Chapter 14 - One Thousand Years, you Ready?
Saffron City – Year 3019
What we expected in this timeline was something so alien to us that we would be lost and completely confused by our surroundings, the technology far beyond our timeline. Saffron City in the future was different in terms of taller buildings, streets, and the clothing people wore. The color was mostly white, black, and a light blue.
When we entered the city after leaving the portal, man, we looked so out of place there, gawking up at the night sky filled with flying cars/ships with our mouths wide open.
"Wowie," said Espeon with a small giggle, "And to think that we are standing in a timeline where all of us are already dead... tragic. Oh look at that large monitor up there!" She said pointing her paw at one of the billboards on the side of the building in front of us.
The monitor displayed some kind of Pokemon battle happening somewhere within the Kanto region. The battle was 2 vs. 2 with 4 Pokemon I had never seen before. Those 4 Pokemon didn't look like any Pokemon I have seen within the Kanto, Hoenn, Johto Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, or Alola regions. I wanted to check the monitor for information about the battle, who the trainers were and what the battle was about, and of course what kind of Pokemon they were, but I couldn't find anything.
"So Pokemon battle exists still? That's good." I thought as I watched the battle against the 2 trainers continue. "I wonder if my house is still there in Nuvema town. Not in the same way I last saw it in. maybe that part of town was cleared away to make room for some kind of new building or more." With that thought, I wondered about the Saviors' and if they were still around helping others across regions with their problems. I wanted to explore this timeline so much more than we did that day, to see what the future was like, history, music, the technology, and so much more.
"You there, Hey!" a voice brought us back from gazing up at the monitors attached to the buildings. The man was wearing the same get up as the other citizens, except he had red light line things all over body. "So you guys are the Savior members travelling throughout the timeline to hunt down the anomalies, right?"
"And you are?" Asked Brent clenching his fists suspicious of the man as he stepped towards us more extending his hand out front to shake hands.
"My name is Drake. Like you I am a Savior member also on the task to hunt down the anomalies within different timelines. Hillary Turner and Rick told me I might be meeting you 4 within the time dimension or at a certain timeline." He said with a smile. I shook his hand.
"My name's Zack Raines. This is Lisa Rivers, Brent Jackson, and Espeon." I said noticing some of the people walking through the street watching us.
"How about we go inside on the restaurant's here to get a bite to eat? I can fill you guys in on what I have discovered so far in this timeline."
Saffron City – Unnamed Restaurant
The restaurant was slightly similar to the present era, only it had strange artwork at every wall none of us had seen before with a strange light changing from red, blue, green and yellow every second.
All 5 of us were seated (Yes, Espeon was also accepted to sit down with us.) and appearing in front of us were the menu's. It was some kind of hologram that appeared in front of us that we could touch, interact with. The menu not only displayed the name of the food and price, but it actually showed a 3d photo of the food, options of how much you wanted and what you didn't want.
The food was almost the same, just some new selections here and there with some of our present era food all sorted by region. Kanto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Etc. Pasta, burgers, takoyaki, and those kinds of foods from different regions were listed there.
Brent had ordered a large slice of pepperoni pizza, Lisa and Drake ordered the same food; noodle soup. I just ordered a plain hamburger, and Espeon just ordered nacho's after being disgusted with the other foods with meat this restaurant had to offer. The food tasted…okay I guess, I don't know, it just tasted in my opinion; fake, I'm not sure why. I'm not saying it tasted terrible; it was something I couldn't put my finger on.
"So Drake," Brent said after eating his pizza. "How long have you been in this timeline for? Like have you learnt anything so far about the whereabouts of the anomaly?"
"Well, I have been in this timeline for about 2 months now." Drake said as he chuckled to himself lightly before eating more of his soup.
"2 months? But I thought the time portals couldn't stay open for too long within a timeline." Espeon asked as she stared at her nachos in disgust.
"I missed the first time portal after dealing with the anomaly there. At first I believed I would be trapped in this timeline. For 2 months I believed that this place was my home now, that I had to adjust to the changes, make new friends, and try to act like I belonged here." Drake stared at his food for a minute in silence. I thought he would be happy that the portal was open again so he could leave, but there was a problem. Believing he was trapped in the future forever, he wanted to check up on his family through records, he also discovered something about himself.
"I wanted to check up on my family through records I gained access to… I do return to my timeline, but it won't be for long."
