impossible to tell how many he was landing. Rapture finally finished by sending Edgar tumbling into the floor below with one swift mega punch to the face. Sain's amazement was simply overwhelming. Never in all his years in legion had he seen such incredible speed! It was almost god-like. Edgar landed with such tremendous force, that his entire body was crushed from the force of impact. Had he not been an imperfect, he would have been nothing but a splatter on the floor. As soon as he hit the ground, he began to reform from the remains of his body, once again naked due to the fact that his old clothes where torn to pieces. As soon as he though about the fact of having to fighting naked, his blood began to encircle him, and then suddenly, it wrapped around him. Several seconds later, the blood fell on the floor, revealing a fully clothed Edgar, complete with his headband, and even clean underwear. Edgar was enraged to such a point, that he could barely control his actions any longer. Rapture was still floating in the air, but he lounged at the ground in full speed, he slammed on the ground with full force, sending a shockwave that finally managed to bring what was left of the building down. As the air filled with dust, Edgar found himself unable to see anything once again. Suddenly, a hand materialized from nowhere and landed a bone crushing punch at Edgar's face. The blow was so intense, that it sank his face into his head. Edgar stumbled backwards from the force of the impact. Suddenly, he was struck in the back with such force, that his spine shattered and ripped right trough his chest, his rib cage also shattering, opening his chest even more, sending all his organs scattered unto the floor. Rapture managed to pull his hand free from Edgar's insides, ripping what was left of his spinal cord in the process. Unable to maintain his position, Edgar began to slouch backwards, when suddenly rapture knocked him off his feet. Edgar fell backwards, only to meet Rapture's foot as he kicked him up into the air, then, just as quickly as he had been kicked up, he was slammed into the floor with tremendous force. His skull completely shattered from the force of impact. Rapture then grabbed Edgar by the leg and began to slam him from side to side, eventually; he managed to rip Edgar's leg off from the force of the blows. After flying for several seconds, Rapture decided to finish it off, he used his knuckle blades to cut off all of Edgar's remaining limbs; his arms and his remaining leg. All that was left of Edgar was a limbless, headless, torn open torso. Sain watched from high above the brutal beating that Edgar had just endured, and was certain the he must have been killed for sure. No one could survive that kind of mutilation. But of course, Sain was wrong.

To his surprise, all of Edgar's body parts simply melted into what appeared to be a pool of boiling blood. From this puddle, rose Edgar, his eyes flaring with intense rage. Rapture took one step back, and then dashed at Edgar in full speed, landing one more powerful blow that ended with Edgar flying several feet backwards, he still carried a lot of energy from his impact, as he landed in the ground, he began to skid. Rapture materialized on top of him and using his legs, slammed Edgar into the ground, all while he continued to skid the ground. The friction was so intense that Edgar began to leave a giant skid mark made of blood. Finally coming to a stop after hitting streetlight. Their fight had carried then all the way to the other end of the hospital, right around the pokemon center, and into the streets of Jubilife city. Edgar slowly rose; his body once again began to regenerate at a record pace. In seconds, the only sings of damage where Edgar's torn clothes, which after another quick bloodbath, where once again back to normal. Rapture stood in front of Edgar, who was at the moment sweltering with anger. Rapture simply stood there not uttering a single word.
"..............."
Edgar pointed at him, his voice still heavily distorted
"Fool, do you think you can kill me so damn easily! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Don't make me laugh! I am immortal! I AM A GOD!! I CAN NEVER DIE!!!!!!!"
Rapture only looked at him, his demeanor not changing one bit. He spoke in a lax tone
"Like I already don't know"
Edgar only laughed with some tints of annoyance
"Sarcasm isn't going to save your ass! Now DIE!!!!!"
Edgar raised his hands, all the blood on the floor began to circle him once again, this time though, the blood formed a giant vortex underneath him, causing him to rise several feet into the air, the rest of the blood crawled up his arms and formed claws of liquid blood, which where immediately charged with shadow energies. His disk blades began to levitate around Edgar, finally stooping behind him, as they too formed giant blades made out of shadows. Edgar let out an Evil laugh
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! You are SOOOOO DEAD!!!!!"
He lunged at Rapture with just about the same speed as rapture had used first, but Rapture had already moved out of the way. Everytime Edgar was poised to strike, Rapture simply moved out of the way with incredible swiftness. Edgar growled with intense fury at his inability to strike Rapture. Sain then began to notice that the sky was turning red, the grounds where Edgar and Rapture where fighting also began to take the color of blood, suddenly, Sain noticed thousands of people who where rushing towards Edgar, Sain immediately recognized them as the imperfect outside the hospital, mostly due to the fact that those same Charizard girls he had spotted earlier where leading the pack, he began to feel funny once again.

