A/N: Hello, and thanks for reading. Some of you may recognize this story as I had uploaded it before and then taken it down due to my decision to discontinue it, but as you can see, I have re-uploaded it. The story is still discontinued and will not be finished, but I have added a few more chapters that were never publicly released. It seemed pointless to write those chapters and then not release them, so here they are. Even though I have discontinued this story, I still think it is a decent read, though I will admit that it has many flaws and just stupid moments in general. On top of that, I have neither edited nor proofread these chapters, so there may be spelling and/or grammatical errors. Either way, thanks again for reading.
Glass shattered and a woman screamed. The National Hoenn Weather Research Facility was in complete chaos, and scientists and assistants all ran for cover as the windows continued to be smashed and the men in carbon black armor poured into the building. They shot those who tried to fight back, and a large arcanine bounded through the spacious laboratory, pouncing on and tearing chunks of flesh out of those unlucky enough to cross paths with it.
Scarlet struggled to reach her desk, pushing through the panicked people and picking her way through the papers that the workers had thrown into the air in their rush to escape. Though she was dressed in a white lab coat and her black hair was in a tight bun, she was no researcher. She had been sent to the institution by the government to facilitate the transfer of the Blue and Red Orbs, and she had left some important papers in her desk which detailed the location of the Orbs. She knew the men were here for the Orbs, and she also knew that the artifacts contained an immense power and that they could not fall into the wrong hands. She heard a loud roar which shook the ground, but she kept scrambling towards her desk in spite of the screams and bangs erupting all around her. Suddenly she felt a sharp stab of pain in her leg and collapsed to the ground in agony.
As she turned around to see what had struck her, she saw a man in black body armor standing above her, his pistol still smoking. He was of slightly above average height and of a muscular build, and his dark eyes bore into her own blue ones. He had deep tan skin and long, messy black hair, and Scarlet recognized him as Alfgar the Wild. He held up his gun and pointed it at her.
"You look like you're in a hurry. Looking for something important?"
Scarlet cringed. He knew. She hesitated before opening her mouth, but shut it after she saw the glint in his eye. He noticed her hesitation, and now there was truly no hiding it.
"Give me the Orbs," he said, fingering the gun's trigger.
Scarlet heard a loud crash and glanced behind Alfgar to see a robust charizard smash through the skylight windows and land with a crash, eliciting a chorus of frightened screams as the researchers closest to it began to run. She watched with horror as the charizard set one of the researchers aflame and then ripped his arm off with its long, muscular neck and sharp, draconian jaws.
"Tell me where the Orbs are," Alfgar the Wild said, drawing her attention back to him. "I won't ask again."
"I won't tell you anything," Scarlet squeaked, though her resolve had been weakened when she saw the charizard burn a man alive. As the effects of adrenaline began to wear off, Scarlet became even more aware of the intense pain radiating from the bullet in her leg. She heard a woman scream and a man laugh, and then heard the charizard shriek as it let loose another jet of flames.
Alfgar sighed. "It doesn't have to be difficult. Just tell me where the Orbs are and I might even let you go free."
Scarlet remained silent, but let out a scream when Alfgar shot her in the leg again.
"You might have to amputate the leg if you don't answer quickly enough. Now talk."
Scarlet grunted, desperately trying to keep herself from moaning in agony. "They're not here," she blurted out.
"Oh? Then where are they? You must know where they are. You probably even have the exact location. I know there was a reason you were running deeper into the lab when everyone else was trying to get out."
Scarlet bit her lip. I've failed, she thought, I'm sorry.
"The papers are in the top right drawer on my desk. It's the one in the very back, the blue one," she said, half delirious from the pain. Alfgar walked past her, and she let out a sigh of relief.
Alfgar strode towards the desk, pistol in hand. He saw numerous researchers rush past him, but he didn't bother with any of them. He glimpsed the blue desk in the back of the lab and smirked. He noticed one of his men bending a woman over a lab table, and he saw another looting a corpse of a scientist. He headed towards the desk and opened the top right drawer, but instead of finding papers he was greeted by an ekans coiled up inside. The purple snake lunged at him and he belatedly tried to lift his gun. A pink tongue lashed out at the snake, smacking the ekans onto the back wall and knocking it out. He turned around and saw Randy, his kecleon, darting towards him.
"Thanks." The kecleon let out a squawk in reply.
Alfgar peered into the drawer again and saw a single sheet of paper, and on it was a log detailing an exchange between the woman, who was apparently called Scarlet, and someone called Captain Stafford. He figured the woman wasn't lying about the Orbs not being here, and that Captain Stafford had covertly taken them aboard his ship. He would have to punish her for the ekans, though.
He headed back towards where he left the woman and saw her still on the ground, blood seeping out of her leg. As he walked towards her, she lifted her blue eyes to him.
"You made it back," she said blankly.
"You think you could kill me with an ekans?" He said, ignoring the fact that she had almost done just that.
"It was worth a try," she panted.
Alfgar the Wild sighed again. "Apollo! Here!"
The charizard shrieked in the background, then roared as it took flight in the confined laboratory and clumsily made its way over to Alfgar. As it landed, it roared again and Scarlet could feel the heat emanating from the creature's maw.
Alfgar gave Scarlet one last look with his dark eyes and then said: "Burn her." He watched as Apollo let loose a stream of fire upon the woman, and he winced as he heard her screams and watched as the fire crackled her skin. As the woman continued to wail, Apollo bit into her and began feasting. Alfgar walked away with a touch of respect and a pinch of disgust at the charizard's behavior and surveyed the rest of the lab. His men were destroying the lab, smashing test tubes and flinging papers as they killed, raped, and looted.
"Men! Brothers!" He yelled, but none seemed to hear him. Apollo suddenly looked up from his prey and roared deafeningly, drawing the men's attention and causing them to stop whatever they were doing. As silence more or less settled over the blood-soaked lab, Randy let out a squawk.
"I've found the Orbs," Alfgar said, which elicited a chorus of claps and cheers.
"Let's see 'em!" Someone shouted.
"Well, I don't exactly have them, but I know where they are." This time no one cheered or clapped, so he continued on. "They're on a ship captained by someone named Stafford. Our next priority will be finding him. I think we're done here, so we should be heading out before the authorities arrive."
With that, Alfgar the Wild and his men and their pokemon left the institution, all of them letting out a flying type and climbing atop it. Alfgar himself returned Randy to his ball and leaped atop his charizard, and with a shriek, they were off.