Turn 08: A long Forgotten Heroine
Location: Mistralton City
Time: 7:22 AM August 14th
Condition: Rainy
"Oh great." Cross whined. "We finally get out of that musky cave and it's raining."
"That's just our luck." Rosa reminded him walking out of the cave with him.
"Ah, it's been so long since I've been here." Chris said entering the city.
"Did you used to live here Chris?" Rosa asked.
"Yeah this is where I was born." Chris explained before giving a distressed look. "What is this? I've never seen Mistralton look so gloom before."
"Maybe it's the rain?" Cross suggested.
"No, it's raining here most of the year. There isn't a single person out at all." Chris explained. "What happened here?"
"Betrayal, murder, and oppression." They heard Lelouch's answer as he emerged from the cave right after CC and Ohgi. "In short the worst kind of tragedy imaginable. Esteemed members of Team Plasma, you've been wondering the past week what our next move, our next objective would be, here it is."
"Enough smoke and mirrors Lelouch, this is my home I want to know what happened." Chris told him.
"Fine then, I will enlighten you on exactly what happened here." Lelouch began. "It started a few months ago when Team Rocket was still a fairly new presence in Unova. As Team Rocket's strength and boldness grew the Gym Leaders started to step up against them. Amongst one of the most vocally against the growing tide was the Gym Leader here in Mistralton. She wasn't just vocally against them either; she had completely removed their presence from here all the way to Twist Mountain. To the others she was like rallying leader, a shining example of the Anti-Rocket Regime; that is until Proton got tired of her."
"What'd they do?" Blake asked.
"They quite literally pulled her by the hair out of her own gym and proceeded beat her and her pokémon." Lelouch said throwing a few photographs on the ground.
"Oh my…" Rosa gasped. "I've never seen so much blood."
"These were sent to the other Unova Gym Leaders. She was now involuntarily an example of what happens when you oppose Team Rocket." Lelouch told them.
"Did Team Rocket kill them?" Blake asked.
"Officially, she has gone missing. Unofficially, she is held in a cage hanging from her former gym, held there by Team Rocket's appointed gym leader. Her pokémon weren't so lucky. The new gym leader treats this city like his own personal kingdom and strikes down any who may oppose him." Lelouch concluded. "As the final remnants of Team Plasma it is our solemn duty to avenge the deaths of these innocent pokémon and liberate this city!"
"Alright then." Chris raised a fist. "What's the strategy?"
Starting its decent into the Mistralton Airway was a cargo plane through the rain and winds. "Gidra, Smack Down!"
Flying up from the corner of the airport, a large rock flew and hit the right wing of the plane knocking it right out of the sky and sending it spiraling towards the ground. Several Rocket grunts and their pokémon sprinted to get out of its way as it landed and skidded to the Mistralton Gym on the other end of the airport. Following the plane as it made its way towards the gym was Rosa and Blake riding En and Zack.
Leaping off their steeds Rosa commanded En to stomp a nearby Kadabra while Blake commanded Zack to use return on a raticate. Emerging from the darkness C-Sharp night slashed a Kadabra with Chris following closely behind.
Gidra and Cross started towards the battlefield working their way through a couple of enemies. Emerging from the rear of the trails the airplane dug up as it rolled across the airstrip was Lelouch and CC being led by Ohgi. The battle for Mistralton City had just began.
Kyouhei emerged from the Chargestone Cave keeping a wary eye out for Team Plasma or Lelouch. He looked around his surprisingly quiet surroundings. The quiet however was quickly shattered when suddenly he heard a loud crashing sound. He turned westward to see an airplane spiraling out of control into the airport.
He gasped at the sight and drew his two poké-balls. In a flash of energy Riley the braviary and Mako the dewott appeared. "Come on guys, we've got work to do."
Kyouhei started out for the crash site. He had no evidence suggesting it, but he knew that only one person could be behind this, "Lelouch. I'm coming for you."
Running up to the scene Kyouhei and his pokémon were immediately met with Rockets and their pokémon. Two Kadabra, a raticate and a raichu. The raichu was the obvious and current threat; he'd need to get rid of him ASAP. "Crush Claw and Revenge you two." Kyouhei shouted.
"This is the warehouse Lelouch wanted us to keep track of right?" Blake asked backing up against a wall outside in the rain. "Cause if it isn't I'm going to kill someone.
"Can you focus?" Rosa asked. "We've kind of got more important things to deal with.
Standing before their pokémon was a Nidoking and Nidoqueen. "Haha, you Plasmas hold no candle against the Namazu Twins of Team Rocket!"
"Tremble in fear as we destroy you with our earthquakes!" The other added.
