~Chapter 11~

"Ed, wait!" Said Lecksi, pulling out a Pokeball from where they were secured. She noticed Ed in front of the building surrounded by four different people. She had already pulled Swablu out from her own pocket, but it didn't seem like it was working out as well as it should have.

"Just hand us the Pokemon, and no one gets hurt!" One of the boys snickered, "It's not like we don't have an advantage anyway! I already know that we caught all the Pokemon in the center."

"Unforgivable.." Ed looked to Swablu, who was perched along her arm. "I won't forgive anyone who thinks that stealing Pokemon will help you on something. What's your intention?

The boy was clearly a teenager, wearing a burnt orange uniform with black boots. He had a gray belt that strapped a Pokeball to it, and his hair was a dirty blonde. It didn't seem like he was one to be messed with.

"What's our intention?" A laugh erupted from his throat, "To steal and experiment on Pokemon, of course! We won't stop until all the Pokemon are ours.."

"So cruel!" Alecksus screeched from behind, making Ed turn back around.

"Lecksi, get out of here!"

"We aren't leaving you, Ed!" Lylli pulled out her Pokeball and tossed it into the air, "They won't stop without force! Natu, I choose you!"

There came a tiny green bird flapping it's wings to the best of it's ability. It was the Pokemon Lylli had barely caught throughout that day, but she didn't mind it. She knew with their teamwork, they could fight.

"Not you, too!" Ed put her hand on Lylli's shoulder. "I can't let you fight in this. What if you're suddenly attacked?"

"I'll be fine!" Lylli nodded to Lecksi, "I'm not too tired, yet!"

"Do you really think those will fight us off?" He tossed his Pokeball onto the field, "Show them your power, Lickitung!"

And there went the Pokeball onto the ground; Out of it came a large pink looking animal with it's tongue sticking out of it's mouth. The tail at the end was curled up a bit, but it's body looked pretty bulky. It didn't seem to have any hands either.

"Lickitung..?" Said Lecksi, pulling out the 'dex.

"Lickitung: The Licking Pokemon. When it extends it's six-foot-long tongue, it's tail quivers. This is probably because it might be connected to it"

"Ew..." Lecksi shivered, but pulled out her Pokeball, "Treecko! Let's help out Natu and Swablu!"

"Such persistence.." Ed scowled, letting her arm rise to the air, "Swablu, you help out too!"

"Lickitung, use your tongue against that nice little Treecko over there!" The boy pointed, having his Pink Pokemon dash towards Treecko with it's tongue ready.

"Treecko, look out!" Shouted Lecksi, clenching her fists until her skin turned a bright white.

Treecko jumped into the air, and the other two birds were circling it to support it as it continued to fly.

"Swablu! Use Treecko's air time to get yourself to an advantage!"

And so it did, leaping itself into the air after pushing off of the Grass Pokemon. Treecko used it's tail to balance itself, and get onto the nearest tree to save itself from any harm.

"Natu! Night Shade!" Lylli ordered.

There, a dark circle began to form around the Natu, and aim at the Lickitung before him. However, instead of affecting it with damage, it did nothing but disperse into thin air.

"Wah? Why won't it work?"

"Lickitung! Take it down with your Lick attack!" The blonde boy chuckled as he said this, knowing that the Lickitung's tongue was already making it's way towards Natu.

There was a slurping noise before Natu was tossed into the ground by that same tongue. A small screech was heard from the bird before it fell onto the floor with a loud smack.

"N-Natu!" Lylli pulled out her Pokeball, "You tried your best; Return!"

"Treecko, free fall and use Absorb on that Lickitung!"

"Swablu, help out!" Ed waved in the air to get it's attention, "Use Sing!"

The bird gave a small chirp, letting out little musical notes from it's mouth and aiming at the Lickitung. Treecko noticed the Lickitung being lulled to sleep, and opened it's mouth to suck up the health that it was holding itself up with.

Lickitung let out a bellow of pain, falling onto it's back with closed eyes. It became defeated, and the other Pokemon were jeering away from their successful win.

"L-Lickitung!" His eyes narrowed, pulling out his Pokeball and making the Licking Pokemon return into it's ball. "Dammit... How could we lose to these brats?"

"We won! So, return the Pokemon you stole!"

"Grr..." David backed up, running towards the other people that had grouped up behind him. They were already boarding what looked like a blimp with Pokeballs hanging from the sacks. "Not a chance!"

"No!" Right when Ed was about to send out another Pokemon, she noticed something frankly large pass beside her. "Hey-"

"W-Who was that?" Lecksi shifted her body from left to right, until she noticed a familiar blue hair strand fall onto her hand. "T-This is..!"

"Hey, that's the other girl from the Gym!" Lylli pointed out, "Miss Fia!"

"Hmph!" The male was already descending back up and fleeing from the girl. "You won't be able to catch up to us!"

Fia shook her head as she glided up into the air, dashing straight toward the sacks that held the Pokeballs inside with her wings glowing. The fluff suddenly disappeared for a moment, and the transformation turned their color to.. silver? Fia's face was no longer carefree, but boiled with anger until she flew to the side to hit correctly.

"Steel Wing, huh?" Ed grinned, "Fia knows how to use her moves well."

"Wait, so.. Fia's a Pokemon as well?" The sibling's eyes widened again; How neat was that?

"She's an Altaria, the evolution of Swablu." Ed turned her face up to the air, only finding bags falling down. "Start catching them!"

"Oh, right!" They spoke in Unison, grabbing one bag, then two, but Ed's Swablu easily one of the bags with it's small beak.

"Thank goodness that you three were here.." The Nurse finally spoke up for once, catching the final bag of Pokeballs. "We were supposed to transfer these to the other Centers because of the Trainers, but thanks to them, the Pokeballs were stolen from right under our nose."

"Well, I couldn't have done it on my own." Ed smirked, noticing Fia land right beside her, "None of us could. Fia deserves the real thanks."

The Altaria blushed, giggling a bit from what the other said.

"However.. We'll have to be careful from now on." A scowl was heard from the Gym Leader, "If there's a team like that out there, then there's bound to be more people..."

Grammatical Fail, go~ /shot. :'D

Pokemon (C) GameFreak

Fia Amuro (C) PartyWithMaracas/Ed of DeviantART