Reggie was standing outside the Pokemon center. It was ridiculously early in the morning but he hadn't been able to sleep. Unlike his father who was currently sleeping like a baby on the couch. He was worried sick about his little brother what could of happened to him? Team galactic better not of hurt him or else he might just be tempted to show them that Brandon and Paul weren't the only ones to be feared... Reggie was snapped out of his thoughts by the sound of an engine. He looked around before spotting a biplane in the distance a large Pokemon was flying next to it. A few moments later the plane was touching down, Reggie knew the pilot enough to know that the chances were the brakes didn't work... He was in for a surprise, instead of failing to stop the plane, it's front wheels fell off causing the plane to skid along on it's nose before stopping. A familiar face stepped off.
"Noland! Haven't you fixed that thing yet?" Asked Reggie.
"It's almost perfect!" Said the frontier Brain. "Whoa... You really have grown! You look just like your mother!"
"Thanks..." Said Reggie, part of him was touched he looked at the pokemon. "IS THAT ARTICUNO?"
"Yeah sure is... I figured with him on my side I might be able to take on your old man!"
"Your welcome to try... He's got all three Regi now..."
"What? How did he do that?"
"Ask him... I should warn you, he's sleeping."
"Looks like we're not the first ones here after all..." Said a woman's voice.
Reggie turned Lucy and Anabel were walking along the path towards them. Anabel was a bit younger than him but he remembered Paul and her getting along reasonably well. Anabel smiled and ran over giving Reggie a warm hug, the two had been childhood friends for several years though she'd always been closer to Paul after all they were the same ago.
"I think we've broken some records getting here..." Said Anabel. "Only 3 hours..."
"You sure did!" Laughed Reggie.
"Spencer's a bit behind us so's Greta but I'm not too sure about Tucker." Lucy said, Reggie sighed.
"Unless he has changed beyond all recognition he"ll be waiting to make a grand entry."
"Spencer!" Reggie spotted the old man on his Pokemon and ran over to him.
"Reggie! You're as tall as a tree and you're defiantly your mother's son!" Said the old man.
"Thanks..."
"I brought Greta as well..."
"Hiya Reg!" Yelled Greta.
Reggie smiled as he was given yet another hug. Now everyone was here apart from Tucker. Suddenly a shadow crossed the moon Reggie looked up and smiled the dome Ace was flying over, he landed majestically.
"Reggie you're looking well..." Said the dome Ace.
"Hi Tucker..."
"So what's up with Paul?" Asked Spencer.
"These guys called Team Galactic took him they've got all the local gym leaders too and I'm pretty sure they're planning something big!"
"Are we talking Team Aqua and Team Magma want to be?" Asked Tucker. "I remember those people in the news..."
"I think they might actually be worse..." Said Reggie.
"Well, it's lucky for you that's we're here then!" Said Noland.
"All these familiar voices..."
Reggie turned to his surprise his father was up and staggering towards the group. They looked at him with a mix of joy and worry, he wasn't in the best of states... He was still rather ill looking and shaky.
"Dad you should be in bed!" Said Reggie.
"Pff... I'm wide awake now..."
"Yeah but are you making sense?" Asked Anabel.
"What do you think?" He asked.
"Yeah, he's all there..." Laughed Spencer.
Garry and Zoe stepped outside and looked at the Battle Frontier now all assembled and almost ready for battle. Followed up by team rocket who got several cold glares.
"What are you doing here?" Asked Noland.
"We're here to help!" Said Jessie.
"Believe it or not, they're telling the truth!" Said Reggie. "So what's the plan?"
"We go in there and clobber em'!" Declared Greta.
"That's not going to work..." Roark hobbled out of the Pokemon Center using some crutches. "You'll get slaughtered if you run head on, Frontier Brains or not. Team Galactic isn't just any bunch of crooks. They're organised, ruthless, insane, there are a lot of them and most of all they're powerful. You won't get in the entrance to that cave on foot let alone stop them and save Paul."
"You must rest!" Yelled Nurse Joy trying to force him back inside.
"So what do we do then?" Asked Zoe. "We can't leave them!"
"Tucker you're the tactician!"
The tall frontier brain seemed to be lost in his thoughts, despite the fact that he was rather eccentric, Tucker gave out the tactics symbol... If anyone could come up with a plan it was him. He smiled and drew into the dirt a picture of the mountain with inside a cave using a stick.
