Author's note: Not much to stay, so let's continue on.
I only own Renee, Tasha and Citrus.
Part six: "Is that an Afro or a Voltorb?"
(~Outskirt Train-PKM COLOSSEUM~)
Turns out Alistair's idea worked out just fine. After healing up Wes's Pokemon at the Pokemon Centre before recalling them into their pokeballs to rest, the group, with Rui hitching a ride with Wes on his motorcycle, Alain riding on Charizard, and Mairin and Chespie once again riding on Fearow with Alistair, and made their way back to the Outskirt Stand, even though it was a bumpy ride for Rui, but she got used to it.
The five of them arrived and entered the train that was now used as a small resturant.
"Yo, Kirk!" Alistair greeted with a wave as he and the young people entered.
"Hey there, Al'." Kirk greeted back with his usual grin. "And Wes too, hi-ya. So, who are your new friends?"
"My name's Rui, sir." Rui said, smiling.
"I'm Alain." Alain greeted.
Mairin smiled beamly and added, "My name's Mairin, and this is my awesome partner, Chespie!"
"Chespin!" Chespin waved.
"Nice to meetcha's. So, what can I do for you today?"
"We were kind of wondering if you had any pokeballs." Alistair explained.
Kirk blinked, "Pokeballs? There's been no call for these things in ages...where'd I put them?" he mumbled to himself as he walked off to look in the storage. He immediately came back with a box full of pokeballs, much to the group's surprise.
"Here we are! They're a bit dusty, but they should work." Kirk said, blowing dust to the side so that the others wouldn't end up coughing up the dust or having it blown in their faces. "I'll give you some for free. How about five?"
"Thanks." Wes nodded, "I'll buy another ten, just in case."
"Thanks again, Kirk. Really appreciate it." Alistair smiled at the owner.
"Hey, after everything you went through when you were a kid, man, I'm more than happy to help ya out." Kirk laughed.
Alain found himself a bit curious on what Kirk meant on 'everything' Alistair went through when the former Pokemon Master was a child. But he decided to ask later, for they had more investigating to do. (End Outskirt Train)
(~Apprehension-KH2~)
By the time Alain, Mairin, Wes, Rui and Alistair returned to Phenac City, when they entered the entrance, their attention was grabbed by Renee, Tasha and Citrus who all rushed over to the five.
"Oh, thank Arceus! You're back!" Renee said as she panted.
"Renee? What happened?" Alistair asked, puzzled.
Before Renee could say anything, and even just as Citrus opened his mouth to say something, Tasha waved her little arms quickly, in a similiar way Mairin would, and the six year old girl said quickly, "Those mean two burglers came back with more scary men, and a funny looking grown up with a giant pokeball on his head!"
"Uh...what she said." Citrus said, before pointing out, "It was a Voltorb on his head, not a giant pokeball!"
"I still say it was a giant pokeball, 'cuz it looked like a giant pokeball!"
"It was a Voltorb on his head!"
"Giant pokeball!"
"Voltorb!"
"Giant pokeball!"
"Voltorb!"
"Hey, whoa! Calm down, kids!" Mairin stepped in and gently pushed the two children away from each other to stop the argument. "I'm pretty sure you kids were just seeing his hair, but uh, where'd he and this awful men go?"
"Renee, which way did these men go?" Alain questioned, for deep down, he was concerned. It became clear that Rui's kidnapping wasn't just a coincidence, especially if the two thugs from earlier were with more men and...someone who's hair apparently looked like a style of either a Voltorb or a giant pokeball.
"They went over to the Mayor's house." Renee replied, looking very worried. "I think the Mayor's in trouble! I already called the police, but I don't think they'll get here on time."
The group looked at each other, and, knowing that Rui and Mairin were both willing to go with, Alain, Wes and Alistair didn't stop them, before they nodded to Renee and the children, before taking off to the Mayor's house to see what was going on. Wes called out Espeon and Umbreon for battle, just in case.
Alain hoped that all was alright and the mayor was safe, but it wasn't good news that the two guys that had kidnapped Rui appeared again, with more bad guys on the loose. (End Apprehension)
As soon as the five of them reached the house, though, they skid to a stop when they heard a noise coming from inside the house...almost like...
"Is that...music?" Rui asked, incredulously.
"(And real good music too!)" said Umbreon, bobbing his head with the beat. Espeon rolled her eyes, while Chespie formed a sweatdrop, for the grass type said, "(Sounds like weird music, if you ask me.)
"It kind of sounds like from the 1970's." Mairin thought. When the others looked at her strangely at this knowlage, she shrugged and explained briefly, "My dad's a big fan of that kind of music since he was my age."
Alistair shook his head, saying, "When I was a kid, I had more fun in going on adventures than listening to the 70's icky music." cringing at the sound within the Mayor's house.
