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Chapter 13

Arianne

I traveled back to a cybercafé in Lumiose to take a breather. While researching information about the new creatures on my laptop, my first fish hybrid friend rides into the scene on a wheelchair, but sporting somewhat human legs. She slowly gets off the wheelchair and sits next to me. It appears that conch shells were sprouting out of her head, and her ears are stranger than ever. Last time I saw her, it were pointed human ears, but now it looks like small fins that acts like feelers.

I scratched my head in confusion. "Are you sure you can change back those legs?"

She sighed. "Let's talk about that later. That due to a permanent spell. What you see here is a Siren."

I pointed at Siren. "You?"

She nodded her head. "Well, I evolved some time ago, and I'm here to tell you about… ah, I forgot."

"Anyways, wasn't there some news about some god or whatever creating eternal night in one region? I also heard some drunk goddess was walking awkwardly around here. She seemed to have stumbled across here."

Siren leaned up against my left ear and whispered, "I heard she got interrogated for—"

Suddenly, all power went out in an instant. Luckily, most of the laptops in the café had working batteries and so we didn't seem to live in a cave. A dim amount of light littered inside the building.

I immediately pushed Siren back for a moment and rapidly drove fingers across the built-in keyboard. "There must be some reason to why this happened— please get your big conches off my head."

Siren moaned and backed up. I looked at the screen for information. "Huh. Looks like networks are down too."

Grunting, I carried Siren to put her back on the wheelchair. "Gah. You're too heavy."

Siren almost wanted to shout back at me.

"We need to go to the power plant right now. Something is behind this blackout." I said sternly, narrowing my eyes in almost complete darkness.

Siren nodded hesitantly and we hiked onwards to Route 13.

Route 13 didn't welcome us brightly. The Magnemite looked livid as they decided to zap Siren as soon as she entered.

Diglett and Gible scoured underground to catch the scent of intruders. Azura tried to swat them away with Water Gun, but she got fried by a Magnemite and pushed them away with a burst of energy. She was finally evolving into a Marill. Siren swatted away the living magnets with her viola before they decided to lift her wheelchair off the ground and turn it upside-down.

As soon as Azura finally evolved she fired a Water Pulse at the Magnemite prompting them to use Magnet Bomb on Azura forcing me to recall her back.

Siren started to stand up on humanoid legs for the first time and yelled at me. "There's no way we're able to defeat these jerks! Retreat!"

Siren hauled around the damaged wheelchair, while I ran towards the plant in order to find a safe place to hide.

As soon as we reached the power plant, the doors leading inside were absolutely locked. There were a few vents leading outside for air conditioning. The Pokémon were closing in on the intruders. Siren looked at me and said, "Yeah, you're not going through a vent, I'll just have to evaporate into foam."

I replied, "Maybe I'll use my new Staryu to Rapid Spin through the metal door."

Siren sighed. "You'll need to see if that works. I've got something to do." Siren fizzed out into vapor and ran through one of the doors sealing the power plant.

I sent out my Staryu which I'm having trouble giving a good nickname to. "Use Rapid Spin on the entrance!" It spun around like a tornado and tunneled through the door, leaving a hole big enough for me to crawl through. While my plan did work, it left a way for the angry Pokémon to find their way inside the power plant.

I ran towards the nearest door. Several tubes had electricity passing though. The room was damp and was buzzing with voltage. Siren kicked the door off its hinges and motivated me to get a detour.

As we stumbles into the main generator, various monsters started to accumulate. Most of the beasts looked like Ampharos on four legs. The workers were passed out because of the voltage that left Kalos depowered for what looks like will be off for a whole day. Far away in the plant, two people were hacking into the main terminals of the power plant. One had horns while another one was wearing a helmet and looked very disturbing.

Siren lulled the sheep things to sleep with astounding musical talent. We managed to sneak to the center of the incident and they immediately turn their heads back at us. "Who's there?!" the more handsome monster shouted.

"Oh, hi Baal. It's Siren—" The more brutish battler swung his hefty hammer at Siren's torso, knocking her out in an instant.

I gave the criminals a vile stare. The person next to Baal started to shout, "Do you dare anger the mighty Thor?" I kicked Siren in the belly but she wouldn't even move a muscle.

Baal's hands started to produce static electricity in a sphere and was about to put me out of my misery. I hauled Siren around by her leg and ran to another place where a bunch of dead bodies were laying on the ground. I felt one the bodies' skin. It felt natural, but looking closer it actually felt like it was made of some supernatural plastic that had attributes of human skin cells.

A weakened worker was hyperventilating and monitored me to move over. "You see, these bodies showed up matters after two dudes came to take over the place. It seems like they're not functioning. Opening their eyes revealed that only the sclera was visible, like their eyes were basically LED with sight reception."

"Any reports on which ones were operating before they came here?" I asked.

The worker shook his head. "A women by the name of Spica was running out of the power plant, and is therefore is not present in this heap of corpses."

I pointed at the one with a bottom body like Siren's. "Mind if I have this one?"

