The woman stood frozen in horror as Jackson took a step back and glanced at his scyther
"Slash" he commanded. Before the woman could even react, the scyther was on top of the counter looming over her as she shook, it raised its arm and in one swift motion the woman was on the ground bleeding profusely from the neck. Jackson walked around the counter and stepped over the woman's lifeless body, he looked down and lifted his foot from the pool of blood. Returning his foot to the ground, he scoffed at the dead woman and examined the computer. All residing pokémon were active, Jackson scrolled through the list as the rest of the Vortex group entered the care center. Seeing the events unfold through the security cameras, Sarah immediately left her chair to go to her brother. She could hear screaming and yelling as Vortex swept through the building, silencing the employees one way or another. Because of the dome's immense size, Sarah began to panic as she shouted her brother's name. He was nowhere to be found, other employees ran in the opposite direction in an effort to escape or attempt to fight off the advancing assault. Some pokémon, drawn by the commotion, began to follow the employees into the front building. Those too large to fit through the doors stood and waited outside. Sarah continued to frantically search for her brother, she then noticed a familiar voice and turned to face it. Jacob was standing in the plains area trying to calm panicking pokémon, Sarah called out to him.
"Jacob, I've been looking all over for you!" she shouted, his head shot up
"Sarah? What's happening?"
"It's Vortex, they're here, they're hurting people" Jacob's expression darkened
"What are we going to do?"
"We need to get out of here before we get killed"
"But what about the pokémon?"
"I don't know brother, but my priority is keeping you safe" Sarah ran to Jacob and grabbed his hand, the only way out was through the building, they began to run towards the entrance. As they neared it, the defending pokémon were blown back by a large fiery explosion. The serperior who had been closest to the door caught fire, it wriggled on the ground as its flesh burn. Out through the fire and smoke walked a massive mega charizard. Its dark, scorched orange scales were covered in numerous large scars.
"Those aren't from battle" Jacob began, his sister was still on the ground from the shockwave of the explosion; she was too stunned to get back up. Jacob scanned the charizard as it loomed over the still-struggling serperior. He noticed a glow coming from within the beast's chest, something had been embedded inside of it. Before the serperior could recover, the charizard opened its mouth again letting molten flame drip from its teeth and a voice could be heard from behind the smoke.
"Flamethrower" Jackson calmly announced, the charizard arched its head back and then blew a steady stream of intense fire upon the serperior. It screamed for a few moments before falling silent, Jackson emerged from the smoke. Sarah stumbled to her feet, her brother grabbed her by the arm and drug her by a tree. Jackson noticed the movement and began to walk forward, there was a rumbling sound, he froze in place. His gaze shifted to the nearby pond where a greninja sat unphased by the events occurring around it. Its eyes sat trained on Jackson, but then changed to look at the mega charizard standing behind the admin. Fire, ice, electricity, and energy of all sorts flew around while Vortex fought against the unwilling pokémon. Jacob and Sarah had a difficult time telling which were friendly and which were not. The greninja and charizard continued to lock eyes, a mexican standoff between the two opposing creatures. Suddenly, the greninja leaped forward and flung two water shurikens towards the charizard. Taking the charizard by surprise, both landed direct hits causing it to roar in pain. Jackson remained where he was and eyed the greninja who had just landed on the ground.
"Fly" he said briefly before watching the charizard take off, the greninja began to throw water attacks towards the charizard, but all missed. As it descended, the charizard built up more and more speed, flying directly towards the greninja patiently sitting on the ground. Moments before impact, the greninja lowered its body and sprayed a jetstream of intense steam into the face of the charizard. Stunned by this sudden attack, the charizard smashed into the ground behind the greninja. Satisfied, it hopped away to defend against other assailants. Jackson shook his head in disdain and recalled the charizard back into its pokéball. Not forgetting about movement, he turned his attention back to the trees that Jacob and Sarah hid behind. He turned to his scyther who was still standing by his side. Jackson nodded towards the tree, his scyther walked towards it and stood on the opposite side staring directly into the wood. On the other side of the tree stood Sarah with her back to it, she slowed her breathing. Jacob eyed her from the adjacent tree, he shook his head at her, she stared in horror at her brother. The scyther crouched down and raised its arms, with a swift swipe of each, it severed the base of the tree, catching Sarah's ankles in the process. Sarah screamed in pain and startlement, the tree knocked her to the ground and pinned her legs down. The scyther stood over her as she struggled, she realized there wasn't any escape.
