NOTICE: THIS CHAPTER IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. IF YOU ARE EASILY SHOCKED, SKIP TO CHAPTER 15. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Catching a new Pokemon was as important as air. Meet Xander, the male Ralts. Hopefully, I can get him a Dawnstone to get a Gallade.
I took the North path from Mauville so I could chase down Team Aqua at Mt. Chimney. Rocks blocked my path, but that wasn't going to stop me. What was was the abundance of trainers itching for some fool to walk up to them and force them to battle them.
I reached Mt. Chimney, and ran into May. Mind you, she has run into me before, but all she did was speak my mind and battle me once or twice the whole journey, but that doesn't matter. I need to know just one thing at the moment: what was Archie up to?
I saw a cave and headed inside, where I saw small geysers and red, cavepaths. It felt, lonely. A nice tone for an evil event, but that mood was swiftly taken by some Slugma, which I tried to catch. It ended up badly hurting Xander and burning Anita. I put Xander in the back to prevent any further messups. I actually found an exit for the cave, making it feel less useful, because it was my only path towards victory, and it meant little right now. I was in a rush, but I found a rather intriguing man staring at a tree.
"Mmm-mm. I can smell it. I can smell it right here..." The man said. "The scent of adventure!"
"Ooh!" I say to him. "Adventure! Can I come?"
"Yo! What can I do you for, hmm?" The man said.
"Let's start by dropping the accent, and your name."
"The name's Aarune. Put'er there." One out of two. Close enough. "Unova-born, and twenty five years old. Spent the last 11 years trying to find myself."
"Let's see, Sinnoh-born, I'll narrow my age down to 'between 14 and 20', and I spent the last 11 years trying to not die."
"Mostly, I've been trying to find where I really belong, with nature. Namely, with secret bases!"
"If you're going to show me the ropes, no need. I learned quite well enough in the Underground."
"Oh, ok. If ya see me aroun', just remember the name. Aarune!" and he left. I, went my merry way.
I kept going and found a rather snowy path, which I followed.
After some time following the path, I realized it wasn't snow, but volcanic ash. Yay... At the end of the path was an empty farmland, and May being important. She led me into a house. She said earlier that Professor Cozmo, some famous astrologist or something, was about to be visited by her, but he was kidnapped instead.
"He got abducted by some weird guys calling themselves Team something or other..." Dialog stuff, meet her by Meteor Falls, blah blah blah, enjoy exploring Fallarbor Town. There wasn't much to enjoy. I headed out, and met a fossil maniac and a move reminder. I also met the creator of Hoenn's PC Storage system, so that's cool. Then, out of the blue, Blaise evolved... again. A bright flash of light. Sceptile. I was very proud of myself for getting this far.
I found May in very little time. She was still chasing after them, but was slow enough to let me catch up. Huh. Meteor Falls was named appropriately. It was a rocky hill-like area with craters of varying sizes around the place. I went inside a cave, and what do you know, a waterfall. Hoenn has some real climate issues. Some running around eventually led to finding May, confronting a Team Aqua Grunt and some rather elegant looking Aqua female.
"Give it up!" May said. "Let the professor go!" Mind you, this was going to be an epic confrontation on top of a small, highly elevated rock with a waterfall in the background. Perfect for some final, epic battle... but that would mean...
This girl was different...
...She could be like, like Saturn...
...Or Mars...
...Or even Jupiter!
Yes...
She's a commander.
"Hahn?" The woman asked. "What's this? Who's this spoiled brat?"
"She is May." I walked up to the woman, slightly pushing May to the left of me with my shoulder. "I, am Syndicate, future champion of Sinnoh."
"Syndicate! You came!" May exclaimed. "We've got to save the professor... There are two of them, and two of us..."
"Well, isn't that sweet?" The woman said. "It's too bad neither of you will be alive to see tomorrow. Before you die, I'll let my name be the last thing you hear."
"Well?" I asked.
"Now, now. Let's not be so hasty. We've just met, and I think we should put the fun before the formalities."
