Chapter 4: UB Nihilego Part 1
Of what I have written, this story is over 30000 words, and considering I don't really feel I am half way through yet (I have the story plot and it mostly mapped) I am going to estimate the story will end up at around 60000 words, which is pretty good.
Also, I have only one more new story in the waiting before I stop writing. I will never abandon these stories, with the exception of the Hp/LM/HBN crossover, but I have already said it is up for adoption. These other ones plus one more will be my last multi chaps though. Even though I have not been part of Fanfiction long, it has been great, and I am sad to leave. I am not sure what to do about my four badgers though. I my finish the series, or I may leave that to someone else. I may write more oneshots though.
Sorry, but that was all important though. On with the story.
The next day, the members of the International Police Force on Akala Island all had an early morning. Not many were happy about it.
In the early hours of the morning, the base had received an urgent distress signal from Poni and Ula' Ula Islands. As soon as Saniel had listened to it, he sent out an urgent call to all the members, telling them to come to the base as soon as possible.
"Why have we been woken up so early?" Orlanda asked when everyone was there, brushing back her puffy white hair that looked like a cake. She yawned straight after asking her question, while everyone else in the room nodded to agree. Most looked dreadful and as if they had been dragged from their coffins. A couple were leaning on walls to stay upright or having Pokémon spray water into the face. The ones seated looked as though they were going to fall asleep, and get bad backs.
"The Captain and Kahuna on Poni Island need our help, as do the Captains and Kahuna on Ula' Ula Island: UBs, they are on both those islands. You stronger and or more senior members, you will go to Poni Island, as there are five of the UB Gazzlord on that island, along with a few others: but Gazzlord is easily the baddest, so we need the strongest team to assault them. As for the rest of you, will go to Ula' Ula Island. There are UBs all across the islands, but they are easier to overpower, and we already have members from Over the Blue there. Be aware, you must be in pairs: it is safer with the much stronger than average Pokémon alien creatures around," Saniel said, giving the order out, and reminding them of safety. Everyone paled as he spoke.
"What about Noël?" Epona asked, wondering what they were going to do with her, or who was staying.
"Anabel will look after her. Sabrina, you will stay here, too, unless you are called. Now, hurry and grab what you need, and a piece of toast or something. We have to leave as soon as possible, so hurry!" Saniel cried, expressing how urgent they get going was.
Anabel was surprised, and a little hurt by being told to stay. She didn't have a problem with it per say, just she felt it was an insult to her ability. She angrily clenched her fists, but quickly released them and bit her tongue knowing this was petty, and this kind of things was mentioned in the work contract.
As soon as Saniel finished speaking, everyone charged off to get ready to go. Anabel, even though she was not going, did her best to help everyone else. She filled bags with Beast Balls and other useful items that might be needed, she grabbed other things (this and that) that might be needed, too. She even helped Sabrina with cooking the toast! For a good half hour, everything went by in a blur. Anabel was not sure what she was doing: she felt like a robot.
When everyone finally left, Anabel collapsed into a chair, and finally had the time to process everything and work out what happened. Because she was just doing what she was told; Anabel didn't think about it, and because of the urgency to go, she had to rush. Before now, Anabel hadn't had the time to think.
"Anabel dear, would you like some breakfast?" Sabrina asked, coming over to Anabel.
"No; I might go and have a nap: it's not long until breakfast, so Noël will awaken soon. You don't might terribly, do you?" Anabel asked Sabrina. Anabel was slowly beginning to realise how tired she was.
"That's fine! I had enough sleep to get me through. I will come to wake you if you're not awake by normal breakfast time: how does that sound?" Sabrina suggested. Then she said, "And don't worry about the door; it's before normal hours, so if someone does need us, I'll know from up here."
"Thank you, that would be great," said Anabel gratefully. Sabrina was a lifesaver!
Anabel then begrudgingly got out of her chair and went up to the top floor to lie on one of the beds up there. Most of the beds for being who needed protection orders placed on a family member, but as Alola was pretty peaceful, so they were all empty except for the one Noël was sleeping in.
