Geo runs over to Poliwag and picks him up. Tears roam from his eyes as he believes that he couldn't protect anyone. Poliwag laid in his arms unable to move due to the amount of damage he took.
"Poliwag," cries Geo as he holds him,"I'm so sorry! Please forgive me!"
Faith walks over to him and puts her hand on his back before she says," It'll be ok. You protected Poliwag with every ounce of strength you had. Poliwag is safe now."
Geo starts to hold Poliwag closer to his body.
Lorelei walks over to Geo.
"It's OK. Poliwag will be fine. He's just hurt."
Sura and Jake arrive and run over to Geo.
"Geo!" yells Sura as she hugs him.
Jake looks at Geo.
"What happened?" he asks before seeing Geo's tears.
Faith steps back and let's Sura take over.
"Poliwag was hurt. Badly." says Lorelei as she walks over to the two pokèballs the at were stolen.
She hands them to Jake before she started to walk off.
"Come by my condo. We all need to talk. You've all gotten yourselves in something that will hurt you in the end."
Jake looks at her before turning back to Geo.
Sura gives a brief smile before letting Geo go.
"Geo. We need to get Poliwag to the Pokèmon center. He's hurt." she says to him.
Geo pulls out Poliwags pokèball and returns him to the small orb.
Geo remains silent as he starts to walk towards the center.
Faith walks next to Jake, now shy about the strangers she's with. She no longer sees Jake as a stranger due to her battling him and her asking him for the candy he had.
"Jake. Maybe candy would help him." she says in a whisper.
Jake looks at her.
"I dropped the bag when we ran to the explosion. I don't have any." he whispers.
Upon arriving at the Pokèmon center, Geo and his friends see a huge dome like building with a pokèball symbol on the roof. Several windows surrounded the two story building.
Upon entry the see medium sized room in the center that had five smaller rooms connected around it. The rooms to the back left, front right, and front left were rest areas for trainers and other people. They had several chairs and flat-screen TVs mounted on the wall. The set up was similar to that of a luxurious living room. To the back right was a room that had a sign that read cafeteria. It was closed off by a white door. In the central back was a room that lead to stairs. Along the wall were green and silver holophones and several PCs for transferring Pokèmon and updating Pokèdexs. In the center of the medium sized room were three nurse stations complete with three brown hardwood counters and three Pokèmon quick healing machines. Only one nurse Joy that was at her station. The others were out helping the people and Pokèmon that were near the explosion.
Geo walked over to nurse Joy and handed her Poliwags pokèball.
Jake and the others walked over to the front rest area and sat down in the chairs.
"Do you think he will be ok?" worried Sura as she gripped her skirt.
Faith smiles at her before saying," Yep! He'll be fine."
Faith pulls out her Pokèdex and scans Sura.
"Scanning. Scanning. Trainer found. Sura Kyokawa. Age 12. Number of gym badges are zero. Number of Pokèmon are two. Number of wins are four." says the robotic British male voice of Faiths Pokèdex.
Sura blushes and looks at Faith.
"Don't do that!"
Faith puts away her Pokèdex.
"Sorry."
Sura looks at Faith and says,"I don't mean to be rude but who are you?"
Faith starts to blush as she's not used to introducing herself outside of battles.
"I'm. Um." she stalls.
"Her name is Faith Rosily. She's a Pokèmon trainer from. Um. Where are you from?" asks Jake.
Faith looks down at the floor.
"I'm from nowhere."
Jake questions,"Nowhere?"
"I don't like to think of it. Alot of things happened before I got here. I don't like to talk about it." she said in a low sad tone.
Sura smiled at Faith before saying,"I'm Sura Kyokawa. I guess you already knew that," she provides a brief giggle," I'm from Viridian City so this is my home. I want to become a Pokèmon master one day."
Faith smiles and reaches out to shake Sura's hand.
As they both shake hands, Geo walks over to them.
"Is Poliwag ok?" asks Sura as she jumps up.
"Yeah. He's fully healed." answers Geo.
Sura's watch rings and produces a "Gotta catch em all" ring tone.
She looks at before pushing a bottom on the holographic purple screen it's emitting.
"Hello?" she answers.
