"Wait was that you Light?" Momo asked hurriedly, "You have a plan?!"
"Yes but even if executed perfectly, this plans success will not guarantee us victory. It will only increase our odds."
"Hey we'll take what we can." Nate broke in. "What do you need?"
"I'll need three things. First, Momo do you have any energy you could spare? I'm going to need quite a bit."
"I have some I guess I could give you." She responded.
"Good. Next I need the location of the largest portion of the human forces."
"Grunt is currently engaged with them on the southern side of the volcano." Nate supplied.
"Thank you. Finally, I need all of our forces to retreat from the southern battlefield as soon as I arrive."
"I'll start spreading the word. Light, are you sure you can do this?" Momo asked.
Before responding, Light landed next to his comrade to receive the extra energy promised.
"I'm going to give it my all." Light said. "Hopefully that will be enough."
With that being said, Momo transferred the energy to Light while surrounding troops defended them.
"Do you need any more?" She asked after a short time.
"No, you need to conserve your energy Momo. If my plan does work, the battle will fall to you and the others."
Now recharged with the energy from Momo, Light flew off toward the southern part of the battlefield to put his plan into action.
"All forces currently engaged with human forces on the southern part of Mt. Chimney are to retreat immediately!"
"Come on boss!" Grunt responded dismayed at the order. "We were just about to put them on the ropes and you know I don't like leaving a battle half finished."
"Yes I can definitely see where you had them on the defensive." Light replied sarcastically. "Please retreat and allow me to finish this battle for you. It is essential to our victory here today."
"Fine! You can take over from here boss but you better let me kick some enemy butt later."
"I can guarantee you will have your fill of enemies to fight simply retreat for now."
Once all of his allies retreated from the battlefield Light began to speak to the enemies still present. "I feel generous today and therefore will give you this one opportunity to retreat back to Mauville."
"Are you seriously threatening us?" a pilot of a nearby AK responded. "All of your forces have retreated and you're all alone"
"I can see you don't believe me." Light said. "You have been given a fair warning but now it is time to stop all of you in your tracks."
Light then pulled a small crystal from his pocket and launched a Thunderbolt, keeping the majority of the energy tightly condensed near his body.
I had hoped to save this Electric Gem for a time when I really needed it but as things stand right now, I don't see a way to win this battle and retain my allies without it.
As the intensity of his attack increased, Light went over the plan one more time in his head. Even though the enemy machinery is equipped with high grade insulation, a strong enough electrical blast may be able to polarize the material to a point where it destroys the controls of each of the machines.
"Guys, he's just putting on this fancy light show to try and intimidate us. ATTACK!"
As the enemy's attacks began to approach their target, Light muttered under his breath "I guess it's all or nothing. Thunderbolt."
The Thunderbolt launched, destroying all of the attacks heading toward Light and passed through each of the machines present. As Light descended to the ground, out of power he thought to himself: Will it work?
"See, what did I tell you." Said the same soldier from before. "Just a fancy light show now attack"
Bracing himself for an attack at close range Light closed his eyes but instead of feeling the pain he was expecting, he heard the crashing of machinery. Opening his eyes, Light found that instead of attacking him, the machines were moving erratically and crashing into one another just as he had predicted.
"The human forces on the southern part of the mountain are now immobilized." Light said into his communicator.
"That's great Light!" Momo responded almost instantly. "What should we do next?"
"That is for you to decide." Light said. "I am out of energy. If I rejoined the battle now, I would only be a liability. You are once again in command Momo."
"But Light.."
"I will be waiting near the path we came on from Fallarbor Town until after the battle. I may not be able to participate in the battle anymore but we now hold the numbers advantage, take advantage of it."
"Yes sir." Momo replied. "All forces press the attack. The human forces have been disposed of and victory is in our grasp. Move out!"
Turning his communicator off, Light said to himself, "She will do fine commanding the remainder of the battle. She now holds the upper hand and only has to defeat the remainder of the Pokemon forces. Now time to get out of the danger zone."