"Dang it, where did these ridiculous idiots come from." Rosa said pointing at the Nidoking. "En, flame charge!"
"Zack, use return on that nidoqueen!" Blake commanded.
"Earth power nidoqueen!"
"Crunch that Rapidash in half!"
Charging forward En managed to hit the nidoking but it didn't seem to deal too much damage against him. It seemed that was Zack dealing more damage with a harsh return on the nidoqueen. Nidoking lunged forward attempting to crunch down on En but she managed to dodge it rather smoothly, but Zack wasn't so lucky as a mass of earth lunged up from underneath him blasting him with a super effective hit.
"Dang it, you okay Zack?" The Zebstrika seemed to shake off the blow rather well considering the situation.
"Haha, you're Zebstrika will not be so lucky next time." One said before barking out another order. "Nidoqueen finish it off with a body slam!"
"Zack quickly, ion deluge!" Zack shouted.
"Nidoking, use horn attack!" The other commanded.
"En, try and finish this off quick as you can with a flare blitz!" Rosa said.
Charging up with a massive flame trailing behind her En crashed right into the nidoking horn first and the flames trailing behind suddenly exploded forward enveloping the target. The flames were so intense they mildly damaged En and almost took the Nidoking down but not quiet. The Nidoking surprisingly aimed for Zack alongside the nidoqueen, they were determined to finish off Zack for good. As they surrounded him Zack let loose an electric surge which enveloped his enemies. The both of them landed direct hits but Zack seemed to grow stronger from the attack. Hm, you should have gone with another earth power. When I use ion deluge all normal type attacks become electric type making Zack resistant to them. On the down side I won't be able to attack this next turn.
"En, finish off that nidoking with another flame charge!" Rosa commanded.
"Zack double team." Blake ordered.
"Earth Power!" the both of them commanded at once.
Zack began to move so fast that there were after images of him following wherever he moved which made it hard for the nidoking and queen to decipher his moves and both of them missed. En then landed the final blow knocking the nidoking out.
"Dang it," The second slammed his boot into the ground in rage before returning the nidoking to his poké-ball and taking out another. Out of the poké-ball came an unfortunate tentecruel. "Tentecruel use hydro pump on the Rapidash."
"Zack use volt switch on the Tentecruel."
"En stomp that nidoqueen down."
"Stop that Zebstrika with another earth power nidoqueen!"
Leaping forward enveloping himself in electric energy Zack landed a super effective blow on the tentecruel knocking it straight back at the one who summoned it. As the nidoqueen was about the summon up its earth power En leapt backwards stomping the nidoqueen causing it to flinch and mess up the move.
"We've got this in the bag now." Blake said.
"Ohgi roar!" Lelouch ordered. Ohgi did as commanded and sent the Rocket's pokémon running.
"C-Sharp Pursuit!" C-Sharp chased his enemies with deadly pursuit. He leapt from enemy to enemy slashing them to the ground with great prejudice.
A haunter floated up trying to grab Lelouch with his shadow claw but Tyranitar crunched the ghost pokémon and tossing him aside as they continued. Unbothered by the attack Lelouch lifted his wrist to speak into his transceiver "Rosa, Blake, a rock pokémon 3o'clock. Cross a haunter's approaching from behind."
"You sound used to control." Chris commented.
"Focus on the battle, you can ask me trivial things later." Lelouch said as they continued towards the Mistralton Gym.
"Fine, do you want me going with you into the gym?" Chris asked.
"No, I'll trust you all with the fight out here; most dangerous foes have been dispatched with. Rosa and Blake have control of the south-east warehouse where all their full restores and revives are. I just need you to keep them out of the gym, while I check the king." Lelouch explained.
"Okay, whatever." Chris said as Lelouch walked into the gym.
"What's going on out there?" A boy on the inside of the gym asked into his x-transceiver. He had long red hair an irritated frown and black eyes. He wore a black coat lined with red and a navy blue pants.
Before him was a massive pile of plane debris and of what used to be the front wall of the building. The flames and smoke towered so high that even though there was nothing physically between him and the outside he couldn't see a thing.
"Somebody's come to put you in your place." A woman muttered down at him. She was trapped from a bird cage hanging from the ceiling of the gym. She had long maroon hair and blue eyes. She wore a red vest and brown shorts.
"Shut up Kallen, I didn't ask you." He shouted at her.
"Silver." He heard an all too familiar voice coming from outside. Walking through the flames and smoke and down the rubble and debris was Lelouch. "It's been too long."
