AN: Hiya c: It's Quillinx. Me and my BFF, rioludoodle, are co-writing this fanfic. We're doing a roleplay by email, and then I'm converting it to story form and publishing it on FF! So please give Rio credit for the story as well uwx
In case you were curious at all, Buizel and Zorua are Rio's chars, while Eevee and Cyndaquil are mine c;
We hope you enjoy reading this fic 3 Thanks!
Cyndaquil leapt from the man's arms and into the shortly cropped grass. As the door swung behind him, he snuffled about on the ground. A small squeal escaped from his throat as a leftover autumn leaf brushed past him, ruffling his fur. He chased after it, leaping over a small rock in his pursuit and then pouncing on it. The crispy, dry texture of the leaf and its slightly earthy smell pleased him. He crunched part of it under his paw and mimicked tearing it apart like prey as a large shadow fell over him. He became aware of something large hovering right above him, but-
-and who were those Pokémon, anyways? He blinked in surprise. He definitely wasn't in the man's backyard anymore. His keen Pokémon senses told him that he was aboard a very large flying object. The air was cold, and he shivered, looking around for something- anything- that made sense. A friendly-looking Buizel and an Eevee with a rather impatient expression on her face were standing in front of him, the Eevee leaning slightly on a switch on the tank he realized he had just vacated. The Eevee had a yellow pack around her neck with the Rescue Guild symbol on the front, and both were wearing colorful Rescue scarves. Cyndaquil couldn't really seem to say anything.
Buizel said, "Cyndaquil, you were captured by Pokémon Hunter J, a ruthless human with a machine that can petrify Pokémon. You were in one of her containment devices and we, a Sinnoh Pokémon rescue squad, have un-frozen you. This seems like a lot to take in, but we have got to get out of her ship, ASAP! She could end up imprisoning us all!" Contrary to his friendly manner, Buizel was speaking quite forcefully and urgently.
A strange wristband with a small screen on Buizel's right wrist let out a small beep. He looked at it carefully and spoke to the Eevee, who was now tapping her paw and looking around the room anxiously.
"Eevee," he said, calling the brown Pokémon's attention to him immediately. "We have confirmation of a rare Pokémon on board the ship from rescue squad HQ. They're in the room to the left of here. I'll take Cyndaquil to the our exit point, can you go free her? You're more experienced at this." As he spoke, his eyes scanned the room carefully as well.
Eevee nodded once, sharply, and left the room, carefully avoiding the sweep of Hunter J's security camera as she quickly made her way to the other containment room to the left. Buizel made her way to the door. When Cyndaquil didn't follow, she gently said, "Come on, we have to hurry. Make sure you avoid the cameras."
Cyndaquil attempted to shake off his shock and moved to the door with Buizel, the pair ducking to the right as they began moving towards the airlock, their only hope of escape. Cyndaquil's heart seemed to be thumping right out of his chest, but Buizel looked perfectly calm.
Eevee snuck along the hallways, shivering at each glare of the red light that indicated a security camera. Even after years of being a member of a rescue team, the confusion of each unfrozen Pokémon still unnerved her. She didn't understand how Buizel could be so calm about the whole thing. She rather envied his casual and cool attitude, although she'd never admit it.
A high-pitched beep made her freeze in her tracks, but it was only the small screen, identical to Buizel's, embedded in her paw. She examined the padscreen carefully and turned to her left. Wondering what kind of Pokémon Hunter J could have nabbed to be giving off such a powerful Pokésignal, she opened the door with caution. What was inside made her jaw drop.
A Latias? That's crazy! she thought in disbelief. How could someone like Hunter J catch a Latias and remain unseen? The Latias was in the largest petrification device Eevee had ever seen, with a rather odd look on its face. Almost mischievious, although Eevee knew better than to tag someone like a Latias as a mischief-maker. Hesitantly, she stepped forward and placed her trembling paw on the switch. I hope she doesn't get mad at me. That... that would be bad. She pushed down. The switch took more power than expected to fully activate.
The recently unpetrified Pokémon fell to the floor and then rose to levitate about a foot above the ground. She looked around, confused, surprised at where she was and at the Eevee in front of her.
"Hello, who are you?" asked the red and white Pokémon, "Where am I?" Eevee rolled her eyes at the polite manner of the Latias.
"I'm Eevee, part of the J Rescue Team." she explained, struggling to keep her professional demeanor. She couldn't stop her brown eyes from flickering nervously towards the security camera, although she knew that she had chosen a security-blind spot. "There's no time for formal introductions, I'm afraid. You'll have to follow me. We'll clear everything up later." She turned briskly to go, beckoning the large Legendary Pokemon to follow with her bushy tail.
"Okay." replied the Latias. Eevee registered a change in tone of voice and then the sound of small pawsteps, making her sensitive brown ears twitch. What...? She twisted her head around, checking on the Latias- who was gone. Eevee stopped dead in her tracks, her eyes scanning the air above the small gray Pokémon standing in front of her, regarding her with an amused air, in search for the Latias.
"What is it?" the Zorua asked. "Are you looking for someone?" She asked the question with a typical Zorua giggle. Eevee finally looked down, the hairs on the back of her neck rising slightly. A petite black Pokemon, a little bit smaller than herself, was staring at her and giggling.
