Chapter 10

Future Plans

Captain Typhus hadn't even completely step off the plan before Detective Ferris had whisked him away. Now they were speeding down the highway, Lily filling him in on what happened. "Will you be able to track him?"

"With concentration and time, possibly. But if he doesn't want to be found then I can't do anything." The Captain replied.

"Well you'd better hurry. Blaze brought in several of our Rocket suspects, and all them lawyered up as soon as they were in the interrogation room, and now all of their lawyers have threatened lawsuits," the Captain winced, "I can't control him at this point."

"What makes you think that I can?"

"Don't know, but you could put him to sleep at least for a while." She says, pleadingly.

The Mewtwo mentally sighed, making sure that it wasn't broadcasted to Lily. Even from a mile out he could feel the Typhlosian's angst, he worried about how the strong emotions of the detective affected his aura-sensitive partner. Lily had even begun slowing down as the aura become more oppressive and dark. "Have you gathered any reliable leads yet?"

"No Blaze has made it near impossible. Anyone that could've known something has gone into hiding."

"Have you tried to send him home yet? Has he even slept?"

"Yes, he sent Anubis to watch Ethan and no, probably not."

Less than twenty minutes later they were on the unit's floor, the Captain decided then and there that he was NEVER taking another vacation. Several of the desks were turned over, burn marks, glaciers were nearly reaching the ceiling in several places and some were even breaking into the floor above, some of the other detectives stationed on the unit were laid out on one side, being treated for minor damage, paralysis, or burns. Captain Typhus was close to cause even more damage, but he controlled his emotions before anything bad could happen. At least he tried, "DETECTIVE BLAZE TYPHLOSIAN HAUNTER I WANT TO SEE YOU NOW!" He knew that he wasn't in complete control when several of the Detectives winced and the fighting-types, Lily include, fainted from his physic outburst.

There was a shuffling behind him, several of the still conscious detectives pointed in the direction of the noise. The Mewtwo used his telekinesis and forced the fleeing detective into a wall with a loud thud. He turned around to the slightly crazy-eyed detective. "What did you do to my precinct?"

"I'm trying to find Char!" he stated, "His life is in danger I want to find him alive!"

"Then you do it correctly. Don't risk your co-workers lives for an unrequited love!"

"I will do anything I want to find him!" He yells at his Captain, who in turn releases a Hypnosis attack on the Typhlosian.

"Somebody take him home, and HANDCUFF him to his bed!"

The Viridian Police building lies in ruins. The bodies of my friends crushed underneath it weight, Lily and Anubis and The Captain. Smoke thick, black and choking clouds the sky making breathing nearly impossible for anything other than poison-types. Other pokémon, the majority in chains, all of them are frozen in the streets doing various task, mostly what looked like deconstruction of civil buildings. However domineering the skyline a huge glass building. I recognized the large red "R" for Team Rocket, but what I didn't recognize was the yellow stylized "G" underneath it. There are two platforms, one raised about a two feet, or three, above the ground, it had three massive pokémon bound in chains, the other one was higher than the other, but I could definitely see Ethan, my son, chained like a Poochyena with an Everstone collar leashed to an oddly colored Croconaw, like his pet! Standing next to the Croconaw a Persian, the cat I assumed was Giovanni he matched the description of the leader. The Weavile, standing next to the Persian, however I had never seen before, was he the leader of this "G" group? The three massive pokémon that were bound to the smaller platform looked to be in severe pain. One was blue, a huge diamond sat in the middle of an elaborate cheat piece, it had grey accents, and sat like it walked on all fours. The second was a pale pink color, with darker pink accents, in large Victorian-like shoulders sat two pink pearls. And the third was the most horrifying, black, red, grey, and golden plates, several black tentacle-like appendages, six grey legs, and a golden mouth piece. They looked as if they'd given up fighting long ago and now laid there limp and lifeless. In fact the entire area looked grey and lifeless, like all hope was lost, and if Team Rocket had won then maybe it had.

Are you satisfied Detective Blaze, with this vision?

The voice came from everywhere at once, as if the very molecules were speaking. The pokémon however something had changed, their eyes glowed. Some had a single color in both eyes, others had two different colors one for each eye. It took me a while but I recognized it as their types. Ethan's eyes glowed an angry red, the Croconaw's a watery blue, Giovanni's a blank colorless white, and a Vileplume that had appeared next to Giovanni had a green eye like an unbroken grassy plain and her other eye a toxic purple. Where had I seen her before?