"How do you plan to kill us?"
"Not enough time, so I'll make it simple." She grabbed one of the two spears she was wearing on her back. "Edwin, your next and last pay will be doubled to your wife, Edna"
"Y-yes... m-m-ma'm" She threw the spear at his chest, impaling him.
"Oh, dear. It appears I have made a mess." She took the spear out of him, put it back into her backstraps, and kicked the body into the water. "There we go. Now, where were we? Ah, yes, you..." and we battled.
The woman had three Pokemon, one on the left side, and two on the right, the second waiting to battle.
"Mightyena, Grimer, do your job!" I sent out Blaise, and May went with Wailmer. I didn't want Blaise's life force to be wasted on... waste, so I switched out to Jeffery.
Mightyena went first of the three, and used Swagger on Wailmer.
Wailmer went second, using water pulse on Grimer.
Grimer went last, and poisoned Wailmer. Ouch.
I used this turn to use Ariel Ace on Grimer. Swift kill, but Mightyena wasn't dead yet. It used Snarl, which Jeffery avoided, but Wailmer didn't Poisoned, Confused, and Special Attack drop? What a mess... I used Fury Cutter on Mightyena. If this missed or May had just this Pokemon, she was a goner. I couldn't let that happen. Instead, the unthought alternative occurred: Mightyena survives the hit. May sent out Shroomish, and I went back out for Anita to get a quick hit. Mightyena couldn't help but confuse the Shroomish. I went with Charm on Mightyena to lower it's attack. Shroomish wasn't doing so well. Mightyena confused Anita, so I had to switch out. Fortunately, Shroomish got a chance to poison Mightyena. Mightyena didn't care, and it got a chance to bring out take out Shroomish. From my knowledge, this was May's last Pokemon. I switched back into Jeffery, who was promptly confused by Mightyena. Mightyena fell, and Carvanha rose. I switched to Blaise, but it was inevitable.
"No!" An Aqua Jet from Carvanha did huge damage to Combusken, and it went with double kick. Carvanha's rough skin activated, and her Combusken fell with Carvanha.
"How, interesting. Very, very interesting. How about we flip the coin? Heads, you die, tails, I die? Of course you'll accept my kind offer."The woman said. She took a quarter from me, and flipped it. Once it was at it's peak in altitude, she took out the clean spear, and it was thrown at May's head, doing no more damage than fracturing her skull. "Oh, I'm sorry. The coin landed on tails, but I really wanted some heads." She screamed, but when the woman whispered her name, Shelly, into May's ear, she removed the spear, silencing her.
"Here, kid. You've been cooperative. She threw both my quarter and an extra quarter. She also left the Doctor there. "We've got enough information from him." She kicked him to the ground, removed both spears, and walked away while the spears exchanged blood. I told the scientist I would escorted him home while carrying May's body. Before anyone could get very far people in red came up to us.
"Wait, before anyone speaks," I said. "If they're blue, Team Aqua, and your red, that must mean you're team flame?"
"Magma, actually." One of the grunts said. A more formal man with geeky glasses hit him with a newspaper, throwing it and him with Edwin's corpse. He tried to scream, but he grew tired, for there was no escape. The man with the Geeky glasses looked at the female grunt.
"Let that be an example for speaking out of line..." He said. She didn't speak.
"Hmph!" Shelly said. "Even Team Magma showed their faces, huh? There's nothing much to be done..." There was a long pause. She confronted Professor Cozmo quickly, and grabbed a "meteorite" he had. She ran off, and Glasses told the female grunt to go after her, but she threw the spear used to kill May at her leg, causing her to become immobile. I grabbed the spear, and held onto it. Glasses walked up to me.
"My name is Maxie."
"Oh!" I laughed. "Tell me another one, girly girl!"
"It's no laughing matter."
"Oh, fine. I promise I wont annoy you again, Glasses!"
"You were warned." He took the spear, and impaled the poor doctor in the chest. Maxie left after this. I returned to Birch to report the bad news. Sigh...