Just a note here, I finished this chapter a few days ago but was unable to upload it because my computer was dead. Anyways, enjoy this extra long chapter.


Chapter 7: Outlaw

Wigglytuff Guild - Alex's POV

Today starts like any other day here so far. We wake up early, ready for the day. We participate in the morning cheers, and afterwards, Sunflora calls us over. She guides us upstairs to the bulletin board on the other side of the room.

"Today will be your last lesson on how being a team works, at least for a while. This board is similar to the other one, because you accept missions from both. However, these missions are very different. The other board has missions like rescues, fetch quests, and escort. This one, however, has outlaw missions."

Drew speaks up, practically shaking in excitement. "You mean going out, catching bad guys, stuff like that?"

"Yes, but-"

"Yippee!" Drew shouts, jumping as high as he can. "Ohmygodimsoexcitedcanwegorightnowpleasepleaseple-mmph mmph mmmmph!" Drews rant is stopped when I slap my hand over his mouth.

Christy fetches a roll of duct tape and we wrap a piece around his head and over his mouth.

The next couple of minutes can only be described as awkward silence. I have a large sweatdrop on the back of my head, casting awkward glances around the room. Christy's face is covered in a large blush that can be seen through her fur. Drew sits in silence, due to the duct tape, but is still vibrating in excitement. Sunflora just stands there, glaring at us.

After several minutes, Sunflora breaks the silence. "Ahem, as I was saying, catching outlaws..." upon hearing those two words Drew starts 'Mmph-ing' again, which she ignores, "Is much more complex than going out, defeating them, and bringing them in. Often, you may need to track them down, find their base, deal with a hostage situation, or something along those lines. Additionally, unlike other missions, outlaw missions can be taken on by multiple teams, and, while it is recommended to work together, some teams won't be content with with sharing the rewards, so conflicts are common. Your mission today will be taking on a low level outlaw. But first, you need to go to town and prepare for the mission. When you get back, I will select a mission for you. Now don't waste any more time, and get going."

We head down to the crossroad, where I pull off the duct tape, resulting in a loud scream from Drew. He turns toward us and backs away. "Why did you do that?!"

"Well, first of all, everyone was looking at us, and not in a good way, and second, you kind of pissed off Sunflora."

"Y-yeah. Having the second in command mad at you is not pleasant." Christy looks down at the ground and whispers, "... I would know…"

I turn to look at her. "What was that?"

She jumps and her fur sticks out straight. "N-nothing!"

I turn back to Drew, who is still backing away, and still angry. "Um, Drew, you should probably-"

"No! I won't listen to your crazy ideas!"

"But-"

"Don't you but me, Mr-" and he falls down the stairs into the Spinda Café.

Christy sighs. "I'll go get him…"

I wait while she descends the stairs to retrieve Drew. While waiting, I hear the all too familiar, "Get out of the way!" I turn to see the familiar fennekin running right at me. I duck and she jumps right over my head. As she runs, something shiny falls from her body onto the ground. Getting closer, I see that the object is a necklace. I pick it up and look closely at it. It is a simple, silver colored necklace. On the front there is a name carved into it, "Holly". I put it in the bag, and am hit with a wave of dizziness.

Like before, everything goes black, but this time a bright flash blinds me and I find myself in a scene. Inside a small cave, four shadows of varying size and shape, one bird-like, one slightly humanoid, one dog-like, and one with a body similar to a stuffed animal, all stand over a fifth figure, who is sobbing weakly. "P-please… don't hurt me *cough* any more…" That's the same voice from my previous vision. The figure starts coughing and coughs up a bit of blood.

Three of the four shadows laugh, while the humanoid one, probably the leader, steps forward and speaks with a deep, menacing voice. "Heh heh heh, look at you, begging for mercy, thinking you deserve it. Well guess what? You don't! You are a petty thief, and outlaws like you don't deserve mercy. You are a pathetic waste of a pokemon. Don't worry, your worthless existence will all be over soon." He lifts up his left arm, revealing a knife in it's hand. Two of the three other shadows are watching their leader intently, while the bird-like one is looking the other way. He brings down his arm and everything turns red accompanied by a loud scream.

I suddenly find myself back at the crossroad with my friends standing in front of me, looking worried. I blink a couple times as my eyes adjust to the light. "What's going on, guys?"

"What's going on? We were worried about you!"

"Y-yeah. We came back out and found you standing here, staring into the distance. You wouldn't react to anything we did…"

"What happened?" Drew asks.

"Well I had some sort of vision. Or something."

"Really? I've heard stories about my dad having visions of the future or the past. I think they usually happen after he touches things. Please explain everything."

I proceed to explain everything, from the necklace to the figures. "...and everything went red. Then I found myself back here."

"Sounds like someone is in trouble, if it's a real vision at least. Anyway, we should get ready to go."

We head into town, and head to the storage. A young looking kangaskhan with glasses greets us. "Hello, welcome to Kangaskhan Storage. How may I help you?"

