As early as when Ash had summoned his two Trump Card Pokémon, his Charizard and his Tyranitar, Butler's expression had already changed by a lot!
He realized that he had still underestimated the power Ash held. In that split second or so, he gritted his teeth and made a decision that even shocked himself.
He adjusted the output ratio of the Millennium Comets energy and made the increased energy directly supply in his purple electric cage.
And this meant that for his huge gamble, the energy needed to make Groudon was still not enough, and he will face the same failure of the experiment again like before.
But there really was no other way to change it. The only thing he can do is to control the size of his own artificial Groudon.
Originally, according to his expectations, he could have created a giant Groudon with a height of more than ten meters, allowing Team Magma and Ash to take a good look at his real power.
But now, he estimates that he can only create something along the line of a five meter tall Groudon, which was also the limit the machine could do with the amount of energy. But it doesn't matter now. As long as his hard worked experiment can succeed, he has achieved his long-cherished wish. Even a five meter tall Groudon was still a Groudon!
Yes, he will be invincible with that power!
"Devastating Drake!"
A huge purple dragon rushed out from Ash's Charizard. It roared and roared again, the flapping of its wings raised an amazing amount of wind and earth, blowing everything around it over and under!
The attack that could face a Legendary Pokémon head to head was about to be launched!
A catastrophe was about to blow!
What a scene it was, the purple dragon rised up and up, its whole long body was wrapped in a ethereal purple electricity, even the energy of the Millennium Comet that had lingers for thousands of years couldn't push it back!
"RIAR ZARD ZI!"
Charizard was shrouded in a terrifying aura and roared highly to the sky. The appearance of the real dragon was very awe-inspiring!
Charizard was one of Ash's strongest and closest companions, so this also boosted the power of the Devastating Drake. This attack for sure was one of his signature attacks.
The purple dragon finally broke through the purple electric cage, shattering the entire mountain wall with one blow, and then with a fierce splash, it hit the platform built by Butler!
The platform was knocked down, and even shattered as if it was glass hit by a heavy hammer hard. Butler stumbled on it, but firmly grabbed onto the instrument in his hand, looked at the totem drawn below, and suddenly laughed wildly to the sky!
"It's done! It's finally done, my experiment was finally successful~!"
It turns out that due to the delay of the purple electric cage and Butler's reduction of the size of the totem, the drawing has been completed ahead of it's scheduled time!
At this moment, the ground began to shake, Groudon's drawn totem was swelling up, and it was soon born!
Without the same momentum it would have had if it was a real Legendary Pokémon, it was as if this creature was not even there. Ash frowned when he looked at the "Groudon" in front of him, and his thoughts mixed. No matter how closely he tried to see through it, he just couldn't feel anything from it, it was as if this thing wasn just an illusion, but more real and physical.
He then looked up at the platform that was destroyed by his Charizard, jumped onto him, looked at Brock, Max and May, "Alright then, follow me up there and rescue Jirachi while I do cause mayhem here!"
A piece of the real Groudon was bring used to create this fake one, but more importantly, Jirachi's safety is in danger because of the dangerously high amount of energy that was being sucked away from him!
Max and the others nodded decisively, but Max more than the other two, "I am Jirachi's partner, so I'm the one that needs to save him!"
He grabbed Ash's extended hand, mounted Charizard and sat behind Ash, "Wow, Big Bro, your Charizard is so cool!"
"You don't have to stress about things you can't comprehend yet!" Ash patted Charizard's neck, "Sit tight!"
Charizard leapt up and came to the platform, and saw Butler flying up on his own Salamence, "Ash, Groudon has been finally created by me! Do you still think I am a lost cause?"
Ash looked at him with contempt, "Take a good look at that so called Groudon do yours. Do you really thing that you have the power to control it?"
Jirachi was held in Max's arms, and he slowly closed the Eye of Truth and woke up from whatever state he was in. His current condition wasn't that dire, he just consumed too much energy and his body was a little too weak.
At this time, the Flygon that was seen at the entrance of the cave came over to him. Ash and his Charizard nodded to it, "Max, take Jirachi down with Flygon!"
After throwing Max and Jirachi onto Flygon's back, Ash looked at the Groudon who had completed his birth from the ground.
The trees here were withering rapidly, and as Groudon begins to move around, plants were dying wherever he went!
It was if hell was released on earth at this very instant!
This artificial Groudon was constantly absorbing the energy of the nearby land, and relying on there energy, its size also continued to grow, and its shape becomes more angular, eventually growing into a the large Groudon that its setting was set to!
This was even more evil in nature that the real Groudon. This was a false Meta Groudon!
Ash can now clearly feel the Aura that was being released from its body. With a real fragment of a Groudon, this monster had received a large amount of energy and formed a large skeletal structure to use.
But still, it wasn't a real Pokémon.
No thinking, and no soul!
"What? How?" Butler, who was sitting on Salamence's back, finally realized something was definitely wrong.
This Groudon was out of his control!
He couldn't use his device on it anymore.
Absol, who was standing next to Ash's Tyranitar and the group, rushed out, slashed hard with the big sharp horn on his head, and slashed at Meta Groudon with a powerful looking Razor Wind!
However, such a skill was completely ineffective against this Meta Groudon, and not only that, it also attracted its unwanted attention.
The Groudon now had its bloody red mouth open, as if it was screaming silently, and its face definitely shows that ferociousness!
Its claws suddenly turned into four green tentacles, engulfing Absol's whole body!
This is one of the new very powerful skill it had been gifted with from the Millennium Comet!
"Destroy that with a Hyper Beam!"
At the critical moment, Ash's clear order arrived just in time, and a destructive Hyper Beam from his Tyranitar behind Absol came over almost immediately, forcing those tentacles back for in an instant.
Absol took the opportunity to avoid the rest of the tentacles and returned to Tyranitar.
He can feel the power that was now radiating off of this Tyranitar, and now he also believed that Ash had the power to fight against this evil monster!
The tentacles were retracted, but the metallic looking claws on both sides of Groudon's body suddenly stretched out, and they all turned into slimy tentacles, stretching out in all directions, catching and swallowing all the Pokémon in the nearby water.
The Pokémon's tried to flee one after another, but none of them could avoid being swallowed by the tentacles. Soon, even the tall Tropius was swallowed up whole.
Butler rode on his Salamence to where Diane was. At this moment, he was not as crazy as before. He still had a red and swollen face full of dullness. He couldn't believe that he had created something like this.
A true monster without a real purpose!
The monster in front of him only has the close resemblance of a Groudon, but one side of its abdomen, including its mouth, had melted into a black gelatinous shape, and was now emitting a strange dark red light.
The metalic nails on its body can turn into those absorbent tentacles, constantly absorbing the energy of the land, and can also swallow it.
This creature can not only do that to the land, but also to Pokémon, and even humans!
It was not the Groudon he had envisioned at all, but a monster that just resembled a real Groudons!
Diane stepped forward and asked, "Butler, is this what you were really pursuing?"
However, Butler was so distracted that he could only mutter, "No, what I want to create is not anything like this!"
Ash was still riding on his Charizard to avoid those tentacles and came over to Butler. His eyes towards Butler never changed, with contempt, as if he was looking at a creature that should be killed!
"Do you still think that you are not a lost cause?"