The wind blew hard in the faces of all the pokemon. For Salamence, Togekiss, Drifblim and Chatot it didn't feel too hard, but for Ruby, Riolu, Sunflora, Loudred and Corphish it did hurt their faces the faster they went, though it did feel better as the trip went on. As Ruby and Riolu got more use to their transportation, they were able to look down on the world below them, It was honestly a fantastic view; you could see the whole region from how high they were
"Beautiful isn't it?" Salamence asked the 2 apprentices
"Yeah it's amazing!" Riolu answered
"Yeah, ever since Togepi evolved into Togetic, I wanted to evolve and fly as quickly as possible. After joining the guild, the thoughts of exploring the world really helped motivate me even more. on top of getting to fly with. I remember the day we graduated was also the day I finally evolved into the pokemon I am today"
"Wow. You think we'll evolve when we graduate?"
"Probably. I mean of course you'll have to defeat the gui-"
"AHEM!" Chatot interrupted Salamence, giving him an intimidating stare
"Well, you'll worry about it when you get there"
"Man I can't wait till we become official explorers. Can't you Ruby?"
When Riolu looked over to his partner, he noticed that she was still looking down. However, she wasn't being amazed by the sight below them all. She looked like she was in a deep thought once again
"Ruby?" Riolu called to her attention once again
"Hu? What was it?" Ruby snapped out of it
"Are you ok Ruby? You've been very quiet during this mission"
"Yeah, it's just…" Ruby looked around too make sure the other pokemon weren't listening and made sure to whisper very quietly so that Riolu could hear her, but salamence couldn't "I had two dizzy spells from the poster"
"T-Two!?" Riolu yelled only to get a long "ssshhh!" from Ruby "When?" He started whispering like her
"When I got the wanted poster. The first was some guy's voice talking about cheating and surviving. I think it might have been Magmortar, but then I had another voice one where this girl sounded defeated where something happened. It sounded like I was there too"
"So you were in the second one… but do you think it will be something that will happen to us, or something that happened in the past?"
"I don't know. I mean none of the voices sounded like any of ours, but there is a possibility we'll meet the voices I heard in the future. This dizzy spell thing is really confusing me, especially when it's just voices"
"Everyone, get ready" Before Ruby could decide if the events she heard were from the past or future, Chatot gained the attention of everyone "We are about to pass over Treeshroud Forest, so don't be alarmed if you don't feel any wind or see anything moving below
Within a moment of Chatot saying that, his warnings were true. Salamence continued to move, as did the rest of Team High-Sky, but no one felt any wind in their faces. Ruby and Riolu looked to the side of Salamanca's wings to see that the forest below was a very dull and depressing grey. The tree's didn't shake, leaves stood still in the air, and if you looked really closely, you'd see that even water bouncing off leaves from the rainstorm that happened before time froze were still dropping onto the leaves. There were even a few pokemon frozen. While others were still colorful, moving and some even kneeling over their frozen friends, others were just that; frozen, completely still in some sort of pose. Besides a select few pokemon, everything in the forest was completely frozen
"It's still so unbelievable that someone was bold and or stupid enough to take a time gear" Salamence broke a noticeable silence
"It makes you worry about other time gears getting stolen" Togekiss added
"Yes, hopefully this culprit is taken down before anyone else can get hurt" Drifblim concluded
Ruby continued to look at the sad, sad sight. Who in their right minds would want to freeze time itself?
"Well the good news is that we'll be out of here soon" Salamence tried to cheer up the mood
"Yeah, I guess" Riolu, depressingly, agreed
"The bad news is that I found Magmortar's trail"
"How is that bad news?" Ruby asked
"Because his trail ends with smoke and fire"
Ruby and Riolu looked to where the Mystery Jungle was suppose to be. Instead, there was smoke and fire everywhere. Such a mood switch to go from being sad over the frozen forest below to being shocked at the sight of another green area catching fire. Either way, the mood still felt horrible"
"HAS THAT MAGMORTAR GONE INSANE!?" Loudred asked
"Why is he burning the jungle?!" Sunflora asked
"Hey hey, it looks like Magmortar didn't come alone"
Every pokemon looked straight ahead to see something flying through the smog. It was hard to make out, but it was clear it was some kind of bird pokemon. Soon the pokemon flew out of the dark cloud, revealing it's body to be made out of steel and reminiscence of a prehistoric flying dinosaur, except it's red wings looked more like a bird's than a dinosaur's. Those exact wing started getting shinier than it's whole body as it lunged towards the High-Sky leader
"Hold on tight, you two" Salamence told Ruby and Riolu
The team grabbed hold tight of his back as he nose dived below the attacking pokemon. Despite Ruby and Riolu's screams, Salamence looped above his attacker and started charging a blue fireball from his mouth
"Dragon Pulse!" The dragon shouted before firing and hitting the metal bird dead center. The attack made him lose his balance for a moment but he quickly recovered
"You're that Skarmory we locked up months ago!" Salamence recognized this flying pokemon "What are you doing?!"
