Come, landlord, fill again my glass,
And fill again my dish.
Those things apart, a buxom lass
Is all that I could wish
-Sir Dylan Cole
My phone went off in my pocket, nearly giving me a heart attack. I looked at it and the Caller I.D. was Ruby. I opened the phone and answered.
"Hello?"
"Jack? It's me, Ruby. I-I need help"
I stood up at the table. "Where are you, I'll come get you."
"I'm near the Rustboro Tunnel, just past Rustboro City. Please hurry, Team Magma has me captured in here. They took my Pokemon, they, they…"
"What did they do Ruby?"
"They, they killed my Metagross! When you get here, I want you to kill every one of these damn Grunts, starting with the commander here. He's the piece of shit that used the psychic magnet to rip him in two."
I was grabbing my stuff while Ruby was talking, wasting no time at all. "Alright, where is the tunnel? I'll be there in an hour."
"It's a few miles north of Rustboro, you can't miss it. Hurry! They-"
I stopped. "Ruby? Ruby!" all I got back was dial tone.
"Come on Xavier, we gotta go help a friend out." I stretched my arm out and he jumped on my shoulder. I ran out the door, but not before re-locking it. I went down to the market inside the PokeCenter and bought a lot of Super Potions and a few escape ropes. I bought some new Great Balls, so in case I saw a Pokémon that would be good. We went out the door and ran north. We went by people on their way back from work, and a few people like myself. Two or three wanted to battle me, but I kept on running like it didn't hear them. Eventually I saw the edge of the city limits, and the mountain that held the tunnel, and Ruby. The outside was not without trainers and Pokémon alike, and we had to battle a lot to get anywhere. We climbed up a massive ledge, about 10 feet up, and we saw him. A shiny nincada, and it was asleep in a bunch of flowers! I told Xavier to get off, but not to make a sound. He crept around and blocked the Nincada's exit points. I crept along and got so close that I could see the scales on its legs. Gross. I lightly threw a great ball, and it sucked in the Nincada. 1 wobble, 2 wobble, 3 wobble! Caught! I grabbed the ball in amazement and awe. I had caught something that most people never even saw! I released the Nincada and this time it was awake, and looked at me with a bit of anger. But after realizing that it had been caught, it jumped on me and took Brandon's normal post. I grabbed it off my head and scanned it with my PokeDex.
Species: Nincada-Shiny variation.
Lv. 15
Gender: Male
Moves: Bug Buzz, Bug Bite, Slash, Tackle, and Fury Cutter
Hidden Moves: Locust Swarm and Spiritual Guardian (Upon evolving into a Shedninja)
Locust Swarm is a Hidden Move in which the power increases if you have more Pokemon. The move calls out all of your Pokémon and gifts them with a Bug-type move for one attack. This move is similar to Foul Play, but it is super-effective on whatever it hits.
Spiritual Guardian is a move only Shedninja can master; it can block moves that would normally affect the Shedninja, and can even attack for it. But if the Guardian takes any damage whatsoever, it will immediately wear off and the move will end.
With a brand new Pokemon, a shiny one at that, we entered the cave, adamant about saving Ruby.
…
The cave was dark, but some lanterns left behind from travelers helped illuminate the area. I picked up the first one I found and refilled it whenever I saw another burning one. We went farther in the cave, looking deeper, but we found nothing. I stopped for a minute to look around, and I felt something against the wall. I pressed the indentation, and a doorway opened in the wall
*Pause story*
-And inside the doorway was a portal to the second gym-
(we still have to save Ruby from Team Magma, and avenge his Metagross)
-which conveintly led to team magmas base with Ruby staring confused at you-
(No, bad friend!)
-I see no problem with this-
(But the plot!)
-screw your plot, mines better-
(Foop you!)
-pushes author out of chair, sits down and begins to write , author slips landmine under seat, blows up.-
(Ah, that's better. Now back to the story)
-my booty hurts…-
*Resume story*
And the door led to a hallway, which was illuminated by more of the lanterns from outside. I crept down the hallway, hearing voices and laughter down the hall. Bright light was coming from the end, and I slowly went towards the light. The hallway opened up into a massive room with supplies scattered around the perimeter. I ducked behind a box, and two men walked by me. The men wore all red and black suits, and they had a large black M in the middle of the chest. Many hallways branched off the room, only one of which was guarded by two more Magma's with 3 pokeballs apiece. The two men talking left the room, and I was alone with the two guards. I pulled Xavier and Nincada off me, and began to think of a plan.
"Alright, the room guarded must have Ruby in it, so we have to figure out a plan to get in there, undetected. Got any ideas?" I asked them both. None of us could think of anything, but we needed to think of a way to distract the guards.
…
A Magma grunt ran through a hallway, klaxons blaring, sirens going, the alarms going off about some kid who followed some grunts and is fighting them on the third floor of the base. According to the voices over the intercom, this guy isn't using Pokémon; he's just beating the shit out of the members and their Pokémon!
The grunt went through a few doors and a hallway and could hear the commotion upstairs, and it sounded like the fight was stopping, or at least slowing down. He ran up the stairs and saw a few of the commanders restraining a kid that had bloody knuckles and a wild look in his eyes. He back-kicked the commander holding him from behind, head-butted the one in front of him, and haymakered the last one, then he ran at the grunt and kicked him down.
