Chapter 10- The mysterious chamber
"Keep moving." I felt a rough shove by one of the thugs. It was hard thinking of how I was going to pull this off and walking against your will at the same time. When we were waking we were suddenly halted. "Stop here." The lead thug said.
"Did you find what I asked you?" A woman's voice asked. Floodlights turned on. I discovered I was in an underground base. I could see the woman clearly now. She was in a black lab like jacket and wore a pair of dark glasses.
"Is this an excuse for a trainer?" She scoffed disapproving of me.
"No ma'am this is who this kid brought. It's not our fault." One of the grunts said.
I felt less of a guard on me so I had my chance at the right moment I would break free and hide away for a while. I would only hope that they would not catch me later on.
"She'll have to do." They then started to talk amongst themselves leaving me totally unguarded this was my chance to break away, slowly. I looked back to see a dark corner and near it was a wide open door. I slowly tiptoed to it not daring to make a sound.
"What do you think you're doing?" A voice said angrily it was a thug. I tried running but he barred my way. He grabbed me and dragged me. I made no protest while being dragged back to where I was. The woman looked furious that they let me escape for a moment.
"Who wasn't watching her?" The woman yelled glaring at the soldiers "Do you know what would of happened if she had escaped to tell the police or something. We'd get in trouble." The woman sighed and calmed herself. "It seems like no one knows who let her escape so let's just make sure she can't anymore. You know where to take these two."
The girl panicked looking wild. "You said if I brought that girl to you. You would release my father!" I looked at her still feeling compassion even though she dragged me into a dangerous situation it was hard not to.
"I changed my mind. I still need your precious father and I don't need you in the way. Be quiet before I change my mind." She growled causing the girl to be silent with fear.
"Hey that hurts." I lied, I did protest when I was being dragged. They took us to a dark corridor where we couldn't see what was happening. All I knew was that we were being dragged in a dark tunnel the strange echoing from the wind outside. A small amount of hope filled me there was a way out.
"Get in here and stay quiet until we tell you otherwise." They slammed a cage door in the dark I knew it was a holding cell but nothing else.
"Who's there?" A feeble voice came from the dark letting chills going down my spine. "Is that you Rose?" The man said.
"Yes it's me father. I'm here." Rose cried out to her father at least they were reunited. "Are we going to get out of here?" She whimpered asking her father.
"No I'm afraid we're at the mercy of those who captured us."
"Okay as long as we stay together." Rose said sweetly. I couldn't believe how empty of hope they had. Of course we need to get out! I needed to get out to fight my gym battles and complete my dreams. Now I just needed a plan, another good plan.
"We really need to see. I need a flashlight or something."
"But our torch is dead remember." Rose replied.
"Torch? No I mean flashlight. Oh wait, I gotcha." I thought that was about the problem then I got an idea. "Rose can't Flaffy charge it?" I asked.
"Oh yeah that's a great idea." She sent out Flaffy. "Charge the flashlight please." For a moment I thought I saw the electrical attack of Flaffy hit the flashlight and it flicked on.
Rose gave me the flashlight and I looked around being very cautious of any guard that was placed to keep us from escaping. But there was no one there just a locked door. I went over to the lock to see that it was locked with three sets and pinched in so it was hard to open in from the inside. We were trapped.
"Didn't you catch a pokemon? Maybe you can use that." Rose said and I admired the girl's awesome memory. I grabbed the Pokémon's pokeball and threw it. Out popped the pokemon I looked at the small floating pokemon and all it reminded me of was what I found in my alphabet soup.
"What a wonderful Unown I believe it's the letter V." Rose's father said. "By the way I don't think I've met you before. My name is Charlie and I'm a ruin seeker. I came by Johto to find some things in the ruins of Alph but never expected them. I thought team rocket ran around in Johto but they've must've been kicked out by this new organization." Charlie replied. "But maybe you can use that pokemon to break us out and we can escape."
"Why did they catch you anyways?" I asked the man.
"Because I knew the ruin so well they needed my knowledge and research plus we were in their way so they caught us and threatened my daughter. I'm so sorry." I felt inclined to forgive the man and his daughter after all they did it to save each other.
"All right I'll try." I stared at my pokemon "What moves can you learn?" I watched as the pokemon floated up and down in response then just for no reason in fact I thought that's all it could do. 'Great' I thought maybe Unown would distract our enemies by floating up and down maybe they would feel pity and let us go. Sure what a foolproof plan.
"Unown can use hidden power." Charlie said flatly.
"All righty then use Hidden power." I commanded. But Unown kept floating around. "Didn't you hear me I asked for hidden power!" Was I just that unlucky? Maybe hidden power was just hidden and I couldn't see what was happening. No, because if that was true we'd still be out right now. I kept thinking on how would I get my pokemon to attack. "Please." Boom! The door gave way with the attack. Oh great my pokemon demanded manners.
"Let's go!" Rose whispered not wanting to attract more noise than I have already. I kept on running with them Unown followed.
"What!" I shouted as a gigantic Tyranitar crashed in from the darkness and stopped us from going farther. Soon Charlie and Rose disappeared into the darkness and I was alone. The woman I saw earlier was with the Tyranitar. Following her in was a Misdreavous.
"Are you going to give up? Or are we going to have to do this the hard way?" The woman asked. I had no other choice but to obey. "Good choice girly." The woman smiled as I gave in not daring to attack. "But just in case Misdreavous psychic." I felt my arms and legs shoot out from under me I was being controlled by the Pokémon's psychic. "Come on you're so slow." The woman laughed as I clumsily walked to where she wanted. Tyranitar followed behind me.
"What do you need me for?" I asked.
"We need you to go into this chamber and fight whatever's in here so we may take the secrets inside." The woman said not even looking at me.
"But what if I fail. Then what?" I asked grumpily.
"Then you'd better hope that you don't fail." She replied darkly. "Here it is the chamber." The big doors towered over me and I watched as it echoed on the inside something was in there. "Go" I was pushed nearer and nearer the gate. 'I guess I'm as ready as I'll ever be.' I thought as I went willingly through the doors of my greatest adventure yet.