As Light began his retreat toward Fallarbor Town he didn't notice a Skarmory circling above him begin a retreat of its own to Fortree City.
Nate POV
"All forces press the attack." Nate heard Momo say from his communicator. "The human forces have been disposed of and victory is in our grasp. Move out!"
"Grunt, weren't your forces engaged with the humans in the south?" Nate asked his comrade who had suddenly joined him a few moments prior.
"Yeah, my guys were fightin' hard down there but Light gave the order to pull out" Grunt replied while striking down another Pokemon who made the mistake of venturing too close to his machine. "I wonder what he did to take out that many of 'em"
"I'm not sure but just before you arrived I saw a bright flash of electricity coming from the south. Maybe that had something to do with it?"
"I don't know man." Grunt said. "I'm better with action rather than all of this heavy thinkin'. Let's focus on the here and now 'cause we're coming up on the enemy base now."
"Light, it's Nate. We've reached the Pokemon base on the top of Mt. Chimney what would you like for us to do?"
"Storm it of course!"
"Really?!" Nate said in disbelief. "I thought you'd want in on taking out the enemy commander."
"The commander of the Pokemon forces isn't a threat and my stunt in the south burned through all of my energy. The remainder of this battle is in your hands."
"Understood Light we'll…"
"We'll hit 'em so hard in the rear, they won't be able to sit straight for a month." Grunt broke in before Nate could finish.
"Heh Heh. Sounds good." Light replied. "Now capture that base and claim glory for yourselves!"
"Yes, sir!" Both Nate and Grunt replied.
"Let's do this!" Grunt said and hastily fired a rocket at the nearest wall of the enemy base.
"I guess making a plan is out of the question." Nate said dejectedly. "Time to YOLOSWAG this thing!"
Nate and Grunt then began to make their advance on the Pokemon base with their forces following closely behind. Soon enough a large skirmish formed between the Pokemon forces emerging from the damaged base and the NAA forces trying to storm it. Nate assumed the role of commander above the skirmish and began the direction of NAA forces while Grunt did what he loved most: beating the crap out of something, in this case, the Pokemon forces.
"Left flank retreat to the right." Nate ordered. "Center put down some suppressing fire for the left then retreat to the right yourselves." Our forces are starting to thin and we're once again stuck in a stalemate with the enemy. We have to end this quickly.
A Pokemon then rose above the ongoing battle and posed a question to Nate. Upon closer inspection Nate could tell it was a Honchkrow.
"Are you 'da one commandin' the forces attacking the base right now?" He asked in a thick Italian accent.
"Why yes I am." Nate said in an overly polite way. "And who the heck might you be?"
"I've been tasked with defending this base from harm by Reuniclus. While I can appreciate the amount of effort you have put in to this attack I must end it."
"Fine then." Nate replied "Bring it!" Under his breath he spoke into his communicator and said, "Grunt, do whatever you can to get into that base and end this fight. I don't think we can last too much longer like this."
Before hearing the reply, the enemy Honchkrow swooped in with a Night Slash attack that broke through Nate's guard.
"Hey, that was a cheap shot!"
"I'm sorry but all is fair in love and war and this is a war"
"If that's the way you want to play, I'll show you just what the Amplifier can do. Sonicboom!"
A barrage of sound waves then left the speakers covering Nate's AK but each was promptly dodged by Honchkrow as he began to approach the Amplifier once more.
I've just got to stall him until Grunt can get into the base and capture Reuniclus. Nate thought to himself. As Honchkrow came in for another Night Slash, Nate cried "Gotcha now. I'm not falling for that again. Sword Resonance!"
The vibrating blade of Nate's Sword Resonance and Honchkrow's Night Slash clashed multiple times as both combatants began to race across the sky trying desperately to gain an advantage on the other.
"It would appear our attacks are equally matched." Honchkrow said during a short break in their attacks.
"I guess so. Looks like I'll just have to mix things up a bit. Time for some claws on a chalk board!"
A horrible screeching began emanating from Nate's speakers, incapacitating Honchkrow and opening his guard to a barrage of hits from Nate's blade, after which Nate retreated and ended the sound.