"What do you mean?" Lisa asked, Drake now looking up from his food at us.
"Next year in our timeline, I will die. You see, for years I have been fighting cancer. Last year I thought the cancer was cured. The document I read about me revealed that in 4 months from now, it'll be back, and they can't cure it this time." Drake stared back at his food, "Finding out how and when you die sounds scary. Knowing that your life only has a year left, I think it was a good thing finding that out. Because today, today is my last mission with the savior's. I want to spend my last remaining days with my family."
A tear ran down Drake's cheek as he smiled, "I also read about my children, you know. They have a good life ahead of them. I am scared of dying, but when the time comes… I think I'll be ready."
What Drake said that day, it all happened to him. His cancer returned and he died a year later. During his final days to the last moments of his life, knowing that he would die soon, he would always be seen smiling. I wondered what the records would tell me about my life, what I did, and how I would die. Would I have reached my dream on becoming a rank 01 Savior member and having a family? Sure the answers where there, all I had to do was look for them. But I didn't. If I had searched for those answers, maybe I would've seen what would happen to my friends and family… especially those that I lost or would lose.
"But enough about my health. Since I enjoyed myself in this timeline, after defeating the anomaly and missing the portal, I learned of something interesting about these anomalies that might assist you guys. It's about this man who has been sighted by a few other Savior members also travelling through time, a man with silver hair wearing a black suit wielding a katana."
Espeon's ears suddenly perked up as she heard Drake talk about the man, "T-this silver haired guy," Espeon said with a low growl, "Does this man have a scar on the left side of his cheek?"
"I was only told about his silver hair, weapon he used and black suit. I don't know about any scar." Drake said. Espeon gritted her teeth in anger and remained still like a statue. After a while, she calmed down and let Drake continue.
"This man has been sighted commanding the anomalies to attack civilians throughout multiple points in time. Some of us have tried to attack him, but like the anomalies, he possesses the same exact power as them."
"We have met a person like that," I said, "They wear some kind of armor. They were talking about appearing again in our present era at some point soon, and that they had a master behind all of this."
"A master, it's possible that the man with silver hair may be this master they mentioned." Drake said pulling out a small circular object that displayed a small holographic projection of some electronics business. "I have been researching this business for a month now; Lion Tech. They build electronic devices for other businesses and home use. I did some digging on the place and last month, it was all over the news… they shut down the company. The next week, the boss of the company; Philip Goldberg disappeared from the public eye, his family and friends have not seen him once since then. There have been reports over the past few weeks that lights and strange are coming from the building. And recently I have seen more anomalies around the city, not just back allies and dark buildings, but Lion Tech."
"Y-you think, there a-are anomalies in there?" Lisa asked shyly. Drake gave a short nod.
"Yes, I believe that the anomaly ball that appears in all times appeared in that building recently. But there is a problem; now that the building has been shut down for some time, there is some security still guarding the place." Drake shut off the small device and placed it back inside his jacket pocket. "Before you guys showed up here, I thought I would have to do this mission myself. If we team up to take down the anomaly within the timeline, we can get out before the portal closes."
"Alright, we're in." Said Brent, "Just tell us what we need to do."
Saffron City – Book Store
It had been about 20 minutes since Drake told us that he needed to gather the gear needed to break into the Lion Tech building as well as some healing items for the security robotics that we may fight. Drake said that the robotics that we would be fighting had some kind of built-in tech that prevented a Pokemon of any type from using their moves. The gear Drake was going to get would allow us; me, Lisa and Brent to disable the robotics ability to block Pokemon moves by planting some kind of EMP device on the robotics.
To pass the time while waiting for Drake to finish with the collection, we visited a small bookstore west near the city's exit. Inside were a large collection of small boxes filled with holographic books that could be purchased for a cheap price. And over in the small section in the corner were regular standard present era books that cost more.
" OH. MY. GOD!" Espeon whispered loudly as she had pulled out one of the present era books from one of the bookcases, alerting both us and the store clerk to notice Espeon holding the book with her psychic. Walking over to Espeon, she turned to us and handed the book to Brent, "Read this, you won't believe it."
Brent looked at the front cover of the book reading the title first; 'The Judgement Sword' with an image in the center of a detailed black sword with small thorns at the pommel. And at the bottom of the cover were written; 'Written by Brent Jackson'
"Oh c'mon! This is probably some other guy named Brent Jackson." Brent turned the first page of the book and began reading. " 'Brent Jackson, a number one selling author releases his 4th book in memory of his friends from the Savior's who died in combat'… W-what?"