"Lelouch. When I heard rumors that you'd joined Team Plasma, I couldn't believe my ears. When I saw you on TV I almost couldn't believe my eyes." Silver told him. "And to think, that after all this time you'd actually join Team Plasma, I really do feel like I've gone crazy. What happened to you Lelouch? You were once one of the greatest trainers in the game. Now you're just some street thug leading a group of pokémon rights activists."
"I have changed. I fight to liberate pokémon, and obliterate any who stand in my way, you included." Lelouch told him.
"Oh really?" Silver asked. "Did you have this revelatory decision before or after my father had your pokémon butchered?"
"And what about you, Silver, last I checked you hated Team Rocket just as much as I did." Lelouch pointed out changing the subject.
"No, I hated that bastard claiming to be my father. Now that he's out of the picture I feel more comfortable here than I ever out of it." Silver explained.
"Well at least we still both agree your father was a bastard." Lelouch said. "Speaking of which, I've got a few questions for you."
"If you want answers." Silver took out a poké-ball. "Come and take them from me!"
"If that's the way you want to have it." Lelouch said as Ohgi walked up beside him from the wall of smoke.
"A Tyranitar, this really will be like old times won't it?" Silver pointed out.
"Come on is that all you've got?" Kyouhei asked before the x-transceiver in his bag suddenly started ringing. Kyouhei then held up a finger as if asking his attacks to stop for a minute. "Oops, one moment please."
He took the transceiver out of his bag and placed it on his open wrist. He continued to hold up the finger and the two grunts shrugged as they saw him ignoring them. He clicked the answer button and was immediately greeted warmly by Ruri's voice, which was positively beaming with joy today. "Hay Kyouhei-chan, I'm on break, and I thought I'd call you. Oops, it's okay if I call you Kyouhei-chan right?"
"Yeah that's fine." Kyouhei agreed.
"Really that's great." Ruri's voice seemed to get even more joyful.
Kyouhei accidently put down his finger signaling to the grunts that he was done. When he realized his mistake, he covered the microphone on the transceiver before commanding Mako to use razor shell and Riley to use crush claw.
"You know I was watching this weird show last night, it was called Vampire Academy or something like that. It was about this girl who goes to vampire school to learn how to defend herself and those she'd be sent to protect. She goes on a myriad of vampire adventures, you know, just normal/weird vampire stuff." Ruri explained.
"Yeah." Kyouhei was doing his best to listen to what she was saying, and was doing a pretty good job of it, but he was in a bit of a situation right now. "It doesn't sound different from any other vampire show to me."
"That's what I thought until suddenly the girl I plaaa—I mean the main character starts falling for this thirty some-year old guy who's also her school instructor. Weirder then that, he starts falling for her too. I was kind of wondering what you thought about that." Ruri stated.
"So, what you're telling me is that some teacher starts falling for this girl who is, how old again?" Kyouhei asked for confirmation.
"Um, just around our age." Ruri told him.
"And she starts falling for him back?" Kyouhei confirmed.
"You've kind of got it a little backwards there but that's pretty much how it goes. Plus their both supposed to be vampires." Ruri explained.
"No, that's definitely weird, doesn't matter if your pokémon, human, or vampire, cradle-robbing is just wrong." Kyouhei explained his status on the subject. He cursed under his breath as he noticed another electric pokémon headed his way.
"Cradle-robbing? That's a bit of a harsh way of putting it, don't you think?" Ruri was shocked by his rather blunt wording.
"Well yeah Ruri-san, what you've just described to me is practically its definition." Kyouhei told her.
"Yeah, your right." Ruri said. "I guess it just sounded a little more romantic on paper."
"Oh no I'm sorry. I'm a bit of a realist, and I kind of just rained reality down on a fantasy construct." Kyouhei stated before ordering his pokémon to do a, "pincer movement".
"No, its fine, I thought it was kind of weird too." Ruri told him. "But everyone I talk to seems to think that it's just such a romantic and wonderful thing. It's kind of nice to hear someone else with the same opinions, you know?"
"I totally get that, I generally have a hard time finding someone I really agree with too sometimes, although on completely different subjects." Kyouhei explained. "Oh crap, Mako, quick cover Riley with revenge!"
"Um," Ruri blinked. "Are you in the middle of a pokémon battle?"
"No, I mean, yes, I mean…" Kyouhei sighed trying to explain himself while trying to control the situation he was currently in.
"It's okay; Kyouhei-chan, if you want I can hang up and let you work on your battle." Ruri suggested.
"No, its fine really." Kyouhei reassured her dodging a bonemerang in the meantime. "My opponents are mostly pushovers anyways."
"Really Kyouhei, its fine, my breaks almost over anyways." Ruri explained. "Besides I should probably try and eat something before I head back into work anyways."
"You sure?" Kyouhei clarified.
"Yeah."
