Woohoo! Chapter twelve! And yet still, only two gymleaders down... Yay, fun. Alright, we are getting closer to the catch up! Cool, we'll all be on the same page! Anyway, Enjoy! OH! BIG thanks to IrishDreamer4 for Favoriting! Oh, ONE more thing! There will be randomly italiced (SP?) letters in this story, going in order, at the end, put them all together!


Thunder.

It somehow matched the voice in my head…

But then…

Who exactly is the Thunder?

"Marina!" And why would I know anything about this Thunder?

"Hello?" And what's with the feeling I got at the doors? It didn't exactly feel right, but it didn't feel wrong either…

SMACK!

I was snapped out of my thoughts when someone hit me. I blinked a couple of times before my cheek started stinging.

"OW!" I yelled and looked at the culprit. None other than Misty Waterflower. "Why did you slap me?"

Misty let out a sigh of relief and gave a thumbs up to the others. "You've been in la la land for a while now, something wrong?" She asked gently, which is totally the OPPOSITE of her behavior like a minute ago, you know, when she SLAPPED me.

"That depends, define a while." I replied with some edge, rubbing my stinging cheek. She turned back to the stands.

"Aaron, how long has she been out?"

"How would I know?"

"Aaron!"

"Fine, I'd say about ten minutes." He sighed. As he replied I noticed I was sitting on the floor.

"Wasn't I standing up a minute ago?"

"No, like I said, you were in la la land, so you sat down where you were standing." Misty replied.

"Oh."

"That's it? Oh?" Aaron asked from the stands. I nodded.

"You know, as crazy as this sounds, I can't remember what I was thinking about."

"You're kidding right?" Misty asked amused. I shook my head.

"Not at all, but I know it has something to do with what Gardenia said…"

"What, that you're not as fast as lightning?"Gardenia asked.

"No, after that I think…"

"That you're closer to thunder?" I froze again. Thunder. That was it. Then-

SMACK

I blinked a couple of times again.

"OW!" I yelled as I glared at the culprit. It was Gucci this time. "Why did you do that?"

"You were out for five minutes, had to wake you up somehow." She replied as she walked back to her seat.

"Five? Really? It only felt like a second…that I was thinking about… what was I thinking about?" Aaron sighed at my response.

"Alright, from now on nobody says 'Thunder' around her!" I froze.

"AARON!" Everybody yelled as they realized I was falling back into my thinking state.

SMACK

"Quit doing that!" I yelled as I rubbed my cheek, glaring at Misty.

"Well it's not our fault you keep dozing off at the mention of Thu-" Gucci was tackled to the ground by Barry. I'm pretty sure I looked confused.

"What, you mean Thunder?" I asked innocently. Everyone groaned. "What?"

"You're going back to 'thinking' again aren't you?" Cheryl asked. I blinked.

"Thinking? About what?"

"About Thu-" Now she was tackled to the ground by Kaleb. I blinked a couple of times.

"Okayyyyyy." I dragged out as I looked at each of them. I heard Aaron mutter something along the lines of 'goldfish memory'. As much as I wanted to get him for that, I had more important things to think about. Like how we're going to get out of the gym… a thought struck me.

"Manny come out here!" I called as I got her out again; assuming Joy put her away like she always does.

"Yes?" She asked with a twinge of curiosity.

"I need you to absorb the electricity on the door; it should be weak enough now." I explained out loud. The others perked up. "Think you can do that?"

"Are you doubting my abilities?" She laughed at she walked toward the door. Manny put her paw on the door, and all the electricity coming off of it was being absorbed through her paw. Soon, it was all gone.

"Thanks Manny!" I called and sent her back into her poke ball. I walked up to the doors and reached out cautiously, thinking the lighting was going to come back suddenly. It never did. I pulled the doors open and in came blinding sunlight.

"I've never been so happy to feel my eye's burn!" Kaleb and Cheryl cheered. Everyone laughed at their joke. With my eyes finally adjusting to the light, I saw what happened outside. There was a deep, narrow, straight trench in the middle of town, following the path out of the city. I stepped over it with ease and looked around. There was an old lady on her porch not too far away looking like she was in a daze. I quickly walked up to her.

"Excuse me Ma'am?" I asked her as she stared at me. She nodded in reply. "Did you see what happened here?" She nodded again. "Can you tell me, please?" She nodded a third time.

"It was the strangest thing. First, a red space Pokémon came zooming through the city, followed by a green blur that looked like it was chasing him, and then there was another red space Pokémon that snuck up behind the green blur and was going towards the gym you just came out of." She explained. I nodded, and was about to ask if there was more, but she beat me to it. "Out of nowhere, Lighting came out of the sky and stuck down close to where the red Pokémon was going. The lightning bolt itself followed the red Pokémon all the way out of the city, but not before striking the gym." She continued. I nodded.

"Alright, thank you so much!" I called and started to turn around, but something stopped me. It was what she said next.

"You be careful now, dear." I stopped and smiled sadly.