"Sarah! No!" Her brother yelled, she looked over at him
"Go! Now! Leave, get out, run" She yelled, the scyther ignored Jacob's presence and continued to loom over the trapped girl. Jacob began to run towards the fallen tree, ignoring the danger. The scyther's stance changed to an offensive one as it readied itself to strike, the moment Jacob came within range it lunged. Right before the blade could strike Jacob however, a field of blue light appeared in front of him and deflected the blow. Jacob slipped and fell to the ground, out of nowhere a gallade materialized in front of him. He grabbed Jacob and began to run away from the scyther, Jacob yelled to be let down but the gallade ignored him. From his view over the shoulder of the pokémon, Jacob watched in terror as the scyther kicked the log off of his sister. She struggled to get up, weak from the cuts on her ankle. Dazed by the loss of blood, she stumbled towards the scyther. It caught her by running its right sword arm through her abdomen.
"NO!" Jacob yelled, he squirmed and the gallade stopped. He dropped Jacob to the ground and stared at him intensely. The eyes of the pokémon glowed a bright purple, Jacob fell unconscious. Sarah's mouth hung open as the scyther stood with its blade through her torso, blood trickled from the corners of her mouth. It lowered her to the ground and pushed her off its blade using the other one, her body flopped like a ragdoll onto the dirt. The scyther turned back to Jackson. After a short amount of time, Jacob awoke from his spell. A flurry of emotions swirled in his head, but he was unable to react. Muffled explosions rang around, as he gained his vision and hearing back, he noticed the gallade standing over him. Next to the gallade was a gardevoir, both had concerned looks on their faces. They had brought him to the opposite side of the dome, Jacob was confused
"What? Where? Sarah?" He began to panic, the gardevoir kneeled down to calm him. Jacob began to cry, his sister was dead. The two pokémon looked at each other and looked back down at Jacob as he sobbed on the ground. The gardevoir walked over to the bushes nearby and picked up a large bundle of sticks, leaves and grass. Jacob quieted as he recognized the nest he had built earlier that day. The gardevoir unwrapped the egg that was inside, the pokémon stared at eachother again. "Are you the parents?" Jacob asked. The gardevoir kneeled again and placed the egg in Jacob's hands he looked back up in confusion. The gallade then helped Jacob up and lifted him by the shirt. Jacob turned his head to the wall behind him, there was a hole in it; he wondered if it was the work of the pokémon he was with or if it was the result of a stray attack. The gallade pushed him through the hole and threw him to the ground. He gripped the egg as he fell to the grass outside of the dome. Suddenly, he set the egg down and jumped back up, running back towards the hole he started yelling again. The gallade took notice to this and shot a bolt of psychic energy to the dome section above. The last thing he witnessed before the rubble covered the hole was the gardevoir being tackled by a zoroark. Jacob screamed some more while pounding on the thick walls of the dome. He knew he couldn't go around, or he'd be killed instantly, he turned back to the egg resting softly in on the ground. Jacob lifted the egg into his arms again and examined its shell. His examination was interrupted by an explosion at the top of the dome, he began to run away from it to get a view of what was up there. He turned his head to look as he ran, once he had gotten far enough away he noticed the mega charizard was awake again. It was also ascending straight up at a rapid speed. Jacob stopped and watched as the pokémon reached its peak, about a hundred meters above the top of the dome itself, it spread out its wings and began to freefall. While falling its wings lit up in flame and the charizard began to spin extremely fast. It entered the dome again and after a few seconds there was another large explosion. The dome began to collapse in on itself, Jacob started to run again as fast as he could. Ignoring the destruction behind him, Jacob began to run to the only place in mind: home. He gripped the egg as tight as he could as to not drop it, and made way towards his house. After arriving, he dropped to his knees at the door and sobbed again, his sister had the keys. Jacob continued to cry in front of his locked door for what felt like forever. Eventually he felt the desire to be inside, and so he smashed a window and set the egg on a table within reach. He froze for a moment again, the reality of what had happened was still setting in. After snapping out of it, Jacob climbed through the window and lifted the egg again. He couldn't bear to go into his sister's room, and quickly walked past it. Unsure of what to do with the egg, he set it in the pile of clean laundry he never sorted and then collapsed in bed. Unable to sleep, Jacob continued to lie face down in bed. Hours passed before he was stirred by a strange noise coming from the egg. He slowly got up, staring at it from the other side of the room, the egg was shaking. Understanding what was happening, Jacob shot up and went over to the egg. It shook more as small cracks began to form. The egg was hatching, Jacob quickly ran to the bathroom to grab a towel. Returning to the still-hatching egg, he cradled it in the towel. As the shell began to break away, a light shined through the cracks and holes. Finally the egg broke to pieces, The boy stared in awe at the creature inside.