Arceus had expected many reactions when he had arrived, but one of them had not been the look of abject terror that was painted across the face of one of the Pokémon in the room, the little Legendary cowering behind a Tanscure as it shook with fear.

“Why do you fear me child,” said Arceus as he knelt down to get a better look at the Legendary, “I’m not going to harm you.”

“I…I do not fear you,” said Urayne, “I fear for you.”

That got a confused look from everyone in the room save for Thomas, causing Arceus to lean closer to the small Legendary and speak further. “And why do you fear for me, after all I am a god.”

“Because of the power I contain,” said Urayne, “Zephy said that it was power which could harm other legendries, and she…she feared that it could even harm you noble father.”

Arceus remained silent for a moment, and then he began to chuckle, before eventually erupting into full blown laughter which unnerved everyone.

“Um dad,” said Mew, “you might want to knock it off with the laughing, you’re freaking everyone out.”

“S...Sorry…” said Arceus with a chuckle, before composing himself and speaking. “Urayne, I can guarantee you that I can protect myself from any attack, and to prove this to you I would like to challenge you to a battle, if that would be acceptable to your…hmm, I am sorry, but are you her trainer of her mate Mr.?”

“My names Thomas lord Arceus,” said Thomas with a smirk, “and while I was her trainer, I was and still am her mate, and I have no problem with you battling her, but when you lose, don’t say we didn’t warn you.”

“You’re a confident one,” said Arceus.

“I know Urayne,” said Thomas.

With that said, Abby chose that moment to speak, “Um…I guess we’ll take you to the training room we built for Axel then…though I don’t know if that will hold.”

“You need not worry Misses Trombly,” said Arceus with a smirk, “I shall strengthen it.”

“Oh…good,” said Abby, “follow me then.”

As they left the room and began walking, Mew flew up beside her father and started speaking to him. “Dad, remember what Uxie told you about being rash.”

“I am not being rash,” said Arceus with a smirk, “as I told Urayne, there is not a single attack I have seen or heard of that I cannot defend myself against.”

“And now you’re just being arrogant again,” said Mew, “dad I have been trying to identify her type ever since we got here, and I am coming up with a gods damn blank, for all we know she could be a brand new type that we have never encountered before.”

“The only types we do not know of are the ones we have forgotten,” said Arceus, “give it time my daughter, I am sure her type will reveal itself.”

Huffing a bit, Mew made to float back toward Thomas and Urayne, but stopped as she saw Kasai walking up beside them.

“Hey Abby,” he said before licking her face, and then he turned to Thomas and spoke. “So who and what are you?”

“Thomas Arden, a Tanscure” said Thomas with a smirk, “and you must be Kasai, Abby’s trusted Arcanine.”

“Glad to know I’m famous,” said Kasai with a smile, “but I thought…”

As they chatted, Mew floated over to Urayne and decided to speak to her. “So um, mind telling me what type you are, because for whatever reason Identify is drawing a blank here and its driving me crazy.”

“I would rather reveal it during the battle,” said Urayne with the barest hint of a smile, “it’s much more fun that way…well, for me it is.”

Mew huffed at that, but before she could speak further, they reached the training room, Arceus moving to one side of it while Urayne moved to the other side, Thomas moving to the trainer’s position before speaking to Arceus. “So is this an official battle, or do you just want her to hit you with her strongest attack?"

“I just want her to hit me with her strongest attack; that will prove things far quicker than having us prolong this with an unneeded battle.”

“Alrighty then,” said Thomas as he braced himself, before he smirked and shouted to Urayne. “Urayne, activate Uranium Core!”

“Activating!” cried Urayne, before the blue power core on her chest began to glow, and everyone watched as she began to grow. Her chest and the bottom part of her torso expanded outward, her armor pad had doubled in size, as had the armor pad covering the bottom of her torso as well as both her arms, all of which had gained blue glowing lines, while the arm guards had each gained a black spike near the elbow. Two green circles now encircled her power core, and a new nucleon had joined the first floating around her antenna.

