Treasure Hunt! Set! Begin!
The bush air was cool as evening settled over the scene. Peace filled the atmosphere and not even the breeze could manage to be fiercer than the lightest rocking of the branches. Many of the small animals that scampered amongst the leaves and grass on the ground didn't bother to even pretend to be worried. At that one point in time absolutely everything seemed to be at complete peace with what had happened.
Even bellow the bush, in a world hidden from the eyes of the normal populace things were peaceful. "Oh come on! Why can't we just do the Dimension Gem Treasure hunt?" At least it was mostly peaceful. Sitting in the fern and other plant covered medical bay a blue turtle kept his arms crossed over his chest and glared at his superior officer. His superior officer who had an advantage over him even if they were still sick and coughing. "I mean come on, surly you can allow, me, Tasha and Zachary to find those gems!" he stated with a shrug, even as a small black fox walked into the room behind him, wearing a bright blue cap.
"You just aren't ready for this type of mission" the coughing that followed the statement was ignored by both the fox and the turtle who kept his arms crossed while the fox sat down and scratched behind one ear in a bored way. A ringing filled the air and they all turned their heads to stare at the doorway as yet another member of their group burst in, with a leafeon right behind them. "What is it Tasha?" the Commander asked coughing into his paws as he gazed at the Riolu.
"Pokextinction set Leon as the leader on the Dimension Gem retrieval group! Also he's coming over this way..." the riolu paused to remove her back pack and set up her laptop to show what she meant. "They apparently have a 'special' Pokéuman been shifted to the Hershi Base!" she covered her mouth with one paw and fought to prevent from coughing. "They're planning on using this Pokéuman to help them find those gems." she pulled up a display that showed the golden yellow lizard type Pokéuman standing over a few blue gems with his eyes glowing darkly in the light of the camera. "He's due to arrive tomorrow, and is set to be put on Leon's group... codename, Yol!"
"I see..." their commander lowered his head and stared at the bed that he sat on. "This will be a problem..." he shook his head and looked at all three of the gathered PRT members in front of him, the riolu, the squirtle and zorua. "Okay then, you three shall be allowed to go on this mission!" he held up one paw to stop the cheering before it began "Under one condition! You will take Cole along with you." He allowed them all to complain and watched as Tasha grumbled under her breath and stared at him. "I know that it's not perfect..." he broke off coughing. "But we don't need him killing himself over the loss of the kits..."
"So basically you're placing us on a suicide watch..." Zachary the Zorua stated rolling his eyes before looking over at the leafeon who had accompanied Tasha's entrance to the room and was now been looked over by the base's head nurse and also the Headmaster's current assistant, Miss Blossom the Audino. "Don't you worry, we'll be fine!"
Barely even an hour later the whole group, except for Cole were regretting agreeing to the condition. Cole may have been allowed to drive the vehicle that they'd been given for use, but he was a maniac driver. The slasher style smile that he gave while behind the wheel of the transforming car definitely didn't help, nor did the fact that it was currently in sky form and they were hoping desperately that Cole didn't decide to spin around some more in mid air.
Tasha was definitely the one who was most scared clinging desperately to her seat while the boys around her both simply stared to the front and tried to imagine that they were safe and on the ground. That they weren't high up in the air or at risk of randomly going upside down. Considering the maniac grin that Cole flashed back at them though, it was pretty much impossible to forget exactly what danger they had signed themselves up for when accepting a some what suicidal leafeon as their accomplice.
She sighed and closed her eyes, desperately trying to keep her aura from sending out panicked distress signals across the area. That never ended well, since she was still in training though, keeping it contained was incredibly hard, especially as the vehicle was once more flipped upside down and their driver laughed. The noise sent chills through the air, it was rather obvious that Cole couldn't care less what happened as long as vengeance was served.
The complete craziness of the situation surely couldn't get much worse at that point. "Pokextinction sighted!" of course Cole spotted Pokextinction's black van and suddenly they were in a dive towards the ground. Zachary screamed while Blade stared with wide eyes and took a page out of Tasha's book by clinging to the arm rests of his seat. Tasha whimpered her sensors rising a little bit as her pupils shrunk and she began to wonder why they'd agreed to allow Cole to come with them again.
They pulled up abruptly and she heard a whine from Cole. "We need to tread carefully here..." Zachary stated standing beside the piloting leafeon with his human hand resting on the wheel. "Tasha, you might be our best bet for this!" the riolu nodded and unbelted herself before standing in the aisle and crossing her arms across her chest while Blade blinked with a single eye twitch. "The target is a shiny charmander, his name is Yol from the transcripts!" Zachary explained and Tasha nodded.
"What about me?" Blade asked crossing his own arms across his chest and causing Zachary to sigh.