"Sura. It's your mom. I'm checking to see if that boy managed to get his Poliwag healed." she says.
"He did mom. Poliwag is ok."
"Good. I told the green haired boy to tell you to come to the house with your friends."
Sura looked at Jake.
"He didn't tell me that. We're on our way." she said.
"Hurry. You four are in danger. You have no idea what you've gotten into." says Lorelei before she ends the call.
Sura turns to them.
"We should go." she says.
Everyone agrees before they all leave the Pokèmon center.
Upon arriving at the condo, they all walk into room 025.
They look around to see a white tiled room with white marble counter tops that separated the kitchen and dining room from the living room. The kitchen had several marble counters and a white refrigerator. It had a white four burner stove and white chairs next to the counters. The dining room housed a white long table that could seat ten people at it. The living room had white soft carpets and three couches with a 62 inch plasma screen TV on the wall next to several windows that gave a glorious view of the city.
Geo, Jake, and Faith looked at Sura.
"You live here?" they asked.
"Yes."
They all walked over to the couch that Sura's mom was sitting at.
"Glad you all came. I'm Lorelei. I'm the gym leader of the Viridian City gym. We have alot to talk about." she said as a cubchoo walked into the room and into her lab.
Faith pulled out her Pokèdex and scanned cubchoo.
"Scanning. Pokèmon found. Cubchoo the chill Pokèmon. Type. Ice. It's nose is always running. It sniffs the snot back up because the mucus provides the raw material it needs for its moves." says the Pokèdex.
Lorelei looks at Geo.
"I'm glad your Poliwag is ok. Now. There is alot going on in Kanto that you don't know about. Like the creation of Team Helix. The Rise of a secret organization that no one knows the name or location of. Even the events that could happen in the next 8 or so months. What I'm about to tell you can only be between us. No one else can know."
"Is it really that serious?" asks Jake.
"Yes. Our world is in danger. In the next few months, the world will change. You see, there's a Pokèmon who's life is about to end. It's called Yveltal." she says.
Faith gains a fearful look on her face before saying, " No. It can't be. If that Pokèmon dies. No. No!"
Geo takes out his Pokèdex.
"What's the Pokèmon Yveltal?" he asks.
"Scanning. Scanning. Data found. Yveltal the destruction Pokèmon. Type. Dark and flying. When this legendary Pokèmons life comes to an end, its wings spread wide and glow red before it absorbs the life energy of every living thing and turns into a cocoon once more." says the Pokèdex.
Geo looks shocked by the information he had just learned. Everything that's living would end. His mom. His sister. His little brother. Plus his dad.
Lorelei looks at Geo.
"I'd say don't worry but as of now we don't have a way to stop it." she says.
"Wait! What about it's counter part? Xerneas? It can give life to anything."
Lorelei looks at Faith.
"Xerneas is nowhere to be found. It might be in its tree form already. It could've also been caught by a trainer at some point."
Sura gets a little angry.
"Is this what you've been doing mom? When I asked you if you had time to play. You always said you were finding ways to strengthen your Pokèmon." asked Sura.
Lorelei looked at Sura and gave a guilty look.
"I was trying to protect you."
"No!" yells Faith," You were lying! You lied to your own daughter. How could you?"
Lorelei tried to brush off her guilt. She knew that lying to her daughter was a mistake.
"That's beside the point." she says.
"Do you have any way to save everyone?" asked Geo.
"No. We can save a select amount of people but not everyone. Ash Ketchum is trying to find a way to save everyone. The last time I heard, he was in the Sinnoh region talking with Professor Rowan about a Pokèmon that could save us. I'm sure your friend knows alot about Ash as well." she says.
Faith blushes as she thinks about Ash. To her, he was a dream. He was everything she ever wanted. He was brave, strong, clever, he cared for people, and he loved Pokèmon. He was the greatest thing to happen to earth Since the Pokèmon champion AC was born.
"Oh. Um. Yeah. Well. Um. He's very." she said shyly before she squealed.
"What were you saying about Team Helix? What do they have to do with this?" asked Jake.