Brent stared at the words written on the page trying to make sense of it. 'clearly this was some other Brent Jackson who worked at the Savior's.' He thought, It was his son, named after him, grandson? Heck, it could be anyone with the same name as him. But as he thought about it, it could be true, Brent writing books.
"How did I become a writer? Heck, I am pretty terrible at reading." Brent flipped the book over. It was a small summary of what the book was about, but Brent didn't read it.
"Maybe after seeing that you do write books in the future," Espeon said looking up at Brent, "that is what sparked or will spark you into writing? I mean, would you have even considered on becoming a writer if you had not seen this book?"
"But that's insane, I can't be a writer. I like my job in the Savior's." Brent said as he placed the book back in the bookcase, "Me, an author? C'mon! It ain't gonna happen."
Brent walked away from the book as fast as possible trying to find something else to talk about. What Brent didn't see when he had placed the book back were 7 other books written by him, Brent Jackson. I'm not sure when Brent started writing stories, perhaps 20 years or 30 years later. The books he wrote, they were mostly books for children. They were simple stories, adventure, fantasy; it was just something he liked to write about. He wasn't famous as in worldwide famous. Only in his home town and nearby settlements that everyone knew who he was. It was only after his death when people worldwide knew his name.
None of us knew why he wanted to write stories; he never gave a reason for it. Perhaps he had a few ideas for a few stories that he liked and thought he could get some extra cash for it, or maybe it was because when he saw that book 'The judgement Sword' in the bookstore that day, he had to write it, so that his past self could see it, exactly like he did.
Lion Tech Building Floor 14 – 1 Month Ago
Inside the Lion Tech building in a laboratory on the 14th floor was an elderly man by the name of Philip Goldberg shouting in desperation at a man whom he had wanted to do business with. Philip was 86 years old fearing that after he was gone, his company would either fail or his company would be sold to another. He wanted to stay around much longer than what the doctors told him (2 weeks) to ensure that his company would stay for years to come, perhaps double or triple an average person's lifespan, maybe more if he could.
The man Philip was shouting at through video phone was someone dealing in the black markets. There was this rumor going around, a prototype project that had just finished but needed a potential donor. The project was called 'Eternal' where one's mind to be placed inside a computer living forever. But the deal between the 2 had failed in 2 ways; the first was because of the risks of not that the project may or may not work. And the second was the amount of power the machine would use up.
"No! wait, stop! I have money, all the money I can offer you. Please, I can offer you partnership with Lion Tech. y-you'll have double- no! Triple the amount I'll give you!" Philip shouted at the monitor desperately pleading for the man to listen to him.
"I'm sorry, Philip. But I can't accept. As of tomorrow, the project will be cancelled." The man said, almost felling sorry for refusing his clients desperate plea to purchase the machine on staying alive. "It isn't about the money, Philip. I'm sorry, but we have already pulled the plug on the project. Please do not contact us again."
The monitor faded away into nothing leaving Philip crying in the lab alone desperately pleading for the man to return, as if the man could somehow hear him, moved by his tears for him to return and allow him to purchase the machine…something did happen, but it wasn't the monitor switching back on to the man, instead it was another man standing behind him.
"It is a shame that you could not purchase the machine, though it would not work even if you did have it."
Philip almost had a heart attack when he suddenly heard the voice behind him. He was sure that the laboratory was locked before he made the call. With a quick turn he stared at the man with long silver hair to the neck, wearing a black suit no tie, trying to figure out if he knew who he was, an employee? No. Perhaps it was an associate of the man from the black market. 'The true reason for not selling me the machine was… to steal my money, and keeping the machine!' He thought gritting his teeth as the man smiled.
"Who are you? How much did you hear?!" He shouted gripping his cane ready to strike the man.
"My name is Requiem, and you Philip Goldberg," The man named Requiem said pointed at him. "My master has realized your dream, and you have been accepted into the new world."
"What is this? Your black market buddies sending you here to steal from me? To kill me? Hah! not likely." Philip gritted his teeth, he didn't care anymore. He was ready to kill Requiem. He didn't want to die. If this was an associate of the man from the black market he made contact with, trying to kill him, Philip was ready.
"You wish to, live forever? Watch over your company so that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands? My master can grant you your wish; your dream can become reality. Only if you agree." With a snap of his fingers, multiple humanoid, flying and larger anomalies appeared around the lab.