"I'm joining a little group to help me get back at your team, Salamence" Skarmory gladly answered
"Is it the same group with Magmortar and Drowzee?" Ruby asked
"Well aren't you smart"
"But the note said that Drowzee was the first to get broken out!" Chatot claimed
"That doesn't mean he didn't break out anyone else. The New White Fang shall make you rue the day you locked us up!" Skarmory shouted with a wicked cackle
"White Fang?" Ruby questioned, the name sounding familiar for some reason to her
"Well unfortunately for you, Skarmory, you and your friends are going back to jail!" Salamence claimed
"Than it's lucky I'm not alone. Attack!"
Out of nowhere from the smog, dark blasts started firing towards the team. Luckily Team High-Sky was able to dodge the relentless attack with ease (while Chatot only barely dodged the attacks in his direction). Out of of the smog started coming these small black crows that had heads that looked like they were wearing hats
"Keep attacking, my Murkrow Army!" Skarmory commanded the crows
The Murkrows did as Skarmory told them to and all fired the same dark beams from their mouths. Team High-Sky had troubles dodging with everyone riding on them but they still were able to dodge all the attacks coming their way
"Togekiss, Drifblim"
"Right" Both pokemon understood
The flying type trio formed a triangle together in the air, with Salamence flying above Togekiss and Drifblim
"Protect!"
Both Togekiss and Drifblim formed a green barrier from their chests, protecting everyone from the barrage of dark pulses. Ruby and Riolu felt something hot boiling up from Salemence's back as his mouth started turning bright red
"Flamethrower!"
Like his Dragon Pulse, his mouth shot a blast of fire that didn't end, scorching as many Murkrows as he could, shaking his head to get some too. However, Skarmory dodged the Flamethrower and flew under the group of flying type pokemon. As he flew above again, he decided to get the pipsqueaks on the dragon's back off first, making Salamance go after them, leaving him wide open for him and the Murkrow to blast him out of the sky. His claws also stared to glow the same reflective metal as his wings were for his first attack. Unfortunately for our fierce bird, Ruby looked above and saw the attacking pockemon and acted fast
"Dizzy Punch!" Ruby's tall hear started to glow and sprang right in her opponent's jaw
Riolu saw Ruby's counter attack and decided to help get the bird out of here too "Force Palm!" He shouted as he put both hand on Skarmory's chest and fired off his attack, knocking the pokemon away, but not enough to stop him from continuing to dodge
"Dragon Tail!"
Salamence's tail started to glow the same light as his Dragon Pulse earlier and smacked away the metal bird to join his army, which was getting blasted away from Togekiss and Drifblim
"Why don't you give up, Skarmory?" Salamence asked "Even with our friend riding us, you can't stop us. You might as well tell Magmorter and Drowzee to turn all of you in, and-"
Before Salamence could finish, another attack came out of no where and hit Drifblim right in the face
"DRIFBLIM!" Salamence and Togekiss called out to their attacked friend
Drifblim tried to hold himself and Loudred up, but couldn't do it for much longer "I... I have to go down"
"SEE YOU GUYS SOON!" Loudred shouted as they both dropped to the ground
"I'll go down to make sure they're ok!" Chatot told Salamence "Keep sharp until we meet down there"
"Be careful!" The leader told his old authority as he flew down
"Who did that?!" Togekiss asked, incredibly angry at the action
The rest of the group looked up to see the Murkrows were parting away for yet another pokemon to show up. This one looked like a bigger, older version of all the Murkrows with his puffed up chest that had some white feathers in front of it. What truly caught everyone's attention about this pokemon, however, was how he had a strange looking mask that covered both his eyes
"You're all interfering with our mission" The pokemon said in a creepy voice, one that almost sounded familiar to Ruby "Leave now, or we'll all be forced to do so much worse that what I did to your friend there"
"Couldn't we do the worse than friend part now?" Skarmory asked the presumed boss of this squadron "I mean these guys are the guys who locked me up, and I was promised that you'd help me get back at-"
"She said we promised we'd help you get back at them" The pokemon interrupted the pokemon "I say, until you first succeed at a job we assign you, you won't be getting helping you out. So until you keep away these intruders while we get what we want, these pokemon won't get maned by any of us... yet"
Skarmory gave a defeated sigh "Understood, Adam"
"Adam?" Ruby whispered, the name sounding familiar to her somehow
"I take it you're with the Magmorter than?" Salamence asked, still not pleased about "Adam" shooting one of his friends
"I'm simply observing these guys to see how well they can do a job. That's none of your business though. I told you to leave, and I suggest you listen to me"
"You think that just because you threaten us means we'll run from a mission?" Ruby asked, angry at that mere thought "Well guess again, buddy; we're stopping you guys"
Skarmory cackled with glee "Well than that means we can tear you apart, right Adam?"