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"MOVE IT!!! THE MASTER NEEDS US!!!!"
One of the charizard girls was screaming at the top of her lungs, she looked at her sister, whom was doing the same thing. They had felt Edgar in mortal danger. Somehow they could tell when he was in peril, and it must be because he is a dominant Imperfect. But somehow they had been the only ones to feel it. Once all the people had moved, the two sisters stood eye to eye, the two of them kept quiet for a few seconds, until one of them broke the silence
"Well, all of them moved. Lets hope we still have time to do something"
One of the girls began to laugh; he other stared at her with some anger
"File it under a memo titled 'shit I already know!' Sheryl!"
"Damn it Mel! This no time to be all comic! THIS IS SERIOUS!!!"
Sheryl replied with some annoyance in her voice. Mel simply giggled
"Sheryl, you're always acting like the whole world is collapsing! For once I would like to see you chillax a bit! Life is too good to waste on being worried!"
Sheryl simply got became more irritated; flames began to form in her closed snout.
"Well, if I lived my life like you did, then I would be a GOD DAMNED GOOFBALL!"
Mel simply laughed
"There you go again Sheryl! Raising your voice for no apparent reason at all! Like I said... CHILLAX!"
Sheryl's face began to turn red with anger, she started to scream
"MEL! I WILL HAVE YOU KN-"
Her sentence was cut short when Mel raised her hand. She started to speak in an amused tone
"You've got to take a chillpill! Take out the chillpill now"
"MEL!!!! YOU ARE SO DE-"
Sheryl didn't even get to finish her sentence due to the fact that Mel had literally shut her mouth with her hands. She continued speaking in an amused tone
"IT puts the chillpill in her mouth..."
Sheryl opened her mouth to speak, but only got one word out
"But-"
Mel once again closed her mouth shut
"It puts the CHILLPILL IN HER MOUTH!"
Sheryl was now stomping mad. She raised her leg and began to pound into the ground in an attempt to let loose her anger. With every stomp, she caused a small earthquake. Mel was laughing all the way through them. But her laughter was cut short when a rather large and intimidating female landed in front of them. She was huge, standing at almost 7 feet tall. Sheryl only stood at about 6 feet, and Mel being the smallest standing at only 5.8 feet. The female was black in color, and had crimson eyes that shone bright, like rubies. She was wearing a rather faded black jacket; it ended right before her tail. Her entire body was covered in scars and gashes that told anyone that this female had been in many battles, several of the scars covered her face, one of the scars ran through her entire face, one off her horns was missing entirely. In her chest area, slightly above her breast was the picture of a rose that had been burned into her skin. Though the jacket covered her breast, the rose was still vividly visible, a painful remainder of this female's past. Mel and Sheryl immediately stopped acting up and straighten up, as this female landed in front of them, she shot a cold stare at both of them. Both of the girls gulped in worry and nervousness. The black charizard then began to snicker, finally ending in a full out laugh that seemed to somehow make the earth rumble.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Look at you both! I leave for a few hours and you two almost kill each other! That is not how sisters should behave!"
Sheryl steeped out of and spoke
"But Torn, Mel here won't stop acting.... well... like herself!"
Torn turned to face Sheryl, then Mel, and finally let out another hearty laugh
"I swear; you are not my sisters."
Both Mel and Sheryl looked down into the floor. Torn was right, they should try and behave better, after all, they are all they have left.