"T-this is some kind of-"
"Trick?" Requiem interrupted. "No trick, I assure you. You wish to live forever, or should I allow these creatures you see before you to attack you and your precious company?" Requiem held out his hand expecting Philip to shake his.
Philip stood still for a moment unsure what do. 'Was this guy legit?' He thought as his heart started beating faster as he heard the creatures surrounding them growl and make inhuman noises. 'Your dream can become a reality… live forever… can I really have all of that because of this guy?' Philip shook Requiem's hand suddenly, he didn't remember ignoring the anomalies and walking up to him.
"You made the right choice," Requiem said with a smile, "Forever; your dream shall be a reality. But before we begin, I have to warn you about 4 individuals that have become somewhat of a nuisance…"
Lion Tech building shut down a few days later; all employees had left the building along with all of its valuable equipment inside. All except for 1… on the 14th floor.
Lion Tech Building – Back Ally
Hiding behind a large dumpster just outside the Lion Tech building we watched and waited patiently to make our move. Drake had the gear we needed to break into the building, from what we were told by Drake, there were 5 guards and 4 flying drones patrolling the back entrance. All we had to do was to sneak our way inside, or if there was no other option, we had to fight them.
"So what do we do?" I asked looking over the dumpster at the guards patrolling the area as Drake set up a strange device to use on the drones, "Sneak in and avoid fighting? Or do we fight them?"
"If we fight them, it will only attract more unwanted guests. If there are anomalies inside the building, we can't risk anyone getting hurt or killed. But if they do see us, we have to take them out as fast as possible otherwise they will call for reinforcements."
Drake gave each of us except Espeon small circular devices that would disable the Drones from preventing our Pokemon from using moves. From what Drake had learnt from the drones is that they only have 1 kind of weapon; a stun gun that shot small pellet-like balls at the target increasing its effectiveness with each additional pellet. The guards had similar weapons, but there weapons were rapid fire, heavier than what the drones could carry. Drake told us that how the drones prevented Pokemon from using their moves was because it acts similar in the way of an EMP.
"So what should I do if I can't use any of my moves? I'm just going to be in the way, huh?" Espeon said looking at the drones patrolling the area near the buildings door now.
"True, you can't do anything until the drone's ability's have been disabled. Just stay back until then." Drake said petting Espeon's head as she growled. "Okay everyone; get ready to throw the devices at the drones"
Brent threw the device first at the closest drone that flew near us, the device attached itself like a magnet onto the head of the drone causing it to panic as it flew left and right trying to detach the device on top of its head.
"Go! I'll take care of the guards, you three focus on the drones. The devices will take them out after a few throws." Said Drake as he got up and ran from the corner throwing similar but not the same devices as the ones we were using for the drones. He was using smoke/EMP bombs that blocked the guard's sight and preventing them from using their radios to call for reinforcements. The Drones however were not affected by EMP devices, something to do with a special device built in to shield it from attacks, I don't know.
Brent, Lisa and I ran out into the area and focused on the drones throwing the devices at them flying into a panic-like state. With the final device planted on the last of the drones, we were ready to attack. Lisa sent out her Pidgey, Brent sent out his Murkrow, and I sent out Golurk with Espeon supporting Drake with the guards.
"Ah!" Drake was struck in the stomach hard by one of the guards using a baton causing him to kneel to the ground in pain. Espeon retaliated by grabbing the baton out of the guard's hand and struck him at the side of his forehead knocking him out.
"Drake," Espeon said, "Are you alright?"
"Gah!" Drake groaned trying to stand but couldn't, "I-I'm fine… we can still take them out… q-quick!"
The drones still with the devices attached to their heads aimed their weapons at our Pokemon firing the stun pellets at them. Pidgey used gust to attack 1 of the drones pushing it at the buildings wall damaging it slightly.
"Golurk, grab the drone and crush it." I said pointing at the closest drone Golurk could reach. Golurk grabbed the drone successfully crushing it with both hands. The drone emitted some kind of electrical shockwave to attack Golurk, but it didn't seem to affect Golurk.
Lisa had told her Pidgey to use Fly at the already damaged drone as it shot pellet after pellet at Pidgey slowly being affected by them. Pidgey had managed to get a few good hits on the drone, until finally the pellets affects had overtaken Pidgey causing it to drop hard onto the ground. The drone didn't stop there, it just continued to fire more pellets at the already stunned Pidgey, ignoring Brent's Murkrow flying at full speed towards the drone.