Skarmory looked up at his supervisor, but he wasn't paying attention. Instead, Adam was staring in shock at the buneary riding a salamences back, who was wearing a red hood. No one could see the fury in his eyes, but that fury started boiling up
"The girl in the hood..." Adam said quietly, but angry
"Uh... Adam? Are you al-"
"So you're here too, huh?" Adam interrupted the metal bird to talk to the bunny pokemon on the dragon pokemon "What, is my darling with you somewhere too?!"
"Your darling?" Ruby asked, very confused
"Or how about the blonde that took her from me?! Or the Schnee heirs?!"
"What?"
"Well it doesn't matter if you're here or not. All that means is once Cinder knows your here, we can finally get back at you all for stopping us"
"What are you talking about?" Ruby asked again to get no answer
"Continue attacking them. I'm going back to base to tell her"
"B-but you said you'd-"
"I said continue attacking them" Adam growled at his fellow bird
"Of-of course! Keep attacking!" Skarmory commanded the Murkrows
The Murkrows continued to fire dark blasts from their mouths to the explorers, allowing Adam to give this Cinder the news. Salamence, Chatot and Togekiss evaded their attacks, but were getting more tired from all the dodging and were all worried about Drifblim
"We need to get down!" Salamence commanded
The flying type pokemon followed his lead through the smoke and found a place to land for the riders to get off. However, Skarmory and the Murkrows still followed through. Having enough of them, Togekiss started charging a bright blue sphere on her wing
"Aura Sphere!"
Togekiss fired the sphere towards the incoming pokemon and hit with ease. The attack started dragging the it pokemon into the wave of murkrows until the wave imploded, scattering the murkrows and Skarmory. With time for a break before the next attack, the group went over to where Drifblim fell down to see loudred was patting down one if his limbs from some fire he caught
"Drifblim, are you ok?" Salamence asked
"Caught off guard by that attack, but otherwise ok"
They had little time to sigh in relief, as Skarmory and his Murkrows were starting to reform
"Looks like we aren't finished with them" Team High-Sky's leader growled
"You and Togekiss go fight them off, I'll help with the forest and Magmorter" Drifmblim told his teammates
"Are you sure you can help?" Togekiss asked, a little worried about leaving her teammate in a fire
"Judging from the size of this forest fire, they'll need as much help as they can get putting these fires out, and Skarmory isn't going to just let us do it" Drifblim explained
"Well you are the smartest one of us, so I guess you're plan should be a good one"
"I'll be fine, Salamence" said brains tried to comfort his team "These new explorers are pretty good"
"I can vouch for that" Chatot stepped in "We can handle this, no matter what"
Taking Chatot's word, Salamence and Togekiss nodded at each other and flew out of the smoke to battle the pokemon in the sky
Finally having some break time after their landing, Ruby took a look around the forest and was horrified; everyone was. Everywhere you looked, trees were on fire, Pokemon fled everywhere, and the ones that didn't flee were in great pains and burns. Ruby and Riolu noticed one pokemon laying down in front of a tree and went to help her out. This pokemon looked a lot like a bouquet of flowers, with her right hand looking like a patch of red flowers, he left blue, and her white hair combed back, helping her mask and cape stand out
"Miss Roserade, are you alright?" Chatot and everyone else came to the aid of the pokemon
"My... daughter" The Roserade mumbled
"What was that?"