After several seconds of dead silence, all of them looked at each other, and nodded, Torn was the first to speak
"How's master doing?"
Sheryl replied in an almost military tone
"He might be in peril. We already mobilized all the others, minus children and elders. But we still feel like it will not be enough. I think we might have to take it upon our own hands to see it trough"
Torn did an about face, she could feel it in her body; Edgar, their new master was in great distress. But she also sensed another being controlling him... that confused Torn slightly, but she paid no mind to it. She turned to face her sister
"Well then, let's shows him what the Valkyr sisters can do! Lets go!"
And with that all of them lifted off into flight. As they headed towards the hospital. Little did they know Sain had been listening to them?
"So, Imperfects are normal pokemon and people after all"
He simply hovered for a few seconds, deep in thought. Then it hit him
"Hehehe, those ladies are going to need a hand, might as well give e'm one"
And with that he took off, but this time, he took out a communicator from his coat, he placed it on his ear, and then spoke in a clear tone
"It's time! Get the troops ready ASAP!"
As he flew nearer and nearer to the three sisters, Sain began to realize that the black female looked awfully familiar. He was deep in thought
"... Hummmmm, she seems too familiar... could she really be...?"

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Edgar was gasping from intense rage. He was simply unable to strike Rapture, and his temper was getting worse by the second. Rapture on the other hand, seemed pleased with his progress. Rapture had been so fixated on his task that he had failed to notice the giant mob of people running towards him. When he finally noticed, several men had grabbed his arms, he managed to loosen their grips on him, but more and more people began to jump on him, trying to get him to subdue. They where punching, biting, and clawing at him as best as they could. Using his blades, he began to cut anyone who got in his way, he simply swung at anybody who was in front of him, regardless of who they where. He began to punch and slash as well. Before long, he was partially free, but the mob of people only kept coming in more numbers.
He continued to attack anybody who got in his way, slashing several men to pieces. Though they where no match for Rapture, he found them to be just too many to deal with, and Rapture began to notice to his horror that some he had killed earlier where regenerating themselves, it took them longer, but nonetheless, they too possessed the ability to regenerate. Rapture began to feel a very real chill run down his spine. It did not matter how many he killed, some would come back anyway. He found himself outnumbered by thousands of imperfects, and he was already loosing his stamina.

Edgar was panting from fatigue, but a smile ran trough his face as he did. Rapture realized that now was the time to administer the killing blow. Ignoring the giant crowd, he lounged at his opponent at full speed, his two blades cutting trough anyone in his way; ready to strike at his enemy. Suddenly, he was punched in the face, bringing his dash to a total stop. He was sent flying backwards several feet, the force of the impact magnified by his own inertia. He managed to land on his feet, Rapture rubbed his sore face. He saw to whom the fist belonged. It was a black female Charizard; she was huge, and quite buffed. She had a black faded jacket; she also had what looked like a corset around her waist. The coat covered her breast, but her chest was still visible, she had a rose burned right into her skin.
Rapture managed to react in time to avoid a searing hot blast of fire that melted the area where he had stood. In the back of this female stood two more charizard girls, one was wearing a white jacket, and the other was wearing a red jacket. Rapture noticed that the two other fems where nurturing Edgar back into health. Rapture's eyes widened, his plan was going to fail if he just stood there, he had to stop them if he hoped to kill Edgar.

Rapture lounged at Edgar once again, but he was met once again by the forceful blow of Edgar's new guardians. This time though, he managed to cut one of the female's arm off. To Rapture's horror, it grew back right on the spot.

Rapture; up to this point, had maintained a calm, cool air around him, but now, he was starting to panic for the first time in his rather short life. Edgar gave one huge growl as his energy was fully restored, Rapture watched as his once weak prey rose to become the hunter once more. Rapture got his blades ready to fight, but both of his hands where grabbed by imperfects. Both human and pokemon did everything in their power to hold him down, though Rapture fought hard; holding him down was not the people's real intentions. Rapture watched in horror as Edgar dashed for him. When Edgar was close enough, all the people released Rapture; he slouched forward only to be grabbed by Edgar, his blood claws slowly crushing his body. Rapture struggled to free himself, but only managed to anger Edgar further. Finally, Edgar and rapture looked eye-to-eye, Edgar's eyes where filled with feral rage. Rapture knew now, that his approach had been doomed from the start. No matter how much Rapture managed to weaken Edgar, his rage and anger would only fill him with more power, the only way he could fully weaken Edgar now was if he was stronger than he was. Rapture had forgotten about Edgar's imperfect army, now, he was going to die... the world would be cursed by the beast forevermore. Rapture, the best slayer, was being crushed to death. Rapture felt his bones begin to crack from the immense force of Edgar's grip; his armor would not last long under the pressure. Soon, he would be crushed into a bloody pulp. He managed to scream in agony at the top of his lungs
"STOP! BROTHER!!!!!"
Just then, a gust swept the area, the gust turned into a torrent of wind that slammed against everyone in the area, the wind then turned into blade-like segments that started to cut everyone in the vicinity, Edgar was cut up, his claws disintegrating from the slashes. Rapture fell on the floor, gasping for air; a sharp pain in his chest followed every breath he took. Once the wind subsided, a new being appeared in front of them all, Rapture could tell that he was the same age as both him and Edgar, but once all the dust cleared, he was shocked to see that this being also looked like both him and Edgar a well. The only difference was in the eye color, while Edgar's eyes where crimson/ruby red and Rapture's where green. This being's eyes where pitch black. Rapture managed to feel the energies this being radiated. He was horrified to his very core. While Edgar radiated intense amounts of anger and fury, this could be hardly be described as negative, but this being on the other hand... his energies where composed of pure, unadulterated evil.
A darkness that could not be pierced even with the brightest of lights.