The worked rolled his eyes, "Ah, sure. Go ahead. We have no idea if they are able to be scrapped though." I searched through my bag in order to find food to wake up Siren so I wouldn't have to carry two bodies at once. The bag had no food, so I shook Siren in order to wake her up. It didn't work either. I hid her inside the closet near the pile of androids and looked out of the door for intruders. A burst of electricity curved towards me. I held up the fish woman as a meat shield. Her body started to whir like a PC, and was brought to life for a long time.

Baal chuckled. "So, is this Alrescha? You look a little bit weary." Alrescha looks around at her surroundings. She immediately slips off my grip and punches Baal in the face.

"I rest my case…" Baal groaned. Thor hits Alrescha with his large mallet and Alrescha got fewer injuries that Siren did.

I wanted to ask Alrescha how that happened. Alrescha bounced away from Thor and urged me to come her way. She replied, "My Leader Skill resists all attributes except Water. His hammer won't hurt as much as it would do to others."

Thor cursed, "Come back here you stupid fish! I'm not done with you!"

I panicked and turned around to listen to Alrescha. "Follow my lead." I instantly focused on the device that appear on my wrist when traveling as a group and instantly did a single match. Alrescha dispersed a pulse of water that pushed Thor back into Baal.

"Get off me, dammit!" Baal declared. Thor was struggling to get back up due to his dense armor.

I urged Alrescha to move back to where Siren was resting so we could get this problem solved as fast as it could. Siren was running her eyes. I pled, "Are you fine?" Siren nodded her head slowly.

When we left the room in order to see if they could put up a fight still, a Jolteon with a dog tag was pulverizing the already damaged Baal and Thor. The Jolteon seemed to be scouting the area and soothing down the angry Magnemite. I carried Alrescha to their stiff bodies and she yanked Baal's hair. Baal twitched for a second then became inactive one again.

As we ventured out of the power plant, a winged woman was talking aggressively to Officer Jenny, who had seemed to own the Jolteon. Siren nudged me and muttered, "This isn't a good time to ask them what happened. Let's get out of here and wait until the power seems to be on again."

I lowered my eyebrows in a displeasing mood. "Are you sure they'd like two fish girls in a city?"

Alrescha added in, winking candidly. 'Don't worry. I have a plan. Her scaly tail turned back into two legs that looked like a mesh of steel plates. Is that better?"

I sighed and rolled my eyes. "Yeah, probably not," I lied.

Siren was holding the egg I got when I was fighting off monsters in Coumarine City. It started to twitch when we entered the gate back to Lumiose City, and was callously muttering to itself planning a scheme when it'll hatch.

Small sprinkles of snow fall onto Snowbelle City. Beyond the city is the Pokémon Village, the paradise for wild Pokémon. A princess protected by a bunch of sentient clay dwarves sleeps under the shade of trees. Her complexion was the most pale a regular human could get, and her hair was blacker than the ash that falls in Route 113 over in Hoenn.

A fight between two Exploud nearby finally woke her up, and she looks around at her surroundings. A breezy winter-like wind makes her shiver. She looks at the figures and winks. "I promise I'll be back, okay?" She giggles and trotted outside of Pokémon Village to find Sylvie impatiently waiting for her call.

"You've slept for 12 hours." Sylvie groaned. She grounds her teeth indignantly as Snow White was unaware of her surroundings. Snow White sighs.

"I've just got word on Saria. She's in the process of rescuing Sakuya from some woman or whatever," Sylvie responds. "I'm not sure if she's coming back in one piece." A howl pierces the air and a little girl about the age of a young adolescent comes riding into their company with a wolf as her steed. The wolf growls, "Get back to the city. We'll need to talk."

Back in Snowbelle City, the girls are in a traditional-style café. Persephone has been waiting patiently for their arrival. As the girls gather together to gossip about what is going on between the two worlds, Persephone watches errantly at the winter snow and sighs. "My mother's still angry about me it seems."

Snow White eats a regular, unsuspicious apple while Little Red Riding Hood's trained wolf curls up near a Poochyena and snores like a lazy wolf. She and Sylvie were sharing cookies. Steam can be seen steaming out of a coffee mug. Snow White started to chatter. "What's up with you?"

Little Red Riding Hood shakes her head. "It's been horrible. Everyone is scared of me and the wolf. He even mauled this little thing right here." She exhibited a dead Tepig on the table and everyone near their seating started to flinch in disgust.

A mother covers her daughter's eyes, who was wriggling out to see the mutilated Pokémon. The waitress serving a donut to Persephone almost dropped the food onto the wooden floor.

Sylvie retorts, "No one wants to see that."

Little Red Riding Hood gasps for air and starts to talk. "So, any words on what we're doing here? I really don't want to be stuck in this place, and I just want to go home already."

Persephone is sleeping in the seat while the others are getting pretty bored. Sylvie then rolls her eyes and calls them to finish their meal.

The four then go out of Snowbelle City in order to explore the Kalos region. They laugh and smile along the way. Two masked grunts from a new villainous organization watch as the four monsters leave the city.

"Our targets have been locked," one of the grunts declared. "The bosses will congratulate us if we get a hold of them." The grunts laugh maniacally as they unveil their scheme undercover using a hacked Holo Caster. Above their heads is Michael watching them undercover.