Snowpoint Temple. The last time Dawn had visited the northern part of Sinnoh was back when she had been travelling with Ash and Brock, the reason for their visit, so Ash could obtain his seventh gym badge. But this time, she was planning on meeting up with Zoey, her old friend and her rival, who she hadn't seen since the Grand Festival. She had previously been travelling in Johto and had decided it was time to return to her home region, "Hi Mom, I made it to Snowpoint City, I know where I'm going. No need to worry,"
"Dawn, you know when you say " No need to worry" is when I worry the most," her mother, Johanna said, shaking her head with worry,
"No need Mom, I'll be at Snowpoint Temple in under ten minutes, really, I won't get lost, don't worry," Piplup jumped in and spoke, thumping his chest as he did so.
"I can't believe this, we are so lost," Dawn moaned, hugging her partner in her arms tightly, Piplup turned to look up at her and then, jumped out of her grasp and started talking, "Yeah, your right Piplup, like I always say, no need to worry, let's go… This way," Dawn said with a beaming smile.
Suddenly, the ground began to shake, knocking Dawn off her feet, "Woah, what's going on?" Piplup ran into her arms, frightened. Then out of nowhere, a large truck appeared, causing Dawn to jump out of the way and into a pile of snow, "Hey! Watch where your driving! You almost hit me!" Dawn shouted angrily. Piplup copied his trainer. "Say, does that truck look like one of…" she shook her head free from that thought, 'It couldn't be, she perished, along with her goons,' Dawn thought.
Unfortunately, she saw two silhouettes fly over her head, she shot her eyes up to see… "Woah, who are those Pokémon?" she flipped open her Pokédex and scanned the two Pokémon, Flygon, the Mystic Pokémon. Flygon is the evolved form of Vibrava. It's known as the desert spirit because of the song-like voice that emanates from the sandstorms it kicks up. 'Wow, I think I remember May telling me about one of her rivals owning a Flygon,' she then turned her Pokédex to the second Pokémon, Braviary, the Valiant Pokémon and the evolved form of Rufflet. Because of its devotion to its friends, Braviary will continue battling, even after sustaining injury. 'Iris told me about this Pokémon not long ago,' Dawn thought to herself, "Togekiss, let's go," she shouted, releasing the Fairy/Flying type, "Togekiss, you and Piplup follow that truck but be careful, I'll be right behind you," she said, placing Piplup on Togekiss's back.
Meanwhile, Luna had just docked and she immediately released Pidgeot. He flew her, Pichu and Pikachu just outside the ruins, "Thanks Pidgeot, now take a well deserved rest," it was then that Pikachu jumped from Luna's shoulder and took off running, "Pikachu? Where are you going?" Pichu jumped from her trainers shoulder and followed the larger electric Pokémon, Luna smacked her forehead, now wasn't the time to be running off. She followed them until Pikachu stopped. Standing in front of them was a Togekiss and a Piplup, Luna had never seen a Togekiss before so she scanned it, Togekiss, the Jubilee Pokémon and the evolved form of Togetic. It is said that Togekiss never appears where there is conflict. Luna's gaze then fell back to Piplup who was hugging Pikachu, happily, 'Did they know each other?'
"Piplup! Togekiss! There you both are!" exclaimed a girl, Luna looked up to see a girl with blue hair and blue eyes appear from the snowy trees, "Hold on, is that…" the girl pointed down at Pikachu, who in return, jumped into her arms, nuzzling her face affectionately, "Okay, yeah, your definitely Ash's Pikachu, hey, speaking of him, where is he?" only then did she notice Pichu and Luna, "Oh hi there, you haven't seen a guy around my height, with brown eyes and black hair have you? I'm Dawn by the way and this is my partner Piplup, say hi," Piplup stuck its chest out proudly,
"My names Luna and this is Pichu, I'm actually temporarily taking care of Pikachu, so I take it you know Ash too?" but as the blunette nodded, Dawn saw the Flygon and Braviary from earlier, land a few metres in front of them, she pointed them out to Luna, "Oh no, quick, hide," she pushed Dawn into the snow and covered herself as well as Dawn and the Pokémon.
"Okay, so we know the plan? Night Crawler, Dark Raven and I will go inside the temple and capture Regigigas, whilst the rest of you keep watch out here, is that clear?"
"Sir!"