What you see, is what is to come…

"WHO ARE YOU?! WHERE ARE YOU!?'

If you fail, and Char dies then all you know and your very life is forfeit…

"ANSWER ME!"

You know who I am…

"I don't understand." I wailed

Then learn…

I hadn't noticed before but the grey and lifeless scene began to move, though they're eyes still glowed. The sounds of whips cracking and tools suddenly fills my ears, there are shouts from the Rocket grunts, cries from small children and seniors as they're expected to do tasks that are nearly too difficult for even the most fit pokémon.

Ketchum-Red Industries was taken by Team Rocket shortly after Char's death. From there they finished taking control of the Johto region, in the Hoenn region the quickly crushed Teams Magma and Aqua.

With the Hoenn region now under their control they moved to the Orre Region, the poorest of regions didn't even last a day.

Team Galactic of Sinnoh joined forces with Rocket with the promise of a very powerful tool, the same one that now binds those three.

Team Plasma and the Unova region gave the one greatest fight, but now the gleaming cities lay in burning rubble.

"How long- How long did the Kanto region last?" I ask

The Indigo Plateau survived until the end of the Unova region, because of you. But even you cannot survive a powerful physic blast to your own heart.

So I was a ghost to these people. I moved through the crowd, my only target was my bound son. He locked so weak; the Croconaw was playing with the scared remnants of his eruption nodules.

Even someone as strong as him is, he cannot withstand a professional torturer's techniques.

I sobbed, my brave son, my strong, beautiful, baby boy. "Why are you doing this to me?" I sobbed again I wanted to cry but couldn't I was dead in this reality.

"Just wait Silver my dad WILL kill you and that bitch Ariana too." My still slightly willful son spat at this Silver.

"Not likely boy, I killed him myself. I saw the blood drain from the hole that was once his heart." A Mewtwo told him, the same Mewtwo that kidnapped Char, and apparently was destined to kill me.

Choice is a powerful thing Detective. It can change the course of time itself.

The Croconaw used a water move against my son, who screamed in pain. I know the feeling, our eruption nodules are sensitive at the best of time getting hit there is like getting Mega-Kicked in the sheathe. And the fact that his were scared just made it worse. I couldn't do anything to help my poor baby I could feel the non-existent tears flow down my cheeks. "Silver stop that, your toy's screams are getting annoying." Giovanni growls.

I focused on the two team leaders who are discussing the three gods bound by the Red Chain. A two other pokémon had joined him; a Slowking and a Klinklang. "Well Charon, Colress? How go your experiments?" The Weavile leader of Team Galactic asked.

The metallic sound of gears that somehow ended up sounding like legitimate speech answered first. "Not good, not good at all. For immortal gods, their lifespan appears to be shrinking exponentially."

The Chain by which the three gods are bound is known as an Elder Tool. A god slayer the more the three struggle the closer death comes.

"An Elder Tool?"

Created by gods far more powerful than those three, they create the multiverse. Tools for gods to create perfection.

"Are you one of these Elder Gods too?"

This question goes unanswered, interrupted by the second most horrible sound I have ever heard. The three gods bound cried out in one single roar. Their bodies began to turn to stone, losing all color similar to how this vision first started, grey and lifeless, dead, truly dead. Ultimate death, powerful enough to claim a god's life. The men, woman, and Ethan looked horrified, some of the pokémon in the streets were shaking like leaves in a hurricane, so were the grunts, some of them had even pissed themselves at the death wail. Five minutes had passed in silence; you could hear a leaf drop from a mile away. No one had even taken a breath since the gods had died.

The sky darkened, storm clouds began to funnel around the final resting place of the stone statues. Meer shadows of their former glory and power. The clouds continued to darken, getting thicker, swirling faster. Even as a ghost I felt absolute terror.

With the death of their brothers, the other gods have begun to move.

I could hear it from everywhere roars, huge and powerful echoed across the forests surrounding the city and through the mountains. I could feel the ground shake as huge heavy footfalls reverberated through the land. Within moments of the sky darkening pokémon only told in legends had amassed around the cities borders, just standing waiting. "DODOGYUUN!" The roar came from everywhere and nowhere, from the very air itself and yet at the same time there was no air to breath. The being who released this roar was undoubtedly an Elder God, the creator of all pokémon, Arceus.

Correct.