"my... my-My daughter" Roserade realized, fully awakening her "She's still in there!"
The pokemon weekly tried to get out of Ruby and Riolu's grip to get into the burning tree behind them. Upon closer inspection, Ruby did see that this tree was indeed a house, with an open door, a couple windows and so on
"Hang on, I'll douse the fire" Corphish said as he started firing Water guns and Bubble Beams from his claws, which helped calm down the fires
With the entrence clearing up, Corphish and Loudred rushed inside the house to find this daughter of Roserade's. In no less tha a minuet, Loudred bursted out the door, holding a pokemon in his arms. This pokemon was quite small with a pointy head and hands that deffinatly looked like a part of Roserade's fammily, though she didn't have the cape or mask her mother had
"Roselia!" Roserade finally broke free and took the small pokemon out of Loudred's hands "Oh my sweet Roselia, you're alright!
"H-hang on! I think i have a rawst berry she can have" Riolu said as he dug into their team bag
As everyone else tended to the young pokemon, Ruby looked over the destruction. All she could think from this sight was the question "Who would do anything like this and why?" That question would have to wait for a moment, as she heard Roselia start to cough and wake up
"Oh thank Arceus you're alright!" Rosrade hugged her daughter even harder
"M...mom?" Roselia sensed as her eyes fluttered open
"Yes, don't worry, I'm here. It's thanks to these pokemon that you're safe"
"We're just glad that you're alright" Corphish said
"But... where's Nuzleaf?"
"Nuzleaf?" Corphish asked, confused
"Nuz... Nuzleaf!" Roselia climbed out of her mother's hands and tried to look for him "Where is he?"
"We didn't see ANY other pokemon in there" Loudred gave his best answer
"Oh no! Than that must mean he wen't after that Magmorter!"
"HE-HE WHAT?!"
"Why would he want to go after a criminal?!" Sunflora asked
"He's always talking about how he wants to be like the Shifty in that "Jungle Guardians" group, but I didn't think he'd go that far! We have to save him!" Roselia tried to run into the fire
"No!" Rosrade grabbed her daughter quickly "You can't go, it's too dangerous!"
"But if I don't, Nuzleaf will..." Roselia started to cry at the thought of it
"Don't worry"
Both rose pokemon locked eyes with a confident and determined looking Ruby "We'll find your friend, make sure he's safe, and take down Magmorter!"
"But-but he did all of this! Do you really think you can stop him?" Roserade asked with deep concern
"If we didn't try..." Riolu gained their attention "We wouldn't be explorers!"
Ruby smiled at her partner and how far they'd both come. To think that more than a week ago, she'd barley been able to take out some common rotten thugs and he'd been a scaredy cat that couldn't hurt a fly. Now they're determined to make sure that they take down these criminals and stop things like this from happening
"But what about the FIRE?!" Loudred asked "We CAN'T let this spread, CAN WE?!"
"Not if we split up into 2 teams; one to stop the fires, the other to stop Magmorter and Drowzee" Drifblim offered "Corphish, we may need you for the fire fighting team"
"Hey hey, wait a minute!" Corphish interrupted "They might need me to help with the Magmorter! I may not be a Crawdaunt, but i still have a type advantage"
"Type advantage doesn't mean automatic victory, it just means you have a better chance"
"Drifblim is right" Chatot agreed "Even if Magmorter escapes, the fire would still be an issue if we let it spread. I'll go with to help put the flames out"
"I will assist as well. You 4..." Drifblim looked at Ruby, Riolu, Sunflora and Loudred "Do you think you can handle it?"
"Absolutely!" Ruby answered
"We'll do out best" Riolu replied
"I'm positive we can do it!" Sunflora cheerfully claimed
"YOU BET!" Loudred shouted boldly
"Thank you" Roserade addressed the whole explorer group "Thank you all so much"
Roselia walked up to Ruby's group with hope in her eyes "Please, save Nuzleaf"
"We will, I promise" Ruby shook her red hand
"Alright than, we all know what our jobs are in this Jungle!" Chatot told the apprentices and explorer "Everyone, do your best!"
