Chapter 9 Rescue Mission!
Inside the room was a large machine with tentacle looking things coming off of it. These tentacles were connected to several cages, and in those cages were the ice Pokémon that had seemingly disappeared. A couple workers skittered across the floor. A scientist on a lift yelled out something to them. Devil scanned the room looking for 'The Three Idiots'. Seriously three grown men and Tue shouldn't be that hard to find.
"Excuse me, miss?" a man said behind Devil. She turned around stiffly. "You know kids shouldn't be here!" Then he summoned four swinubs, and they attacked Devil.
She whipped out her practice styler, and prepared for battle. She tried desperately to capture them, but they kept crashing into the styler beam. When the styler was only another crash away from breaking, the aipom jumped into the fight. He slammed his tail down, paralyzing the swinub. Without hesitation Devil whipped the beam around them, over and over again. The styler beeped "Capture complete, styler level up!" The swinub ran off.
The man who had attacked her looked shocked. He backed up slowly, watching her with suspicious eyes.
"That was impossible for some kid to do!" He then ran off to alert the others. Red lights began to flash along the hallway, accompanied by a siren-like sound. Desperate for escape Devil looked along the hallway. Then she looked above her. Yes, right there was an air vent! Of course she was too small to reach it, but using the door handles as a step she jumped up whacking the vent covering off. She fell hard to the floor the covering clattering loudly beside; however she couldn't hear it over the sirens.
She held the covering between her teeth, aware of the voices about to turn the corner of the hallway. Nimble as a cat she climbed her way into the air vent, placing the cover back so no one would suspect her climbing up there. Then she shuffled through the vents going to the room where the big machine was. However the vent went in all different directions. She headed through the one closest to herself. Finally she crossed a vent cover over a pitch black room, but she could hear muffled sounds coming from it.
She grabbed her practice styler and clicked the flash light button. It slightly illuminated the darkness. Just as she thought directly below Ice, Jericho, and Tue were bound up in chairs, and gagged in there. She held the styler in her teeth, and removed the covering. Tue looked up, noticing her. She made muffled sounds, as if she was panicking.
Devil dropped directly onto the back of Tue's chair. For the first time in her life she was truly happy that she was small. She removed the gag in Tue's mouth.
"Devil you've got to crush that machine!" Devil struggle with the rope tying down Tue's arms. "Now Devil! There using it to combine all the ice Pokémon's power to make a freeze ray! Devil forget about us! Those Pokémon will die!" She had no choice, Devil jumped back into the vents, and headed back the way she came. However when she got to the point where the vents branched off she headed to the one that veered slightly to the left.
She moved with a mix of carefulness and quickness. Through the vents she could hear the noises of Pokémon, and people. She only half listened until her styler rang. She panicked snatching the styler, desperately trying to turn it off. However she accidently answered it,
"Devil, darling where have you gotten off to? Didn't I tell you not to leave the village?" It was Lela! And she was looking for Devil, which means she didn't know that she was at her secret hideout thing. What to say? Lie to her, or not to lie to her?
"Well, you see Captain Lela, I'm looking for Tue. She was really late, and Jericho and Ice too."
"Ah, half-truths" Devil thought to herself "neither lying nor telling the truth, Satan's best friend." Devil thought this was quite funny after all her name was "Devil". Too bad no one else was around to tell it to.
"Devil, hurry back now, ok. Tue and them are doing a special mission for me. Come back now it's dangerous out there."
'Not as dangerous as being back there!' Devil thought. Lela hung up. Below her the room had gotten louder. She heard a few panicking about finding the 'intruder'. Had none of them even assumed she was in the vents? She continued on finding another opening, looking through it she found she was only a few feet away from the machine. She gingerly took of the vent covering and sat it on the other side of her. She peered down all of the scientist and workers were scrambling around. No one would care to look up.
Delicately she slipped her body down the hatch her hand grabbing onto the vent side. She could feel the metal bending under her fingers. From the position she was now she wouldn't be able to reach the top of the machine. She slid her hands to the corner of the vent, and began swinging back and forth.
"One, two, and three!" She let go propelling herself towards the matching. Oh, and she got to the machine, yes her face met it very, nicely. Blood ran down her chin as she struggled to reach the top.
"It's the intruder!" voices rang out. They panicked not knowing what to do they ran around. She made it to the top trying to ignore the pain in her face. She didn't know what to do now. She hadn't thought far enough ahead as to breaking the machine. She jumped up and down. Then the aipom jumped down from her shoulder, Devil had forgotten about it completely. It chirped in fury, jumping up and down on its small legs, and then slammed its tail down on the machine.
The entire thing shook. The cage where the Pokémon had been kept fell apart because the force of the aipoms tail had driven out the nails. The Pokémon ran out and attacked some of the people, some attacked the machine making it shake. The thing was about to fall apart Devil could feel it. She grabbed the aipom who was doing war cries. She fumbled towards the lift which was holding up to scientist, whom were now cowering fear. Just as the thing collapsed she jumped onto the lift.
She held onto the aipom, and shook. Her breathing had escalated to the point where she couldn't tell she was breathing. Everything hurt, she felt paralyzed.
"What happened!' Lela shouted. To a pair of lackeys. "The… the intruders…" They stuttered peering around at the growling Pokémon. "Intruders? I thought I ordered you to tie them up?" "Not those ones, milady, the other one." "Other one?" Lela's voice was rising in anger "WHAT DO YOU MEAN OTHER ONE?" However before they could answer a Pokémon attacked them. Lela ignored them and stalked off.
Devil was relieved, she hadn't noticed her. Then panic over came her, Devil knew where she was going. Devil ignored the pain, and rose, placing the aipom on her shoulder. She randomly pressed buttons on the lift, and somehow managed to get it down. She ignored the scientist that were still cowering and headed off out the double doors that Lela had exited. Again she entered the vent system, and crawled along the path that headed towards the 'three idiots'. She knew that going by vent would be faster than walking. This time Devil didn't bother being silent, she popped out the covering and crashed to the floor, her nerves had already been to shot to feel any pain.
She fumbled around with the rope. Ignoring Tue's questions. The rope came off, and she left Tue to untie her own feet. She knew she was breathing hard, and the pain was beginning to catch up to her. She had already had untied them all by the time Lela had arrived. When she saw them she sneered.
"I knew you were trouble from the first moment I saw you. But there is no way you can beat me!" She summoned her partner Pokémon- a Froslass. The Pokémon attacked her.
Devil whipped out her styler. Before she had the first loop around it the Froslass iced the line, breaking it. She tried again, same result.
"Aipom!" she called. The Pokémon leapt into the battle slapping down its tail. The Froslass was paralyzed. Devil took control whipping the beam around it. However it became un-paralyzed after only a moment. Aipom was still resting so Devil only managed to get it down a level. After it had gotten out if the red it was calmer, and didn't send of ice blast every second. As soon as Aipom was rested Devil used him, but this time the Froslass was paralyzed longer.
"Capture complete, styler level up!" the styler chirped. The Froslass ran off.
"How… how did a child beat me?" Lela dropped to her knees and fainted.
