Pikachu looked up at his trainer, who only a few minutes before, had no life in him whatsoever. Now his trainer looked a little beat up, he was a little pale and his shoulder was still bleeding, but he was alive. "Pikapi?"

Ash looked down at Pikachu. "Hey Pikachu" He didn't even make an attempt to smile but he stood up and placed Pikachu on his unbleeding shoulder. He heard someone walk up behind him and turned to see Rick and Misty.

"Ash?" Misty said. "I thought you were..."

"I was" Ash's voice was serious. A brightly coloured bird flew out from the exit of the building and landed beside him. Ash looked at Ho-oh. "So was Ho-oh"

Misty looked at Ho-oh too, "But then how...?"

"By breaking the Solis Sword, Dark Ho-oh released it's power" Ho-oh explain. "The power of the sword was able to bring us back to life. It came in the form of a White Ho-oh"

"But the power's not going to last long" Ash continued. "In an hour, if we haven't defeated Dark Ho-oh in and hour and gotton our powers back, Ho-oh and I will be gone for good, even if you do defeat Dark Ho-oh. After our life force has run out it'll be too late"

"Well then what are we waiting for?" Rick said. "Let's go kick some Dark Ho-oh butt"

Ash nodded and looked at Pikachu and the other Pokémon, who were now standing and looking at their trainer. Misty's and Rick's Pokémon were there too. "Let's win this battle guys"

The Pokémon nodded and turned to Dark Ho-oh again. They all powered up their attacks at shot them forward again, this time they were joined by Ho-oh's flamethrower.

Dark Ho-oh crouched over and leapt into the air at high speed, dodging all the attacks. It grinned and shot a fire blast at them.

Ho-oh flew in front of the others and used a protect attack, causing the attacks to fizzle out.

"I don't get it" Rick said. "How did that Dark Ho-oh survive after receiving a sword to the head?"

"Because it's head isn't were it's life-force is" Ho-oh explained. "If you want to defeat it, you have to get it in the heart"

"Easier said than done" Rick frowned. "Dark Ho-oh's too fast and too strong to stay in one place long enough, and the Solis Sword is gone. There's no way to stop it"

"Not necessarily" Ash said as he watched Dark Ho-oh dodge another Hydro Pump used by Kingdra.

"What do you mean?" Misty asked.

"Well..." Ash said. "Legendary or not, it's still a living thing, and a Flying type. If we could get Pikachu and Raichu to give it a big enough blast then it should go down like Pokémon should"

"That could work, but it's still to fast for Pikachu or Raichu to hit" Rick said returning his fainted Scizor after it was hit by a fire blast.

Ash began to think hard. If Pikachu and Raichu could hit it with their Thunder attacks it would settle Dark Ho-oh permanently, but Thunder attack had bad enough accuracy without the super fast Ho-oh. Then he had an idea. He turned to Misty. "Misty, get Poliwhirl to use rain dance, that'll give Thunder a guarantied hit"

Misty nodded and turned to Poliwhirl. "Poliwhirl, use your most powerful Rain Dance attack"

As Poliwhirl began it's rain dance Ash turned to Rick. "Get Raichu to power up for a Thunder attack and return the others. Pikachu" Ash turned to the Pokémon beside him. "Power up" Next he turned to Ho-oh. "Get ready to us Protect when Pikachu and Raichu use Thunder"

Everyone followed their orders and soon, even though there wasn't a cloud in the black sky, it began to rain heavily and sparks were flying around Pikachu and Raichu.

Dark Ho-oh groaned at the rain, wondering what they were playing at. It reared up and shot a Psychic at them.

Umbreon leapt forward and took the hit, which didn't affect it in the slightest.

Pikachu and Raichu's cheeks glowed that signalled they were finished powering up.

"Everyone return" Rick returned all his Pokémon apart from Raichu while Ash did the same.

After Misty had returned her Pokémon Ho-oh flew over to them and landed in front of them. It nodded to Pikachu and Raichu.

Dark Ho-oh looked at them oddly and then it's eyes widened. It looks at it's wings, which were now soaking from the rain. It looked up and narrowed it's eyes. It was like a lightning rod since water conducts electricity. It spread it's wings and flew up, hoping desperately that it would help dry off, but the rain was still falling and being soaked was making it harder to fly.