Murkrow flew right into the Drone destroying it upon impact focusing already on the other 2 drones that flew after it shooting more pellets. Lisa ran towards Pidgey to heal it from the stun and a Potion after losing some HP from the fall. Golurk flew up after the Drones using Shadow Punch aggressively at them hitting only 1 drone a few times but not causing enough damage to destroy it.
Throwing out Latias' Poke ball releasing her, "Latias, use Dragon Claw on the drones." Latias looked up at the drones being chased by Golurk as they shot pellets at Murkrow flying away from them. She stared for a while until she levitated towards them at a fast speed using Dragon Claw as she approached 1 of them cutting 1 across the middle destroying it instantly.
As the drone fell to the ground, Latias cheered loudly to herself for a small brief moment only to realize that her claws stung badly after using Dragon Claw. She hugged her hurt paw and levitated back down towards me crying. That was the thing about her. Heh, can't believe I forgot about that. Back when we were younger, every time she was either upset or saddened by something minor or large, she would always come to me and try to tell me what it was that made her sad… even if it was done almost 100% of the time with charades… that seemed to last longer than it should. Not sure why I brought that up, so back to the story.
With the drones now destroyed and the guards taken care of, Drake with the help from Espeon walked over to the building to unlock the locked door. It took some time for him to bypass the security, but once he got through he waited for us to finish healing up our Pokemon from the stun pellets.
"Let's go, before more show up." Brent said pumping his fist above him, "No drones or freaks will stop us from accomplishing our goal."
Lion Tech Building – Lobby
We had found ourselves at the lobby of the building. It was empty unlike the back ally, and that was something that worried Drake.
"Strange, if the ball anomaly is supposed to be here, then why haven't we seen other anomalies yet?" Drake walked further inside looking up at the large window above the entrance. Espeon walked up to him…
"Maybe the reason we haven't seen any yet is because they are most likely guarding the ball anomaly. Perhaps they are somehow on to us knowing that there are some pesky trouble makers destroying them one after the other."
Lisa took out the device to scan for nearby anomalies within the timeline and said, "T-there aren't any in this section of the building, but they are in here further up… t-that's odd…" Brent walked up to her and looked at the device.
"They're on the 14th floor all together surrounding a larger anomaly. T-the anomaly ball, y-you think?" Lisa asked as she returned the device back in her pocket.
"Welp, just like a video game or some anime moment; we have a boss fight on our hands." Espeon smiled as she pointed towards the sign near the front desk reading 'Stairs' "If you have enough Potions, Revives, and enough Levels I think we should be alright. So to be safe, let's save the game to slot 01/01."
"Aw c'mon!" Brent said annoyed at Espeon's silliness, "Life ain't a video game. Sure we have Levels and HP stats for our Pokemon and such. But there ain't not dang save and load system… ah whatever! Let's go invade their party!"
14 flights of stairs we had to walk up, walking up to the first floor took us 1-2 minutes, the next flight of stairs took about 2 minutes, to the 3rd and 4th floor took longer this time since we had to wait for Brent to catch his breath… 4 minutes. Floors 5, 6 and 7 took us 5 minutes each, so because of that we all took a quick 5 minute break to get ready for the next flight of stairs.
Floors 8 went surprisingly being around 30 seconds this time… but it all returned back to before when floors 9 and 10 came… 6 minutes each, thanks Brent.
So with that, Espeon annoyed at Brent slowing us down decided to use up all of her Psychics PP just to carry Brent up the last flight of stairs which we completed within 6 minutes… thinking of it now, I guess we could've saved a lot more time if Espeon had used Psychic to carry Brent up the stairs…
Lion Tech Building – 14
th Floor Laboratory
It was dark and damp within the laboratory, but we could still see thanks to the windows at the far wall. It was a large rectangular room split into 2 sections; a lower section with a few boxes and a large machine near the far wall, and the balcony where we were on that over looked the lower section of the lab.
"Where are they?" Brent asked as he leaned over the railing looking down at the lower section. "The device said there were a lot of anomalies here, but all we find is nothing but a whole lot of nothing-"
"You have come!" a deep robotic voice echoed throughout the lab startling us. 'Was that an anomaly?' I thought, 'But where is it?'