"You can wait!" Zachary stated before nodding to Tasha signifying that she should get on with the rescue. The thirteen year old riolu grinned and opened the door and stood ready to jump. "Now Cole..." the humanised leafeon briefly grumbled before they nodded their head and Zachary removed his hand from the wheel. The vehicle lowered once more, but this time it remained more balanced and eventually they were just barely over the black van, just a bit to the side. Tasha grinned and leapt out and landed easily on the roof of the van, quickly she removed her humanising ring and slammed her palm into the van's roof.
She grinned at the dent it caused and ignored the man who stuck their head out of the van's window and begun to yell at her pounding the roof several more times until it spilt. "Yes! No!" she jumped back quickly as electricity shot through the gap and following it a bright yellow, very familiar Pokémon known to all. "You! Zeke!" she growled and shifted her feet standing across from the pikachu and keeping his attention on her as Blade landed on the roof behind him.
"Not this time you little brat! You don't have Leon's approval anymore!" Zeke grinned at her electricity sparking around him. "I'm his new favourite, and eventually Yol will be our best fighter! There is no way you're going to-" he was cut off as the van suddenly swerved forcing both Pokéumans to run or shift to remain on the vehicle. "What the fuck are you doing you fucking idiot?" Zeke yelled angrily at the driver while Tasha took the chance to charge across the roof and slam into him. "Damn! What the fuck?" Zeke glared at her as they landed roughly on the asphalt road.
"You need to shut your fucking mouth!" Tasha smirked "It's too big and loud to make any sense!" she quickly jumped up over an electricity charged punch. "Missed me! Missed me!" She laughed and rolled under his next Thunder Punch a grin constantly remaining on her face. "Toxic!" she shouted a purple glow surrounded both her and her opponent who growled and spun around electricity filling the air between them. "Shit..." she quickly jumped to the side as a thunderbolt slammed into the ground leaving a charred spot where just seconds ago she'd stood.
"Fuck YOU!" Zeke shouted fire in his eyes as she backed away from the furious pikachu. Before Zeke could actually throw another attack at her though a blast of fire shot between them, allowing Tasha to quickly jump back into the now visible rescue vehicle.
"That was close... Zeke's not pulling any stops with his attacks..." she stated wiping one paw across her forehead. "So this is Yol?" she asked looking at the latest addition to their little crew, a yellow bipedal lizard with a flame burning at the end of his tail. He was also wearing a dark blue hoodie and on his head was a backwards turned dark blue cap.
"Actually... my name is Ryan..." the boy stated avoiding meeting her eyes.
"Okay, now to try to find those Dimension Gems!" she stated slipping her ring back on and returning to her human form. "Do we have any idea where to start?" all she got for asking that was heads shaken all around and a blank and confused look from Ryan. "Great..." she blinked and jumped to the front removing her ring again. "I felt something... there!" she pointed towards an old and crumbly abandoned building. "There's an energy coming from that place!"
Cole grinned back at her and they dove back down the vehicle shifting into car form as it landed on the road and eventually pulled to a stop in front of the building. Tasha was the first one out running across the ground and towards the building her sensors raised as she followed the trail that the energy gave her. She soon located the source, a spot in the middle of the floor where the blue energy flowed from. Blade and Zachary followed behind her along with Ryan and Cole, the latter of who stood further back with shadows in his eyes.
She frowned, there was something just slightly off or wrong with the energy that she was feeling. Closing her eyes she opened her senses to full aura vision. Her companions had rather generalised auras; Blade's was a light purple, Zachary's a green and Cole's a fiery blazing red. Ryan's aura made her pause for a moment, it was green with black vines chocking his main aura, trying to suppress it. She shook her head, her own aura was a bright blazing red and she aimed it down into the ground to touch the blue glow of the energy. She could feel the energy pushing against her own aura, and that was when everything exploded.
The whole group was sent flying backwards through the air before they hit the ground, or the walls of the building that they were in. In the center a large crater took up most of what had originally been the floor. Right in the middle, glowing brightly was the object that they desired. "What the hell Tasha?" Blade's shout caused her to shrug even as they all began to pick themselves up off the ground. She blinked and dashed forwards retrieving the gem and holding it in her paws. "At least we got the first one though..." Blade frowned standing up and glaring at the twisted and broken humanising ring on the ground in front of him.
Tasha sighed and tucked the gem into her backpack and looked around. The only one of them who was still a human was Zachary, probably because of his illusion ability. She shrugged before speaking "One down, who knows how many more to go!" she waved one paw in the air and her team mates grinned at her, Cole's more than a little maniac. Ryan remained sitting and blinked at their excitement, the poor charmander was still more than a little bit confused by what was going on. "Now come on we've-" another boom echoed in the air and the group all turned around to face another group across from them.