"Well sorry Ruri-San." Kyouhei said his farewell. "Talk to you later?"
"Definitely, bye Kyouhei-chan." Ruri said pretending to sound happy before hanging up.
"I'm really sorry Ruri-chan." He said to himself before giving his attention to the fray. "Riley, you okay? Then let's finish this punk with sky drop!"
Ruri sighed before lying her head down on the table in front of her. She rolled her head over to look at the semi-warmed sandwich in front of her and contemplated eating it before whipping her arm in front of her face. She stared at the screen which still had Kyouhei's name on it in kanji. She gave a little smile before the screen turned dark.
She rolled her head back into a comfortable position as if ready for a quick nap. "Kyouhei-chan." Ruri repeated closing her eyes.
"Dang it Lelouch!" Silver cursed. "Gengar use shadow ball!"
"Useless! Ohgi, ignore the shadow ball and finish it off with a crunch!"
The Gengar threw an orb full of ghostly energy at Ohgi. It hit but Ohgi seemed to brush it off without much trouble at all as he stomped up and bit into the Gengar. He threw the Gengar into the ground unconscious.
"Surrender now Silver." Lelouch commanded. "And I may allow you to live after today, despite your crimes."
"I've still got one more pokémon Lelouch." Silver took out a final poké-ball. In a flash of energy a Feraligatr appeared stomping up in front of him.
Lelouch began to laugh at him. "What are you laughing at you freak? I have a type advantage over you."
"Feraligatr, I command you," Lelouch raised up an arm covering his left eye. As he lifted his hand his eye came into view. Silver almost gasped as he saw how the eye glowed with a mysterious sigil replacing his iris. "When I drop this arm, kill your master!"
"What?" Silver gasped before the Feraligatr turn to face him. "What is this?"
"It's the power of evolution." Lelouch told him. "Now I have a few questions for you Silver."
"Anything, I'll tell you anything." Silver stuttered.
"The assassin your father contracted, what is his name?" Lelouch demanded.
"The what?" Silver asked.
"His name." Lelouch demanded. "Now!"
"I don't know, only an executive would know." Silver explained.
"Like Proton?" Lelouch asked.
"He's too new to the group. Archer, Arianna, either of the two would know." Silver explained.
"Then I'll need to have Proton replaced. Thanks, but now you're useless to me." Lelouch was about to let his arm down when suddenly a wave of energy surged through the area. He could feel a powerful pokémon had just been released from his capsule.
"You're losing control of the Feraligatr." CC reminded him.
"Crap." Lelouch said refocusing himself, but it was too late. The Feraligatr shook his head as if snapping out of confusion. "Quickly Ohgi, get him with a crunch!"
"Way ahead of you." Ohgi leapt forward jaws opened.
Silver realized this was his chance. "Feraligatr, Hydro Pump!"
Ohgi got up to the Feraligatr biting into him just before he shot his hydro pump. The Feraligatr's attack was knocked off course hitting the roof and even tearing open the cage Kallen was in. She took a look down and decided she'd risk it, she leapt down.
He needed to grab her before she hit the ground, her legs were likely to break if she landed wrong especially in her condition and getting caught by Ohgi wouldn't be much better. Lelouch managed to get there but just barely. She was a lot heavier then she looked and Lelouch was forced right onto the ground making a nice cushion for her fall. She was fine but the wind was thoroughly knocked out of Lelouch. In the meantime Silver had been making his way out the door. Kallen got up and started towards Silver.
"Wait." Lelouch cried.
"Hay, a little help over here." Ohgi said.
"Right," Lelouch said. "Use screech!"
As Silver made his way to an exit that wasn't destroyed, Kallen leapt out forcing him to the ground. She jumped down and began to beat on him senselessly. "You killed them!" She cried as she beat him. "You killed them, how could you do that?"
"Kallen stop!" Lelouch shouted walking up to her. The battle against the Feraligatr didn't last for very long. Once Kallen heard his voice she began to slow down until he was out cold. She began to pant heavily, the wounds she was still healing from had all opened and she began to bleed out.
"Agh!" Kallen punched him one last time for good measure before standing up. She gave Lelouch a scowl. The wounds took their toll on her. She started to fall but Lelouch managed to grab her before she landed on the ground.
"Come on, we need to get moving." Lelouch said dragging Kallen's mostly limp body outside. "CC keep an eye on Silver for me will you?"
"Whatever." CC sighed.
Chapter start: /watch?v=EHcVzeVD0MU
first page break: /watch?v=3uc-A1TnXpg
Sixth: /watch?v=7p8oa1p0K4o
Seventh: None
Ninth: /watch?v=M69cSolmETA