"I was told of arrival, and here you are ready to destroy the anomalies." The voice said with a low chuckle. Suddenly, the door behind us shut tight preventing us from leaving. "I am afraid I cannot let you succeed in this petty task."
"Come out and face us, damn it!" Brent shouted, his voice echoed throughout the lab, "You think we're just going to ignore you freaks from harming others just so ya can have some strange 80s disco party? Not on my watch!"
The laboratory's lights turned on illuminating the entire lab, and the machine beneath the balcony lit up. There in the center of the black screen was a lime green 3d outline of a man's face smiling at us.
"I have succeeded," it laughed, "I have now accomplished my dream; to live forever while- no! Watching over a company is child's play. I can create more, more powerful companies and be the most successful businessman that ever lived; Philip Goldberg! A name written in history forever."
"Philip Goldberg? Wait! How do you know about the anomalies?" Drake demanded as he glared at the computer below. Philip continued to smile at us rarely moving a muscle… or pixel.
"I was given this gift by a man who calls himself Requiem, plus giving me command of all anomalies within this timeline, as long as I put a stop to you!"
"R-Requiem?" Espeon said surprised at first, but then glared furiously at Philip as she stepped forward towards the balcony railings wanting to get answers from him.
"Speaking of the anomalies." Philip laughed as 5 humanoid anomalies fell from the ceiling surrounding us. "I can order them as much as I desire. Perhaps they shall be my new minions so that people like you do not come after me again. But the people within this city will learn of the same thing… never fuck with Philip Goldberg!" Philip displayed multiple holographic images above him showing various locations within the city. Each screen had anomalies attacking multiple civilians and destroying buildings.
"You monster!" Lisa shouted as Philip closed the other monitors that displayed the attack on the city. "Why are you doing this!?"
"I have obtained my dream to live forever." Philip said, "Many have tried on so many occasions on stealing my dream from me. I will not allow petty life forms from stealing my dream from me! I will never allow beings like you to live!" Philip shouted
2 large cables from the machine stretched itself up towards the balcony and forcefully hit all of us as we fell to the lower section of the laboratory were multiple anomalies awaited us. Philip shrieked loudly as he ordered for the anomalies to attack us.
Espeon stood in front of me as I stood up, 2 humanoid anomalies and 1 new anomaly faced us; it was a flying anomaly that somehow resembled a Zubat with 2x larger wings but with no mouth.
"Espeon, use Confusion." I said, Espeon focused on the closest anomaly and used Confusion hitting them causing them to stumble back slightly. The flying anomaly remained next to the other anomalies and didn't attack yet, so it waited. The humanoid anomaly that didn't get attacked ran up to Espeon and slapped her with its arms. The anomaly that was just attacked by Espeon's confusion did the same, but she quickly dodged at the last second.
"Use Psybeam!" Espeon jumped up in the air and shot a beam at the 2 humanoid anomalies pushing them back against the wall leaving them wide open for Espeon another chance to attack. But that's when the flying anomaly entered the battle. It flew down to Espeon aiming for her head so fast that the impact caused both of them to fall to the ground. Slightly dizzy, Espeon shook her head quickly regaining her composure and focused as she targeted the flying anomaly instead as it tried to fly away. Espeon had grabbed the flying anomaly with her psychic and slammed it forcefully into the solid concrete wall just above Philip laughing at the fight before him.
Espeon then focused on the other 2 humanoid anomalies using a barrage of Psybeam, confusion and Psychic one after the other gritting her teeth with every move used. "I'll kill you." Espeon thought, "I'll kill you! Requiem… I WILL KILL YOU!"
Brent and Lisa fought together to battle the anomalies with Muk and Blitzle defending an injured Drake he received from the fall.
"Muk, Sludge Bomb the freaks, pronto!" Muk hurled a ball of purple slime at the 3 anomalies together inflicting some damage to them. "Alright! Lisa, you're up!"
"O-okay. Blitzle, Thunder Wave!" Blitzle jumped up and down as the electric charge hit the anomaly preventing it from moving. "Good, now use wild charge." Blitzle nodded in response and jumped up and down again before running in a circle around the anomalies before hitting them.
"Muk, use Power-Up Punch, finish them off!" Muk charged at the anomalies grouped together and punched them with so much force they were pushed back towards the Philip's machine defeating them and causing some damage to machine. With the machine partially damaged, all of us could see from within was the source of the anomalies within the timeline.
