Manaphy?s Flood
By Sokz
Manaphy waved as she passed a school of Finneon. They responded with a smile and continued on their way, swimming toward the surface of the ocean while Manaphy delved deeper. She always enjoyed the dark waters past the drop off. Something about the lack of light and the cold chill made her feel calm and happy.
She dove downward, past the point where Magikarp swam with their silly expressions, then deeper than the Qwilfish and Horseas. Though she appreciated the colors of a coral reef, and there was no replacement for the way the setting sun glitters off the shallow water at the edge of land, she still loved the deep.
She continued until she felt the pressure pushing down on every inch of her body, and the sun faded behind her. Down here, the only light came from the glow of other Pokemon who called these depths home.
And she spotted one such light in the distance. With a curious flick of her body, she gracefully swam through the water and moved toward the glow. A Chinchou sat on the sea floor with its twin stalks glowing faintly. Its huge eyes were focused on something in front of it that caught the Pokemon's bioluminescent glow and sparkled.
Manaphy was curious. You almost never see something so sparkly down here! She drifted over to the other Pokemon and inspected the half-buried mystery. It looked almost like a crown, but it was made out of crystal!
The Chinchou hopped up and down, then seemed to lose interest in the rare treasure. It swam upward until the current caught its body, then it simply drifted away into the gloom. If it didn't want the crown, then Manaphy was happy to take it instead!
She spent a few minutes digging it out of the sand at the bottom of the ocean, then swam upward once it was free. If it sparkled even here in the depths of the ocean then it must look amazing in the sunlight! It took her a few minutes to reach the surface again, but once she did, she burst from the water with a spray of mist and a beaming smile.
Glittering, glowing, and beautiful, the crown was everything she hoped it would be. It looked like a gemstone and reflected her smiling face in its facets as she turned it this way and that, marveling at the amazing find. This might be the greatest thing she had ever discovered in the ocean!
She placed it on her head with a spin. It fit perfectly, too.
She felt something strange surge through her body as soon as she put it on. The crown didn't feel bad, but it wasn't a sensation she recognized. It was as though the water in her body surged with energy, moving faster and faster inside of her as the crown changed something deep within. She liked it.
This really was the best find ever!
She was about to dive deep into the ocean again, but a loud thud from the shoreline drew her attention. She knew what it was before she even turned. The factory. Those jerk Pokemon had started building it about a year ago, and it was more of a pain every single day. Between the pounding of machinery, the hum of the generators, and the sludge it pumped out into the ocean whenever they turned it on for a test, it was becoming a huge nuisance that was disturbing every Pokemon in the nearby area!
A Garchomp in a hard hat stood next to the building as sludge spilled into the waves. He was the owner of the place, and the reason no one could do anything about it. Even the Gyarados were afraid of him and his crazy fast attacks!
Manaphy sighed. She wished she could do something, but what could a tiny little Pokemon like her do against a Garchomp? Disappointed, she turned away from the factory and dove back into the water.
She tried to keep her mind off the factory by playing with some of the other Pokemon she met while swimming. The Magikarp danced in cute circles around her, then she leapt out of the ocean in time with the breaching Finizen. But... did these Finizen look smaller than usual? She had a snack with a few Clampearl who made their home near a coral reef, then swam into the deeper waters until she bumped into a group of Gyarados. Except these were some of the smallest Gyarados she had ever seen. They weren't even as large as her!
No, something was off about this. With a curious expression, she swam to the surface and thrust her head out of the water. The droplets reacted differently than she expected, and the mist formed by her movements was like a cloud raining back into the ocean.
It took her a second, then she put it all together. She was big!
That power she felt when she placed the crown on her head wasn't just a strange sensation, it was the feeling of the water inside her body multiplying. And as more and more water filled her, she expanded along with it until she was a giant looming over the Pokemon she once thought of as titanic!
This was amazing! She liked being tiny and slipping into small spaces, but she always fantasized about being BIG.
A loud sound knocked her out of her moment of joy. Once again, the factory was up to something and disturbing everyone within earshot. She grumbled as she turned to it, her arms crossed and her eyes narrowed. If only someone could do something to put those jerks in their place. Someone big. Someone powerful.
Someone like her.
Manaphy smirked as the idea popped into her head. If she were bigger than a Gyarados, then maybe she could finally put a stop to this stupid, annoying factory. She dove under the water and swam toward the shoreline, her heart set.