It was not common for people to live inside the building as far as members went: mostly because of the low budget that they had to build the building, and the number of beds they needed for people in danger, they just didn't have enough money to build many other rooms. There were only three, and they were taken up by Saniel, Sabrina and Tittle: Saniel being the leader, Sabrina being the head cook, and Tittle being their Inhouse Nurse Joy and human doctor. Four now with Noël here, for now.
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Noël had been awoken by all the noise downstairs, but after eavesdropping on what was happening and seeing what time it was, she decided to try and go back to sleep. Everyone was sounding hurried and stressed, so she decided to keep out of trouble in bed. Another factor being, Rosa was still sound asleep, and Noël didn't want it to disturb the peace because it was woken up early.
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Noël did manage to get back to sleep, but she was woken up by someone coming up their stairs and opening the door to one of the nearby rooms. However, Noël still felt pretty tired, so she went back to sleep.
Despite all the disturbances, Noël still woke up at the normal time, and she didn't feel too tired, which was good. But, because of the wasted minutes trying to get back to sleep, or listening to wait was happening, Noël did feel a tiny baby bit laggy, but other than that, she was fine and ready for the day.
After getting dressed into her white flowery dress and the matching items, Rosa had awoken. It cheerfully greeted Noël with a, "Pew!"
Noël smiled and had a little giggle before returning Rosa to the Poké Carrier. Then, without another glance around, Noël left the room. As she started making her way through the building, she met Sabrina.
Sabrina was knocking on a door to a room nearby Noël's, while saying, "Anabel, time to wake up." She turned to Noël and said, smiling kindly, "Noël; how are you?"
"Good, thanks. You?" Noël wrote quite quickly.
"Good, very good. I'm good, thank you. Huh?" Sabrina said, then she pressed her ear to the door. After a few seconds, Noël assumed she must have heard something, because then Sabrina said, "Okay, see you soon. Come on, Noël; I'll take you down to the kitchens."
"Thanks!" Noël wrote, nodding. Sabrina turned and walked towards the Meal's Room, and the Kitchens. Noël quickly followed with fear of getting left behind. She had a vague idea of how to get to the front door from the Meal's Room but passed that, Noël had no idea.
When they reached the Meal's Room, Sabrina said to Noël, "Now, just hold on and I'll bring the food out! What kind of Pokémon food did Rosa like? I only want to get the food we need out, and I know about Anabel's and my own."
"The Psychic type food," Noël replied.
"Okay, same as the psychic types. Wait right there, food is on its way!" Sabrina said, rushing into the Kitchen. As Noël waited, she reflected on Sabrina: this was the first time she had really gotten to get to understand Sabrina. Sabrina could seem a bit distant and cold, but really, she was more the motherly, jolly and fun type.
After a couple of minutes of being in the Kitchen, Sabrina brought deep, steel dishes with the food inside out, and placed them in the Food Warmer. This took her four trips, then she had to do one more for Pokémon food. Noël noted there was less food than normal, then again, there were fewer people. Just as Sabrina finished bringing the food out, Anabel came in.
"Hi, Noël," Anabel greeted. When Sabrina re-entered the room, Anabel said, "Hi, Sabrina: and thanks again."
"No problem, Anabel. You have quite a good nose for when food's ready though: just finished bringing it out! Come on then, let's serve this food up!" Sabrina said, taking off her apron and starting to help herself to the food. When she finished serving herself some food, she got five bowls out and used three types of Pokémon food to fill them up.
Anabel quickly followed suit; though she had six bowls and a couple of other types of food. She and Sabrina took their food over to a four-person table, put their food on the table and the Pokémon food on the ground, then they sent their Pokémon out! Sabrina had a: Tropius, a Venusaur, a Victorybell, a Lilligant and a Servine. Sabrina nicely told Noël all the names of her Pokémon.
Anabel sent out an Espeon, Alakazam, Metagross, Starmie, Bruxish and Delphox. Noël saw Anabel liked Psychic Pokémon, but she wanted to keep a large type variety. The three sat down for breakfast.
"I wonder what type Rosa is?" Sabrina said, looking at Rosa.
"I don't know, but it's actually called Cosmog," Noël wrote.