With the transformation finished, Urayne cracked her now broadened neck, looking to Arceus with her glowing blue eyes as she spoke, her voice carrying a haunting echo.

“Beta Form activated.”

*

For the second time that day, Arceus found himself surprised, for this Pokémon in one move now nearly equaled him in power, and in a few areas actually surpassed him. Unperturbed however, he simply summoned up his elemental plates, the artifacts beginning to float around him as he took to the air, flowed soon by Urayne as Arceus looked to Thomas.

“Well, what are you waiting for?”

“Just want to take care of one more thing,” said Thomas, before looking to Urayne, “Urayne, deactivate Jammer!”

“Deactivating,” said Urayne coldly, and the two nuclei spinning around her head, which Arceus only now noticed were pulsing rhythmically, stopped pulsing but continued to circle her antenna.

Down below, Mew attempted identify one more time, and this time instead of the jumbled mess she had been receiving from her past attempts, she was finally able to identify Urayne’s type, and the answer made her eyes widen in shock, “Nuclear, but isn’t that…”

“I ask again Lord Arceus, are you sure about this?”

“I am,” said Arceus, “now stop hesitating and unleash your attack, I will be fine.”

“Very well then,” said Thomas, “Urayne, you know what to do babe!”

“Affirmative,” said Urayne, before lifting up her hand and pointing the open palm at Arceus before speaking once more, “PROTON BEAM!”

The blue circle in her palm glowed for a moment before unleashing a bright neon green beam, which headed straight for Arceus.

“Never heard of that move before,” thought Arceus, “still though, I’ll be…”

His thoughts were interrupted as the beam struck full force, his body shaking from the impact as the energy coursed through him, causing him extreme pain. However, he did not have time to appreciate this intense sensation, for as the attack ended he felt all of his strength get instantly sapped from him, and in that moment of pure sock, he could only register one thing.

“Oh…so that’s what that feels like,” said the Alpha Pokémon, before he promptly feinting.

*

Thomas, Urayne, Mew, Abby and Kasai all watched as the Alpha Pokémon’s eyes rolled into the back of his head, before watching in horror as he dropped from the air and collapse in a heap on the ground.

“DADDY!” cried Mew, flying over to her father as the others were all shook from their shock, all of them moving toward the fallen Legendary as Mew franticly unleashed a Heal Pulse on him, only to start panicking as the Alpha Pokémon did not stir. “No no no, this should be working…”

“He has fainted,” said Urayne simply, the Atomic Pokémon lifting Arceus up in her arms before looking to Abby and speaking, “Ranger, does this facility have the necessary equipment to revive him?”

“Thankfully yes,” said Abby as she motioned with her head to follow, silently thanking her lucky stars that they did.

After the new Union HQ had been established, Abby had started to talk with Celestia about introducing some of the technology from Earth to Eques, for it would help improve relations between the various races of Eques and the Pokémon. Celestia had been hesitant at first, but had eventually relented with a stipulation, that it be tested first in the Union HQ.

“Fainted?” said Mew as they began making their way through the HQ, “but…but daddy has never fainted before…”

“…Well there’s a first time for everything,” said Thomas, keeping close to Urayne but keeping an eye on the other Legendary, for he was afraid she still might retaliate against them for harming Arceus.

They eventually reached the Pokémon treatment center, and the moment the entered a group of Chansey lead by a Blissey wearing a nurses hat. “Oh dear, ok bring him to the table, this may be a bit different but he is not the first Legendary I have had the pleasure of treating.”

As Urayne placed Arceus on the table and the Chansey began hooking him to the equipment, Abby walked over to Thomas and began speaking to him. “Ok, before he wakes up I want you to tell me what the fuck that was and why the hell her attack had such an effect on him.”

“You read Urayne’s file right?” asked Thomas.

“I did but it mentions nothing about her being able to Mega-Evolve on a whim.”

“That’s not Mega-Evolution,” said Thomas, “that was only her Beta Form, if I had Mega-Evolved her she might of outright killed him.”

“Wait…so that was like when Meloetta switches forms, then why was she so powerful!”

