Dang it! I told to myself that I would no longer have a week-long hiatus! And what do I have? A week-long hiatus! AGAIN! I hate myself for succumbing to the great temptation called laziness. And, for those of you guys who may or may not be concerned, I am going to finish this story. Anyways, hope you like this!

The Gathering I

Aside from the pilot and copilot of the plane, everyone who managed to board the UR's aircraft before Lumiose City was destroyed is present in the meeting room. The room is smaller than the meeting hall in Lumiose Stadium, but it is nowhere near a cramped hall crammed with seats and a table. The meeting room is actually quite spacious with its width taking up the entirety of the interior and length occupying nearly the same amount of space as the seats in front. The room is composed of a long table and seats much like its Lumiose Stadium counterpart. It also has a computer system mounted on the plane's starboard flank, completely rendering the windows there useless.

Present in the room are all of the UR's representatives and select staff including the two men in black suits who delivered the representatives to the plane. Technically, only a few people have entered the plane when the fireball reached the city, so few in fact that almost half of the seats in front are unoccupied.

Razer and Alice once again were the last ones to reach the hall. It turns out that everyone save for Razer has settled down already five minutes before he woke up.

As Alice went to her seat immediately, Razer went to a vending machine resting near the doorway and got himself a Lemonade. He guzzled the canned drink in his hands before proceeding to his seat beside Diantha, his mind and body fully awakened by the drink. He is not oblivious to the fact that some of the people there were giving him perturbing looks, but he did not care. With the drink in his system, all he wants is to start the meeting now.

Lance is one of the people who gave the enigmatic Trainer an unsettling look, but seeing that everyone save for the two pilots is now here and they all seem to have already lent their ears, eyes and attention to him, he deemed that it is now time to start.

"Okay, with everyone on the plane in this room I guess we could now start.", Lance started.

"We have all witnessed the most devastating event in all of history. Don't get me wrong, for not even stories encompassed within legends and myths rival the sheer intensity of the apocalypse we are plunged into. We saw with our very eyes the destruction of a thriving metropolis, and through screens the obliteration of several others. Not only that, there is no doubt that countless lives, both people and Pokemon, have been lost to this disaster."

Everyone seemed to be moved by his words. Lyra, in fact, has a few tears streaming down from her eyes onto her cheeks already, remembering that Johto has likely suffered the same fate as the rest of Kalos. Even Nate, who is known for his cheerfulness, had an etch of worry and sorrow scribed on his face as he remembered his mother, Hugh and all of his other friends back in Unova which is most likely to have also taken a hit. Everyone in the room was also plunged into gloom by the reality concealed by their current state: 30,000 feet up in the air in cozy conditions.

"But, we, the ones in here, should not be shaken. We should remain strong, even in these times of trouble. Many creatures lost their lives today, that's for sure, and we should do our part in preventing many more to be lost and enriching those who survived. We may not be able to do much given in our current situation, but I hope everyone's cooperation as we walk into this dark road we are currently walking on."

Everyone was touched by Lance's words. Sure, they may have survived the disaster that struck nearly every region in the world, but they should not be concerned to only their own welfare. Humans and Pokemon are resilient and are sure to continue to live on even when all odds are stacked against them.

"So, you mind filling us up?", Nate asked suddenly out of ecstasy and willingness to aid in any way he and his Pokemon can.

"I could sense everyone's warm appreciation to this cause, and I thank you all for it.", Lance said filled with joy and gratefulness. "And as to 'fill you up' Nate, I am glad to say to all of you that we are not as oblivious to this situation as I expected us to be since we are all taken by surprise. We know a few things about some of the certain mysteries that transpired that spook us to no end.", Everyone chuckled light-heartedly because of Lance's humorous tone when he answered Nate's question.

Lance turned his back to the people and faced the computer's keyboard. A few clicks replaced the UR's symbol on the screen to the anatomy of a Dragonite and Swampert which seems to be Lance's and Gabrielle's respectively.

