In the middle of the dessert…
A few trucks were on the hot sandy roads.
The first truck, three Pokemon were chatting about how well the 'Demonstration' went, they recently tested a new missle known as 'The Jerico' a name from their culture, in the backseat of the truck sat a fire-type Pokemon 'Fennekin', beside it was a Ratticate in war uniform, two Pokemon in the front were also wearing uniforms, of course one of them was driving, there was silence for quite some time.
"I can speak right?", the Fennekin questioned.
"Yes, of course you can speak", the Ratticate beside it replied.
The Pokemon a 'Rattata' beside the driver turned his head around and said,"I have been dying to take a picture with you Fennekin."
"Im good with that, pull over let these two switch sides with me," Fennekin pointed to the two, they switched places eventually, the Rattata took out a phone, held it in front of 'him' and Fennekin. He took the picture, "Thanks Fennekin"
"Yeah don't mention it"
Fennekin is the Pokemon that runs 'Flame Industries', a company that makes weapons, most likely if you're a fire-type Pokemon they welcome you to the business, and since the Fennekins father who was able to evolve to his third form before his passing was the head of the industry, and left his son with the ownership of the company,
"You know, when we head back we should—", Fennekin got interrupted when a loud boom crashed into the trucks, they must have got into a foreign Pokemon's turf, never a good sign, Fennekin couldn't make out what they looked like. The Ratticate ran out of the truck shouting,"Fury Swipes!"
The fire fox saw him charging towards them ,seeing the Rattata beside him run out of the truck he replied," Wait let me fight with you guys"
The Rattata turning around replied," No stay in there, we can't afford to lose you", a bone drove through the Rattata's stomach killing it instantly.
The fire type hid himself inside the truck hearing the battle outside, he had no other choice, he ran out the truck and used the sand to hide in, as he saw a few Marowak battling the Ratticate and Rattata, the Fennekin joined in, but their were too many of them coming, a Marowak was running after them with some kind of explosive, the Fennkin leaped in the air and used a Fire attack on him sending the bomb landing in his paws, when he tumbled to the ground he ran far from his team and threw the bomb away from himself as it went off, his body flew in the air and crashed into the harsh sand, he groaned as he started getting a headache.
Setting his eyes onto a huge wound in his chest, he fainted.
30 hours earlier…..
It was nighttime at Lumiose City, Fennekin was awarded 'Pokemon of the Year', he couldn't attend because he wasn't there when the Sudowoodo announced who it was, a Houndoom came forth onto the stage, he worked with Fennekin, walking up to the Sudowoodo who offered the reward," Sadly Fennekin could not be here at the moment to congradulate himself on such a sweet golden reward, you know if I was Fennkin I would make lots of chatter about how awesome I am, and how I make the Purrloin drool, but I can put what he should say, into four words,"Thank You and Goodnight", he sat back down, along with a female Vulpix, who also works for Fennkin. Houndoom decided to look for him. "Where are you going Houndoom?"
"To find our boss".
Fennekin threw dice on a board with his mouth
"Yes, two Cyndy"
"Look it up on the Dex its Cyndaquil"
The Fennekin, wearing dark shades smirked,"You know you love it when I say your name, anyway-Oh hello Houndoom."
The houndoom growled," Well you won 'Pokemon of the Year', so I had to give out a speech in front of thousands of Pokemon, you owe me one Fen"
"Im sorry I was too busy {hiccup}"
"A boss can never be too busy….or drunk, anyway Im going towards my room, see you tomomrow after your demonstration"
"Cheers Houndy"
Three hours later….
Hundreds of camera Pokemon were snapping pictures of Fennkin as he walked towards his car, but was stopped by a Audino.
"Hello its Audino, from Poke Newspaper, if you don't mind I wanna ask you some questions before you leave."
"….sure, fire away"
"First question, How does it feel to be 'Pokemon of the year'?
"Amazing feel good"
"Next a lot of Pokemon call you the greatest Fire type of all time, what would you say to that?"
I don't classify a single element to have the best Pokemon"
"Also a curious one, how do you sleep at night, do you lose any hours of sleep?"
"Im prepared to lose a few with you", Fennekin smiled.