"HOORAY!" Everyone cheered
Chatot, Drifblim and Corphish wandered off into the fire, blowing out as much as they could, and the rest went the other direction to stop Magmorter
"We're coming for you, Magmorter!"
BOOM!
Another tree had been blown to smithereens, causing several pokemon like Bellsprout, Wurmple and Metapod to flee as fast as they could from the cause of it all; Magmorter and Drowzee. While Drowzee simply wanted to be proven as someone worth busting out, the Magmorter was having the time of his life blowing up these jungle critter's homes, forcing them to flee or, something he loved even better, watching them not run away in time
"Oh MEW!" the sadistic terrorist called out "Look what I'm doing to your precious jungle! If I were you, I'd come on out so we could discus some peace offering terms!"
"Do we really have to do this much... damage to get what we want" Drowzee asked, with clear hints of concern in his voice
The Magmorter simply laughed at the accusation "Oh Drowzee..." He shook the top of his head "If you want't to be a part of the new and improved white fang, that there are at least 4 life styles that you have to adopt. And they're-"
Before Magmorter could say what they were, someone kicked him in the back of the head, catching him off guard. He tried to grab the lucky shooter, but he'd jumped off the criminal before he could get caught. The pokemon seemed a little young with a green leaf on top his head, a pointed nose and knees that looked like they had knee pads on him
"You'd better get out of here, or else you'll have to deal with me; Nuzleaf!"
The fire type pokemon simply laughed the little "fighter" off "Yeah, I'm super scared of you kid. What are you gonna do, challenge me to a game of hopscotch?"
"No, I'll fight you!" Nuzleaf started to charge towards the mad pokemon again, with fury in his eyes "Faint Attack!"
Nuzleaf started to glow a dark purple and concentrated as much power as he could into his foot, and successfully kicked him in the face again, also giving him ground to jump even higher
"Now take some Razor Leaf!"
The brave kid flicked his leaf to point at his opponent and launched several small and sharp leafs, which he was able to block easily with his arms
"Now how about another-"
Before he could say what he would use again, and before he landed on the ground, Magmorter launched a flamethrower at this kid, hurting him much more than he though it would. Soon after landing with a hard thud, Magmorter ruched and stomped on the twerp's stomach, making it harder for the child to breathe
"I'll give you this much; you're one of the braver kids I've had the pleasure of beating the shit out of"
He pointed his gun-arm at Nuzleaf, who'd lost a great deal of his bravery
"But you aren't the last"
"H-hold on!" Drowzee tried to step in "He's just a kid! Don't you think it's a bit much to-"
"As I was saying before i was so rudely interrupted" Magmorter cut him off "There are 4 things you need to learn if you want to be one of us; lie, steal, cheat..." His arm started to glow and warm up, as his grin grew even wider "and survive"
Before he could fire his attack, a speeding red bulit, leaving behind a trail of rose pedals behind it, hit the criminal right on the read, kocking him back. Another speeding object came and grabbed the Nuzleaf. Both retreated back behind a Loudred
"HYPER VOICE!" He cried as a large sound wave came from his mouth, which was able to launch the terrorist pokemon far back
"Nuzleaf, are you ok?" Riolu asked
"Y-yeah... but who are you?"
"We're explorers from Wigglytuff's guild. We came to stop Magmorter and Drowzee"
"We also came to save you" Ruby added
"What? I don't need saving!" Nuzelaf pushed the help back
"Didn't exactly look like you were winning that battle!" Loudred pointed out
"And do you all think you can?"
"Nuzleaf, please" Sunflora tried to reason with the brave kid "Roselia is super worried about you"
"R-Roselia?" Nuzleaf was caught by her attention "She's ok?"
"Thanks to us! But she's worried about you. Please don't make her worry" Ruby leaded
Nuzleaf looked at the situation; Roselia seemed to be ok from the sounds of it, and these explorers seemed to be strong. Plus even if they failed, there's always...
"Ok, I'll go back" Nuzleaf agreed "But you all be careful, this guy is super strong
"Don't worry, we will be. Now go!"
Nuzleaf did as he was told and ran back to Roserade and Roselia, leaving these criminals in their hands
Before they could have time to rest, Drowzee got up and imidiatly recognized Ruby and Riolu
"Y-you 2! What are you doing here?!" He demanded answers
"Stopping you of course, what else?" Ruby retorted
Drowzee noticed that his boss started to get up as well "That's them! They're the rookie team that locked me up!"