"I'll try. Thank you again." As I turned around, I did not expect to see the whole group from the gym behind me, listening to the story. "Ah!" I yelled and fell backwards onto the porch.

"That wasn't being careful now was it?" The old lady laughed. Everyone, except me, who was still on my butt, was laughing with her. I quickly got up and jumped off the porch, then turning to them again.

"Alright, thanks again! Oh, and bye Gardenia!" I called, taking off in the direction of the trench, and then following it through the city. I heard shouts for me behind me, but I ignored it, my eyes following the trench and where it was going. After a minute, I arrived at the city exit, which is exactly where the trench stopped. I looked around for another sign of a trench, or anything that would help figure out who that was. I know the red Pokémon were Deoxys, and now there are two of them, and the green blur was RayRay, but that doesn't explain the lightning! Suddenly, I saw it. It was a shallow, thin, scratch in the ground, leading towards a tall building. Team galactic? They were up to no good again, right? I was about to follow the scratch, when I felt a burning sensation across my stomach. In a split second, I was thrown into a tree about twenty feet behind me. My back ached, and I dared to open an eye at my attacker. Who was it? I think you already know.

"Deoxys…" I coughed as I struggled to stand. That really hurt! My eyes started to droop when lightning came out of the sky… It was a blinding light, but it was gone in a split-second, along with Deoxys, and what replaced it was darkness.

AARON'S POV

"Why does she insist on running away?" I asked as I paced in front of the gym. Everyone sat at the doors, including Gardenia, who stayed with us.

"Aaron, you know her, it's her nature." Joy replied gently as we all waited for Marina to come back.

"Yeah, well maybe she should change her nature." Misty hissed, but I didn't miss the worried tone in her voice under the anger.

"Yeah! Let's go find her and yell at her!" Gucci cheered as she started to pull everyone up. I was so fed up with the stuff Marina pulls, I joined Gucci. I mean, why does she have to be so dramatic? Why can't we all have a nice, normal day without getting chased by a rabid Pokémon? Oh, my bad, now there's two of them.

"Come on guys. Gardenia, are you coming?" I asked, my voice venomous. Gardenia gulped, but nodded.

"Why are you guys being so hard on Marina?" She asked, getting up slowly.

"Hard on her? She's the one being overly dramatic! You even called her Mrs. Dramatic!" Gucci yelled.

"Yeah, but I didn't know."

"Didn't know what?"

"Didn't you guys see the look on her face when she closed the doors?" Gardenia asked desperately.

"Well, I didn't. How about any of you?" Joy asked, still stuck on defending Marina.

"No, I didn't,"

"Me neither." Cheryl agreed with Kaleb.

"No." Misty sighed, uncrossing her arms. Barry only shook his head.

"Why would we need to? That doesn't change anything!" Was Gucci's reply.

"Did you or did you not?" Gardenia yelled now. Gucci sighed, but shook her head like Barry. Gardenia turned to me. "Aaron?" She asked, still on edge. I thought about it. I only saw her freeze up and back away from the door.

"No. Now what is your point?" I asked, still angry.

"She was confused!" Gardenia sighed.

"Well, duh! That's what would happen to anyone if electricity magically locked the doors for you!" Gucci defended her side again.

"No! Before that! When Marina first stepped back from the doors. She was confused with what she saw. But didn't you see it guys? I can't really explain it myself, but it's like she recognized what the old lady explained! Don't you find that a little strange? It's not being dramatic if you lived that way!" Gardenia explained. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm positive Marina has a lot more to handle than she can, that's normal for any thirteen year old! She's hiding things, and I'm sure she knows more than she's letting on." Gardenia finished, sighing at the end.

"How would you know all of this?" Gucci asked in a snobbish way, unfazed by the speech Gardenia had just made.

"It's just… the look I saw…it said more than I could explain…" Gardenia whispered. I let out a loud sigh.

"Alright, let's just go look for her anyway. It's been a while…" I sighed as I started to walk away. Gardenia giggled.

"I knew it!" She sang, twirling around and regaining her usual hyperactive gym leader mood.

"Knew what?" I asked curiously, stopping momentarily to turn around. She was smiling.

"Oh nothing!" Gardenia sang again and stared skipping. I raised an eyebrow, but turned around and kept walking. I followed the trench to the exit of the city, like I assumed Marina did, but turned confused. This wasn't the way-

"Genius, she went that way!" Misty called as the group headed in the other direction. I sighed as followed them, but trailed behind as usual. At the end, the whole group stopped, frozen. I hadn't seen what they'd seen yet, but whatever it was, I didn't like it. It was only when Joy rushed in front of the others that I started to worry. I picked up the pace and caught up, only to be met with a sight I did not want to see. Marina was there alright, yeah, unconscious. And lying against an indented tree. Not a good sign. Joy was there, checking her, and sighed out of relief.

"She's alright, just unconscious!" Joy called to the rest of the frozen crowd. Sighs were let out left and right. "We should get her to a hospital, just in case." Joy warned. I nodded and walked slowly up to them. I picked Marina up gently and started walking towards our next destination, the hospital.


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