In a mansion near the ocean 9:00 AM
An exhausted Audino struggled to get up from the massive bed with thick sheets, it was a maze.
She found the kitchen at least and a Vulpix eating some breakfast,"Did you enjoy yourself?"
"Enjoy? It was heavenly", she can tell the tailed fox was cringing must be from jealousy.
"Well come back to reality, he left a few hours ago, a weapon demonstration"
"Oh…I was kinda hoping he was still around"
"Well he's busy doing…whatever the heck he does he barely tells me anything, your free to use the shower then you might as well….leave I guess before he gets back."
"Oh ok" the Audino left the room only to come back again,"Can you show me where the Bathroom even is?", hearing the vulpix groan.
Three vehicles were driving through the dessert, it was the same one where Fennekin was in for his weapons demonstration, he's going there now.
"Thank you everyone, once you see how accurate this missle is, you'll swear, the Marowak Clan will be cowards and run back to their dens….BEHOLD….THE JERICO!", behind him a missle launched shooting mini missles from it, a sound came behind him shooting all if them creating a huge gust of wind, "You did it again Fennekin", one of the Pokemon soliders said.
He opened his ice chest with some alcoholic drinks. He took a quick gulp of one of the beverages and put it back. The Pokemon went back to their trucks, Cyndaquil was walking over to Fennekin's truck.
"Im sorry this is the Fun Truck, normal trucks are over there", Fennekin smiled.
"Come on, Im your best Mon"
"Im tired, I will be a best Mon when we get back to lovely Lumiose", he shut his door. The trucks drove once again on the road. Fennekin got a call from Houndoom.
"Hi there Houndy"
"How was the demonstration"
"Fantastic, you should have seen it, anyway Im going back to Lumiose so see you when I get there ok."
"Ok, Im going back to bed."
"Why aren't you wearing those pajamas I sent you?"
"Goodnight Fennekin"
Fennekin hanged up his phone.
Moments later Fennekin and the soliders were caught in a spot where the Marowak were hiding. Fennekin blacked out, he was screaming, something wrong happened, his mind grew fuzzy until he fell into deep consciousness.
Fennekin slowly opened his eyes, it was dark, and cold, he felt sore all over, and noticed a warm blanket over him. He noticed a small light coming from a little lantern, he tried standing up, he saw a box, and moved it around a bit.
"You would want to put that down", said an Ekans in the corner. He lifted the cover off of him as the fire type saw the box having wires connecting to his chest, he panicked breathing heavily. The Ekans sat down looking at Fennkin with a sad smile.
"What did you do to me?'
What I did, was save your life," the Ekans helped him up, picking up the box and placing it in his paws,"You have to take that box wherever you go, you have whats called
'Pokerus' trying to get into your heart, the machine stops it, get rid of the machine, your game's over."
"What is this machine?"
"Its powered by electromagnets, it took a while but I had to look hard, there's so much you need to know right now, no matter what—"
{distant shouting}
"Do as I say, stand up, stand up… get beside me", the Ekans ordered, Fennekin just obeyed. He had no idea what was going on, all he could remember was The Jerico Missle, and being in the dessert, he thought he was going to die, he had to stay alert.
A group of Marowak came in and stood in front of them.
{Marowak speaking foreign language}
"He says welcome Fennekin, I have an offer to give to you."
{Marowak speaking foreign language}
The snake like pokemon told him," He also says he saw your launch of the Jerrico Missle, and is impressed, he wants you to build one."
Fennekin's eyes grew wide, he was gonna tell them the plans for building a Jerrico Missle, his entire region could be at stake, it was a very powerful weapon anyone would want in their hands.
"Fennekin, say yes", the Ekans muttered in his ear.
"I…uh….I refuse"
The Marowak had a disappointed look on his face, he walked closely to Fennekin, then quickly grabbed him by the neck, he screamed in defence. The Marowak dragged him out of the room, guards pointed their bones to the Ekans head.
{shouting in foreign language}
The marowak pulled the Fennekin's head into a water well and held him in for 10 seconds and released him smacking him good in the cheek. When he landed on the floor the Marowak picked him up again and threw him back in the room as he tumbled and fell on the Ekans body.