"We would like to store most of our items please. We just need a few oran berries and a couple reviver seeds."

She takes our bag and empties it of everything other than the items we asked for, then hands it back to us. "Will that be all for you?"

"Yep! Thank you!" Drew answers happily.

"I hope you will continue to use Kangaskhan Storage in the future!"

We then head over to the bank. "Welcome to Dusclops Bank, where your poké may rest in peace! How may I help you?"

"We would like to store all of our poké, please."

"Let's see, that would be 647 poké." Dusclops looks at Drew. "It seems one of you has a preexisting account here, would you like to merge it with your team account?"

"Um… sure, I guess." Drew answers.

"OK. I'll add, let's see… wow that's a big number… 2,564,319 poké. That makes… 2,564,966 poké. Is that all?"

Drew nods yes while both me and Christy stare at him. He looks at us. "... what?"

"You didn't tell us you were rich!" I shout

"Well, I didn't think it was important."

"It r-really isn't important. W-we should get going..."

"Yeah, Christy's right. Let's go."

We head to the guild, where Sunflora is waiting for us. "Please direct your attention to the bulletin board. It has been updated with the latest missions, so please select a low rank mission and get going."

I look over the board and stop upon seeing a poster for a pokemon that is quite familiar.

The poster displays a fennekin, and reads, "Wanted: Fennekin, for multiple thefts. Last seen headed towards Smoky Hill."

I point at the poster. "Can we take this one?"

Sunflora looks at the poster. "I don't see why not. Get going and make sure to bring back the outlaw."

We quickly head to the dungeon. We arrive at the base of a large hill, covered in burnt trees. Despite the fact that there is no obvious recent fire due to the many green plants, the smell of smoke fills the air and many trees appear to be burnt and still smoldering. According to Drew, there was a big fire here, and while the fire was dying down it became a dungeon, resulting in a constant state of smoking trees and burnt wood.

As we approach the entrance to the dungeon, Drew asks, "So, why did you want to take this mission?"

"Well since I arrived here, almost every day, a fennekin runs through town being chased by the green kecleon, who always shouts, "Stop, thief!" While chasing her."

"But what does that have to do with wanting to take this mission?"

"The thing is, it's happened almost every day, and the bag she carried while running wasn't very big, which means it can't hold much, only about three apples or some berries."

"How do you know that she didn't steal some TMs?"

"That's the thing. I don't. But she was the one that dropped the necklace, the one that gave me the vision, and it didn't fall out of her bag. I don't have any proof or anything, I just have a feeling."

"My dad is kinda similar to you. He would often think about a situation and make a decision based on his instincts. Or at least that's what I was told."

"Well, we should focus on the task at hand, making sure we don't screw up on our first outlaw mission."

"Heh, yeah. Imagine how mad Sunflora would be if we failed this."

"I don't even want to think about that. She was scary enough earlier today."

"Guys, hurry up! We're almost there!" Christy shouts from up ahead.

We run to catch up and find ourselves at the entrance of the dungeon. After we take a short break to replenish our energy, we head into the dungeon.

Smoky Hill

Right off the bat, we are attacked by a magby. I hit it with a water gun and it goes down. We continue, and find a few berries, but they are all burnt, and turn to ashes as soon as we try to pick them up. We keep going and get attacked by two more magby and a slugma. I use a water gun to take out the slugma, while Drew and Christy handle the magby. They all go down quickly, and we continue.

Not much else happens the rest of the way through the dungeon, other than another magby, more burnt up berries, and one blast seed.

At the end, we find the entrance to a cave and head in. We hear voices coming from some figures at the back of the cave so we hide behind a large rock and listen. "...ty thief, and outlaws like you don't deserve mercy.

I whisper, "Guys, this is the same as my vision."

"You are a pathetic waste of a pokemon."

Drew whispers back, "You're right. We need to do something."

"Don't worry, your worthless existence will all be over soon."

Without thinking, I jump out from behind the rock. "Stop right there!"

The leader turns around. "Oh? And who might you be?"

Drew and Christy jump out next to me. "We're Team Elemental, and we're going to stop you!"

"Team Elemental? You must be that rookie team. You better go home before we need to teach you a lesson."

"Who are you, and how do you know who we are?"

The four figures walk towards us, and we finally see their identities. The leader is a treecko, the bird-like one is a skarmory, the dog-like one is a growlithe, and the stuffed animal-like one is a larvitar. "We're Team Chaos. We make it our business to know about all the new teams that may cause some trouble. You made a big mistake coming here. You are outnumbered and outmatched. If you leave now, we might spare you."

Drew is very annoyed to say the least. "There's no way we're leaving! How dare you call yourself a team after what you were trying to do! You are a disgrace to the title of explorers!"

No one moves, and we all glare at the other side, not giving an inch.