"We know that we can't get in the entrance because it's going to be very heavily guarded right... After all they got Paul and as far as we know he wasn't anywhere near them... So here's my plan." He pointed at parts of the sketch. "We obviously can't go through the mountain but how about going in like this..."
"Great but... How?" Asked Lucy.
"I think I could build a machine quite easily that could get us in there..." Said Noland.
"If it's machines you need then we can help!" Said Team Rocket, the frontier Brains looked surprised.
"They're quite good, I've seen them..." Said Roark.
"But it'll take time! How do we stall them?" Anabel asked.
"Sounds like you need some luck..." Smiled Lucy.
"It'll be dangerous!" Said Reggie.
"Relax kid! I had to help your dad change your brother's dippers... Now there's dangerous!"
"I hear you..." Laughed Brandon. "Noland how long would it take you to make this thing?"
"Ordinarily? Three weeks... But I think if we cut some corners on the safety we could make it in three hours..." The frontier Brains looked slightly worried, Noland's machines had a very bad reputation.
"Well come on then!" Cried Greta. "Let's build this thing!"
While Roark went back to bed (after being forced by Nurse Joy) the rest of the group went to work quickly taking everything that could possibly be useful from some of the wooden chairs to cars outside (they figured that Scott would pay back the owners). Noland and team Rocket were busy welding everything together and fixing the engines. It was about two hours later when Brandon stopped them. They had the vague skeleton of a ship made with an engine inside.
"Noland how long left? Do you think?" Asked the Pyramid King.
"About an hour..."
"Let's see if we can speed that up a bit..."
"I know you want to save your son but we won't be much good if we don't make it there in one piece..."
"All the same... I think someone just gave us a little time limit..."
Noland turned to look at Brandon then spotted what he had been talking about above the local mountain huge black clouds were gathering. It didn't look normal or good for that matter... He shook his head and got back to work.
"Everyone pick up the pace!" Yelled the Factory head.
It was precisely 47 and a half minutes later when they had finished. The group stared at a large drill like machine that was about three times the size of a human. Without wasting any time the frontier brains jumped in followed by team rocket and Zoe, Garry and Reggie when suddenly they noticed there was a problem.
"Noland how many of us are there?" Asked Lucy, the factory head counted them.
"13 but Lucy's not coming with us..." He answered.
"How many chairs are there?"
"12... Team Rocket can just put their Miouss in a pokeball."
"What?" Yelled and outraged Miaouss. "I ain't got no Pokeball!"
"We haven't got time for this!" Brandon looked at the storm before jumping out of the vessel. "Miaouss can have my seat! I'll go with Lucy!"
"Good luck!" Said Reggie throwing Lucy the keys to his car. "Take my car!"
"Uh... Reggie we dismantled your car..." Said Spencer.
"You what? I guess it was for a good cause... But how are you going to get there? Can you guys hotwire a car?" Asked the Pyramid Prince to tram rocket.
"No... We always make out machines of mass destruction."
"Then what are we going to do?" Asked Gary.
"RE-LAX. I used to do that sort of thing all the time..." Said Brandon.
"I don't even want to ask..." Sighed Reggie. "Good luck!"
"Good luck!" Said Lucy.
The machine which they had named the "Frontier 1" let off a large growl as Noland tried to start it up. The drill started to turn faster and faster. Smoke was pouring out the exhaust pipe Brandon and Lucy watched as slowly it started to dig underground and disappear. They only turned and ran towards a car, it was a rather old one. Brandon walked over to it and to Lucy's amazement opened the door. The time it took her to get into the car's driving seat, Brandon had already pulled out some wires he connected two of them and the engine started. Lucy stared at him in shock.
"Who taught you to do that?" She asked him.
"A little friend I like to call life." Answered The Pyramid King. "Have you got a phone?"
"Of course... Here you go..." He said handing a small mobile to him, he starred at it in surprise and confusion.
"It's small..."
"Welcome to the 21st century!" Brandon started to key in a number.
"Who are you phoning?"
"Samuel, I'll ask him to bring the Battle Pyramid up there..." Explained the frontier brain. "How fast can you drive?"
"Scott taught me..."
"WHAT? Am I aloud to get out?"
"Relax Pyramid King... Let luck decide for once."
To Brandon's dismay, Lucy drove off at full speed towards the mountain, her driving was ost defiantly comparable to Scott's...