“Because when she activates her Uranium Core she overcharges all her stats, which actually reminds me, Urayne, might be best to shut it off now, you know what happens when you stay in that form for too long.”

“Affirmative,” said Urayne, the bright glow emanating from the core dimming as she returned to her smaller form.

Abby looked at her for a moment, and then looked back to Thomas and spoke, “Well that still does not answer why her attack did so much damage, I mean he’s a Normal Type by default, which aren’t weak to anything really.”

“True,” said Thomas, “but Nuclear Type Moves has type advantage on all types save for Steel and itself.”

“Th…that’s ridicules, with that kind of advantage they would be able take down any Pokémon they wish.”

“Also true,” said Thomas, “however the tradeoff for that insane type advantage is they everything save for Steel and Nuclear has type advantage against them. This makes Nuclear types a sort of glass cannon, especially Pokémon like me.”

“But…wait you’re a nuclear type, I thought Tanscure were Dark Normal Types?”

“Normally they are,” said Thomas, but stopped as Arceus stirred.

“Alright sir, no sudden movement,” said the Blissey, “from what your daughter told me this is the first time you’ve fainted like this, so just keep it easy alright.”

“I’m fine,” said Arceus as he righted himself, before giving one look to Urayne, and then vanishing in a flash of light.

“Oh come on!” cried the Blissey, before looking to Mew and speaking to her, “Ok, where has that glorified father figure teleported off to now!”

Startled, Mew spoke, “Um…the Hall of Legends.”

“Right then,” said the Blissey, before looking out to the various Chansey and shouting. “JENNIES, ASSEMBLE!”

Thomas, Abby, Kasai and Urayne watched as the army of Chansey, now revealed to be Nurse Jennies, gathered around the Blissey as she spoke. “Alright girls, we got a patient to recover, to the Everfree Forest!”

“Yes Mam!” cried the Chansey, before charging out the door and leaving everyone else in stunned silence.

“…That woman is scary,” said Mew.

“You have no idea,” said Abby.

*

Arceus appeared in the hall of legends, and stumbled a bit as he appeared, for he found himself unable to hover.

Stumbling as he walked, eventually reaching the room he had taken as his own, and creating a bed to lie on which he collapsed upon.

“So this is what it’s like,” thought Arceus, “to lose a battle…”

Many would call someone who claimed that they had never lost a battle a liar, but Arceus had truly never lost a battle till today. Oh sure, it came with the territory when one was dubbed the Alpha Pokémon, but the truth of the matter was he had never been brought to be point of feinting in a battle before.

“If she had had it in her…she could have killed me…”

It was a sobering thought, knowing that he was but a move away from death. It was not something he was used to, for with both the elemental plates, as well as his status as the Alpha Pokémon, he never really had to fear death. But now, now there was a Pokémon out there with a type that he had no defense against, and from what he had felt when it had struck him, he was just as weak to it as he was towards fighting type moves, even more so given the fact that even the most powerful of fighting type moves couldn’t drop him in a single hit.

“FATHER!!!”

“Oh crap,” said Arceus, getting up and attempting to hobble his way out of the room, given that he did not feel confident teleporting a second time.

However, as he reached the first exit to the room Darkrai appeared before him, his arms crossed as he simply stared down the weakened Alpha Pokémon. Seeing this exit cut off, he began hobbling over to the other one, only to stop as Cresselia appeared with an army of Chansey lead by an angry looking Blissey.

“I am not getting out of this room am I?” asked Arceus.

“No,” said Cresselia, before looking to the Blissey and her army, “He’s all yours ladies.”

“Right,” said the Blissey, before she and her Chansey moved in to aid the Alpha Pokémon.

*

“So that’s why it did so much damage,” said Mew in wonderment, floating alongside Thomas as they headed back to Abby’s office.

“Yeah, though to be fair, if he had used the Iron Plate, he would have only taken half damage, but he decided to let the attack hit him full force.”

“Well daddy hasn’t always been the smartest when it comes to stuff like this…then again the only thing that usually holds type advantage on him is fighting types, and he could just negate that with the Fist Plate.”