Boss Battle 1 - Team Chaos (3rd person POV)

The treecko and his teammates run towards Alex's team. Alex uses rage right away and runs towards them. Drew starts shooting razor leaves at them, and Christy uses charge.

Alex runs toward the treecko and hits him with a scratch. The treecko counters with a pound. They start quickly attacking each other with scratch and pound.

Drew continued his barrage of razor leaves until the skarmory and growlithe approach him. The skarmory dives towards him and attempts to hit him with a peck, although it seems a bit hesitant. Drew uses this hesitation to dodge out of the way and fire razor leaves at it. The growlithe keeps it's distance and uses sunny day. Drew smiles. That growlithe just made a huge mistake.

Christy is attacked by the larvitar. He runs straight at her and bites her. Her body starts crackling with electricity, and her tail glows. The larvitar smirks, and continues to attack. Christy smiles and unleashes a powered up thunderbolt attack at the larvitar. He ignores the incoming attack due to his immunity. The thunderbolt hits him, and he is sent flying backwards into the wall, instantly knocked unconscious.

Alex keeps hitting the treecko, and the treecko keeps hitting Alex. Alex's attacks keep growing stronger due to rage, and the treecko is losing strength. The treecko suddenly jumps back and fires a small orb at Alex. When the orb hits, multiple orbs fly out of his body and into the treecko. Alex's energy is drained and the treecko's is restored. While separated, Alex glares at the treecko, lowering its defense. They rush back at each other and continue to fight.

Drew dodges most of skarmory's pecks while the growlithe fires powered up embers at him. The whole time, Drew keeps firing Razor leaves at them, slowly whittling down their health. The skarmory finally hits him with a peck, and growlithe hits him with an ember, severely weakening him. Drew smiles and his leaf starts glowing. He uses synthesis and is almost instantly restored to full health.

Christy uses quick attack to run over to Drew, dashing into the side of the growlithe. It tries to hit her with a tackle, but she dodges and keeps hitting it with quick attacks until it faints, and it's sunny day fades. Drew grabs the skarmory with his vines and starts spinning around. When spinning really fast, he lets go and throws the skarmory into the wall.

Alex and the treecko keep hitting each other. Treecko jumps backwards like before and fires a small orb. Alex fires a water gun at the orb. The orb explodes, and the water keeps going and blasts the treecko. Drew and Christy run over to Alex's side. The treecko manages to barely stand. "Heh. You managed to beat us, but you won't be so lucky next time." He takes out an escape orb and smashes it. Him and his teammates are surrounded by light and then they disappear.

Alex's POV

I sigh. "I'm glad that's over."

Drew looks at Christy. "So Christy, how did you take down that larvitar so easily?"

She blushes a bit. "I have my ways."

I walk to the back of the cave, and my suspicions are confirmed. Laying down in a ball covered in cuts and bits of blood, is a fennekin, shaking from fear. Not just any fennekin, the same fennekin from before. Next to her lies her bag, with a few berries spilling out. I scoop the berries into the bag and put it in our bag. I then take out an oran berry. I gently nudge her and she moves back from the touch and starts crying. "Please stop! I can't take any more! It hurts so bad!"

I set the oran berry next to her. "I'm not going to hurt you." She looks up at me, then at the berry. She grabs the berry and starts eating it.

"Thank you." She closes her eyes and falls asleep.

I tap my badge on her and she warps away. "Come on guys, let's go." I press the gem on my badge and find myself quickly joined by my friends.

Officer Magnezone is there, waiting for us, along with the fennekin's unconscious body. Magnezone looks at us and says, "CONGRATULATIONS, YOU SUCCESSFULLY CAPTURED THE OUTLAW!" I walk over to the fennekin and pick her up. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

"She badly needs medical attention." I carry her all the way to the hospital and sign in.

I take her into the office. The same doctor that helped me is there. "Hello, how may I help you?" He turns to face me and frowns. "Oh, so that's what I can help you with." He takes her and starts healing her right away. "Come back tomorrow. She should be doing much better then."

I head back to the guild where my friends are. "So how did things go with the officer?"

"Not very well. He said he won't give us our reward until she's in jail." Drew explains.

"Well that doesn't really matter. What does matter is what Sunflora thinks."

"What I think about what?" Sunflora says as she enters the room.

"Well, we found the the thief,"

"Oh, good!"

"When we found her, she was under attack by another team, who were about to stab her with a knife. We got into a fight, defeated them, and drove them away. When we actually got to her she was all beaten up, covered in scratches, and bleeding. When we came back, instead of turning her in, I took her to the hospital."

"Hmm… sounds to me like you did the right thing. Now can you tell me the name of the team that attacked you so I can perform some research?"

"They called themselves Team Chaos."

"OK. I will start researching as soon as I can. You are free to do whatever you want until dinner time."

We all hang around, chatting with others until dinner, and afterwards, we head straight to bed.


So, what did you think? I hope you enjoyed it! Is there anything I can improve on? Suggestions? Recommendations? Criticism? Anything would be appreciated.