…
Me and Xavier couldn't figure out how to distract the two guards, and Nincada wasn't much help, just clicking randomly and looking around like an idiot. I was looking around and noticed a couple of bottles on the ground, and one thing led to another, and I grabbed one of them, and threw it over to the other side of the room. The resulting crash attracted the attention of the two guards and it enabled us to sneak down the hallway that the grunts were guarding. It led to a small, thin hallway that I could barely make it through. The hallway was lit up by a mixture of torches and oil lanterns, but it looked like the hallway was very new, almost seemed like it was coated in chrome. At the end of the hallway was a steel-coated door with a large lock on the handle. It wouldn't budge at all. Without anything to tell him, Xavier leaped up and used a Force Palm to knock the door off. Apparently when a door is thick enough to stop a bullet, it is never tough enough to stop a move by a Pokémon. The 'door' opened to reveal a section of jail cells, one of which held Ruby! I ran forward and looked into his cell, and he was a mess. When I last saw Ruby, he had a close-cut shave and a nice moustache, now he has a small beard and he was very happy to see me.
"Jack! It's very good to see you, I thought you would never find me!" Ruby told me, as I was trying to open the lock.
"Xavier, use another Force Palm on the lock here, but be careful and don't hit Ruby." Xavier jumped off my arm and hit the lock with a much lighter hit and the lock snapped off, but then the door fell down into the cell with a resulting CRASH! The door shook when it hit the ground, and Ruby stepped over the wreckage and shook my hand.
"Thanks for the help Jack, now to go and fuck up the monster whom killed my Metagross." He said, a very dark tone leaking into his voice.
We headed back down the hallway, the one where I came from, and we managed to get to the room where I distracted the guards, and then an explosion happened from the other wall. A guy ran from the hole and he was being chased by a few dozen grunts and some giant rock snakes that Ruby said that are Onix. The kid ran at us and ducked behind a crate nearby. Ofcourse, mostly because of my luck, every single damn grunt turned at us and charged.
"Are you ready for some fighting Jack?" Ruby asked.
"No, nobody is ready for a battle." I replied, like the smartass I am.
"Well, to bad, time to kick ass." Ruby said, getting into a fighting position.
We both released our pokemon, me having the Nincada and Xavier, Ruby having a Dragonite, a Flygon, an Absol, a Blaziken, and a pokemon that I didn't recognize, one that I never saw. All the grunts charged us, and the kid who hid behind the crate jumped from behind and scissor-kicked a grunt. They all released their pokemon and now we had to deal with Mightyenas, Camerupts, and Crobats. The kid joined our side and we charged them. They charged us.
Ruby's pokemon acted without a command, and they attacked like it was live or die. The dragon's took to the skies, while the Absol and the Blaziken reaped the souls below. My pokemon threw in their two cents as well, with Xavier jumping on a Grunts face, using a karate chop, then jumping to the next one. Nincada, who I decided will be called Night, clawed with deadly and unnerving precision, and chopped a Mightyena's head clean off. He stabbed the carcass and shot it at a grunt, then closed his eyes. Night was a pokemon, much different from his fellow Nincada's, in the sense that he is powerful. When he was cast out from his swarm, he trained himself, body and mind. He became the most powerful Nincada in the route, and he could enter a phase where he could be more powerful then some others. Night's eyes opened and his aura shot out of his body. Long, mint green tendrils shot and whipped around him and impaled the Grunts and Pokemon around him, but he didn't move after that. Thinking he was tired, I recalled him into he pokeball. By now most of the Grunts were dead or disabled. Only a single commander remained, and he held a single pokeball. He was about to throw it, but it shattered in his hand. The kid from before was holding a 22. Caliber rifle and shot the pokeball out of his hand. The commander, seeing this, started for the door, but Ruby pulled a knife from the ground and threw it like a badass. The knife stuck itself into the guys back, and he fell down into the doorway. All three of us walked to the form of the dead commander and watched as he pulled the knife from his back and spit on his carcass.
"Fucker got too quick of a death." Is all he said. The guy he killed must have been the guy who killed his pokemon.
We walked out of the cave, and there was a assortment of police vehicles outside, ranging from helicopters to full out tanks. Some cops tensed when they saw us, but when they saw Ruby, they visibly relaxed. We headed past them and walked down to the city. We returned to the center, and Ruby thanked me for saving him, and gave me a wrapped gift. He told me to give it to the kid who helped us, but he just left. That left me and the kid in the lobby, and I still couldn't see his face, his hoodie covered it up.
"Hey, uh, thanks for the help back there." I thanked him.
"…" He didn't say a word, but instead pulled off his hood. I was astonished to see that it was;
"Zach?!"
A.N. WHAAA? That's right, the Zach from chapter 1 has made a return Motha's! So much will be covered in the next chapter, including the telling of how Zach made it here, his story, and the trip to Dewford Town. Also, the Zach in this will be the verifiable badass of the group. Peace Out. Oh, and the move that Night used was the side effect of using so many Fury Cutters, and it is cool. Also, it is NOT a hidden move, just a powerful one.