"Team Helix is an organization that first appeared four years ago. There main goal is to use the power of a machine to control Arceus. Using it's powers they can make a whole new reality by destroying the one we all live in as well as all of us in the process. They claim that it'll save us all from Yveltal. They're right. It will save us. It'll also destroy us. They haven't made any strong moves yet. I'm guessing they don't have all that they need to pull it off. Hopefully the legends about Arceus aren't true."
Geo looks at her confused.
"The legends?" he asks.
"They say that Arceus was born before the universe exsisted and shaped everything." says Faith.
"Yes. Now that you've all interfered with Team Helix. They will come after you. You have three choices. Turn around and run home and forget about them and traveling. Stay here in Viridian City with me and Sura. On the other hand you can travel and face Team Helix without my protection. If you do, you could loose your lives." says Lorelei.
Geo, Jake, and Faith turn to eachother.
Geo wants to head back home. He knows that he's in over his head and I'd he keeps going, Poliwag could get hurt again.
Jake knows that he's come to far. After his lose in Johto, he wants to help others. There's still that doubt in the back of his mind that screams at him and blames him for what happened that day.
Faith knows that going back home is not an option for her. After what she did. She can't go back. Even if she could, she wouldn't because she had something to prove. But staying with Sura didn't seem so bad. She'd have everything and no one to control her.
Sura looked at them. She knew that she had to stay with her mom. In the short time she was traveling with Geo and Jake, she had grown fond of them for some reason. Her dream could be fulfilled. She was scared. Even if her dream could come true, she doubted it would. After all, in her eyes she was weaker than them.
"What will it be?" asked Lorelei.
Jake turned to her before saying," I'm going to travel and become a Pokèmon master!"
Geo pulls out Poliwags pokèball. He worries about the pain Poliwag could be in if he's not strong enough. His hand starts to grip the orb. What is Poliwag gets hurt? What if I can't protect him or anyone? Maybe I should go back home.
Before Geo could say anything, Poliwag emerges from his pokèball and stares at Geo.
"Poli! Poli! Poliwag!" yells Poliwag as he appears angry that Geo is giving up.
Geo looks at Poliwag and starts to smile. He thinks about what his father would've done and he remembers when Jake told him to live for his father.
"I'm gonna be the stroneat Pokèmon trainer to ever exist! I'll even be stronger than Ash! I won't give up. I'll get stronger with Poliwag and we'll protect everyone! You'll see!" declares Geo.
Poliwag cheers and shoots a small soft blast of water at Geo that soaks his face and hair.
"Poliwag!" laughs Geo as he picks Poliwag up.
"Well you did need to cool off." laughs Jake before Poliwag sprays him with a soft stream of water.
Jake starts to laugh.
Faith smiles as she imagines traveling with them. She was tired of traveling alone. She saw that they were friendly towards her and could be her friends.
"Um. Can. Can I. Can I join you two? With traveling? I don't want to be a both or anyth."
Poliwag sprays Faith with a small stream of water.
"There's your answer! Yeah you can join us. You helped Poliwag and me so you're my friend!" says Geo.
Faith smiles shyly.
"OK," says Lorelei as she stands up," I wish you all good luck on your."
"Mother!" yells Sura," I want to travel with them! They're my friends and I can get stronger if I go with them. Please! Let me go."
Lorelei smiles. This was the day her daughter became stronger. She knew that she was right. Lorelei was so proud of her little girl.
"OK. You can go. Just don't get into too much trouble. Also call me every now and then."
Sura smiled and hugs her mom before she runs into her room.
When she comes out, she's wearing a pink and purple striped shirt with dark blue skirt that has white lines on the bottom. She still dawns her black cat purse with white socks that end at the area between her knee and shoes. Her shoes are still the same.
"I'm ready to go." she says before they all walk out the door.
"Yeah!" says Geo as he smiles and throws his fist in the air creating an air punch," Next stop is Pewter city! That's where I'll get my first badge!"
Faith smiles.
"All we have to do is go through Viridian forest."
Jake smiles.
"Yeah. I can catch some new Pokèmon there."
Sura looks at Geo and gives a slight blush. She thinks to herself. Thank you Geo for letting me travel with you. Although I still may not be strong, I'll be stronger for you and my friends. When the people that are after me do catch up to me, I know that you all will help me defeat them. Until that day. I will train with my friends and my Pokèmon.
They wall continue to walk towards the end of the city.