CHAPTER 3

Flying on the updraft from the sea, Wingull glided across the night sky freely. In his beak, he carried a green stone he found floating in a puddle not too far from where the meteor crashed. He was not sure what the stone was, or its purpose, but it was shiny and he took it anyway.

"I wonder what it does..." Wingull asked himself. He was certain nothing would come of this stone...yet he felt something strange from it. Perhaps he should have left it alone... Too late for that now.

Wingull floated down onto his nest, perched upon the sea cliff overlooking a beautiful view of the stars. He was not looking upward, though. He was looking groundward, at the green stone he just spat out. He did not know what to expect from this strangely growing rock, but he liked to look at it. It was very shiny...

"Wingull!" suddenly came two voices simultaneously.

He turned to see Plusle and Minun advancing towards him together. Taking a few scraps from the nest, he placed them on top of the green stone so he could hide it from them. He didn't want them to take it from him.

"Whacha doing?" Plusle asked. She was the red one.

"Did you see the big green thing that came crashing down?" came Minun. He was the blue one.

"What do you think it was?" Wingull asked. He pushed the rock away with his foot.

"Dunno. We're gonna see! Coming?"

Wingull thought quickly. If he came along, it would remove any suspicion they might gain of him but it would leave the green stone unprotected from any thieves. If he decided to stay, they might ask him why and that might lead into them finding the stone he just found... Between these two choices, Wingull decided it best to come along but said he would catch up with them in a bit. He watched them walk away a certain distance before taking his hard-earned stone and digging it deeper into the ground. No one would find it now! He flew away from his nest and followed the cheery Pokémon to wherever they were taking him.

"Shouldn't be too far now!" Minun said aloud. He sounded a bit more excited than he should be. After all, none of the Pokémon on the island know what it is that crash-landed on their island.

Croagunk was on his way there as well. He was traveling alone, walking with a strange gait when he suddenly saw the three Pokémon traveling together. An odd group, he thought. He smiled anyway and walked to them.

"Hey," he said in a croaking voice. "Where ya going?"

"We're going to see the green rock," Plusle told him. "You wanna come along?"

Croagunk looked at them. "That strange thing in the ground? Nah, I'll pass."

"Okay then," Minun said. They were to go on their merry way...

"You should stay away from that rock. I'm getting a bad vibe from that thing."

They all turned to meet Croagunk's eyes, meeting them with his own uncertain eyes.

Fear would come much later...

"What do you mean?" Wingull asked.

Before they could get their answer from the toxic mouth Pokémon, a huge explosion rocked the foundation of the island. A large, dome-like green light shone as bright as it could in the far distance, and the four of them began to see the other Pokémon running, fleeing, from the green. They merely stood there, stuck in shock and horror, not moving from the spot while a Rattata had to be held back because he wanted to fight. Sure, he did not know who it was but he still felt a need to defend his home.

"Let me get 'em! Let me get 'em!" he shouted.

Patrat held him back. "We gotta get out of here!"

At last, after more struggling, Rattata agreed and followed Patrat far from the green light. Oddish was also seen running as fast as she could from the green light. She stopped in front of the four, a bead of sweat falling down her head.

"You hafta get out of here!" she squealed.

"What happened?" Minun asked.

"You know that green rock that came down, right? Chimchar tried touching it, and then it went berserk! Everyone started running; I don't know if Chimchar got away..."

Plusle came up with an instant plan. "We have to go and help! He may need us!"

"Or maybe he escaped with the rest of them," Croagunk suggested. "No use risking our necks if he got away safely."

"But what if he didn't?" argued Plusle. "He could still be out there, vulnerable and in need!"

More Pokémon were fleeing the scene, although some (like Rattata) tried to destroy the green rock and splinter it into a thousand shards. It did not go as planned. So the stampede commenced while the five were trapped in deciding whether or not they should look for Chimchar. As Croagunk said, there was much risk in taking that option. They still did not know what it was taking its home on their island...or what would come out of it, making the risk even bigger. The other Pokémon agreed, for in this situation, it was about one thing and one thing only: survival.

Chimchar would have to get left behind. They had no choice.

"Come on," Croagunk grabbed Plusle and Minun and ran along with the other Pokémon, against their protests. Deerling was fleeing the scene alongside them. Oddish jumped onto Wingull's offering back and they followed them and the other bird Pokémon to a safer location. Spearow and Pidgey were bickering but also following the horde.

The sound of so many Pokémon running away sounded like thunder if someone were watching from above, all running together in one direction. However, a pair of blue eyes were watching them, high into the clouds. Far from reach and sight. It blinked innocently and then flew off.

Meanwhile, back at ground zero...

The green rock cracked open slowly, as if it were a shell, or perhaps an egg. And from that opening came a bizarre creature with large red eyes, which it used to search its surroundings. It did not say anything, and it did not need too, quite frankly. It knew exactly who it was and what it was meant to do. It felt no remorse for what it will do in the dark future ahead, most likely it did not care. Destruction and mayhem were its only way of life; they were created for no other reason besides those, and it would do anything to complete it, along with the legion that followed this alien.

Its red eyes opened, as did thousands of others.

"Mission activated."

And to think, this could have all been avoided, had they listened to Absol.

The first three chapters all happen within the same time, in case you were confused in anyway. Thank you.