All the big and tough Pokemon working at the factory paused when she emerged from the water in front of them. The Machokes dropped the steel beams they held, and the Ambipom let all her tools clatter to the ground as they stared upward at the titanic figure. Manaphy cast them all in shadow as she took her first step onto the beach, her form glistening as water cascaded off her body.
She stared down at the cluster of tiny Pokemon. They looked so small now, like they were little sandmites crawling through the grains. Even the factory seemed like one of the human playthings that sometimes washed into the ocean. It came up to the top of her head, but some of the smokestacks were still a bit bigger than her.
With a powerful stomp of her foot, she sent a clear message to anyone close by. The Pokemon who were once stunned by the sight of her turned and ran. They fled the area and escaped through the back doors, leaving only a handful of the strongest and most brutish Pokemon left. Among them was the manager of the facility, the Garchomp that had caused her so many headaches.
He landed in front of her with a scream. His eyes narrowed as he leaned forward, his clawed hands ready to rip and tear through whatever opponent happened to stand in front of him. In his mind, he was one of the strongest Pokemon in the entire region. He had sent Gyarados crying back to the ocean and defeated hundreds of others just to claim this spot. Who cares if Manaphy was bigger? He was still an ace.
The Garchomp didn't wait to act. He lunged forward in a burst of speed, jumped into the air, and cut across Manaphy's belly with a chop attack that had knocked out more Pokemon than he could even count. It was one of his best moves!
And yet, it barely even tickled. As Garchomp landed, Manaphy brushed a bit of sand from her belly and giggled. Was that it? She looked down at the tiny dragon in surprise. After all the hype and bluster, she expected more from him.
But now it was her turn. She thought about what she should do to really put this jerk in his place, then settled on one of her favorite moves. It seemed fitting that he should be blasted away by a jet of water. She concentrated on the power inside of her, fueled even further by the crown on her head, then let a torrent of water erupt from her mouth.
Usually, her Water Gun was a strong move that could get her out of trouble. Today, it was a natural cataclysm that slammed into the Garchomp and sent him flying into the factory's wall, then clean through it. The building groaned as high-pressure water flooded its floor and ripped at its foundation. Support beams buckled, machinery burst apart, then the factory completely crumbled under the might of her attack.
Even the smokestacks collapsed under the sheer force of her Water Gun.
When it finished, nothing was left beside broken bricks, ripped apart metal, and defeated Pokemon. She placed her hands on her hips as she looked at the damage she had caused with a proud expression. Not even the pack of Gyarados could defeat this guy, but it only took her a single move!
Being big had its benefits.
But what should she do now? She saved the coastline and her ocean, but she was still growing bigger as her crown increased the amount of water in her body. She could just go back to the deep, but that didn't seem too fun.
Her eyes settled on a pipeline that ran from the back of the destroyed factory further inland. Though some of it was bent and destroyed, most of it remained intact as it snaked its way into the hills and beyond. Maybe there was something at the other end.
With the idea settled, she took her first step along the pipeline.
It didn't take long to find a settlement nestled in the hills that bordered the beach. She looked at the place curiously. Though she liked to stay close to the ocean, she had seen human cities whenever she traveled up and down the coast, but they were normally more impressive. She remembered huge towers of steel and glass looming thousands of feet above her, but none of these structures even came up to her belly!
She walked across one of the hills, her eyes transfixed on all the complicated details of the little town, until she felt a crunch. ``Hm?'' Manaphy hummed to herself as she looked down. The crushed remains of a small house dotted the area under and around one of her blobby feet, with a tiny Buneary staring up at her in shock. Ah, so she stepped on a house! It felt pretty fun to smash.
Would the other houses have such a nice crunch? There was only one way to find out, and no one was going to stop her. With a smile, she lifted her foot from the crushed remains of the tiny hut, swung her blobby body forward, and slammed down on the edge of the town. The concrete roads shook and cracked, the houses trembled, car alarms blared, and telephone poles bent as she moved through the street. People flooded out of their houses and ran from her as she loomed above their world. Tiny Pokemon joined the humans and did everything they could to avoid her massive footsteps.
It was fun! Kind of like hopping through a cluster of ants as they tried to avoid her giant body. She focused on a nearby house, jumped forward, and slammed into it with all the force of her ever-growing frame. The wooden walls were no match, and they practically erupted as she crashed into the structure.
Nothing could withstand the pressure. Appliances snapped apart, wooden beams broke, and even the stone foundation crumbled to dust. All the little chips, snaps, pops, and crunches felt so nice as she shifted back and forth. She wanted to do it again. She wanted to do it over and over and over, until there was nothing left.