Magmorter looked at Riolu and started to chuckle "Seriously, you got crushed by some kid who even you should have taken care of? And let me guess, that little bunny girl also..."
Before he could make fun of Drowzee's defeat even more, Magmorter noticed Ruby's cape. A red cape, that left pedals as she sped up
"No..."
The criminal started to boil in rage as he continued to look at the little explorer and her cape
"No..."
"Uh... what's up with him?" Ruby asked Drowzee who had no answer
"Are you KIDDING ME!?" Magmorter stomped the ground in frustration, surprising everyone, including Drowzee
"Th-that was pretty loud" Loudred commented on the sudden outburst
"I-is everything all-"
Before he could finish the question, the leader pokemon grabbed Drowzee and hoisted him into the air "Why didn't you bother to tell me that one of the brats who defeated you was wearing a red cape like that one?!"
"Uh... I guess it somehow slipped my mind" Drowzee tried to think of an excuse
Magmorter let his partner go to rub his frustrated forehead "Since you couldn't even bother to tell me that, I'm taking them on myself. You go ahead and find Mew"
"Would it help if I said I was So-"
"NOW!" Magmorter commanded
Fearing the worst of what he could do, Drowzee rand further down into the forest, leaving the fire type to deal with this little group
"Well red, to see you here is surprising to say the least" Magmorter looked right at Ruby as he said this
"Red?" Ruby asked, confused at the sudden nickname
"It's defiantly been a while..." He pointed his cannon arm at the group "Thankfully, I've changed since you stopped her plans"
With little warning, Magmorter launched a fire blast at the team, causing them to split up. Few of them could take a moment as the criminal just continued to shoot as many of them as he could
Loudred jumped up and towards the opponent "Stomp!"
Loudred's foot landed right on his head, making him flinch from suprise
"Is it just "punch the fire type in the face" day or something" Magmorter complained as he tried to find something to blast
"Bullet Seed!" Funflora said as she spat out a barrage of seeds behind Magmorter
Due to the move's type it barely hurt Magmorter, but it did give him someone to charge his flamethrower for
Suddenly, Riolu came and placed both his hands on Magmorter's stomache "Force Palm!"
Riolu blasted the energy and launched it away. He quickly recovered and was about to blast them again, but than Ruby came and distanced him by using agility
"Dizzy Punch!" Ruby launched herself towards the criminal to use her ears to punch him in the jaw
Unfortunatly, Magmorter saw this attack, evaded it, and slapped Ruby away from him. He used the time she was using to get up to use fire blast and end her once and for all. As he fired, it looked like Ruby had a split second to react before...
BOOM!
The attack scorched the ground, and no one could see if a body had escaped
"Ruby!" Riolu cried out in worry
Magmorter simply chuckled as that little nuisance was finally out of the way
That is if that nuisance wasn't hopping up and down, which certainly surprised Magmorter to say the least
"Learned a new move or 2 since we stopped Drowzee" Ruby answered the question she was sure was in his mind "It's called bounce!"
Ruby did as the move's name said and bounced her way to the criminal and, once she was in range, kicked him right in the jaw, which also gave her ground to bounce back to her partner
"Looks like we can thank the Marowack Dojo for that close call, huh?" Riolu sighed in relief
"That's enough!" Magmorter cried out in anger
Magmorter launched a shiny ball in the sky, and pointed both his hands at Team Rwby. Thanks to this Sunny Day, his Solar Beam was able to charge right up. Sunflora saw what move he was doing an joined Ruby and Riolu
"You're not the only one who knows Solar Beam!" Sunflora said as he own face started to glow a light green
Both pokemon fired their attack and struggled to overpower the other. Ruby and Riolu both knew a way to help Sunflora win this beam struggle. They grabbed each-other's hands and Ruby used agility to run in circles around the 2. Magmorter couldn't pay attention to this strategy with his current situation, but had a bad feeling of what they were doing
"DOUBLE QUICK ATTACK!"