"You..." Eevee was struck dumb for a moment, her brain working rapidly. "You're a Zorua?" She cursed the way the words came, slow to understand, out of her mouth. She blinked and tried to regain her brisk attitude. "Well, Zorua or not, we still have to get you out of here, fast." Suspending her disbelief, she began again to hurry out of the room. This is one of the... more interesting raids, I suppose.
"Hey, wait for me!" Zorua shouted while racing after Eevee. "Where are we going? And where are we right now?!" Her high-pitched voice carried painfully down the metal hallways, and Eevee cursed again. Be quiet, insolent she-pup! She stopped ahead of Zorua all of a sudden. Oh, oh no. Zorua glanced around the corner for a second before Eevee pulled her back, ears snapping down against her head. She had caught a glimpse of one of J's minions around the corner. He was going into the room Eevee had come from, unknown to Zorua. Eevee hissed low in her throat, but Zorua didn't seem to realize the danger.
"Is that one of that scary hunter lady's minions?" she asked her rescuer, pawing impatiently at Eevee's rigid form. Eevee whipped around, eyes sparking.
"Ssssh!" She slapped a paw over Zorua's mouth. "Now's not the time for questions," she explained in a frantic whisper. "It's too dangerous." As soon as Eevee was sure that the henchman had gone into the room, she took off, dragging a yipping Zorua behind her. She hoped desperately to reach Buizel before the henchman discovered that "Latias" was missing. As they rounded the corner, Eevee heard a muffled yell and sped up. Although her paws bounced smoothly off of the metal floor, making no sound, the inexperienced Zorua's claws clanked against the hollow ground. Eevee was uncomfortably sure that someone would find them soon.
As they approached the exit point at the back of J's ship, Zorua saw Buizel busy trying to keep a cursing henchman from using a communicator and alerting Hunter J.
"Sonic Boom!" Buizel shouted, while using said move; of course what the human heard was, 'Buizel bui!'. The attack pushed the henchman into an unused containment room and Cyndaquil quickly closed and locked the door, shivering. From inside, he could hear the henchman's furious and confused yelling. He backed away from the door quickly, almost running into a panting Eevee.
"That was too close," Buizel said, smashing the communicator with his powerful back paws. "At least the exit's right over there." Buizel then noticed Eevee and Zorua, "Hi there! Did you run into anything?" He seemed quite cheerful, although he glanced at the exit in a nervous way.
Eevee dashed forwards hurriedly. "Just the henchman," she said, her ears twitching as she spoke animatedly. "We've got Zorua. J thinks she's a Latias." She quickly scraped the broken communicator into the rescue kit around her neck and stared around impatiently. "We should get out of here as fast as we can." She paid no further attention to Zorua, although she did throw a cursory glance at Cyndaquil.
Cyndaquil hesitated, sticking close to Buizel and looking fearfully at Eevee and Zorua. "Are... are they on our side?" he whispered, nervous. It sounded like a line from a movie, he thought to himself. His heart beat in his throat, threatening to strangle him. "I want to go home..." It came out more whiny than he intended, but he had said it so quietly that nobody seemed to have heard, anyways.
"Yes, yes they are, Cyndaquil. Eevee's my rescue partner and Team Leader. Zorua was captured, same as you were, it's just that J doesn't know she's a Zorua." Buizel explained, doing his best to calm down the frightened Fire-type. He patted Cyndaquil awkwardly on the head. Turning towards his rescue partner, he said, "The Staravia flock is just out there, if we jump out the door they'll catch us." Eevee nodded a brisk affirmative. She hurried towards the door, looking slightly impatiently at Cyndaquil and Buizel.
"Come on!" Without waiting for a reply, she unfixed the doorway, straining with her teeth to drag the heavy metal door open. A gust of strong wind blew into the corridor, almost knocking Cyndaquil backwards. Eevee leaned into the wind, testing its strength. Her long, floppy ears whipped back against her head. "I can see them!" she yelled to Buizel. "It's safe!" Her soft brown paws skidded back a few feet from the sheer force of the wind, much to her irritation.
"All right!" Buizel shouted back, trying to be heard above the rushing wind, "I'll grab Cyndaquil, you take Zorua! Hunter J'll know the airlock opened, she'll show up soon, so hurry!" He grabbed a squealing, shuddering Cyndaquil and jumped out of the airlock, quickly being caught by one of the Staravia.
"Hey, that looks fun!" Zorua exclaimed in glee, apparently still not grasping the seriousness of the situation. "I wanna try!" Eevee started forwards, words of warning scrambling on her tongue, but Zorua had already leapt off as well. A second Staravia swooped under and caught her. Stunned by the sheer carelessness of the action, Eevee was weldered to the floor for a few seconds. A yell brought her back to reality.
"Look out!" Buizel shouted to Eevee. "Duck!" Eevee's ears strained to make sense of the gibberish that the wind was bringing back to them from the Staravia, who were getting farther and farther away. Duck...?
"Salamence, Hyper Beam." a cold voice snapped behind Eevee. She ducked, just in time to avoid the massive jet of energy that roared over her head, searing her ears slightly. Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted Zorua waving frantically to her and Buizel saying something, but the energy from the beam distorted her vision and she had to blink a few times. With harsh calls of alarm, the Staravia flock dispersed around the powerful attack, the two that carried Buizel, Cyndaquil, and Zorua flying upwards out of J's - and Eevee's- line of sight.