She hopped forward and broke the next house apart, then jumped again to smash the next one in line. Then she stepped to the side and crushed a parked car just to compare the crunches. Power lines snapped as she forced her way through them. Electricity shot out of the snapped cables and arced across to her body, but they were barely more than a tickle.
The entire town was her plaything as she continued to hop, skip, and jump through the houses. Soon, she was so large that she just had to move forward to break them apart. Pokemon screamed as she stomped across their path, reached down, grabbed their houses, and ripped them out of the ground. She tried eating one just to see what it tasted like, but the harsh wooden flavor wasn't her favorite.
A helicopter flew overhead with blinking lights and fluttering propellers. At first, it was just an interesting thing above her head that Manaphy didn't pay much attention to, but as she grew larger and larger, it flew closer. Now it was getting annoying.
She wasn't tall enough to grab it out of the sky, but she was always good at dealing with the annoying gnats that swarmed her when she flopped onto the beach. She took aim, gathered the water inside her body, then blasted the helicopter out of the air with a high-pressure water gun. It detonated on impact and spiraled down to the ground before erupting in a ball of fire.
It seemed a bit dramatic for something so small, but Manaphy didn't judge.
She kept playing with the town until almost all of the houses were smashed to bits, the streets were destroyed, the cars were crumbled, and the rolling hills that made up the landscape were packed down and flattened. Manaphy had so much fun destroying everything, but she had a bunch of energy left over. She wanted more! But what else was there?
Almost in answer to her question, she felt a blast of cold air on her backside. With a frown, she turned to find a small cluster of tiny Pokemon gathered on the street behind her. It was difficult to make out their exact shape, but when she bent down to look at them closer, she found a Lucario, a Hippowdon, and an Abomasnow. And they looked mad.
All three of the tiny Pokemon launched attacks before she could even ask what they were doing. The Abomasnow's blizzard blew against her belly as the Hippowdon created a sandstorm and the Lucario shot an Aura Sphere right between her eyes. She blinked as the sand gusted around her.
These little things were annoying. She sighed as she stood up to her full height, outside of the limits of the sandstorm. If these Pokemon wanted a battle, it wouldn't be hard to give them one. The only question was what move she should start out with.
She knew the answer as soon as she looked to the horizon and saw the ocean glittering just a few steps away. With a smirk, she concentrated on the waves and the natural power of the water, then she dragged it all forward. The ocean surged across the land, splashing against the hills and mountains, before it tore into what was left of the town and obliterated it in a wall of water. The crashing waves were too much for anything to handle, and the three tiny annoyances were dragged under without any hope of resisting.
Surf was always such a powerful move.
As the water settled, Manaphy sighed. Now there was nothing left of the town. If she wanted to keep playing, she'd need to find another settlement to trample under her feet. But where?
Manaphy never expected a Wailord to look so tiny. She passed the immense Pokemon with a smile, and even gave it a wave. It just looked back at her with open-mouthed shock. Guess it wasn't used to seeing a Pokemon that dwarfed it in scale.
The ocean water felt funny to swim through now that she was so huge. She made good time, but she couldn't dart through it like she used to. It didn't really matter. Not like there was anything she'd have to worry about smacking into!
Just as she had the thought, her head smashed into something big enough to notice and solid enough to be annoying. Whatever it was, it crumbled as soon as she came in contact with it, then lit up the dark water with a series of bright and powerful explosions.
She tilted her head as she looked at the strange object. It was a metal tube, crumpled on the side where she ran into it, with bubbles spewing from some of the cracks. What, was it a
human invention? It was larger than the houses she played with, but it didn't look anything like them.
She just watched as the mass of crumpled metal began sinking into the deep. Whatever. It wasn't shiny or anything.
The water glittered above her as something large... or at least larger than most things in the ocean, moved over her head. Curious, she swam upward until she breached the surface in a great spray of foam and mist. A rainbow arced around her as she smiled at all the tiny boats bobbing along the surface of the water.
These weren't the fishing boats or sailboats she sometimes saw along the shoreline. These were way bigger, made of metal, with lots of sharp angles and guns on them! Manaphy had heard of battleships and even saw one in the port of one of the cities she visited, but this was the first time she saw them out in the ocean. How interesting.
She bent closer to get a better view of one of them. It was almost as long as she was tall, with hundreds of tiny guns along its deck and three especially big ones in its center. As she leaned closer, she felt a barrage of tiny pokes along her side. They didn't hurt, but they drew her attention.