The being smiled at the damage he had caused to everyone. Those had been affected were already recovering. Rapture still held onto his chest, his breaths shallow, every breath he took came with a sharper, almost unbearable pain, as if someone was stabbing him from the inside out. Edgar had fully recovered by now, his blood armor gone; he was looking from side to side with extreme confusion. Rapture now understood what was really happening; Edgar had the anger, as well as the fury, but he did not seem to be evil at all. Rapture looked at the being that was already walking towards them both. Edgar was the first to get up, his eye filled with extreme shock at what he was seeing. The being stooped right in front of Edgar. Edgar's eyes continued to widen in shock at what he was looking; right in front of his face stood another perfect copy of him, every detail except the eyes copied to perfection. Edgar only kept staring at the thing as though he was staring at a mirror. The stranger smiled and spoke in a similar voice to Edgar's and Rapture's
"You seem shocked, aren't you glad to see your brother?"
Edgar only shook his head in denial
"You can't be my brother!"
The strange being only smiled
"I am composed of flesh and bone just like you. I was born before you...
Everyone has some evil inside of him or her. I just use mine more often. Besides, aren't you glad to see me?"
Edgar raised his fist at him
"You, you, you, you..."
The being only laughed in the most evil manner imaginable
"Never expected your reaction to be so... shallow! I thought father had given us a more proper introduction; at least I see rapture is here"
Both of them turned to face Rapture, who had managed to get up, though coughing blood, Edgar just barely realizing how much damage he had inflicted on him. Rapture simply feel on one knee and raised his head
"Just who the hell are you? And why do you look like us?"
There was a pause, and then the strange young man bowed at both of them
"Well then, I guess I should introduce myself: the name's Sectran Sysoles, though I never was part of the Sysoles family, I call myself that, better than having no last name to call your own! I am your older brother. And I go by the name given to me by my father; The Demon."
He turned to face his brothers
"Well, since the family is finally together, I guess we can finally take the names where meant to have: Rapture"
He turned to face Rapture, who was still struggling to maintain his consciousness
"You are The Angel. I am The Demon, and Edgar"
Sectran turned to face Edgar, who's fist was all balled up and ready to be let loose
"You are The Beast. But I presume you already knew that. Now then... shall we use our powers to take over this pathetic world?"
Both Edgar and Rapture stared at their unwilling newly found brother. Rapture spoke in a swift tone
"What do you mean?"
Sectran only smiled
"Do you thing we where given this power to use it for good? HA! Don't make me laugh! The fact that Imperfects worship us should give you a clue at our power! Otherwise, why do you think we have those names? It certainly isn't for show"
"But if that's true, then that means..."
Edgar replied with some fear in his mind. Before Edgar could get his mindset straight, Silth appeared from the shadows, his smile quite evident as what he had in mind. Edgar shook his head. This could not be true!