Ruby and Riolu launched themselves as they were surrounded by a white energy and landed a direct hit behind him, which caused him to loose his attack, which let Sunflora go all out and give the criminal all the power she had. With her attack finished, Magmorter simply laid on the ground and seemed to be defeated
"Did we win?" Sunflora asked
"I-it looks like it" Riolu answered looking back at the criminal
"Alright! Way-to-go, team!" Ruby congratulated everyone
"YEAH! WE'RE AWESOME!" Loudred piggybacked on Ruby cheer
"Well than we should go after Drowzee next, huh?" Sunflora asked
"Yeah! After that, it's just another day of victory for Wigglytuff's-"
Before Ruby could finish, another ball of light was shot right next to the other Sunny Day. The explorers looked back at what they thought was a defeated Magmorter, only to see a Magmorter getting up with a fake grin that made him look furious
"How cute, you think you got off easy. Nope!" He pointed one of his arms at the apprentices "You just pissed me off is all"
He fired a fire blast that Ruby, Riolu and Loudred were able to avoid, but Sunflora couldn't react in time and took the full force of the double Sunny Day powered Fire Blast, the force of which was so powerful, it launched her sky high which caused a hard thud on her back when she landed
"SUNFLORA!" Team Rwby went to check on their injured comrad
Riolu could feel a pulse in her arms and Ruby could hear her breathing, which meant she was still alive, but needed immediate care
"YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THAT, YOU BIG JERK!" Loudred furiously jumped up again to attack Magmorter "STOMP!"
Before Loudred could even fall 1 foot closer, Magmorter pointed one of his arms and fired another Solar Beam, which caused him to fling directly into a burning tree, knocking him out cold
"LOUDRED!" They called for his name also
"You know, it might be a good idea to not say the attack you're about to use" Magmorter pointed out
Furious at how this psychopath hurt his friends, Riolu, without much thought, charged at Magmorter and took his advice to land a Brick Break right on his stomach without any warning. However, before Riolu could try another attack, Magmorter pointed another arm and launched a point blank in front of his face, forcing him to join his friends in unconsciousness
"RIOLU!" Ruby called out to her partner
She was so focused on her defeated friends that she didn't notice the criminal had pointed both of his arms at Ruby and fired 2 fire blasts right at the Buneary. Ruby was launched all the way near the top of tall tree, taking some branches with her as she fell. She tried to get up, but was grabbed by Magmorter, who had a victorious grin across his face
"You know, on second thought, I'm really glad you decided to come here. Now i get to kill you with my own hands"
The criminal started to charge up another fire attack with the hand that grabbed Ruby, who was starting to loose consciousness as well, leaving her helpless to try and free herself from the deadly grip
"Sayonara, Red"
He was just about to fire, ending this little brat once and for all...
Until a strong wind started blowing in front of him, knocking him off guard and blowing him backwards. With but a second to try and realize what just happened, once again his face was attacked. As he rubbed his face to stop the pain, he looked to see what he thought was his attacker; a pokemon with long, white hair, leaves for hands, piercing yellow eyes, and a pointed nose not unsimilar to nuzleaf, which made sense seeing as how this was a Shiftry.
Before he could think about blasting him like the others, The criminal noticed that above some trees that had suddenly stopped being on-fire were small, light green and sparkling object in a group. The objects quickly flew right towards Magmorter who didn't feel too much damage, but was still annoyed plenty. Out of trees that were put out, another pokemon came out. This one looking quite beautiful, with skin literally as white as snow, what looked like green short hair and arms, a sharp looking heart, signifying a cleavage, and a white skirt that floated as she landed gracefully onto the ground. Though beautiful, the Gardevoir didn't hesitate in using Psychic to blast Magmorter away once again
Magmorter started to get angry once again and was ready to Fire Blast them both. However, something small and fast started running circles around him and was even creating a dust tornado that he couldn't see out of. When he tried too, he was met with another slam in the face. He followed the face-smacker to see it'd attacked with it's tail. The dust tornado subdued, allowing him to see the long tail with a blue stripe and spikes belonged to a Pachirisu, white fur with yellow cheeks and all. Having enough of these pokemon, Magmorter didn't hesitate in finally launching a fire blast at the little group and laughed when he thought it landed
However, when the smoke cleared, there was instead a large blue dome surrounding them all. The dome shrank and went back not only into Gardevoir, but a new pokemon that looked very similar to Gardevoir, except with a lot more sharp body parts; a sharp head, sharp hands and arms, even the heart in his chest seemed sharper. Before Magmorter could greet the Gallade for joining them, he saw that there was something in his right arm; a little bunny in a red cape
Realizing who that was in Gallade's arms, Magmorter looked back at the hand he thought was grabbing Ruby, but couldn't see or feel anything. As he looked at the group, he also noticed that Drowzee was also there, unconscious as everyone else right beside his leg. Impossible was the only word to describe his thoughts! Not only did they stop Drowzee and find him, but had one of them actually grabbed Ruby under his nose without him even noticing? How? Who were these pokemon?