"Cosmog?" Sabrina questioned, while Anabel said, nodding, "Ah yes, Saniel did mention that last night."
"Oh? Did he? I don't remember it," Sabrina said, raising an eyebrow.
"You had stepped out for the loo," Anabel said, smiling.
"Oh, okay. Considering it likes psychic food, there's a good chance it's Psychic then," Sabrina said, and Anabel nodded.
"Now, Noël: to make things easier for you, Saniel has decided to get in a psychic from the Unova region to teach you to communicate via telepathy," Anabel said.
"Do you think I'm psychic?" Noël wrote down, looking excited as Anabel read it.
"Well, people believe we are all psychic, just most choose not to use it: I have no idea if it's true, but that is what the psychics say. The lady will come in a week or so, and she is a member of the Elite Four: her name is Caitlin," Sabrina said.
When they finished breakfast, A loud groaning sound went through the building. "What is that?" Noël asked via paper.
"A call has come through!" Anabel said, running to the TV room. Noël and Sabrina rushed after her.
As they reached the TV room, Anabel ran at a seat and sat down as she pressed the answer button. As Noël and Sabrina got there, Rosalina appeared on the screen.
"Rosalina, what a pleasant surprise," Anabel said, sounding very surprised.
"It's horrible! Anabel, you've got to get to Po Town! Nihilego has been seen there! We don't have enough manpower to fully cover the area and protect the villages! You've got to go! Rowena is on her way with a helicopter! You've got to go! Take Noël if you must!" Rosalina said panicked and distressed.
"But!" Anabel started, but Rosalina said, "NO! please!"
"Oh, alright. How long will Rowena be?" Anabel asked.
"Ten minutes at most. Thank you! Do you need me to send someone over to guard base?" Rosalina asked. She was looking relieved.
"No, it's fine, Sabrina is here," Anabel said.
"Hi," Rosalina said, seeing Noël and Sabrina.
Noël and Sabrina both waved, then they said goodbye and Anabel cancelled the call. "Well, that's a day changer," Anabel said.
"Yes, it is," Noël wrote.
"Ring, ring!" Something rang.
"Oh, that's my phone!" Sabrina said after a minute, flushing embarrassedly. She walked off to take it.
"Well, it looks like you'll be in Sabrina's care. She's good; be good for her, though," Anabel said, turning her seat to face Noël.
Sabrina came in looking pale. "My mum, she's very sick: they think she's going to die," Sabrina said sounding terribly upset. She sat down glumly.
"Well, you better go and see her," Anabel said, getting up.
"I can't! What about Noël and the base?" Sabrina protested.
"Oh, that will be fine, I'll send another call through to Rosalina asking if she can have someone man the base after all, and Noël can come with me. In the event someone needs us that urgently, they will be able to wait," Anabel said.
"But, that could be dangerous!" Sabrina argued.
"Rowena will be with us," Anabel said. Then she said, pushing Sabrina to the door, "Now, off with you! we will be fine!"
"Alright," Sabrina begrudgingly agreed.
Then the commotion started, with Anabel quickly putting a call back to Rosalina. Sabrina quickly grabbed a few things and her Pokémon, then she left. Anabel then grabbed her Pokémon while Noël made a pack lunch after getting Rosa. Then Anabel filled four bags full of Beast Balls.
Then, Anabel said, starting to sound stressed, "Come on, let's wait for the Helicopter outside."
Noël nodded and followed Anabel out. When they left the building, Anabel locked up. They waited at the bottom of the steps for a little while. When they heard the sound of a helicopter going overhead, Anabel lead Noël down to the beach to meet the helicopter.
more action in the next chapter. For the record, I have decided I dislike Serena. She is alright, but her interests are a bit boring, and she's boring. She only has three Pokémon, too.
Is there any thing else for me to comment on? I am not sure. I am so annoyed: I wanted to find a version of the Force Awakens on the internet, and the only ones I had to agree to have the site send me Notifications! it would be alright, accept I don't know if I could turn that off, after. I am not that desperate: and some of the pictures of scene of the movie have creeped me out. But considering the prequels and original movies are all avaliable, I am sure FA will be soon.