Edgar started to shouting at Silth
"ALL THIS TIME! YOU KNEW AND YOU SAID NOTHING!!!!"
Silth only shook his head, his smile a vivid reminder of thoughts
"The truth is painful. Get used to it!"
He laughed before continuing
"The fact is; for centuries I've had the power! But I never did a thing! Cipher managed to teach me one thing, and one thing only; if you want true power, then you have to make it yourself! That is why you two exist!"
He pointed at Edgar and Sectran. His smiled faded as he looked at Rapture. He shook his head in disbelief. He pointed at Rapture as he did
"HE is a creation of a friend of mine. He thought that things would go out of hand; the fool..."
He faced Edgar once more and smiled
"Now that I have the two of you under my wing, it's time you did what you where meant to do; BRING THE WORLD TO ME!!"
Edgar was shocked beyond conviction. The one being he had trusted for all these years, the one being that he could even trust with his life... Didn't just turn out to have created him; but now he was turning out to be some kind of sycophant...

Edgar truly felt like crying over his lost life. Rapture on the other hand, began to realize that the true enemy was not Edgar, but this guy... Silth. Silth only laughed
"You seem shocked at your fate"
Edgar only shook his head, as a smile grew on his face, he was not gona fall into depression. He would pull himself up the best way he knew how...

By causing total destruction. He raised himself, his headband cast a menacing shadow over his eyes, the moonlight made it seem as though Edgar was actually glowing
"You forget! I still have an entire army at my command!"
He turned to face all imperfects, and he raised his hand into the air, as though he was calling a riot
"GO!!!"
...
...Nothing.

Not one person moved. Edgar was staggered, and he raised his hand once again and shouted even louder than before
"GO!!!!!"
Once again, nothing. He was starting to get mad, his eyes once again began to glow red
"GO!! MOVE! DO SOMETHING!!!"
No one was moving. In the meantime, the Valkyr sisters found themselves in a dilemma; they knew what was happening at the moment, all three of them got together and started speaking to one another
"What do we do Torn?"
"What can we do? Sectran seems like bad news"
Replied Torn, her eyes were filled with anger for some reason. Sheryl gave them both a nod
"Remember the oath we made when we became the Valkyr sisters?"
Torn nodded
"Yes, yes I do."
Mel nodded as well
"Before, we had nothing, we lived for nothing, and we would have died in nothing as well. But now, we have something worth fighting for... it is time to test ourselves for real!"
Sheryl shook her head
"Are you two sure this is the right path?"
Torn and Mel nodded, Sheryl smiled
"Just checking!"
All three of them broke the huddle and looked around, Edgar was stomping his feet in anger
"COMMON! SOMEONE! ANYONE! DO SONETHING!!!"
Both Silth and Sectran where laughing, Silth spoke in his usual cold tone
"You have nothing for as long as I say so. I gave you these imperfects to command, but only as long as you did what I told you to do. Since you are rebelling against me, then I have no choice but to confiscate them from you"
Edgar stomped and snarled in anger. Rapture was still holding to his chest in pain flinching with every breath he took. Sectran on the other hand simply looked as though this was the best day of his life. Silth snapped his fingers and all of the imperfects grabbed both Edgar and Rapture, holding them down. Silth walked up to both of them, he was holding an injection of some kind, which he had pulled from thin air. His face beaming with evil intentions
"So then, what will it is Edgar? Will you take your place as the Beast? Or will I have to force you into it?"
Edgar simply looked at who had once been his closet friend with incredible disgust; he simply spat at Silth's face. Silth cleaned himself while laughing
"I'll take that as a sign that I will have to force you to reconsider..."
He signaled the imperfects to raise Edgar's head, he struggled but in the end, he gave up. His mind filled with thoughts and regrets
"Damn... is this really how it ends? No! This can't be! Olivia... Rasputin... Ragde... please... forgive me..."
But before anything else could happen, there was a burst of flame that stopped Silth in his track, he backed away holding his hand, it was completely scorched. Edgar eyes had been closed when it had happen. When he opened them again, there stood three charizard females, all forming a defensive perimeter around Rapture and Edgar. He recognized them as the three charizards that had helped him with his fight against Rapture. They stood up high, and ready for the worst. Edgar was not only shocked at this sudden turn of events, but he was also grateful. The black female turned to face him, her face filled with determination and fury. She spoke in a firm yet gentle tone
"It is settled! The Valkyr sisters choose you as our new leader! Our lives are now yours!
Suddenly, there was several explosion that rocked the imperfect crowd, a dragonite flew from her old position and landed at the side of the Valkyr sisters, she was about the same size as Torn, she spoke in a soft firm tone
"I choose Edgar as my leader!"
Several other explosions rocked the group. Suddenly, a garchomp had burrowed his was from under the ground and jumped from underneath the ground as though he had jumped from water. He landed at the side of the Dragonite.
"Same here!"
Seconds later, a gallade slashed his way past a several imperfects; he jumped up into the air and landed with a graceful pose, as he extended his blades as a show of power.
"My blades are now yours!"
Another explosion, and a graceful humanoid figure appeared, it was a vespiqueen, and she was surrounded by thousands of combees, all surrounding their queen, willing to give their lives for their leader and mother at any time
"An army fit for a king!"
Before Edgar could even register the events that where occurring before his eyes, there was a group of maybe twenty other Imperfects that formed a protective barrier around him and Rapture. He was surprised to see that it was not only pokemon who had chosen to protect him, there where several humans as well. Silth realized what was happening and snarled at Sectran
"Dammit! Dispose of them!"
Sectran snapped his fingers and the rest of the imperfects charged at their counterparts, but their charge was stopped dead on by the sudden burst of several attacks. Several shadowballs, one dark pulse, and a solar beam, Edgar looked to his side and realized that his friends; Olivia, Rasputin, and Ragde, had all come to the rescue. All of them where wearing some kind of armor that he found strange... yet so badass looking all at once, especially Olivia's. But to his surprise, they where not alone.

