"No! Wait up!" Iris shrieked.
The clouds covered the young man and his Dragonite as they flew off.
"Lance! It's not like that! Please, you have to believe me!"
Iris's many shouts seemed to do literally nothing, as Lance flew farther off into the clouds.
"Go, Salamence!" she yelled, sending out Salamence.
"It's no use..." she sighed. "I knew it would happen like this."
Yet, she kept flying on Salamence. Flying closely enough to him, Lance seemed to jerk in the opposite direction.
"Lance!"
"Shut up!" he yelled.
She felt as she could not go further.
Shut up!
The words echoed, weighing her heart down.
"Please... Wait..." she whispered, tears running down her cheek. "Please..."
Salamence looked anxious to go after, as if it were saying Iris, stop freaking crying and let me freaking chase him!
But the issues at the waterworks company were not resolved. Salamence rolled his eyes, and flew off after the Dragonite, who had already flown off far away in the mist.
"Sal! I told you, chasing after him won't do anything! He'll only... He'll only hate me more!"
Salamence didn't listen.
"Salamence!"
Salamence kept flying, until Iris's following words made his heart skip a beat.
"If you keep flying, I'll let go!"
He stopped. Iris, after all, was his trainer, a trainer that he had gotten along with. Iris had rescued his egg from some evil Feraligatr who wanted to... Eat the egg! She had taken care of it to hatch it, taken care of it ever since it was a Bagon, didn't give up on it when he was a Shelgon, and to think someone like that would rather do away with herself than make her Pokemon do a great favor for her, he had no choice but to stop.
"Thank you... Salamence..." she whispered, then broke down crying.