Another boat, just a bit smaller than the battleship, had attacked her! What jerks! She lifted her hand over the aggressive hunk of floating junk, took aim, then smashed it down with a force that made their strongest cannons look like a Mudkip's bubble attack. The ship was ripped apart as her blobby hand smashed clean through its hull. Pokemon and people jumped off the quickly sinking halves as the ocean dragged it down.
Another barrage of cannon fire hit the back of her head, this time from the larger boat. So, they wanted to play rough, huh? Fine. She had no problem destroying their little toys. It was kind of fun anyway.
Manaphy made quick work of the different ships sailing around her. She smacked a few of them with her hands and dunked them under the water. When she slammed his fists into the ocean, it created hundred-foot waves that swamped and capsized whatever tiny boats were in its way.
She grabbed a smaller destroyer, lifted it to her face, and smirked as hundreds of tiny dots leapt off its sides in a hurry. The boat was so small that it fit in the palm of her hand. It wasn't even bite-sized!
And that gave her a funny idea. She opened her mouth wide, gave the tiny people still on the deck a good view of her waiting maw, then threw the ship in. It landed on her tongue with a groan and the sound of snapping metal. Her lips closed, then she moved it over to her teeth. The texture felt interesting as she bit down on the ship and crunched its interior to pieces.
She continued chewing until it was a watery paste, then gulped the whole thing down.
Tasty! It wasn't as nice as the ice treats she sometimes snagged from the cities, but it had its appeal.
The rest of the navy's fleet barely took any effort to destroy. She ripped battleships apart, tossed destroyers into cruisers, capsized entire fleets, and ate whatever was small enough to toss into her mouth. Eventually, all that was left were all the smaller gunboats circling around her, firing hundreds of tiny bullets that bounced harmlessly off her skin.
How could she get rid of all these floating gnats?
She smiled as the answer came to her. She started spinning, twirling in the water faster and faster until a current formed from her titanic movements. The ships were dragged into the vortex, their tiny engines completely overwhelmed by her attack. One by one, they collided with each other or capsized as the swirling waves dragged them toward the center.
Her Whirlpool move was always so pretty.
It only took a few minutes for the ships to crash into the center. After that, the ocean was littered with floating debris and slicks of oil, but there wasn't much she could do about that. At least it was the last gross stain these jerks would ever leave on her lovely water. She ducked under the surface and continued swimming.
Manaphy's eyes sparkled as she looked at the glittering city. It was so beautiful! Like a sparkling jewel resting on the edge of the ocean, or a radiant bit of sunlight bottled up, shoved into towers of glass, and placed for her to enjoy.
If only it weren't so small.
Manaphy remembered this place as being huge! It towered over her last time, with its skyscrapers bigger than mountains and its bustling streets so full of people and Pokemon that she felt too intimidated to walk around. Yet now it looked like a toy. She saw kids building sandcastles on the beach with a better sense of scale!
But it didn't matter that she was almost twice the size of the tallest skyscraper. If it were toy-sized, then she'd just treat it like a toy and smash it to bits. She felt a tremor shoot through her body as she imagined stomping through the streets, slamming into buildings, demolishing skyscrapers, and toppling everything that once made this place feel so vast. She couldn't wait any longer! She wanted to smash it to bits!
She moved closer to the edge of the city, but something was in her way. A glow emerged from the dark waters between her and the shoreline. At first, it wasn't anything too important, but then ripples emerged from the center and quickly turned into waves. The air sparked with power as whatever it was rose toward the surface.
Above, the sky turned black as storm clouds condensed. Interesting. Manaphy never saw a storm materialize so quickly before. She paused as the glowing patch of water in front of her grew brighter, her curiosity piqued.
Then a Pokemon emerged from the glowing point in a burst of steam and a spray of water. Its mighty growl rang out through the city, echoing off the steel and glass with all the power of a legend.
Manaphy gasped. She never thought she'd see the legendary Pokemon Kyogre in real life! It looked radiant with its body covered in lines of burning primal power. Its eyes held a defiant fire as it faced Manaphy down, ready to defend the city with every bit of strength in its body.
Thunder boomed above as the Legendary Pokemon commanded the skies themselves. Any normal Pokemon would have been intimidated by the sight and retreated, but Manaphy wasn't a normal Pokemon anymore. She looked down at the titan and smiled.
If Kyogre wanted a battle, then she was happy to accept!
Kyogre moved first, and it didn't waste any time building up to its ultimate attack. Water erupted from its body as it launched its Water Spout, a move with such destructive capabilities that it was able to hold back Primal Groudon when the two fought for the fate of the world. The attack flew through the air and struck Manaphy right in the chest...