"Eh! H-help! I need assistance damn it! Anomalies assist me!" Philip called out to the anomalies… but none came. Angered, Philip lifted the cables above him using them like some kind of whip and shouted, "You miserable fools, I am eternal! I am Philip Goldberg! Fear me!"
"Oh would you please shut up!" Shouted Espeon as she used Psychic to lift up a large chunk of metal from the balcony above us and threw it at Philip damaging the circuits causing Philip to cry out in agony and fear. "C'mon, this guy is an anomaly. We can't let it win!"
"Tell us what you know about the anomalies and we shall grant you a painless death," Espeon said with an evil smile, but Philip ignored Espeon and continued to scream crying for help.
"Alright, Muk use Power-Up Punch at the sonovabitch!" Brent said as Muk attacked Philip. Panicked, Philip used the cable-like whips to attack his attackers, but missed every time, sometimes he hit himself damaging his machine even more.
"Blitzle, use wild charge!" Blitzle charged itself up until it was shrouded in electricity, Blitzle charged itself into Philip inflicting damage, high enough damage that both Philip shrieking so loud that the speakers exploded and for the anomaly within Philip was defeated.
The machine almost destroyed, Philip was still alive clinging on desperate to live, he cried sobbing loudly begging for forgiveness and wanting a second chance at redeeming himself. "Please… all I ever wanted was to live longer… I didn't want to h-hurt anyone."
Espeon walked up to the machine using her Psychic to crush the machine a little letting out a painful shriek from Philip begging her to stop, but she didn't. "You think you can just hurt us, attempt to kill us all and expect us to forgive you?" Espeon growled as she crushed Philip with much more power. "You don't deserve mercy-"
"Espeon!" Brent stepped forward, "That's enough. Despite what he's done, you shouldn't go down to his level." Espeon looked back at Brent glaring at him for a minute before letting Philip go walking back towards me hanging her head low.
"The man w-who gave me this told me of you, h-he and his master c-consider you all as a threat. And they w-will stop at nothing to s-stop you." Philip said with his voice crackling between words, his time was almost up and he knew it. I believe that Philip despite being turned into an anomaly/machine thing and trying to kill us, I don't believe he was truly evil. Perhaps the anomalies or this Requiem guy did something to him when he changed; it corrupted him changing him into something else.
Drake told us after the fight that Philip was never like this. He was a good honest man fearing of leaving the world feeling as if he hadn't done anything worthwhile.
Time Dimension
"S-so Espeon, do you know who this Requiem is?" Lisa asked Espeon as she leaned sitting against her leg recovering from the battle with Philip.
"I-I… it's nothing," Espeon shook her head and smile. "I just thought he said someone else. I lost my temper back there, huh? Sorry about that." We were unconvinced by this. When Espeon heard the name 'Requiem' from the way she attacked the anomalies and then towards Philip, I had never seen Espeon that angry before. She was obviously holding something back; they obviously had some kind of history together. We didn't pry into it, we thought it would be best to talk to her about it when we got back from the mission to rest up soon.
"Are you going to be alright Drake?" Brent said as he noticed a large cut on Drake's leg.
"I'm alright. Just a small visit to the med bay, and I will be back on my feet in no time." Drake smiled before looking back at the time dimensions exit, back to Pewter city. "You know, being here taught me some things that I wouldn't know about… about my fate, my final hours with my family, I don't want to die, but It was nice meeting you guys. If we ever meet again, drinks are on me."
"We'll hold you to that. And ya better not get us the cheap stuff either." All of us shared a laugh together… our last laugh with Drake. It's not like we didn't have time to visit him, it's because of this time crisis… but we still got together and remembered him over a couple of cheap drinks… but good drinks.
Unknown Location
On top of a large structure in the middle of an unknown location or time stands Requiem staring at an white armored man sitting on a throne surrounded by 4 different colored orbs. The armored man remained still as if he were sleeping peacefully.
"Master," Requiem bowed before him, "As you may be aware, we have an enemy. 4 of them travelling through time destroying the anomalies we have placed. The agents and I will make it so that they will fail."
Requiem turned away and walked into the portal that appeared behind him, leaving his master alone. The armored man remained silent and still, waiting for the day when all life would sleep.
To be continued...
Trivia:
I had to play multiple versions of pokemon games with saffron city to try to imagine what a futuristic version would be like as well as watch a few futuristic movies… yeah I didn't get much out of it.