Dawn covered her mouth with her hand in shock, "No way! It's Pokémon Hunter J! But I thought she perished, back at Lake Valor," Dawn gasped,
'Lake Valor, I remember he told me something about that,' Luna thought, "We need to get inside that temple somehow,"
"I think I know how," came a voice that made the two girls spin round, behind them, a boy stood, he was wearing a black mask, similar to the one that that woman had worn in Luna's dream,
"Oh boy, we've been discovered, Pikachu…"
"Hey relax, Lulu, its me," and the boy removed his mask to reveal his face, his brown spikey hair jumped free and his eyes were soft and welcoming,
"Ah, the poetry man's grandson!" Dawn squealed, giggling. Luna glanced at her with a weird expression, "Sorry, I mean Gary," she caught the black haired trainers expression,
Luna looked down at Pikachu, who smiled sheepishly, "Gary, what are you doing here?"
Gary explained that shortly after she and Ashy boy left his grandfather's lab, he too returned to Sinnoh to continue working with Professor Rowan, then when he heard that there was going to be an attack on the Snowpoint Temple, he came as soon as he could. He whispered his plan to the girls, who at first, were dubious, but eventually agreed to it.
Guarding the entrance to the Temple was Kevin and a few other goons, he saw a masked man, dragging two girls through the snow, he ordered his men to help him, when they reached the Temple, the masked boy spoke, "I was hoping to give these two brats to J as servants as I have heard that they have both caused her an awful lot of trouble," Kevin nodded and allowed him access into the temple. Once inside, Gary removed his mask and brushed himself free of snow, "See, what did I tell you two?" he said with a hint of cockiness, which earnt him a smack from Luna, he and the girls then ran further inside. They had to stop J!
"Night Crawler and Flygon, take the rock pillar, Dark Raven, Braviary, the steel pillar, Salamence and I will take down the ice pillar," J said, standing back as she threw her Pokéball into the air, "Salamence, use Hyper Beam!"
"Flygon, Dragon Pulse,"
"Braviary, use -"
"Stop!" someone suddenly shouted and J, Night Crawler and Dark Raven's heads all turned to see Gary, Luna, Dawn, Pikachu, Pichu, Piplup and Blastoise, standing there, "Don't do it! You have no idea what will happen!" Gary shouted,
J grinned, "Actually, I've been in this position before and so, know perfectly what will happen, Dark Raven, if you please," and the blonde haired boy nodded, signalling to his Pokémon to use the move.
Dawn was in shock and clung to Gary, tightly whilst Luna ran forward and almost ended up squashed by the steel pillar, "Uh, Night Crawler, Dark Raven, why are you doing this?"
The blue stone orb that had been situated in the centre of the three pillars began to glow, "We can't let them make another attack!" Dawn shouted, "Piplup, stop them with Bubble Beam!"
"Blastoise, Hydro Pump!"
"Pichu and Pikachu, use Thunderbolt!"
J became infuriated, "Salamence, Hyper Beam! You two, wake up Regigigas, now!" she barked, holding off all four attacks with her one,
Night Crawler sighed sadly and pointed at the orb, "Flygon, Flamethrower, now," Dark Raven gave him a sinister look, then readied his cannon, as the triangle that had once been, turned red and Regigigas suddenly appeared, along with Regice, Registeel and Regirock.
Luna had only ever heard rumours about Regigigas and decided to look it up, Regigigas, the Colossal Pokémon. According to legend, Regigigas has towed continents using ropes. What that meant, Luna didn't know, but Regigigas was going crazy and started destroying the temple.
'Its just like before,' Dawn thought hopelessly, "We need to get out of here, now, before the entire temple collapses," Gary ran past her, grabbing her hand as he went, leaving Luna and the three villains still inside, "What about Luna? We can't just leave her!"
Gary didn't turn back, he kept running.
Night Crawler, Dark Raven and J fled the temple too, via their Pokémon, when Night Crawler saw Luna, frozen to the spot, "Come on kid, we've got to get out of here!" Flygon grabbed her around the waist and dragged her out along with Pichu and Pikachu. The jet black haired boy turned around and saw a Hyper Beam, being aimed directly at him, "Look out!" he shouted before being thrown off of Flygon and onto the snowy ground. He rose to his feet, clutching his head, he spotted Flygon and ran over to him, "Flygon return, take a well deserved rest," after placing his Pokéball back onto his belt, he saw two other figures, lying unconsciously in the cold winter surrounding's. Night Crawler was about to approach them, when suddenly, J landed next to him and ordered him to climb on, which he silently agreed to.