Several gunships appeared from the horizon, there where maybe fifty or sixty, all of them hovered over the two groups, and began to fire at the enemy crowd, the imperfects began to pull back in fear of being shot, when there was enough room, several of the ships passed by, and groups of soldiers parachuted in front of them all. After landing, they prepped their weapons. Each group was composed of five soldiers, three riflemen, one medic, and one heavy soldier. Heavy weapon soldiers where the most badass looking soldiers Edgar had ever laid eyes on, they either had a pulse minigun, a heavy machinegun, a hand cannon, and a heavy laser gun. Some where wearing an exoskeleton that resembled a personal tank of some kind. Complete with miniature mini guns, and missiles. They all formed a defensive perimeter around the group. Suddenly, Sain appeared out of nowhere, he too was wearing partial armor; he looked at Edgar and Rapture.
"Sorry it took so long, you know how traffic gets!"
He turned to face the enemy group
"Don't worry about these bastards. We'll handle it from here"
Sain pointed his hand forward and all of his soldiers opened fire at the crowd of enemy imperfects. Though imperfects posses the ability to regenerate, those that where shot in the head stayed down for good. That appeared to be their only weakness. The group of imperfects protecting both Edgar and Rapture eased their guard, but only slightly. Suddenly, the entire group turned in time to catch an attack from the rear, all of them lounged at the enemy, determined to win, at any cost, even if that meant death...

Edgar slowly rose, but he was still weak from exhaustion, and pain. Not just physical, but emotional as well (even if he is not that kind). Sain held out a hand towards him, his smiled in a reassuring way
"Fight trough the Pain!"
Edgar took Sain's hand, and then he noticed one of Silth's imperfects jump the whole crowd. He was croagunk, and was poised to strike Sain. Suddenly a huge mace struck it in the face, and sent it flying backwards towards the enemy crowd, he landed with a massive thud, knocking out several other people along the way. Sain looked at his companion, and laughed. Mephisto simply looked pissed
"Damn you Sain! Watch you damn back!"
Sain only laughed harder
"You really need to take chillpills, you know"
Mel who had been fighting up to this point let out a giggle; she then slammed her enemy on the ground and sent him flying. Sain noticed this, but pretended to ignore it. At the moment, he had other things to worry about.

Suddenly, two embraces met Edgar, he immediately recognized them as Olivia and Rasputin, and he looked at his girls and let out some tears, as he held them close to him.
"I, I, I, don't, don't..."
Olivia only stroke Edgar's face, she knew what kind of pain he was going trough. She could feel it in her heart. Rasputin was glad to see Edgar was fine, but then she felt another type of energy nearby, one very similar, but very different all at once. She turned to see Rapture, still holding his chest in intense pain, this time though, he was coughing up blood. He did not show it, but his wounds were a lot more serious than they initially looked; several shattered bones, a broken ribcage, and a few punctured organs where only at the top of the list, and since he could not regenerate... He would die soon.