The clouds had finally parted, revealing at least the one part of his body, even that was nearly too painful to look at. Two groups of parenthesis, supported by four spokes, two for each set of parenthesis. The single icon used in the Sinnoh's worshipping of Arceus. In the center of the partial circles a ball of light was forming, growing and expanding, before he finally released it. Hundreds of rainbow colored lights erupted from the single sphere; the blasts are the same colors as the eyes. The pokémon and grunts began to running around in a panic, Giovanni yelled at the Weavile, "THIS IS YOUR FAULT CYRUSS I SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE!"

The blasts of light began landing on the outskirts of the ruined city, huge explosions erupted wherever they hit. Some of the clouds changed depending on the original color of the blast, some were purely fire, others appeared to be freezing as they moved upward, toxic clouds of gas rolled from the impact, or even stranger huge trees grew in place of the explosions. The blasts began moving inward closer and closer to the stand where the three god statues now stood. Closer to my son. Ethan began to panic, as did the others on the platform, mostly they were focusing on the two leaders who had begun fighting. The blasts forgotten to them had reached within one mile of the group, but all too quickly the blasts hit the platform. "ETHAAAAAN!"

I jerked up in my bed, dislodging Ethan who had been sleeping next to me. "Dad?! Are you okay?" he asked worry written all over his face. I couldn't help myself, I hugged him. I hugged him as tightly as I could, with tears rolling down my face feeling his unscarred nodules under my paw. "Dad, you're squishing me and that tickles" he laughs.

"I know I'm sorry. I just love you so much you know that right?" he nods, "Okay you need to stay here. I need to go back to work all right?"

"Will Char be okay?"

"Yes I have an amazing lead, be good." He nods again as I leave him on my bed. My new lead that lead lawyer of Ketchum-Red, Ariana the Vileplume, was a member of Team Rocket and a high ranker at least if she was able to get that close to Giovanni.

"We have an appointment to discuss what has happened to Char, and the plans, to the Ketchum-Red board of directors in an hour, Detective Ferris. It is best that we get a move on." Captain Typhus states to the still slightly woozy feeling female Lucario. She nods as the elevator opens to reveal the winded looking Blaze.

"I know –gasp- where there's –gasp- a leak in –cough- Ketchum-Red!" Both Lily and Typhus raised their eyebrows at Blaze's statement.

"Let's discuss this in the elevator." The Captain states pushing Lily into the elevator before fallowing himself. "Now explain."

"Lily do you remember that Vileplume lawyer at Ketchum-Red? She is a member of Team Rocket!"

"Quite the accusation Detective, but do you have any proof?"

"Well yes, but don't ask it was from a confidential informant."

"That is a lie"

"Yeah, but no one outside of this elevator needs to know that." Lily smirks with a glamor of trickster in her eyes.

"This is why I like her" Blaze jokes, the Captain grimaced at the two of his detectives.

"Ah, Captain Typhus, you're right on time." The Pikachu President of Ketchum-Red's Board of Directors greeted Captain Typhus and his two detectives. They ignored him marching right to where Ariana was sitting.

"Miss please stand up." Captain Typhus orders the Vileplume, completely ignoring the Pikachu president.

"How DARE presume to order me," she spat, "I will do nothing that you order me!"

Captain Typhus nodded his head, "Ariana Fleur, you are under arrest for collusion with a terrorist organization." Lily recited as both she a Blaze forced the Vileplume out of her seat.

The Board room had gone deathly silent as the scene progressed, until only the shrill sound of Ariana's phone cut the silence. "Do you mind if I get that?"

"Actually yes we do" Blaze replied pulling up the Vileplume's small purse and bringing out the flip phone that was still that signaled a text message had been received. "Who are the Meowth twins?" Ariana said nothing, just glared at Blaze with a fire that would rival a Magmortar's own. "From Giovanni, permission to create ransom demand for the Charizard. Allowance to keep 25% of demand. Make drop at Blastoise's house, time Midnight tonight."

"Fucking idiots." She spat.

"I believe your charge has changed officers." The president stated, "Miss Fleur you are hereby, permanently dismissed, all of your hires will now be called in for question and may be dismissal as well. Captain Typhus I would appreciate your help in the procedure."

"I would be delighted." the Captain nodded, "Ladies and gentlemen please excuse us for our interruption." The Captain apologized, leading the two detectives and the Team Rocket lawyer out of the conference room.

They passed by the Houndoom lawyer waiting for the elevator to a lower floor. Ariana and Archer glance at each other their backup plan for capture passed between them. The elevator doors opened and the four pokémon walked in. "I told you Ariana embezzling would get you arrested." Archer laughed.

