Chapter 10: Returning Home… Again
Lillie was awoken by Crystal shouting, "We come in peace! We are here to deliver a friend and we promise to steal none of your Pokemon… probably!"
Lillie stood up and saw that the five of them were hovering over the Aether Paradise. She saw Gladion, Lusamine, and Hau all on the building. She heard Gladion call up, "Land your Lugia and we'll talk!"
When they landed Crystal had her Lugia return to its pokeball, when Gladion walked up to them, not noticing Lillie. He then said, "You all are under arrest. I'm a member of the Inter…" he faltered when he saw Lillie. "Lillie, what are you doing with them? Aren't these the people who stole Null?"
Crystal grinned and said, "Correction: I stole Null, not the others."
Gladion glared at her before Lucas said, "Look, we don't have much time. Long story short, you're little sister here," he gestured at Lillie, "Was kidnapped by the Corps of Silence, I'm sure you've heard of them, which the four of us were are part of. Well, we wanted out, and were planning on escaping, but this one," he pointed at the fourth former admin, "Refused to leave without her, so we had to make a side trip, which almost got us all killed I might add," Lucas continued glaring, "So we broke her out, and escaped. We brought her here because she would be safest here." Gladion was completely wide eyed at this point. Gladion then tried to regain his composure, and said, "If that's case…" he looked at Lillie who nodded in confirmation, "Then you have my thanks."
"And mine," added Lusamine gratefully. She and Hau had joined the conversation half way through but still understood what had happened.
Hau said, "We'll make sure she's safe. What are you guys going to do?"
Green said sadly, "We don't know. We'll probably going to try and find our old friends, but there's no guarantee they'll forgive us."
Lucas said gravely, "We've done some pretty evil things over the last few years."
The fourth admin said, "But I do know what we will do for sure."
Everyone looked at him, confused. "We will fight against the Corps." Then he looked at Green and said, "And your friends will forgive us."
"How do you know that? It's not like you've met them," Green said.
"Because if they want any hope of destroying the Corps, they'll have to."
They all stood, looking at each other saying nothing, before Crystal said as she sent out her Lugia, "We should probably get going."
The four former admins climber onto it's back and it started to take off. Just before it started to fly off, Lillie called to the fourth former admin, "Hey, you still haven't told me your name!"
The man just turned around and smiled, while Gladion, who was standing next to her said to her, astonished, "Wait, you seriously don't know who that was?"
Lillie looked at her brother and said, "Wait, you do?! You saw him for maybe four minutes and you figured out who it was?"
Gladion just facepalmed and said as Lugia was flying off, "Yeah Lillie, I did. I'm more surprised you don't."
Lillie said, "Well who was it?"
Gladion shook his head but said nothing. She looked at Lusamine and Hau, who were both smiling. "You guys to?"
Hau laughed and said, "I thought it was pretty obvious."
Before Lillie could get to mad she remembered the letter the man had given her to give to Gladion. "Oh brother." Gladion looked at Lillie. "That man gave me this to give to you."
She handed the letter to Gladion, who opened it and read it. While he read it, he nodded. When he finished, he folded it back up and put it in his pocket. He then called a Aether employee over and said, "Get me a ship to Johto as quick as you can."
"Sir, if we start preparing now, it will be done around midnight. Are you sure?" asked the employee.
"Yeah, I'm sure. Get it ready."
"Why are you going to Johto?" asked Lillie, though she already knew the answer.
"He asked for me to come to Johto to meet him," Gladion replied, knowing it was useless to lie to Lillie.
"Well then I'm going," Lillie said plainly.
"No!" Gladion, Lusamine, and Hau all said at one, which hurt Lillie's feelings. Gladion then continued, "Look in the letter, he explains how you were targeted THREE times by these people. Twice in Hoenn, once in Kanto. He specifically says for you to stay here."
"But, but," Lillie started, but she decided against arguing. She knew the three wouldn't agree to letting her go.
Lillie had decided to go straight to her room and lock herself in. In the last three days, she had almost been kidnapped, met the Champion of Hoenn and his wife, met Crystal, though didn't know her name at the time, climbed up the entire Sky Pillar, gotten kidnapped, met the boss of the Corps, got broken out by some of the people who put her in there, and taken home, where she was now being forced to stay. Can things suck even more, she thought. Then she remembered, Oh yeah, I never found Sun in Hoenn.
She was going to continue mopping when she heard a knock at the door. She looked at her clock and saw it was ten till midnight. Probably Gladion saying bye, Lillie thought, might as well say good bye. She opened her door, but only saw a box on the floor. She looked around but saw no one. She grabbed the box and brought it into her room. She opened it and saw two things. A flute, and a note which read,
"Hey Lillie. I know what you've been told, but I also know you're going to go anyway. We'll be in Goldenrod City gym tomorrow night. Don't be late.
~Green, with a little bit of May's help"
She looked at the flute and saw it was the same flute May used to summon Latias to fly her. She smiled. At least there were some people who still believed in her. She grabbed the flute and walked outside and played it. She waited a second, and she saw Latias flying towards her. The Latias smiled when she saw Lillie. Lillie climbed on top of the Latias, who took off as soon as she was on.
"You know where we're going right?" Lillie said, and then heard a voice in her head say, "Of course. Goldenrod in Johto. May's already told me what's happening."
Lillie said in an astonished tone, "You can talk?"
The Latias giggled and said, "Most of us legendaries can. Now get some sleep. It'll take us a while to get there."
Lillie rested her head on the Latias and fell asleep.