Rasputin only took one look at Rapture when she realized what kind of pain he had, she floated up to him and placed on hand on his back, Rapture managed to look up at Rasputin and he was met with something he had never though about. Rasputin concentrated with all her might with a new technique she had only recently learned; recover. Several seconds of hard concentration later, and she had managed to heal most of rapture's wounds. Rapture only kept thinking to himself
"...Is she... An... angel?"
Before he passed out from the pain. It had been a wonder he had remained conscious for so long. Rasputin looked at Rapture laying on the ground, for some odd reason, she found herself attracted to him... she realized why; he looked exactly like Edgar. At first her reaction had been one of shock, but then, he shocked turned to relief. Maybe this could work out in the end...

Suddenly there was an explosion; she turned around in time to see one Group of Legion soldiers being completely annihilated by another group of soldiers. She watched in horror as all of them where shot to pieces by enemy gunfire, the group's heavy soldier was the last to die, due to his armor. But he was struck with a searing blast of fire so intense, that the entire armor was left glowing white from the heat. Rasputin could hear the screams of the soldier inside as he was broiled alive. Several seconds later, the armor slouched over. Several of the enemy soldiers walked by it, one of them knocked on it, and an explosion of blood and guts followed as the hatch on the suit fell open. Sain noticed this, and growled. In the lead of the group was Sectran, he was laughing as though he had already won the battle
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! Do you think you where the only ones who had soldiers? Meet the imperfect army, now you all DIE!!!"
He pointed his finger forwards, and the entire group, and his imperfect soldiers ran towards them. They ran and they fired away, but as soon as they where in close range, they began to attack using melee weapons, like knifes, swords, maces, axes and shields. Legion too had melee weapons of their own, and before long, the battle had changed from a gunfight to a melee fight. Edgar noticed that Silth was leaving; following him was a small group of imperfects. Edgar tried to get up, but found himself too weak at the moment to move. He gritted his teeth
"Damn you Silth! I will free them.... And you...will...pay.... ugh..."
And Edgar passed out in Olivia's arms. Olivia had a look of outmost horror in her face, if Edgar had passed out, that could only mean that they where up against an enemy as strong, if not stronger than he was. Sain noticed that this fight was a lost cause, his radio constantly filled with the dying screams of his men. Meanwhile, the imperfects who had chosen to fight for Edgar where faring no better, out the original twenty who rebelled, only six remained, and they where fighting for their lives now. Sain noticed that the streets where turning red with blood. With much regret, he ordered a full retreat. His soldiers began to pull back in an orderly manner, maintaining ranks as to not let the enemy break in. suddenly, the ground was alight with gunfire, legion gunships fired away at the enemy, it worked for they began to pull back as well. Several transport appeared as everyone began to retreat in full force. Olivia turned to see the transports and sighed with some relief, at least they where going to get our of here alive.

She spotted Ragde and tried to call to him to help her carry Edgar, that's when she noticed to her horror; Edgar was gone.

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Edgar was stumbling and dragging himself across the streets, never in his life had he felt this weak, but it made no sense at all, if he could regenerate himself, why was he feeling so weak, so hungry, and so tired all at once? It didn't matter now; Silth was heading towards the same lab where he came in contact with these things, where it all started. His mind raced back and forth between flashback of that night, and the things that happened today. No one made him and his friends suffer like that and gets away with it. His mind raced towards one more thing... Olivia...
"I'm sorry, but this is where it ends! I can't allow him to enslave so many, he has to be stopped, and I'm the only one who can do it..."
Edgar got ready for what he knew would be his biggest challenge up to this point... he just hoped that he would live through it. But even if he didn't, he would make sure Silth didn't either.

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"Things are starting to take a turn for the worse... you must put an end to this NOW!"
Ho-Ho wondered what his lord meant. The council chamber was empty at the moment, but she still felt as though somebody was watching her. She looked towards the crystals in the ceiling
"What do you mean? Everything is going as you planned! The process of uniting the three is almost complete! Soon, you'll have enough energy to cross over for good!"
The crystals began to glow a bright red
"I feel a disturbance... something is not right... my plans are in peril.... I need you to dispatch Regigas to get things back under control..."
Ho-Ho was now more confused than ever
"Regigas? What is going on?"
The crystals began to glow red once again
"I feel... betrayal..."


TO BE CONTINUED...