"Shut up you" she spat.

"Never"

"Mr. Archer please stop conversing with the prisoner." Lily requests.

"Once you let my teammate go I will." As soon as Archer had finished his statement a thick smokescreen had filled the cramped elevator.

"DON'T LET HIM TAKE HER!"

But it was already too late once Arian was freed from her handcuffs she had release he Stun Spore attack on the three police officers. The elevator dinged and the smoke poured out of the doors as they opened. The three stunned officers could do nothing as the two members of Team Rocket had escaped to a nearby staircase. Twenty minutes later the elevator was called up to another floor, the intern that was heading home for the day was scared shitless when the elevator doors opened to the three officers. Nearly six hours later the trio had been fully recovered and were debriefed by the Chief of Police and Detectives. Now they were rushing back to Blaze's house, though completely unlikely Blaze was praying that Char would still be there. They walk through the door to Blaze's house, already worried, it's nearly midnight, a weekend, and none of the lights were on. Blaze called out, "Ethan?"

No answer.

"Ethan are you asleep?"

No answer.

"Isn't it normal for him to be asleep by now?" Lily inquired.

"No, not on a weekend, he'd be up till one in the morning." Blaze answered moving towards the staircase. When a dark splotch catches his eye, several splotches, burns from Ethan's fire. Blaze's first thought was that he had invited a friend over and they got carried away, it wouldn't be the first time that he damaged the paint, Ethan is young he can't completely control his fires like an adult could. Blaze's assumptions take a complete 180 turn when he sees a kitchen knife sticking out of his son's door. When Blaze threw open the door to his son's room he found it in a state of complete disaster, his bed was turned over, the trophy for his pool tournament laid on the floor smashed flat, he had taken such care of it always polishing it for an hour when I told him to clean his room. Compared to the trophy the rest of the room seemed miniscule in comparison.

Blaze heard Lily gasp when she did finally joined him in Ethan's room, "I'm sure he's alright, right Captain?"

The Captain wasn't listening he was too busy reading the note that was speared onto Ethan's door, "I'm sure, in fact I think he's next door with the Mewtwo assassin, Michael, and… Char."

Blaze was up in a heartbeat, "Then let's go."

The trio traveled to the house next door as fast as the possibly could. The door was unlocked and the three of them cautiously walked into the dark house. Lily searched the wall for a light switch, she found one, the illuminated room had been cleared of all furniture, it looked pristine as if no one had ever lived there. They moved to the back of the house, again the room had been cleared. But from the glass door the three officers could see a light, burning low and golden; it was the fire from Char's tail. They walked out into the back, confronted by four other pokémon. Michael stood next to the crying Charizard; with the Blastoise's hand on his shoulder it was obvious that Michael was ready to push Char into the pool at a moment's notice. The Mewtwo assassin held Ethan by the scruff of his neck, far enough that Ethan's fire couldn't reach him. "Dad!"

"About damn time you showed up, and with a shiny member of my kind, how unexpected." The Assassin smirked.

"Why are you still here, surely Team Rocket would have told you to get out?" Lily asked.

"Oh they did," the Assassin replied, "but I couldn't give up the chance to torture a cop, well two really. And besides Giovanni already paid me so this activity is just icing on the cake." The Assassin tossed Ethan to Blaze, who caught his son with a thump.

Blaze put Ethan on the ground, "Go back to the house now."

"No."

"Listen to your father Ethan." Typhus ordered.

"You should listen to your elders brat. This meeting is for grown-ups only." Michael snapped. But Ethan stood his ground even though Blaze could see his tiny legs quiver slightly.

"You don't talk to my son that way you fucking bastard!" Blaze roared taking a step forward only to be stopped by Typhus.

"Don't make any sudden movements and Char will take a tail first dive into the pool." Typhus's message urged caution. But all Blaze could see was Arceus destroying Viridian City's remains.

"What do you want? What are your demands?" Lily asks.

Michael was the first to speak, "We want the standard rate for a kidnapped officer of Ketchum-Red and a plane to the Orre region."

"Why the Orre region?" Ethan whispered to Blaze.

"They don't allow any expedition to any other region no matter the charge" Typhus answered.

"Oh."

Lily had been on the phone since the Assassin had made his demands, "Fine the president of Ketchum-Red has approved your demands. You will let Char go before you get on the plane."