The Marowak left.
30 Minutes later….
The Ekans met Fennekin before in a previous convention. He had a family, three kids, and great job. He got captured a month before Fennekin, brutally torturing him, he survived, did everything they said, always wondering if he was gonna take his last breath when he slept, he made a soup with carrots, peas, and noodles in it, and offered some to Fennekin. He was wearing the blanket and shivering by a little fire the fire type made for them.
"You can't play games with these Mon there serious."
"Their wanting to build a missle, thousands of pokemon could die."
"True, Im not judging you", Ekans replied feeding him some of the soup.
"Im not a cub, I can feed myself"
It was silent in the room,"I have an idea, it might work, but we have to be cautious."
"What's in that brain Fennekin?"
"Ok, Im going to need those items on my work bench, I need a couple of thosem and some of those", Fennekin was pointing to random tools on a table, he accepted their challenge to build a Jerico Missle. They allowed him to get tools he needed for the project, Fennekin and Ekans went into a different room, it had a large table, he set supplies on his table, even given the blueprints from the Jerrico. Against his better judgement, Fennekin and Ekans worked several weeks on the missle, They kept working, Fennekin doing 95% of the work. Helping out, Ekans looked closely at the design of the missle itself, "That does not look like a Jerrico missle"
Fennekin smirked,"No, it's a Micro-Electromagnet", Fennekin kept working on it, shrinking it to the size of a small circle. He didn't even need wires connected to his body.
"Extrordinary, this can power your heart to fifty live times."
"Or something big for fifty seconds."
He placed the small micro-electromagnet near his chest, as he quickly cut out the wires and put the electromagnet inside, it stuck on him glowing a shiny whitish colour.
"How do you feel?"
"Better, now then lets get to the big guy", Fennekin looked at s medium sized metal machine, they were going to make a Fennekin-form of metal equipment. They worked for hours on the metal. The Marowak were watching them on a static like screen, that barely shows them. {shouts in foreign language}
{responces in foreign language}
{another Marowak in foreign language}
They traveled towards the pair.
"Fennekin, someone's coming"
"{groans} I was almost done with this too"
The Marowak ran into the room, the leader walked in front of them, then set his eyes on the electromagnet in his chest,"You're a clever Pokemon"
"You spoke normal all this time?" The Fennekin questioned.
"Our world is full of surprises Fire Boy, so are you, your not building a missle are you."
Fennekin showed them the bundle of metal,"Its still a work in progress, this missle will be done soon to your wishes."
The Marowak slowly walked to the machine, then looked at the blue prints,"Bring me Ekans"
The guards took him roughly, he was thrown to the ground harshly, he was being held by a guard Marowak, the main one of the group took a metal prong and picked up a hot piece of charcoal.
"Open your mouth", the main one told Ekans, the guard pony beside him forced his mouth open.
"What are you doing?"
"He is no use to him"
"WAIT! I need him, he's a good assitent", Fennekin said stuttering a little. He wanted him to be safe.
"You have three days, to build my Jerrico Missle", the main one told her.
The main one left, the guards followed him even the guard who was guarding Ekans left the room. Fennekin couldn't take these guys anymore. He went immediately back to work, working harder than he ever did.
"You have been working for several hours Fennekin, take a rest."
"Your going to see your family, I'll make sure of it."
A couple days went by….
Fennekin and Ekans designed a metal machine, it would allow Fennekin to fit in there, it was his shape, and attackproof, even to water, they were four legs and a place for his flame like tail, and even the ability to use his fire attacks even in the suit. They almost had it ready, it was fully functionable, easy to get into, Fennekin called it Iron Pokemon No. 653.
"It looks fantastic, we need to charge the suit."
"Good Idea Ekans, I'll get inside", Fennekin climbed into the suit, he had plugs attached on the chest area, the suit needed to charge, one of the items on the table was a laptop computer, it gave the suit energy, it had to be fully be complete with it for the suit to work.
The Marowak watched the screen, they were impatiently waiting, they noticed he never actually did make a jerrico missle, instead a Fennekin sized metal machine, this upsetted their leader,"Really, I gave them forever to build this missle, and they did not deliver", his soldiers were waiting for his next command,"Get him, and the Ekans, now!" The soliders carried their bone like weapons and went out of the room.