Gary's eyelids flickered, 'That sure was a big explosion,' he thought, touching his head, he winced a little. He then turned around to look for the girls and the Pokémon, the brunette heard a small cry which belonged to one of the Electric types, he jumped to his feet and quickly found Pikachu and Piplup, "Right you two, we need to find the…" he trailed off as he spotted a pale hand, underneath a pile of rubble, the pale hand also had a band with two purple balls on it, "No. No, it can't be! Dawn, hang on!" Gary scrambled over to the limp hand and started clawing away at the boulders and rocks,
Then he heard footsteps behind him, he turned to see Luna and Pichu walking with his Pokémon, "Thanks Blastoise for saving me," the Water type grunted with appreciation, "Gary! Piplup! Pikachu! Where's…" but then, she too noticed Dawn's fragile hand, "No, no, no, no, this is not happening," she gasped, falling to the floor and helping Gary with the debris that was atop Dawn.
Suddenly, the entrance to the temple was fired open, Regigigas had broken free! The Normal type Pokémon, along with its three pillars of protection, stood over the two trainers and watched them; Gary was still trying to unearth Dawn's body, whilst Luna was comforting a distraught Piplup, leaving Blastoise, Pikachu and Pichu to help Gary. Regigigas, who had experienced kindness from Brandon, the Pyramid King was touched and moved his hand down as to move the debris off and away from the blunette. Finally, after five minutes, Regigigas picked Dawn's body up, but quickly dropped it when…
"Ha, that was one of the easiest captures I've ever made in my whole life!" cackled a voice that Gary thought had left, thankfully, he caught Dawn in his arms, but that didn't stop him from glaring up at the evil hunter, "Transport target now,"
Luna had a plan brewing, she knew Dawn needed a Pokémon centre, so she released Pidgeot and ordered Gary to fly Dawn and Piplup there and to stay put, "But what are you going to do?" Gary had a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. She pointed to the undercarriage of one of the trucks, as there were now four of them. J, Dark Raven and Night Crawler were attempting to freeze Registeel, Regice and Regirock, which allowed Luna to crawl under the truck and position herself. She watched Pidgeot take to the air, with Gary, Piplup and an unconscious Dawn, 'Please be careful,' Gary thought to himself as they few further away.
Four captures were made and four targets were transported, "We shall meet you on the outskirts of Snowpoint City," Luna heard J say, as she left the hanger on the ship, "Kevin, leave them there, they are secure," and the door closed, leaving Luna, Pikachu and Pichu to explore the ship for a second time, Luna was still curious to know who that Night Crawler character was.
As they left the safety of the hanger, Luna released Chandelure and Honedge, "Okay, now remember, if you see anything, shout, okay?" the two dual types nodded and set off in opposite directions, Chandelure went straight, leaving Honedge to go to the left, Luna and Pichu took to the right and Pikachu headed back inside the hanger.
He curled up underneath one of the tyres, but froze when he heard the door bolt open, "What? I did everything you asked of me on today's mission," whined a voice that sounded an awful lot like Ash's, "Look J, let me just see them, I know you placed cameras all around the Pokémon centre," the boys whine was gradually growing into a growl, Pikachu carefully edged himself out to see a picture; a picture containing a blunette and a brunette. The blunette was lying in a bed, she was hooked up to a machine and watching over her was the spiky haired brunette, whose eyes had glazed over, "Dawn, Gary," Pikachu heard the boy speak softly, he had to see the boys face, that was going to be rather difficult as he still had his goggles on as well as his cap. Pikachu had to get to Luna, he dashed for the door and got out unnoticed, he ran down the corridor that went round to the right.
Luna and Pichu were crouched underneath a tablecloth, listening intently to what sounded like Dark Raven and J's second in command, Kevin, "The commander is not going to be happy with this, I still think you should tell her your plan," Kevin reasoned, leaning against the table that Luna and Pichu were under, "What if your father finds out, you'll be in a lot of trouble then Luca," Luca, Luca, the name rang a bell, Luna just couldn't picture the dudes face. The boy snapped and pushed something that fell to the floor, startling Pichu, who backed out of the side of the cloth,
"Well, well, well, I don't believe my eyes, its my Shiny, spiky eared Pichu," Luca sniggered with an evil grin, "But that means if your here, then…" he then reached for the tablecloth to pull it back, but was shocked from a Thunderbolt,
"Thanks Pichu, come on, let's find the others and get out of here!" Luna said, sprinting to the door, she opened it and tumbled out onto Chandelure, "One down, two more to go, Chandelure, return," she aimed his Pokéball at him, sucking him inside, "Pichu, you go to the left, I'll go to the right," and the two females split up.