"Go!" Ash and Rick said in unison.

"Pika..."

"Rai..."

"CHU!"

There was a loud rumbling as Pikachu and Raichu shot a Thunder attack towards Dark Ho-oh.

Ho-oh used Protect as Pikachu and Raichu used Thunder to Protect itself, Ash, Rick and Misty from the Thunder, which would have hit them because the Rain Dance had soaked them to the skin as well as Dark Ho-oh.

Dark Ho-oh let out a screech of pain as it was struck by the double Thunder. After a minute or two the electric attack stopped and Dark Ho-oh plummeted towards the ground, landing with a thud.

Pikachu and Raichu slumped to the ground, almost completely out of energy.

Ho-oh stopped the Protect attack and let Ash and Rick past to get their Pokémon.

Ash and Rick picked up their electric Pokémon an patted them. "Good job guys" Ash said and looked over at Dark Ho-oh, holding Pikachu in his arms.

Dark Ho-oh lay on the ground, twitching slightly from a few electric shocks that came a little late to it. It opened it's eyes weakly and growled. "You may have defeated me, but I refuse to let you have the sun back" A red glow came from the centre of it's forehead and a red glass orb, very much like the fire of the three treasures back at the Orange Islands except with a black centre, appeared in front of it.

Another glow came from the lifeless forms of the other Dark Legendaries and four more red orbs appeared and floated up into the air. They joined together and then shot off in different directions.

"What are you doing?" Misty said, walking up beside Ash and Rick.

"Simply insuring that you never see the sun again..." Before it could say anything else, it's life ran out. It began to glow and two red beams shot out and struck Ash and Ho-oh, knocking them both back.

Pikachu stood up and jumped off it's trainers stomach and stood beside him. "Pikapi?"

Ash sat up and held his head. "I'm alright" He looked over at Pikachu and smiled.

Ho-oh pushed itself up. "We have no time to rest, what has Dark Ho-oh done with the sun?" It looked up at the sky which was still pitch black.

"Those orbs...." Ash stood up. "Those orbs must have had something to do with it"

Rick stepped forward. "It's power is still blocking out the sun. Even though it's dead, Dark Ho-oh took it's power and the power of the other Dark Legendaries and somehow kept it blocking out the sun"

"So what do we do?" Misty asked.

Ho-oh ruffled it's feathers as it thought, then it spoke up. "Those orbs that Dark Ho-oh sent off, they went in different directions, split up across the world. Maybe if we find them it'll remove the black veil that covers the world"

"Maybe your right" Ash sighed.

"Maybe we should get back to Seafoam Pokémon Center and rest up, then we can plan from there" Rick suggested.

"Good idea" Ash said, glad that maybe he could get some rest.

Before they could leave though, Ash and Ho-oh went around to help the legandaries regain consciousness and heal them up.

Ash yawned as he helped heal Articuno, who was the last to be healed. "Can we go now?"

Ho-oh nodded and bent down so Ash and Pikachu could get on. Misty rode on Articuno and Rick rode on Lugia. The Legendary Pokémon took off towards Seafoam.

Back as the Pokémon Center Ash had just handed in his, Misty's and Rick's Pokémon for healing. Ho-oh had flown up to the deserted cave and the others had headed back to the Orange Islands.

"Ash" Rick called. "I think you better take a look at this"

Ash walked over to were Rick was. He was watching the television and the News was on. They were on the top story. A large black and scarily familiar building was shown on the screen. The reporter began to talk.

"I'm outside Goldenrod City were mysterious buildings have suddenly appeared all across the world. No one knows how they got there but people claim that they appeared when a blinding red light hit the ground. Were the light struck there was an explosion and then, those building's were there. No one is sure what to believe. More on this story on the Ten O' Clock News"

The channel changed at went back to the news room were they began to talk more about the sun block out and that no one had an explanation for it yet.

Ash looked at Rick. "You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?"

Rick nodded. "Guess the next stop is Goldenrod City, though we need to find out were the other buildings are"

Ash nodded and looked out the window. "I have a feeling that place is gonna be harder to get through than it looks" He sighed. Looks like they were to get ready for another adventure.