"37%...42%", the Ekans read the monitor, Fennekin was breathing heavily trying not to get too excited, after all they could die today.
"Do you think our stuff will work if they open the door?", Fennekin pointed to the handle of the door covered with packs of explosives, it would trigger whoever opened it from the other side to explode.
"I think its overkill, but yes its gonna work….75%..almost there..85%...90%...struggling at 91% COME ON!" he whipped the monitor with his tail.
The soliders were running fast to their door.
"Were dead"
"Lets hope that the explosive thingy works Ekans."
They rushed to the door, they prepared to kick the door open with their feet., when they did, it set off, the soliders bodies evaporated into burnt flesh.
"How is it?", Fennekin asked.
"Dang! You were right, quite a show."
Ekans looked back at the screen, "97%, were running out of time, Im going to buy you some time", the Ekans slithered towards the previously exploded door and picked up one of the Marowak bones with his tail and left.
"Stick to the plan Ekans! STICK TO THE PLAN!"
Ekans went through the halls, there were times where he ran into a fork in the road meaning alternate paths, he chose the right one most of the time, whacking any incoming Marowak with their own bone.
Back where Fennekin was, it was struggling at 99%, it was so close, he heard instant voices coming, closer, closer, he shut his eyes tightly preparing the worst, then 100%, the screen turned off, and the entire rooms light shut off instantly, the guards made it to the room, they couldn't see a thing, Fennekin's electromagnet of course shined pure white, next thing they knew, they got beat up by a metal machine. Fennekin made his way out of the room, punching and using using his Iron body to take care of baddies and make them get away from him, he thought about using his 'Flamethrower' but he chose to wait and see where the road ahead leads.
Ekans slithered across a hallway when he was greeted by hundreds of Marowak with bone clubs.
Fennekin made his way across when he heard whack's and distant screaming, it sounded familiar, the leader was attacking somebody, he ran to the sound being careful not to trip.
After hitting one more mark at the wounded Ekans, he made his way to the exit where Fennekin was running, he lunged at him hitting the iron suit with his bone club but didn't leave a mark. He was protected by armor and ignored his attacks and hit him in stomach sending him flying towards a wall of explosives, he looked to his right to see a wounded Ekans, he looked back at him,
The Fennekin used his Flamethrower attack on the pile of explosives as the flames went through the suit towards the Marowak causing an effect on the explosions around him, his body was on fire, still standing, screaming in pain, flesh burning off as he dropped his club and fell lifeless. The Fennekin ran to Ekans and opened his mask to reveal his face,"Come on Ekans, lets get out of here."
"Im gonna die, you'd best be on your way."
The Fennekin shook his head,"Im not leaving"
"Get out of this place, return back and be a free Pokemon."
"Im gonna get you out don't say such things", his eyes were watering.
"Fen, don't waste your life, spend your time with Pokemon you love, my family is dead, Im going to visit my family", he started dosing off into space, he was gone.
Fennekin hugged his body and slowly put the mask back on and walked on by.
When Fennekin was outside thousands of Marowak he saw, standing on nearby cliffs.
Perfectly stationed they threw their bones at the Iron suit, he responded with a 'Flamethower', as he severely burned several Marowak he kept walking seeing his equipment brand 'Flame Industries' that contained parts of his Jerrico, he decided to take it down with his firepower, it exploded sending a few Marowak in the air onto the sandy ground. He tried out his equipped jetpacks, and started to fly out at a fast rate, he could barely speak even if he wanted to, his feet at his sides, the suit was leaning a bit, he couldn't control her landing properly causing him to land harshly in the sand. Ten minutes later he got out of his suit. He walked out in the sandy plain, away from the suit that now got covered quickly by the sand, a few minutes of walking later, he started sweating and losing the feeling in his legs and he tumbled into the sand, his stomach felt weak, and was about to give up, after half an hour he got back up, taking on the intense heat and blinding winds, feeling the nausea in him he fell on his side, breathing heavily, his body twitching from the pain, he could hear a distant humming.