Luna fell upon Honedge first and returned him as she had done with Chandelure, just Pikachu and Pichu to be reunited with. "Pika pika," she ran towards the sound of the voice and found Pikachu, inside what looked like a bedroom, specifically, the bedroom they had been in before when Night Crawler had helped Luna get Pichu back,
"Pikachu, thank goodness, have you seen Pichu anywhere?" Pikachu jumped onto Luna's shoulder and shook his head sadly, "Hey, why the sad face?" she sat down on the bed and placed her hand on the pillow, she felt something papery inside and pulled it out, it was a picture of Night Crawler, Dark Raven and J, Night Crawler looked sad, although you couldn't really tell as his face was covered by his goggles and his cap. 'If only we could remove the mask…' Luna thought to herself.
"PICHU!" her cry rang through the entire ship, it had enemated from the left of the room. Luna sprung to her feet, dropping the photograph and dashed out of the room to see…
"Dark Raven! Let her go!" Luna snarled, readying Pidgeot's Pokéball, but as she lifted it into the air to toss it, someone grabbed her wrist tightly and twisted it, she dropped her ball and it rolled away, down the corridor, "Ow! What the -" she flipped her head round to see J, along with her henchmen, "Let me go, you evil witch!" J merely chuckled, tightening her grasp on the girls wrist, "Pikachu, use Thunderbolt, now!" she shouted as she struggled to free herself. But before Pikachu could use its command, someone shouted out,
"Why don't you two have a battle?" everyone flicked their heads round to see Night Crawler, who was still wearing his mask, "If the girl wins, she and her Pokémon go free and if Dark Raven wins, then she gives us all of her Pokémon in her possession," J loosened her grip and pushed Luna into the wall, walking towards Night Crawler, a thoughtful yet dangerous smile flickering across her face.
She snapped her fingers and suddenly, Kevin appeared with a small cage, "Chuck the rodent in the cage," she smiled, making Pichu cross, she had only been called a "rodent" once before and that was back when she had hatched. "Okay, then its a deal, you can battle…" then she spotted Luna's Key Stone, "Using Mega Evolution,"
'Uh oh,' Luna didn't have Pidgeot with her, but she couldn't back down on the challenge.
Thankfully, Night Crawler saw this and backed away, walking towards the hanger, he carefully released both Flygon and Flareon and instructed them to find Luna's Pidgeot, quickly. He tossed Luna's empty Pokéball up, catching it with his other hand. Flareon nodded and Flygon took off towards the Pokémon centre, 'Good luck,' he thought as he watched his Pokémon.
Dawn was finally awake, "Oh thank goodness," Gary breathed, standing to his feet, Piplup jumped to his feet and onto his trainers bed, nuzzling her face affectionately, "Well, at least your okay," he said, sighing deeply.
Outside, Pidgeot was watching intently, when suddenly he felt a familiar presence approach him from behind, he turned his head to see Flygon and Flareon land close by, thankfully, Pidgeot didn't have a bad bone in his body and was willing to negotiate. Flareon explained the situation, causing him to nod and fly away with them. Gary spotted the bird fly off and watched curiously, 'I wonder where he's going,' he thought, he turned back to Dawn and Piplup and smiled warmly, "Hey, no need to worry, I never told you I was sorry," Dawn instantly perked up, she loved Gary's poem's and better yet, "No need to worry" was her catchphrase.
Ash was waiting for Flygon and Flareon in the hanger, suddenly, they appeared accompanied by Pidgeot, "Okay Pidgeot, I know you don't like me but trust me, I'm going to place you back inside your Pokéball and the next time your released, you will be with your trainer," Pidgeot didn't know what it was, but something in his heart was saying to him that Night Crawler was telling the truth, so he nodded and stretched his wings out for a final time before being sucked back inside his ball. Ash smiled softly and returned Flygon, commending him on a job well done, "Come on Flareon," and the two sprinted back to the battling arena.
Luna was sitting on the sidelines as J's goons were preparing the battlefield, 'What am I going to do,' she thought in despair, Pikachu was cuddled up in her lap,
"Excuse me, this is your Pokéball, right?" a kind voice asked, jolting the girl from her thoughts, she turned to see Night Crawler with Pidgeot's Pokéball in his hand, "I think you dropped it earlier," as she took it from him, he winked at her.
'What the… What was that?' she watched as he took his place at the side,
"The battle between Dark Raven from the Sinnoh region and the female from the Kanto region is about to begin, this match will be a double battle, the match will be over when both Pokémon on either side are unable to continue," it looked like Kevin was refereeing, J was sitting behind him, grinning from ear to ear.