"Why did you pull back?" Honchkrow asked, "If you had kept that noise going you could have easily defeated me."
"Even though I'm the one producing the noise, I'm not completely immune to it either." Nate admitted. "I have some immunity since I'm used to using it in battle but after a while it begins to affect me too."
"Very well now back to our 'discussion'. Dark Pulse."
Nate blocked the incoming attack with the sound padding located on the arms of his machine and began to launch more sonicbooms while Honchkrow blocked with Air Cutter.
"I think it time to call in come reinforcements." Nate said and changed the frequency of the emitted sound.
"You think some friends will help you? I won't be stopped that easily."
"Who said anything about stopping you?" Nate replied as a swarm of bats came out of nowhere and began attacking Honchkrow.
While his fellow combatant was preoccupied with Nate's new allies, Nate took the opportunity to check on the progress of the battle.
"How are things on the ground?" He asked, worried as to what the answer may be.
"We're all good down here." Momo replied. "I was able to defeat the troops my group was up against and have rendezvoused with the rest of our forces."
"Good. Grunt what is your progress on ent…" a loud explosion came across the communicator.
"Quick question." Grunt replied. "I didn't have to go in all quiet like did I?"
"No." Nate replied. "As long as you get the job done."
"OK then. I guess it's OK to tell you I'm in. That was the door you heard a minute ago."
"How long until you have the target?" Momo asked.
"Give me about 10 minutes an' I'll hand him to ya on a silver platter."
By this time, Honchkrow had rid himself of the bats and was once again charging at Nate.
"I must commend you on the use of high frequency waves. I was not expecting bats to appear on our battlefield." Honchkrow said
"Bats use those to identify prey. All I had to do was emit those waves to make you appear like prey to them. Now, Sword Resonance!"
The two battlers then went back to attacking each other with their physical attacks.
"I am a reasonable Pokemon sir. Please end your attack on our lovely base and I will convince Reuniclus not to pursue you back to your base."
"Counter offer." Nate replied. "You give up your defense and retreat further into Pokemon territory."
"What leverage do you have to make such a claim?"
"While we've been battling, the NAA forces have begun to dominate the battlefield, taking out most of your forces."
"As long as we have Commander Reuniclus, there is still hope to…"
"I also have agents in your base right now moments away from capturing your precious leader."
That stopped Honchkrow cold.
"You can retreat now and save your own hide our be captured like the rest of your comrades. It's your call." Nate finished.
"If I were to 'pull back for the day'" Honchkrow said, unable to say the word retreat. "I would have your assurances I would not be followed?"
"You were never even here as far as I'm concerned."
"Thank you." Honchkrow replied. "If you ever need a favor AK pilot Nate, ask around for The Don and he will grant your request."
"How can you know?" Nate asked.
"Because I am he." Honchkrow replied. "Goodbye for now."
What a nice guy. Nate thought to himself before rejoining the battle.
Later in Fortree City.
"What did you find Byakushiki?" a Breloom asked as his friend finished his landing.
"This Light person is not someone to be taken lightly, Lord Mach." Byakushiki, the skarmory, replied. "He took out a large number of forces in a single attack and lead the New Age Alliance to a victory at Mt. Chimney."
"Interesting." Mach said to himself. "He may be a worthy opponent. Byaku!"
"Yes Lord Mach!" Byakushiki replied obediently.
"I have a job for you."
AN: So ends the Battle for Mt. Chimney. Next chapter we will have the introduction of the first submitted OC- Mach and his top officer Skarmory (I added the name Byakushiki).
-In response to your review in which Mach was submitted, the characters yell out their attacks because from a writer's POV, I think it allows readers to better visualize the story. From a story POV, saying the names of their attacks helps them channel their energy in the proper way.
-Want your OC to show up in Pokemon New Age? See details in Chapter 10.
-One last thing. No one left an opinion about the rewrites of Chapters 2-4, so I'm going to assume you all think they're fine and push forward with the story. Let me know if you think otherwise.