"No, Char wings," Michael tugged on the large, bandaged, appendage making Char whimper in pain, "He can use them to get out of the plane."

"No! You leave him on the tarmac." Blaze nearly shouted.

"If you want him to live then you'll do as WE say Detective Blaze Haunter."The assassin growled.

Detective Lily Ferris prided herself on being the strongest fighter in the police force, as a fighting type primarily she prided she let her fists lead her in most of her troubles. She was shocked to be the first to notice that Ethan was no longer by his father's side. He was in fact moving, along the fence line, towards Char and the two other men. She didn't say anything, she just tensed for the fight that was sure to follow whatever brash movements the brave, or crazy, little Cyndaquil was about to do. "Very well, but we will escort you to the airport." She states.

"That is agreeable." The Assassin says.

By now Captain Typhus had noticed the sneaky little Cyndaquil; his message to Lily was short but urgent, "Watch him."

Blaze on the other hand was still too busy glaring death at Michael to notice how his son had sneaked off. "Captain Typhus, how much interaction with our kind have you had?"

"None." The Captain stated

"Then you should know, that the physic communication we use is an open book to others of our kind." The assassin smirks, a Shadow Ball forming in his hand. "Think again boy." The assassin spun around, his hand holding the Shadow Ball took a long arch before releasing the shadowy energy. The Shadow Ball hit the ground just in front of Ethan, sending him flying into the pool.

Blaze watched as his son flew through the air and landed in the pool. He began to panic; he could feel the electricity forming around his fisted paw, and while the others we still focusing on Ethan swimming back to the edge of the pool, he charged at Michael. The Blastoise turned his head just as Blaze's Thunder Punched connected with the side of Michael's head. There was a peal of thunder as the electricity was released from Blaze's paw; it hit the Assassin's hastily raised Protect and Char, who screeched in pain. Blaze momentarily berated himself for being so reckless near the flying sub-type; it didn't last long as a Hydro Cannon connected with his own chest. "You're gonna regret that pig."

He looked over at Lily and Captain Typhus. Lily lay on the ground, unconscious, the Captain stood in front of her, both he and the Assassin had looks of concentration on their faces, and the way the air moved told Blaze that they were having a physic battle. Off to the other side Char, who seemed to be suffering from paralysis lay curled off to the side near the pool, and Ethan was standing a safe distance away from the ensuing battle. "If it's to protect my son and the pokémon I love, I'LL NEVER REGRET!" Blaze roared, crouching leveling his nodules to Michael's chest, he unleashed Eruption on the Blastoise, hitting hard.

The Blastoise went flying, hitting the wooden fence connecting Char's house to Blaze's, utterly destroying it. Blaze laughed as Michael staggered to get up, and failed. After Michael's second attempt Blaze rushed over to Char. "Char, I'm sorry that you got the ricochet, I wasn't in control."

He was sobbing, "Blaze I'm so sorry I ran away, you were right Michael only loved me because of my money."

"It's alright Char, I love you for you. I could care less about Ketchum-Red; give it to Team Rocket for all I care. But don't really because that would be really bad." Char laughs at my little joke. "Now go and wait with Ethan."

Char scrambles over to where my son sits as I turn to glare at Michael who has finally managed to stand up. "It looks like Char finally realized what you are Michael."

"So what he was getting to whiney ever since the little bitch meet you."

"He's not a bitch! He's Char a wonderful, handsome, kind Charizard. AND YOU'VE NEVER DESERVED HIM!" Blaze yells releasing another Eruption. This time Michael retreats into his shell when the fire hits. HE's thrown back but doesn't take any damage.

The Blastoise's shell began to rotate at a high speed, before launching directly at Blaze. It took all of Blaze's speed to dodge Michael's Rapid Spin attack. It sailed past Blaze, skipped across the pool; both Ethan and Char had to duck to avoid decapitation, before slamming into the fence behind the two non-combatants. Ethan was struggling to help the paralyzed Charizard up to get him away from Michael. Blaze was running as fast as he could to get between the Blastoise and the paralyzed Charizard. He wasn't fast enough there was a roar and a deafening splash, Char and Ethan were know where to be seen.

"CHAR!"

So I haven't done this in a while but this is pure fanfiction and not for profit. Sorry this was ready a while ago and I was waiting for my friend to edit it for me cause let face it I SUCK AT EDITING :) you all know it too. Pokémon belongs to its rightful owner. And the Elder tools and Elder Gods belong to Jagex. Please R&R.