The leader of the other group, a Pokémon that was much like Ryan, except without the flaming tail and with a skull mask on their head. A cubone, but not just any cubone, Tasha froze and her sensor's raised in recognition of their light blue aura. Other Pokémon in the rival group included a female zorua who had her teeth bared as she glared at Zachary, Zeke the Pikachu, a light brown furred fluffy fox like creature with a cream ring of fur around her neck and cream spot on the tip of their tail and a floating lamp with flames burning within. "Hello again Tasha!" the cubone seemed to be smiling as they spoke, the words hanging in the air between them.
"Leon..." the word echoed through the whole group minus Ryan who simply seemed to be unsure of what to say in the situation. Tasha growled and for a brief moment her aura was visible around her, while Leon simply seemed to grin wider. "Whatever, you won't be getting the Dimension Gem from us!" she growled throwing one arm out to the side her eyes narrowing in the cubone's direction. The other's circled around her, they were all prepared to fight, since that's what this looked like it was about to dissolve into.
"Such a pity... and you had such potential too..." Leon sighed before looking at the Pokéumans around him. "Ella, take out that Squirtle!" the brown fox nodded and dashed towards Blade. "Jessie, I think that you already have a target!" the zorua grinned and leapt towards Zachary who automatically jumped spun around back into his zorua form and met her in mid air. "Justin... get rid of the mourning idiot!" the lamp floated over to Cole who growled. "Zeke, dispose of the disappointment, Tasha's mine!" Leon's eyes darkened as Zeke dashed towards Ryan who was forced to jump back and away from the initial attack from the pikachu.
"In your dreams Leon..." Tasha growled ducking down into a basic stance as battles exploded around them between each group. "Toxic!"
"Bonemerang!" they both shouted out their moves at the same time. Tasha just barely ducked under the incoming projectile, but forgot to remain ducked as it came back to whack her across the back of the head. "Toxic!" the move just barely missed her as she jumped away from the spot that she'd been standing leaving it to glow purple while she was in the clear.
"Calm Mind!" she shouted her mind clearing and giving her a better idea of her own power in relation to her opponents. She smiled and dashed forwards flames flaring up on her leg. "Blaze Kick and Force Palm!" she shouted the kick lashing across Leon's face and sending his skull helmet flying before she quickly thrust her palm into his face and flipped away striking with her blazing leg once more. Since he was still poisoned from her earlier toxic attack it took a lot more damage than he was prepared for and he fell down panting in front of her.
"Rock... Slide!" he growled and she had no time to dodge as a jumble of rocks collapsed from absolutely no where that she could discern and slammed into her body. "Bone Rush!" Leon charged at her, his bone club glowing brightly in preparation for the attack.
"Blaze Kick!" she shouted dashing towards Leon and slamming her leg into him, surprisingly sending the cubone flying and knocking him into Zeke who yelped and used thunderbolt automatically as she watched. The rest of her team mates slowly came to stand beside her while the other Pokextinction members ran over to their leader and automatically regrouped. "We're done here..." she stated with the slightest smile on her muzzle. "Let's go team... this battle is over!" she stated crossing her arms over her chest and turning to leave followed by the rest of the group, Ryan included.
Sitting in the flying vehicle the group all grinned at one another and Blade pulled out a vague map of the area that they would be checking for Gems. "We're only going to be searching the area of Churchill, Morwell, Boolarra and all that... there is a possibility of Bendigo been added to the search area... but we're only able to go so far..." Zachary stated yawning as he pointed to the map, several areas glowed on it. "The glowing areas, are some of the vague areas where odd energy has been detected before, thus worth checking out!" he explained and everyone nodded, although Ryan still seemed to be a bit confused by what was happening.
They all gazed down at the map and peered at the highlighted spots, one of which they had just come from. Tasha grinned and her tail began to way as she recognised one area on the map as an area that she'd felt something from before. "I think that I know just where to start!" she peered around the table at the others who all blinked at her curiously while Ryan rubbed the back of his head. "Right here... I know this area in Churchill!" she tapped a specific spot on the map and a smirk wound it's way onto her muzzle. "And I know for a fact that there's something there..."
"Yay, okay that's cool, but how're we going to get to there from here?" Blade asked and everyone simply stared blankly and the squirtle who shrugged and gave a sheepish grin. "Oh... right..." he laughed and Tasha rolled her eyes while Zachary yawned. "So then, let's get going!" His tail began to wag and most of the others laughed at his enthusiasm. "Come on! We've got this chance, we've got to take it and go! Go! Go!" Blade shouted while Tasha sighed and shook her head. Cole smiled into the mirror at the front and Zachary sighed and shrugged his shoulders.
"Why not?"