"Well, whatever that is, I certainly don't think it's a party going on." Wes said, barging into the house with Espeon and Umbreon by his side. Alain quickly followed, along with Alistair, and both Rui and Mairin quickly rushed to catch up to them. When all eight of them(if you want to include the three Pokemon), they all skid to a stop, and all stared in blank astondments at the sight before them, or rather, the tall man in the middle of five other men in the room. There was no sign of the Mayor.
Instead, there were Folly and Trudy, along with three other men stood on the side of the room-one in red, one in blue and one in green. None of them looked like members of Team Snagem, but still looked like trouble.
As for the man in the middle, who was dancing to the very loud salsa music and clearly having fun as he spun and grooved across the carpet floor, he was in a full yellow suit, wearing odd disco-styled glasses, which proved that his style of music, and fashion, was that of the 1970's. But also the fact that his height was added due to his hair...or what it was supposed to be his hair. It was a fuzzy orb that was white on one half, and red on the other.
Alistair, Alain, Wes, Rui, Mairin, Chespie and Espeon all sweatdropped at this sight, while Umbreon, the only one not noticing, was still bobbing it's head to the music.
"Uh..." Wes blinked, not sure what to say about the guy's hair. "Is that his hair, or a Voltorb on his head?"
"Kind of looks like an Electro to me." Alain thought.
"I think it's an afro, and if it is, then it's the most stupidest afro I've ever seen." Alistair thought.
"Kind looks like a giant pokeball." Rui whispered, and Mairin nodded in agreement. No wonder Tasha and Citrus argued over this guy's hair, because it was difficult to make out whether it was a pokeball, a Voltorb or even an Electro.
Just then, Folly noticed the group and shouted, "Master Miror.B! It's them! Those two are the ones who took the girl from us!" pointing at Alain and Wes after noticing the two's and Rui's reappearence, along with the new appearence of Mairin, Chespie and Alistair.
The man, apparently named Miror.B, seemed to take notice of the group's entrance and turned around and ceased dancing, assuming a straight posture as he looked at the newcomers. But before he could make a comment on Alain and Wes, Miror.B then noticed Alistair and gasped in surprise, making the former Pokemon Master blink in confusion.
"Wait a second, I know you." Miror.B thought, as though he was thinking hard.
"Uh...excuse me?" Alistair asked.
"You...you're the retired Pokemon Master from...what was it? Piller Town?"
Alistair slumped in embarrassment, correcting Miror.B, "It's Pallet Town."
"Okay, so that means you're...begins with an A..." Miror.B thought again, before exclaiming as he pointed at Alistair, blurting, "You're Alexsander!" but ended up getting the latter's name wrong too.
"I'm Alistair." Alistair slumped lower, even more embarrassed that Miror.B even got his name wrong.
"Poor Alistair." Mairin thought, feeling sorry for the Pokemon Master.
"A-Alistair? The Alistair Ketchum?" Folly shivered, now quivering in fear.
"The Pokemon Master who took on in Kanto and had defeated every other bad guys he came across with when he was ten years old?" Trudly quivered.
Miror.B shook his head, saying to the two men behind him, "You boys are aboslutely pathetic! Being beaten by two kids!" before turning back to the five travellers, "I take that you're Wes?"
"I never said my name, but yeah, I'm Wes." Wes replied uncertainly, glaring at Miror.B.
"And you...I've never heard of you before. Where did you and your little lady friend with the Chespin come from? Kalos?" Miror.B continued, glancing at Alain and Mairin who flinched a little, while Chespie tried to glare at the afro-ed man.
"What's to know?" Alain questioned supiciously.
Miror.B shrugged, laughing, "Well, I don't like to say this, but we're not in liberty to have your other lady friend to stay with all of you, for she sees things ordinary people aren't supposed to see."
The group were shocked by this. They suddenly realised that Miror.B was refering to Rui's unusual ability to see the dark aura around Pokemon that was unusual to Pokemon, and...that man from earlier before they met the Mayor...Rui saw the darkness in him as well.
"What are you going to do to Rui?" Alain demanded.
"None of your business, because we can't have her with that ability. That won't do...won't do at all."
"Why not?" Rui demanded, but she was ignored as Miror.B turned back to Trudly and Folly.
"Boys! Oh boys! I shall return to Pyrite Town. Remember that I will wait for you with the gifted little lady, along with Wes, Alistair and that other boy as well, and make sure you lock that kid with the Chespin here in this city." Miror.B's expression suddenly turnde dark as he added with a tone of warning, "Am I making myself clear? I won't accept failure from you two..."
Folly and Trudly gulped. While it was weird for a strange man wearing 1970's fanshion and the most stupidest afro to be threatening the both of them, but it was working perfectly.
"Y-Yes, sir!" Folly and Trudly both stood in attention, stammering.
