Chapter 9
Escape
I ran down the hall towards cell hall B, or so Klang calls it, to go get Ethan.
"How much farther Klang?" I said.
"Just around this next corner." He replied.
I put on another burst of speed and spun around the corner only to be met by twenty Spark soldiers.
"What's your rush soldier." One of the ones in the front said. So my illusion was working.
I paused to catch my breath and give the guards a chance to lower their weapons.
I looked the front soldier in the guard and said, "This," I stretched my arms and released massive bolts of lightning before any of them could react. They all fell to the floor.
I located Ethan's cell and looked inside; it was empty.
"Looking for this?"
I spun around and saw Splay holding Ethan by the neck of his shirt, he also held a yellow syringe labeled PKU.
"Let him go." I said.
"I don't think so." He jammed the syringe into Ethan's arm. Ethan screamed out in pain and fell to the floor shaking and changing. The room flashed and the changes started happening.
His hair was changing into a bright yellow and his hands started sparking wildly.
I roared, dropped my illusion and stretched my arms out and unleashed more electricity. It hits Splay directly in the chest he shouted in pain and stumbled backward into the wall.
I jumped towards Ethan and knelt down next to him, he has finally stopped shaking but his hands still wouldn't stop sparking. "Ethan!" I shouted.
He looked up at me sharply. He didn't respond but just stared at me with his now bright yellow eyes. I attempted to help him to his feet but he wouldn't stand and Splay was recovering.
I looked down at his wrist and saw that they had taken his keystone. I looked up and saw Splay leaning against the wall; I must have hit him harder than I thought.
Fear pierced my heart and what I did next blew my mind. I reached out for Ethan conscious through our link and grabbed hold of hit. I pulled on it and tried to pull us together.
The hall filled with another flash of light and I looked down at the floor. I panicked and frantically looked around for Ethan, but then I noticed the changes that had just happened to me.
I rose to my full height, which was now seven feet tall; we had fused.
I looked at my hands and saw the little red electric pouches that constantly sparked. The fore-claws on the top of my paws had also extended slightly past the front of my paws.
I looked up at Splay and grinned wildly. "You're going down buddy." I said. I used metal claw which just extended my fore-claws even farther.
I charged at what seemed like light speed and attempted to stab him in the stomach.
He deflected my blade with his arm which was coated in Dark aura. I brought my other blade down towards his face but he just did the same thing. We held our current position, trying to out power the other. I energized my limbs with aura and began pushing down harder.
Splay's arms slipped and he had to jump back to keep from getting cut to ribbons. I jumped after him charging my new blades with tons of aura making them even more deadly.
I began swinging my arms in confused motions and Splay couldn't predict my next move. I got his shoulder, cutting a deep gash and spilling blood all over. He staggered backwards as I approached him.
Then it hit me, how could I hurt him now, but not when I was kidnapped.
I paused in my steps. "You're not Splay," I said. "Where is he?" I growled.
The fake just grinned, "He's not here right now. He's on more important business."
I just charged forward and impaled him through the stomach.
His grin disappeared as he began coughing up blood. "Once you tell me where he went," I growled in his face, "I will give you my permission to die."
He spat at the ground and bit something in his mouth. He began chewing whatever it was and his mouth started foaming. His form flashed and he changed back into a normal Blaziken.
He went limp and I pulled my blade out of him and let the corpse fall to the ground.
I turned around and walked toward Lucario's cell and ripped the door off its hinges. "Come on," I said and waved him out.
He walked out and I said to Klang, "Now where is Korrina?"
He directed me to another nearby cell hall. I began walking down looking in each of the caged rooms. I saw other Pokémon in each cell.
"When we come back, I am going to free all of these Pokémon. But for now, I need to get Korrina and my friends out first." I thought.
I finally found her call and ripped the door right off. She looked up sharply from her bed.
"We need to get out of here, now." I said quickly.
She nodded and stood up. When she saw her Lucario she jumped for him and wrapped her arms around him. He hugged her back.
"I am so glad that you're okay." Korrina said into Lucario's shoulder.
Lucario just grunted.
"Okay, let's go." I said.
The moment I said that a boom shook us to our cores.
"Klang, what was that?" I asked.
"A bunker bomb." He said calmly.
"A WHAT?" I shouted in my head.
Klang did what I suppose was a sigh, and said, "The building is under attack by the military. That is why Splay is off at a different building in Sinnoh."
"Awesome." I said sarcastically.
"Lets move." I said out loud to Korrina and Lucario.
"Wait, what was that boom?" Korrina asked.
"It was an explosion, because apparently the army is attacking."
"Oh,"
I turned and started heading down the hall with Korrina and Lucario tailing me.
"Okay Klang, where to?" I said.
"To the vehicle bay, we can get a ship there." He replied.
"Is there a ship that can hold all of us?" I asked.
"Yes, there is, you'll see."
He directed me through the long winding halls, taking down Spark soldiers the whole way.
We came to a large steel door.
"Is this it?" I asked Klang.
"Yes, bust it down and we will leave." He replied.
I charged my fists with aura and punched it down.
When we stepped into the room, I discovered a new meaning of the word huge.
The bay could hold at the least fifteen football fields, it was probably two hundred feet tall.
It was filled with tanks, jets that could take off vertically, space ships that looked like they came from a sci-fi movie, giant crates, and a ton of Spark soldiers.
They all turned and looked at Korrina, Lucario, and me. Most were preparing jets and space ships, but quite a bit pulled out either hand-guns or rifles.
I raised an aura shield around us and brace myself. They opened fire.
The massive barrage of bullets sprayed off of my shield and bounced everywhere. I started advancing slowly and said to Korrina and Lucario, "Come on! We're going to find a ship and leave!"
