Time Trainer 3: Lord of the Skies
Chapter 11
Quentin realized all too quickly that he was outnumbered. Zoroark, combusken and Rachel had him surrounded. His jet boots were malfunctioning and he did not intend to fight. He grabbed a
flash grenade and threw it onto the ground. While the other three were blinded Quentin ran away. By the time their vision returned Quentin was long gone,
Two solar beams joined as one powerful blast which sent the two swamperts flying. Venusaur and grovyle then were returned to their pokeballs. Rowan sent venusaur back to Gary and with
the water Pokémon in tow rowan ran back into the dense woods. The fire spread even more and the canopy above was ablaze. The water Pokémon quickly went to work using a large array
of different water type attacks in an attempt to stop the fire. Rowan ran back through the woods trying to get back to Robert and his other Pokémon but the fire and dense smoke made him
confused and he stumbled more and more as he moved along. He was tripping over fallen trees and as he was getting back up he saw that one of the fire fighting mudkips had been
following him. It had been clearing fire out all over the forest and a clear path lay behind rowan but flames were everywhere. About 75% of the forest was still in flames and only the area
near the water Pokémon outpost was safe and clear. Many Pokémon from other parts of the forest were running in the opposite direction. Rowan began to cough from inhaling the smoke in
the air but he made twice the effort to run through the trees. All of a sudden a huge tree fell on rowan and mudkip. It was quickly covered in flames and for what it seemed so would rowan
and mudkip.
Robert managed to save as many Pokémon as possible. The fire had died through most of his part of the forest but everywhere else the fire was going strong. He thanked Marshtomp for its
hard work and returned them. He tried to think of something to do with feraligatr and blastoise but rowan still had their pokeballs. The two followed Robert who began running through to
find either rowan or Rachel, before things got seriously bad. He was running when he heard a girl's scream from somewhere far off. His heart began to race as he ran through the powerful
flames now eating away at the dead bodies of those poor Pokémon that hadn't managed to escape. His eyes were stinging slightly and he had trouble breathing but he had to run. The
canopy above should have been a sign of hope. But the sky was not even visible thanks to the fire. He sped up fearing Rachel may be in trouble. He came upon a clearing that was ablaze
and saw in front of him a huge flaming pile of fallen trees blocking his way. He soon got feraligatr and blastoise to douse the flames and destroy the blockade, but when he continued running
he didn't realize on the other side had been a cliff. He realized too late and he began to fall. He counted himself dead until he landed hard on a small rock ledge. Feraligatr and blastoise on
the other hand were looking around for a way to get Robert, who was now unconscious back up.
Rachel was now trapped and defenseless. Combusken had been knocked out and zoroark was facing off against two enraged swamperts who apparently blamed zoroark and combusken for
the fire. They were huge and Rachel had screamed in shock when they had just seemingly fallen out of the sky. Zoroark used dark pulse and finally knocked out both of them. Zoroark
dropped from exhaustion and Rachel ran away through bits and pieces of the forest that been saved due to the actions of a large group of water types that been running through. She saw
blastoise and feraligatr standing at a cliff and she felt as if her heart had just dropped to her stomach as she assumed that rowan had fallen and died. When she looked over the edge of the
cliff though she saw Robert knocked out below. She turned to ask blastoise and feraligatr where rowan was but they both shrugged. She quickly grabbed a bunch of vines and tied them
together with a knot. She sent them down but the vines were not long enough. So with the vines tied to a tree she rappelled down the side of the cliff face. She just barely managed to lift
Robert and struggled as blastoise and feraligatr pulled them up. With feraligatr's help they managed to wake up Robert. "Hey rob; do you know where rowan is?" "I'm sorry Rache but he ran
off to get help and never came back… we gotta go look for him." They began running with blastoise and feraligatr right behind them.
Meanwhile further away rowan was certain he would die in the forest. He had never made it back home, he had never avenged his father, he was weak, and he was a disgrace. Tears of
frustration began streaming out of his eyes and he stopped struggling to pull the tree off of him. He closed his eyes and waited for death when out of nowhere the flames around him died.
Mudkip was beside him and unconscious but when rowan looked up he saw the two swamperts from before. They soaked the tree and lifted it off of rowan. He had powerful help and
together they cleared a huge path through the flames. All in all the kids, along with the help of the water type Pokémon had managed to clear about a quarter of the forest. They were
nowhere near done. They had managed to make it back to the outpost. One swampert stood behind to care for the smaller Pokémon who could not fight the flames, the other went with
rowan deeper into the forest. They fought the flames everywhere they ran and finally managed to reach a fork in the road. Both paths were ablaze but swampert used muddy water and
quickly enough both paths were clear. Swampert pointed to the path to the right. Swampert ran down the left path and rowan ran down the way swampert had shown. The path began
going up and soon rowan had escaped the forest. He was on some sort of mountain path and with the open sky he felt a swooping sensation in his stomach as he realized he could now go
get help. He got charizard from Gary and flew off as fast as possible to find the nearest town or city to get more help. Looking back he couldn't help thinking that if he didn't hurry every living
thing in that forest would die…. Including his friends.