Masters of the Sky

"What a beautiful town," Winona commented, landing her Altaria on a floating pathway. She was there, in the famed Pacifidlog Town, the town that was made entirely of wood. The pathway bobbed up and down on each swell of the blue water, making Winona nearly lose her balance.

"Return, Altaria," she commanded. The blue pokémon returned obediently to its pokéball, and Winona looked around.

"Oh, hi, Winona!" came a familiar voice. Winona turned to see Flannery, her head peeking through a half-opened door. "The meeting's here!" Wasting no time, Winona went over the unsteady pathways to the wooden house that Flannery was in.

Once everyone, the gym leaders, Elite Four members and champions were gathered in the house at a huge table, the Pokémon Director stepped forward.

"Greetings, leaders of the three regions," he announced. "I have called for this meeting, as you know, to discuss the making of a new power generator for Hoenn. As you might know, the power generator has not been performing very well as of late, and in a recent check on the working quality of the generator, it has come to light that it will not be able to run properly in a few years' time."

"Whoa—I didn't get a word of that," Sidney exclaimed.

"Just to summarise that, we've gotta make a new power generator soon, or Hoenn will be in for a major blackout. And that won't be a small matter," Phoebe replied.

"Yes, so we have to plan how to get enough energy to run Hoenn," the Pokémon Director continued.

"We might be able to harness the energy of nature and turn it to electricity," Misty suggested.

"No! Nature is not to be tampered with," Erica replied heatedly. "We might cause natural disasters!"

"But if we can do it without affecting nature—" Flannery began.

Suddenly, the room made a sickening movement. No one spoke. The whole ground seemed to be moving.

Finally, Steven broke the silence by shouting, "What's going on? Is it a tidal wave?"

"I'll go check!" Winona immediately shouted. She rushed out of the room onto the floating pathway immediately outside, and saw the chaos that Pacifidlog had become. People were scrambling about on the pathways, releasing their boats from ropes and sailing away. Some simply let out flying pokémon and flew away on them.

"What's happening? Why's everyone running?" Winona asked a passer-by, who was running for his boat.

"We all knew this was going to happen soon," he replied. "The Ocean Stone's power was weakening, and Pacifidlog has been moving more and more. Now it's happened! The Ocean Stone has released Pacifidlog, and now it's being washed away from Hoenn!" He immediately ran off.

Winona looked around and saw that it was true—Pacifidlog was floating away on the tide. As fast as she could go on the wobbling wooden paths, she raced back to the house where the gym leaders, Champions and the Pokémon Director were.

"Quick, run! Pacifidlog is drifting away from the mainland!" She screamed. Immediately, the whole room came alive with talk and movement. Many of the people present rushed out the door. Without stopping, Winona sent out Altaria and commanded it to fly into the air, away from Pacifidlog Town, which was being washed away at an alarmingly fast rate. In all the confusion, someone fell into the water with a loud splash.

The gym leaders began to send out their Pokemon, but when the Pokémon tried to surf or fly away, they hit a barrier which had formed and fell back onto the pathway. Pacifidlog Town stopped moving.

"W-what's going on here? What's that barrier?" Winona whispered to herself, sweat dripping down her forehead. She held Altaria's neck tightly, as she watched the happenings below.

Then, suddenly, Winona heard the sound of roaring water. Looking down fearfully, she saw that Pacifidlog City was sinking within the barrier, together with the Gym Leaders, Elite Four members and Champions. Why was this happening? Winona thought with confused fear.

"No! You can't be taken away!" Winona yelled. In a flash, her Altaria dove down at the sinking city, but hit the barrier as well and was thrown back. Then, she watched in horror, stunned, as the whole city, the unsteady wooden pathways, the wooden houses and the shouting gym leaders, Champions and the Pokémon Director sank into the mysterious depths of the sea. Soon, it was as if there had been nothing there.

A fresh wave of panic swept over her, and she felt despair like she had never felt before. Winona would have jumped into the water after Pacifidlog had common sense told her not to. She knew she was powerless against a force great enough to sink a town, and what made her feel worst was that she could do nothing to help her fellow gym leaders.