"I'm guessing you're the one who did this to the jungle?" The Shiftry gained notice
"Well... as a matter of fact... yes, yes I am" The proudness in his voice disgusted these pokemon "But a better question I have for you lot is "who are you?""
"We are the protectors of this sacred area" Gardevoir gave a short answer
"We make sure the pokemon of this jungle are safe" Shiftry added
"Whether it's solving an argument or kicking some crook's butts" Pachirisu continued on
"We are the Jungle Guardians!" Gallade finished "And we don't really like what you've done here"
Magmorter couldn't help but burst out into laughter ""Jungle Guardians?" What was "Green Protectors" too subtle?"
"I wouldn't laugh if I were you. If you want to leave unscathed, I suggest you take your friend here and-"
Before Gallade could look back up from Drowzee to Magmorter, he noticed something about this Buneary he just saved, her recognizable cape. As if mesmerized by the fight of it, he set the Buneary down and examined the red fabric even closer
"Not sounding so confident all of a sudden, are ya?" Magmorter tried to gain his attention
He didn't budge. He simply kept his eyes locked onto the pokemon and it's cape, being left awestrucked, thinking back to a long time ago
"Jaune"
Gallade snapped out of his trance and looked back up to Gardevoir
"Is she ok?" She asked with deep concern for him
The Gallade, falling back into the situation, got up and looked back at Magmorter with a glare of pure anger and a ready battle stance
"You are going to pay for what you've done" Jaune talked in a determined voice
Author's note: WOW! I mean, Wow! it's been, i don't know, 9, maybe 10 months since the last chapter? Just in time for the new year too! Man I must have been super busy to not get this out sooner, huh?
No, not really. I mean I do have this little rule of mine that I rotate between my KhXRwby fic and this, but the chapter for that fic released 5 months after. Honestly, besides stuff with school and my theater life, my only excuse is that I simply became lazy. I hate it when I say I try to get better at keeping everything up to date and don't keep that promise. I so want to keep that promise, but I doubt I will, honestly. I will always try to get into the writing mood, but I sadly can't make any promises
With that said however, even if i'd started writing asap after SKRL, I think it still would have taken me a while. I mean so much has happened in this chapter; an air fight, a forest (or jungle) fire, a swear word, pokemon almost dying, surprise ending, and 8 new characters, 5 of which are confirmed to be rwby characters (yeah I'm not keeping it a secret since there's no real point to, Team JNPR are the Gallade, Pachirisu, Gardevoir and Shiftry that stopped Magmorter) Honestly, I was thinking about stopping after they'd all separated, but I feel we haven't had some focus on Ruby and Riolu recently, and I did want to get The Jungle Guardians to at least debut before the next chapter
Before we get to reviews, I do want to talk about something I'm sure a few of you have questions about: Adam being and Honchcrow of all pokemon. Well I can tell you the answers in just 1; there are no bull pokemon that i feel match with Adam. I mean Tauos and Bouffalant are both cool pokemon, but neither really are that intimidating like adam is, and the latter is past my cut off generation. I wanted something that really felt like a leader and an intimidating one at that, even before adam killed tiger-wifu and took control in early volume 5, and I feel honchcrow was one of the better picks. I mean it's a freaking mob-boss crow, you can't get more subtle than that. I'm sure there will be disagreement, but I do feel I've made the right call. With that said, some reviews:
AnimeVulpaGirl: Well Jnpr's here, as you've read, and the rest of team Rwby will be on their way
WolfGirl: She's not a shiny gardevoir. Trust me, i think very few people can guess what her pokemon will be
Well I think that settles everything. Again, I'll try my best to get the next chapter out, but don't hold your breath. With that said, if you liked this chapter, leave a follow, a favorite, a review, and I'll see you all next time
(Also i don't have a roosterteeth first membership, so DON'T mention anything about V5 Chapter 11 until Wednesday at the earliest. Don't even share your thoughts on the episode, don't even say I'll love it or hate it, don't say "AAAAHHHH!" like something happened to someone, I don't want spoilers)