"We have all witnessed a rain of Flying-types and the sudden sinking of Water-types all over the world. We studied my Dragonite and Gabrielle's Swampert and we found one common thing: static cling. Some sort of raw electric current prevented Flying-type Pokemon from flapping their wings and also prevented Water-type Pokemon from increasing their buoyancy for them to float. We checked my other Pokemon which are mostly part Flying-type and my Kingdra and Gyarados and found the same thing. No other types seem to have any problems."

Everyone in the room is listening so attentively that the only sounds emanating in the room is Lance's booming voice.

"We tried to remove the cling using every single technique we could utilize, but ultimately we failed. That being said, we should not expect any Flying-types to fly or Water-types to swim anytime soon."

Everyone in the room who owns Pokemon of the two types Lance mentioned became worried. Transportation would be more difficult now since the two most convenient Pokemon types used for travel had their capabilities significantly reduced.

"I would also like to point out that the very first recorded occurrences of this phenomenon is dated on the same time we recorded the intense power surge and the millisecond-long EMP wave. We could clearly see the correlation between the two, but the crashing Pokemon ain't the only observations we could connect to it."

With that, Lance pressed several buttons again on the keyboard in front of him, and soon a series of pictures appeared on the central screen. Each picture has a date and time displayed on the far left section of the picture. Some of the pictures displayed four islands, the others displayed a black speck covering some of the islands and some displayed only a light blue.

"These are satellite images taken in a span of only ten minutes.", Lance explained. "The first pictures here were taken at 12:34 PM, two minutes before we recorded the energy spike. Everything was still fine at 12:35 PM, but when the long hand of the clock reached 36, things started to get ugly."

Lance pointed to a certain picture on the central part of the screen. It registered the time said by Lance on the far left side of the image, but only it was displayed. Everything else was black.

"I guess you already know why that is black. The EMP disabled even our satellites and by the time we were able to get them back online at 12:37 PM, we started to get these.", Lance brought his finger to the pictures having a black shape.

"As time passes by, its radius increases continuously until 12:42 when this was registered." Lance pressed a single key and a picture was enlarged until it fit the screen perfectly. It is a familiar picture of what was supposed to be Alola, with the time on the upper left part of the image reading 12:44.

"I guess everyone has already seen this picture.", Lance stated. He is serious now, very serious indeed. "Furthermore, we see now that this pictures are, unfortunately, not only registered by Alola. We got these pictures just recently."

Five separate bundles of pictures fitted themselves on the five mounted screens. The ones of the left has the titles Kanto-Johto Topographical Region and Hoenn Region, while the other ones on the right is labeled Sinnoh and Unova. The one on the central screen has the title Kalos. Despite being in separate locations, each region registered the same sequence of pictures, ultimately ending with the last pictures bearing a body of water. Even Kalos took on the same fate as the others.

"Concluding this statement, we could not assume that the other places were incinerated by that fireball. It is a fact.", Lance finally ended. "Also, only an energy output of several hundred million power plants suddenly working on full capacity could generate this much power to obliterate several regions in a span of less than half a day. We do not have the capability to create this much energy in the present, let alone unleash it on this world and let it wreck havoc-"

Razer, who had his arms crossed during the entirety of the meeting, suddenly raised his left arm. Lance saw this and asked him to stand up.

"Lance,", Razer spoke, his raspy and deep voice now the sound booming throughout the room. "You had not just that point to discuss to us in the meeting back at the stadium. You have elucidated to us one of the points that has been discussed, but I was suddenly curious. You were about to talk about another point, but the Pokemon rain interrupted you. Talk about it right now; what is that?"

Lance stroked and rubbed his chin and his face went into the expression of deep thought. He seems to be trying to recall the events back at Lumiose Stadium, the last normal events before all broke lose. After a moment of thought, he spoke, picking up from where he stopped at the meeting hall.

Hopefully I could post another chapter tomorrow to make up with lost time and you liked it!