Stopping in front of Abby’s office door, Mew sighed. “Well, I better go back to the Hall of Legends to make sure daddy behaves, but I’ll be back to talk with you soon, for I’ll want to have a discussion with out about the Tandor region.”

“See you soon then,” said Thomas, before heading into Abby’s office as Mew teleported away. Sitting back down, Thomas watched as Abby picked up the list again, Abby beginning to look it over once more as she directed a question towards Thomas.

“So, I think Urayne was just about to tell me how you guys had all these names?”

“She was,” said Thomas, “but first, have you ever met a man named Professor Plywood?”

“Of course,” said Abby, “everyone called him the traveling professor, due to the fact he never stayed in one place for too long.”

“Well to get the most shocking thing out of the way first, Plywood wasn’t human, he was a Ditto.”

Abby blinked, “What?”

“You heard me,” said Thomas.

“Well if it weren’t for that one ditto I encountered a while back, I would be calling bullshit, but how the hell was he able to hold that form for so long?”

Pulling out another book, Thomas flipped to a specific page and began reading. “Project six two six, day forty seven, subject number four. The subject has been able to perfectly mimic the shape of objects and people we have put before it, but cannot hold the form for long, hopefully its offspring will prove better. Day one hundred and nine, subject number seven. Subject has been able to hold form for days on end, but when it attempts to create a unique form, it fails utterly, so like with previous subjects we will be moving on. Day one hundred fifty four, subject ten. Subject ten has surpassed all out expectations, able to create its own form at will and hold it, seemingly indefinitely…”

Closing the book, Thomas looked up. “I found him in a Team Rocket Facility on one of the islands in the Hoenn Region, though I never reported finding him because I thought he would be…useful for a project of mine.”

“Let me guess,” said Abby, “infiltrating the Ranger Union?”

Thomas nodded, “Though sadly I did not come up with his name, he did it simply for the fact that Plywood is fake wood, and he was masquerading as a professor.”

“Well he was damn good at his job,” said Abby, “I don’t think anyone suspected a thing, though now that brings up a bigger question, what exactly do you want me to do with this list?”

“Simple,” said Thomas, “I want you to find all the people named in that list and arrest them for the murder of those Pokémon.”

Abby face pawed, “I was afraid you were going to say that.”

Author's Note

"Well this was a fun chapter, but first, did I just Punch Out Cthulhu? *checks TV Tropes* yep, I just Punched Out Cthulhu, ok, carry on."

…Anyways, I can understand why many people might have a problem with Arceus essentially getting One Punch Manned like that, but here is my reasons for why I think this would happen.

1). In Pokemon Uranium not only do you have the standard X2 weaknesses when it comes to type advantage, you have a X4 weakness in some cases, especially when it comes to Nuclear Types. Given that Arceus has never encountered this type before, I thought it was safe to assume that he would have this X4 weakness to Nuclear.

2). If you compare Arceus and and Urayne's stats at level 100, she has him beat in a few stats, and and nearly matches him in others, so I could see Urayne beating him, though it would be close.

And now to the last two things to address. I know Pokemon Uranium fans are going to flip at what I implied in regards to Urayne Mega-Evolving, but I have a reason for that. When Urayne was first encountered it was unstable, having to constantly consume Uranium to survive, and I believe that coupled with the link she had with C.U.R.I.E., forced her into a constantly Mega-Evolved state, and now that she is stabilized she could potentially Mega-Evolve through her connection with Thomas.

And finally, the line Arceus stated about the only elements they do not know about are the ones they've forgotten was not some throw away line, it was actually my way of leaving a door open so that in the future, when the next Pokemon game comes out and they introduce new elements to the game, they be more smoothly introduced into the story, rather then having to entirely re-write the story to fit in a new element.

With all that said, next chapter will go more in depth as to Thomas's mission, so till next time, if you guys have any questions or comments, please feel free to drop them on by, I love hearing from you guys.

Oh, and for those who need a visual aid on Urayne's two forms.
Alpha Form:

Beta Form: