War Champions

War Champions
Leader	War Diantha
Members	War Diantha War Cynthia War Steven War Wallace War Leon War Alder War Lance War Geeta
Allies	Bertha Raw Siebold Manager Musrak (formerly) Karsum
Enemies	Malva Camera Guy Microphone Guy Kathi Lee Girida War Diantha (briefly) Musrak

The War Champions, or War Champs, are a team of Warmongers. There are eight members of the team: War Diantha, War Cynthia, War Steven, War Wallace, War Leon, War Alder, War Lance, and War Geeta. After starting without a clear goal besides vague vengeful desires, War Diantha leads the group with the help of the mysterious Manager Musrak for her own gain. After falling out with each other and splitting up on two separate occasions, the group eventually comes together to take down a multiversal threat and learn the value of teamwork or something.

Story

The Team Gathers

Diantha's Warmonger journey begins after some time getting manipulated by her universe's serial killer Cynthia. When Cynthia is about to kill her, Diantha manages to kill Cynthia instead. She starts crying red tears and awakens her Warmonger powers, choosing the Warmonger life and becoming War Diantha. She kills Looker in rage and then instinctively goes through a portal to cross into the multiverse, wishing to start recruiting others into her Warmonger squad.

In a universe where Diantha died in a snowstorm, Cynthia turns to eating ice cream to cure her depression (it makes her drunk for some inexplicable reason). She becomes War Cynthia and fights in a "Hunger Games" event, a battle royale against 47 other people and Pokémon, and manages to win thanks to her icy Warmonger powers that she gradually discovers. She frequents the Multiversal Black Market to purchase her favourite ice cream brand, Casteliocones (a knockoff of Casteliacones made by a Unovan businessman). War Diantha arrives at the Black Market through the portal and the two Warmongers meet. War Cynthia immediately takes a liking to War Diantha, who is initially shaken at encountering another Cynthia. However, War Diantha decides to recruit her due to her powers and find the strongest versions of other Champions to form her squad. First, she contacts Bertha from War Cynthia's universe to be their squad manager.

After this, they visit a universe in which Steven Stone has lost interest in Cynthia and has a crush on Wallace. All seems to be going well for him until his father, Joseph Stone, dislikes that Steven is bi and secretly sends an assassin to kill Wallace. When learning of the coordinator's death, Steven investigates and discovers that it was his own father 😱 so he becomes War Steven and accidentally uses his newfound Warmonger powers and it hurts his dad (possibly killing him but Steven doesn't find out if he died). He is then recruited as the third War Champion.

To console War Steven they look for a Wallace next and find themselves in the Distortion World. War Cynthia befriends Giratina (who can speak to humans but strangely) and makes a pact with it. It helps them find Wallace who has been fused with his Milotic and will soon die due to a failed de-fusion attempt. The activation of his Warmonger powers saves him and he becomes War Wallace (still a Milotic). He joins the crew and quickly befriends War Steven (the only one who can understand his trills).

During the team's travels, they frequently run into Malva, Diantha's evil ex, and her crew (Camera Guy, Microphone Guy, and Kathi Lee). Malva mistakes War Diantha for the Diantha from her own universe and tries to get revenge on her by attacking and ridiculing her. As such, the two groups become enemies, though the War Champs always triumph.

The next recruit is War Leon, who came from a universe in which he was a fraud who used cheap, underhanded battle strategies to defeat his opponents.

In a universe where the Champions were stuck on an island in lockdown, everyone's mistreatment of Alder leads to him becoming War Alder and trying to get his revenge, but he accidentally kills them all in the process. The arrival of the War Champs saves him from being stranded on the island and he is recruited as the sixth member. The team generally dislikes him for being annoying but keep him around due to his great physical strength.

In another universe, Lance goes through a great depression when accused of table theft, feeling hurt that people thought he could be responsible despite him seeing himself as such an honourable person. When visiting the Dragon's Den in Blackthorn City for guidance, it comes under attack from some renegade ex-Team Rocket members and ends up getting burnt down, killing his friend Clair and others. He becomes War Lance and is the only one who escapes the fire thanks to his draconic Warmonger powers, with which he destroys the attackers. He also gains the Warmonger power of time travel (only affecting the universe it is used in), but this power is unstable and he loses it after using it for the first time. He travels some years into the future, when the Indigo League had fallen apart without him, and he is distraught. However, he encounters the War Champs looking to recruit him, and he joins as the next member, feeling that there is nothing else left for him now.

After a mysterious assailant drops a nuke on the Paldea region, almost all of the people and Pokémon in the region are killed. However, Geeta survives by activating her Warmonger powers to create a shield just in time, becoming War Geeta and gaining the powers of all of the deceased spirits. Seeking to avenge all of the people and Pokémon of Paldea and stop more destruction like this from occuring where she can, she travels through a portal.

After several defeats, Malva and her crew have had enough and sic the dangerous universe-hopping mercenary Girida on the War Champs, hoping to finally defeat them. A fight ensues at the Black Market, but just when the War Champs are almost defeated, they are saved by War Geeta. Teaming up with her, they manage to defeat Girida, even when she brings out Giratina from the Distortion World and controls it with her Red Chain. After Girida's defeat, the first one she remembers experiencing, she flees and leaves behind the stolen Pokémon she used, which War Geeta leaves at the Black Market's Pokémon Nursery along with her own Pokémon (except Giratina, which goes back home to the Distortion World). Malva finally realises that she was chasing the wrong Diantha and regrets troubling a Warmonger just before War Diantha kills her and discards her body in some remote universe, ending their rivalry, and War Geeta is recruited as the eighth and final War Champion.

Some time later, Malva wakes up, having actually managed to survive, and begins her Warmonger transformation. However, it is cut short, as the mysterious entity responsible for the Warmongers decides there are already enough, and Malva dies for real.

New Management

With the team now complete, War Diantha is contacted by a mysterious caller by the name of Manager Musrak. He negotiates with War Diantha and becomes the new manager of the War Champions, at which point he somehow gives them all a boost to their powers. He gets along well with War Diantha, but he never speaks to anyone else in the team and no one sees him in person. He makes secret plans with War Diantha for which the team need some more funding. He also gives them a new base in an otherwise barren universe.

War Steven gets the idea to open a coffee shop in their base called War Staryubucks for money, and Bertha is demoted from team manager (which she was bad at anyway) to Staryubucks manager. They initially don't get any customers, but they soon encounter Raw Siebold in the Black Market, who tells them to move the coffee shop there, and they hire him (he works for practically no pay due to his passion for cooking). The coffee shop is more successful at the new location.

With guidance from Manager Musrak, War Diantha leads her team on a number of missions to various universes, mainly fetch quests where they steal blueprints and research notes, and soon they begin stealing objects that War Diantha is using to build something in a secret area beneath the base. Though War Diantha is vague and secretive about her true goals, most of the team either trusts her or doesn't care. However, War Steven is skeptical and secretly tries to figure out what is really going on.

One of the missions to retrieve a part has the War Champions go undercover as the regular Champions in Ash Ketchum's house in order to steal the piece (they can't kill Ash due to him being protected by Arceus, as he is the ‘Chosen One’ in this universe). Another mission has the team walking over conspicuous grass that turns out to be Lawn, allegedly the final form of Dawn after absorbing Lucas.

When the final part has been collected, War Diantha finishes what she was building: the True Ultimate Weapon, an upgraded and edgier (both figuratively and literally) version of the ultimate weapon that is capable of destroying and reshaping the multiverse (causing lots of death and destruction in the process). With the weapon completed, Manager Musrak finally reveals himself in person as Karsum, the being responsible for the Warmongers. Previously, he was defeated in another multiverse by a different group of Warmongers, who had performed a ritual to temporarily remove him from the Dark Aether, the hellish space between universes where he is usually trapped. Upon his defeat, he absorbed the powers of those Warmongers and used a huge burst of energy to shift himself into the Pokémon multiverse (thus permanently freeing him from the Dark Aether), then used his scant remaining power to create new Warmonger powers that he granted to eight strong people in dire situations (the War Champions, as they would go on to become). Since then, Karsum went into hiding in a remote universe, biding his time to recharge his power while keeping tabs on his new Warmongers, who formed a team just as he had hoped. He built the team's base in the universe where he was hiding (he had been living in a secret underground place nearby the whole time) and assumed the identity of Manager Musrak while his power was recharging so that he could manipulate War Diantha into building the True Ultimate Weapon for him, which he now wants to use to rule the multiverse.

Learning all this, War Diantha feels betrayed and wants to use the True Ultimate Weapon herself, convinced it will fix everything that has gone wrong in her life. Suddenly, the rest of the War Champions burst in, with War Steven explaining he gathered them to follow him after spying on War Diantha when she was confronting Karsum. War Steven exposes the truth about War Diantha's motivations to the rest of the team, but War Diantha denies that she was involved and puts all the blame on Karsum.

A final battle ensues between Karsum and the War Champions, though there is much confusion among the team as they aren't sure whether War Diantha is good or bad now. The True Ultimate Weapon's blasts of energy interfere with the battle, causing the fight to move across several universes. Eventually, Karsum is defeated and the True Ultimate Weapon is destroyed, with its pieces scattered across the multiverse. War Geeta manages to channel the energy from the weapon to curse Karsum back into the Dark Aether where he belongs, but War Diantha steals some power to curse herself as well so that she can follow him, as she still sees some good in him and is starting to regret her actions.

The Dark Aether

In the wake of the battle, the War Champions are conflicted on whether to rescue War Diantha. War Cynthia, War Steven, and War Alder feel that she deserves a second chance and decide to rescue her, with Warllace joining as well as he simply wants to stay with War Steven. However, War Leon, War Geeta, and War Lance resent War Diantha for manipulating them and they leave the team, no longer caring for it.