I walked into the mass of soldiers, I saw multiple different men fall to the ground from their own bullets.
We kept walking but stopped when all the soldiers stopped shooting at once.
We turned around to see a tank, hovering four feet off the ground, aiming its giant cannon at us.
There was a boom as the shell on the inside was ignited, I knew my shield couldn't take a hit like and adrenaline blasted through my veins.
At the same time, everything went into slow motion. I could clearly see the massive missile heading straight towards me. I stepped out of my shield and turned around.
Everyone was frozen. I walked up to a soldier and waved my hand in his face.
I turned back to the rocket and walked up to it. It was about halfway from my shield and the tank. I touched it lightly and it moved. I cocked my head to the side and grabbed it. I could just move it out of the way.
I grinned and spun the rocket around, walked towards the tanks and positioned it directly in front of the entrance to the cannon. I went and stood in my original place and waited. Nothing happened for a second, but I nearly wet myself when a huge explosion went off.
The floating high-tech tank that was probably worth more money than Ethan had, now sat before us, burning.
"What did you do?" Korrina said gaping at the remains of the tank.
"Long story, I'll tell you later." I said a little dazed.
"What ship do we need?" I asked Klang
"One of the space ship looking things." He said. "By the way they can't actually break orbit, but it's the fastest ship here."
I looked at the stunned faces of the soldiers. "If you don't want that to happen to you," I said loud enough for everyone to hear, "Then you will leave this vehicle bay."
They all hesitated but when I formed to sparking aura spheres they all quickly made their way to the door.
We then walked over to one of the landed ships. There was a rap into it on the back, in between the two giant turbine engines.
The cockpit was actually quite large. It had four seats, each one was in front of a control panel.
I went and sat down in the front most one while Korrina and Lucario took two of the rear seats.
"So, what do we do now?" I asked Klang.
He didn't reply, instead he jumped off my wrist and on to the control panel. He literally melted in between the buttons.
Almost instantly the ship roared to life.
The ramp in the back shut and we began to lurch forward into the air. A loud beep and the doors at the far end of the bay opened. Naturally the doors fit the size of the room, they were huge.
They opened sideways, sliding into the walls. We flew out into open air, only to be greeted by a dog fight of planes.
"Klang, we need to get out of here!" I said.
"I know, I am working an escape route." He replied through the speaker system.
We started merging with the fight, which was not good. We were weaving in and out of different situations hoping that we would be ignored, but of course life had other plans.
"We're being tailed." Klang said.
"Great," I thought, "just great."
"Now he's shooting at us, arming rear cannons." He said.
"Wait, can't we like talk to him or something? Like open a communication channel with him?" I asked.
"Maybe, let me try." Klang replied.
There was some static over the speakers then a female voice erupted out of the speakers.
"Who is this? How did you make contact with our secure network?" The female pilot shouted.
"Ethan Wilson is on board this ship, we are attempting an escape to rescue him." Klang relpied.
There was a moment before she replied, "Ethan Wilson? You mean the champion of Kalos is on your ship?"
Klang gave an affirmative, then the pilot paused for a moment. "I'll spread the word." Then the connection was broke.
"She stopped following us, now we need to make our way back to Lumiose." Klang said.
I sighed and leaned back in my seat. "Well, how long is it going to be till we get there?" I asked.
"About three hours." Klang replied.
I sighed.
"Hey, do you want to let me out now?" I heard Ethan's voice in the back of my head.
"So you've finally gotten a hold of yourself." I said to him.
"You could say that, now could you separate us?" He asked.
"But you won't have any clothes and I didn't grab any for you."
"Focus on the clothes I had on when we fused, Leonidas told me that we could separate and I would still have clothing."
I considered it for a moment then thought, "Why not,"
Before I let go of the current of energy I imagined Ethan with his previous clothes on. I made that the center of my thoughts and then let go.
The flash that came afterwards was much brighter than usual, and when I opened my eyes Ethan stood in front of me, with his clothes on.
"Finally," he said, "It always feels like forever when we do that."
"Wait, did you see it when time like, froze?" I asked him.
He nodded and said, "I think we should explain it to everyone else though."
I turned around and saw Korrina and Lucario, both of which had very confused looks on their faces.
"When you say, time froze, is that when you blew up the tank?" Korrina asked.
"Yes, right before the rocket hit us everything froze and I turned it around, so it went right into the tanks cannon." I explained.
"I am still confused." Korrina said.
I just shook my head and said, "Never mind, at least we aren't dead." I turned around and faced Ethan, "So what do we do now? Do we head to Lumiose, or stay hidden?"
"We stay hidden. If we go to a big city we'll attract too much attention which ,ill make it easier for Splay to find us." Ethan said leaning against the wall and crossing his arms.
I nodded in agreement and then asked Klang, "Does this ship have a tracking device on it?"
"Yes it does, but the three motorbikes do not." Klang replied.
"There are Motorbikes on this thing?" Ethan asked.
"Yes, keep up Ethan." Klang said with a touch of annoyance.
I shook my head and said, "You love to leave out details, don't you?"
"No, you just never ask so I just don't say anything. Anyway, we can be dropped off somewhere in the woods below us and then set the ship on auto pilot and have it cruise around until it runs out of gas. I will set it to head out to sea."
"But there are only three bikes." Korrina said.
"Then we will have to share, it's not that hard." I said.
"But how many of you have actually ridden a motorcycle?" Korrina crossed her arms as she said this. "I am the only one old enough to even have a driver's license."
No one said anything, making it obvious that we had no experience on motorcycles.
"Don't worry, they aren't hard to ride. They shift gears automatically so you won't have to learn how to use a clutch. You just need to know how to ride a bike." Klang explained.
I sighed with relief.
"Well then that settles it, Klang, drop us off."