'I guess this guy is their superior of sorts.' Alain thought to himself.
"Excellent!" Miror.B sung happily, making Alain and his friends sweatdrop again, while the former struck a dance pose that made everyone in the room cringe and mentally groan.
"Hasta La Vista!" Miror.B farewelled, dancing his way out of the room, carring the radio with him, with the music still playing. The three coloured men glared at Alistair, Alain and Wes, before following Miror.B out. The music faded away slowly.
Recovering from Miror.B's whacky personality, Wes turned to Folly and Trudly and questioned, "Just for future reference, who was that guy?"
"That was none other than Miror.B, an administrador of none other than Team Cipher!" Folly smirked, only to lose that smirk when Wes and even Alain grinned, and Alistair bursted out laughing. Folly then realised that he made a mistake by revealing classified information.
"Gah! You caught me off-guard!" Folly shouted.
"...Again." Trudly added, frustrated.
"You two were the ones stupid enough not keeping that information classified." Alain pointed out with a smirk.
(~Duel Room-FINAL FANTASY FABLES: CHOCHOBO'S DUNEGEON~)
"How dare you!" Folly growled, "That's it! I'm taking you nitwits out and this time, I'm gonna win! Go, Whismur and Lotad!" throwing two pokeballs into the air and out came a Whismur and a Lotad.
"Seriously? No wonder Wes and Alain beat you guys last time." Alistair half-laughed at the sight of the two Pokemon.
"I'll handle this now." Alain said, before calling out, "Charizard, I choose you!" throwing a pokeball and his Charizard came out, roaring, facing the two pathetic Pokemon who both shivered in fear at the sight of the large orange flying-fire lizard Pokemon.
"Uh-oh!" Folly whimpered.
"(Uh-oh!)" Both Whismer and Lotad echoed with sweatdrops.
Charizard quirked an eyebrow at the two small Pokemon and smirked. "(Really? I can beat these two pipsqueaks.)" he said to himself.
"A-My Lotad can beat your Charizard, since my Pokemon's a water-type!" Folly said.
"But Lotad's part water type, part grass type." Mairin pointed out.
Folly froze and paled.
"Flamethrower!" Alain commanded. Charizard drew back it's head and blew huge flames of fire at Whismer and Lotad who were both too frozen in fear and were engulfed by the flamethrower, burnt slightly to a crisp. Once the flamethrower was done, Folly's two Pokemon were knocked out and burnt.
"Heh. What was that about winning this time?" Wes grinned, impressed with Alain's Charizard.
Folly slumped his head, holding up two pokeballs. "Whismer, Lotad, return." before mumbling to himself, "How humiliating."
"Way to go, Alain and Charizard!" Mairin cheered happily, jumping up and down, with Chespie miming her.
"Don't you go celebrating yet, 'cuz it's my turn now!" Trudly growled, tossing two Pokeballs and calling out, "Go Duskull! Go Spinarak!" and two said Pokemon appeared, ready to fight as well.
Charizard, Espeon and Umbreon looked at the two opponent Pokemon with more quirked eye-brows, before shrugging. This battle was thus far a bit too easy.
"Spinarak! Attack with Spider Web!" Trudy shouted.
Spinarak did as it was told and dashed at Charizard just as Espeon and Umbreon joined in the battle. The spider Pokemon spat out a clump of spider web at Charizard who then just burnt it with another flame thrower, before Espeon and Umbreon double-teamed with Iron-tails and knocked the Pokemon to the wall, knocking it out.
Trudly couldn't believe what just happened, before turning to Duskull and waved about his arms stupidly, crying out, "Duskull! Do something! Use leer!" while Folly facepalmed.
Duskull only stared uncertainly at his trainer, before turning to his opponents and tried to use leer, but since it was the only Duskull in existance that didn't know how to use Leer, it only ended up waving itself in an attempt to scare the three Pokemon.
"Duskuuuuul!" Duskull shouted in it's haunting voice.
Charizard, Espeon and Umbreon only glanced at each other, only confused rather than terrified. Even Chespie and Mairin were puzzled as the two looked at each other. Espeon and Umbreon then launched themselves at Duskull and striked the ghost Pokemon simultanously, knocking it out with a double head-butt attack, forcing Trudly to recall his Pokemon as well.
"Looks like the battle's over." Alain smirked. To his and the others' surprise, Trudly smirked as well.
"It's not over yet." Trudly said, before tossing another pokeball, calling out, "Go Makuhita!" and in a flash, the stumpy fighting-type Pokemon appeared, punching it's fists together, ready to battle.
Upon seeing this Makuhita, Alain, Wes and Alistair all immediately could tell that this Pokemon wasn't like any other Makuhita-this one looked angry...too angry.
"That Makuhita looks mean." Mairin thought, a little nervous.