And didn't really do much. Manaphy felt the sting, but it wasn't any worse than when she brushed against a tentacruel's tentacles by accident. She braced herself, imagining that it was a delayed effect and the full force would shoot through her in a few moments.
But she waited... and waited... and waited... and nothing happened.
Was that it? Was that the full strength of the most legendary ocean Pokemon to ever exist? No, that couldn't be right. That wasn't powerful, it was barely even a splash of water! She knew hatchlings that packed a better punch with their watergun attacks!
Well, if that's all Kyogre had, maybe she should show it what the real power of the ocean was. She lowered herself as the power inside her grew. Fueled by a desire to demonstrate true strength, the crown above her head resonated with her determination and will. It pulsed in time with her heartbeat. A glow surrounded her as her power continued to build. The ocean trembled under her might as the shining light grew too intense for anything to see, then, in a triumphant burst of glistening beauty, she emerged from the light in a new and radiant form.
She terastalized! Now she could really show off her power.
Manaphy took aim at Kyogre, focused her energy on the water inside of her, then let it loose in a beam of destructive might. Her Hydro Pump blasted into Kyogre with the force of the largest tsunami to ever exist, then continued into the city beyond. Water cut through skyscrapers without even slowing. The ground trembled, streets crumbled, telephone wires snapped, bridges buckled, and then the world erupted in an explosion of power and steam.
The force was more than Manaphy expected. She covered her eyes as chunks of
skyscrapers flew miles in every direction. The clouds were torn apart by the force of rocketing debris, allowing the sun to illuminate everything that remained. When it finished, Manaphy looked at the destroyed city. Nothing bigger than a small house was left standing as water flooded every surface.
With a rainbow arcing overhead and the waters glittering in the light of the sun, it looked almost as beautiful as Manaphy's transformation.
Almost.
It felt strange being so titanic. Clouds broke apart on her belly as they blew into her. The ground looked like a bunch of colors all smeared together with no actual pattern, even though she knew there were deserts, forests, and cities breaking apart every time she took a step. They were just too small to see!
At least the mountains still had a nice crunch when she kicked her way through them! She giggled as she flopped onto her back and let her arms and legs spread, her belly facing the warm sun. It was nice to relax after so long trampling through the landscape and destroying everything she came across.
Nothing could stop her anymore. She had defeated the strongest ocean Pokemon with a single move, and now the other Legendary Pokemon that tried to stop her were little more than pests. She probably didn't even notice most of them!
Was that a normal thunderstorm that she broke apart with her Water Gun, or was there a
Zapdos creating it? Was that volcano erupting because of her tectonic plate shifting footsteps, or was Groudon getting angry? She doused it before it had a chance to explode anyway. Even the humans couldn't annoy her anymore! Then sent legions of tanks and armies, but their guns didn't pierce the top layer of her skin and their bombs were less effective than a margicarp's splash attack... which is pretty embarrassing even by tiny human standards. At one point, they unleashed a barrage of huge bombs that set off fireballs bigger than the cities she walked across, but they didn't do much. After all, she was practically made of water.
She rolled over onto her belly and smiled at the patchwork of lights below her head. It was another city, though not as large as the first one she obliterated with her Hydro Pump. Still, it was funny thinking that this tiny collection of gray and brown dots, with their glowing lights and grid patterns, was once something she felt intimidated by.
Manaphy smiled as she lowered her face to the city, closed her eyes, opened her mouth, and let her tongue slip across the surface of the planet. She licked the city up with a single movement and brought it into her mouth, then swallowed.
It felt nice knowing that countless people and Pokemon were becoming part of her as they sank into her belly. But what should she do now? What was left for her to play with? There wasn't another Pokemon in the whole world that could match her in strength or power anymore. But what if she didn't stay on this world? She never gave much thought to traveling through the stars, but now that she imagined it, the idea filled her with excitement and exuberance. There could be anything out there! Maybe she could find a super huge planet that was completely made of water! What would that be like? Could there be other Pokemon in those depths, swimming in new and interesting ways that she never even thought of?
She smiled as she let the fantasy expand around her. She wanted to see it all for herself, and that meant that she needed to become even bigger!
With a happy hop, she jumped back to her feet and landed with an earth-shattering impact. She'd just need to keep playing with this planet until she grew so large that she could jump off it and swim through the void! Then she'd be free to do whatever she wanted, go wherever she pleased, and be the greatest godly Pokemon in the entire universe!
Manaphy smiled as she skipped forward, leaving burning craters in her wake. Soon, everyone would know how amazing and beautiful she was!
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