"Ches, Chespin Pin Ches.(Yeah, it creeps me out.)" Chespie agreed.
Rui's eyes widened, before she clutched tightly onto Wes's sleeve, and at the latter's questioning look, the girl pointing a shaking finger at the Makuhita, exclaiming, "I-It's that Pokemon with the Dark aura!" as in her eyes, the familiar darkness floated around the Pokemon's body. For one thing, she was now absolutely terrified.
"What!?" Wes, Alain, Alistair and Mairin all exclaimed in shock. Just then, unexpectly, the Makuhita charged and unexpectly punched both Wes and Alain who both stumbled back, as they were both hit in their stomachs, alarming their friends.
"Be careful! This Pokemon's not normal!" Alistair warned.
"Gee thanks for the warning, old man." Wes grunted sarcastically.
"I think it doesn't mind attacking other trainers too." Rui mumbled scaredly, shivering.
"All right, Makuhita! Shadow Rush!" Trudly ordered.
"Shadow Rush?" Alain asked, dumbfounded.
"I never heard of Shadow Rush before, and Makuhita can't use dark-type attacks!" Mairin added, just as confused.
"I guess it's an attack only Shadow Pokemon use!" Wes thought, before ordering his Pokemon, "Espeon, Umbreon! Dodge and then use Umbreon, use Bite! Espeon, use Confusion!"
"Charizard, dodge, and then use dragon-claw!" Alain ordered as well.
All three Pokemon dodged the Shadow Rush attack, which was an attack that none of the humans or the other Pokemon had seen before. Umbreon then bit onto Makuhita's arm, before jumping out of the way when Espeon unleashed a blast of energy at Makuhita who then became confused, holding it's head, before it began bashing itself on the head.
"Oh, you stupid Pokemon! Attack them, not yourself!" Trudly shouted. But instead, he was punched in the gut and he grunted in pain.
Charizard then used Dragon-Claw and swiped at Makuhita who then collasped onto the ground, before jumping back up, stomping and continuing to bash itself.
"Looks like Makuhita's getting tired!" Mairin said, noticing how the Pokemon was getting slower.
"As much as I don't like Rui's earlier idea, I think it's better to save that Pokemon." Alistair decided, with Alain nodding in agreement.
"Couldn't agree more." Wes replied, and with that, grabbed hold of the bag he held the pokeballs he bought and placed one into the snag machine in his arm. With graceful experience, Wes threw the pokeball at Makuhita which it hit the Pokemon's head and then succeeded in sucking it in. Makuhita disappeared and the pokeball landed on the floor.
It wobbled three times, before it stopped and the red light stopped with the familliar 'pung' sound that indicated that the pokemon was captured. (End Duel Room)
While Alain, Alistair, Mairin, Chespie, Charizard and Rui were stunned at this event, and Wes sighed, Trudly was devastated.
"What!? NOOOOOOO!" Trudly screamed, for he lost the battle and lost his dark Pokemon. "My Pokemon! You snagged my Makuhita!" while Umbreon picked up the pokeball between it's teeth and handed it over to Wes who smiled a little.
"What are we gonna do!?" Folly panicked, "Miror.B's gonna punish us! Or worse, send us to the Sultan in Agrabah and behead us!" paling at the thought on the last part of his sentence, as did Trudly who caressed his neck and head at the very thought of being beheaded.
The two thugs paused to consider their options, as Wes and Alain both quirked eyebrows at the comment.
Folly and Trudly then looked at each other, coming to a decision and said in unison, "TIME TO FLEE!" and then raced out the door, zipping past the group, tripping over themselves and leaving behind a trail of dust.
"Those two guys are weird." Mairin thought as she and Chespie watched Folly and Trudly run and disappear outside.
"(At least Charizard, Espeon and Umbreon won.)" Chespie thought, turning to the three other Pokemon and cheered, "(You guys were awesome!)"
Charizard smiled, while Espeon nodded, and Umbreon smirked, replying, "(Thanks, kid.)" while their two trainers praised all three Pokemon as well for the great work.
"You did it, Wes!" Rui cheered, jumping up and down happily, "You snagged Makuhita!" then said to both Alain and Wes and their Pokemon, "And all five of you defeated the kidnappers again!"
"Well done, guys." Alistair praised as well.
"Totally awesome!" Mairin cheered happily as well. "So cool!"
Wes sighed, before gazing at the pokeball that had the captured Makuhita inside and frowned slightly. So this was the pokemon that had the dark aura Rui had seen, or could see but no one else. What did this mean? And how was a innocent girl like her a threat to Miror.B? Unless...
'Team Cipher...never heard of them before.' Wes thought to himself.
A/N: Sorry that this chapter was a bit shorter than the last one, but I will try to make it up for that. Thanks for your supports and look forward to the next chapter.
