Chapter 25 – Electrical Mayhem
The lightning that was striking up from the sky continued to grow stronger and more intense as David continued towards the lighting. He could tell that the lightning was shooting out of a fair sized building now from this distance. The building was surrounded by a wooden fence and hidden mostly by the hills and mountains surrounding it.
David run up to the fence and looked threw the spokes. He could see a grassy path that lead to the building. He guessed from the ancient looks it looked like an old power plant.
"Jirachi! I need you to carry me over the fence!" He said looking to his friend.
"Right." Jirachi said nodding his head before his eyes began to glow, a purple aura surrounding David, lifting him up and over to beyond the fence. David landed quickly and raced toward the power plant again.
He was surprised to find the front door unlocked and entered into the building with ease. He heard the loud shrieking of what seemed to be a Pokemon crying out in pain. He saw lightning shooting past over his head coming from further within the power plant.
"Jirachi! I need you to sense out where the Legendary Pokemon is! I know you haven't mastered your aura senses yet, but see if you can." David said looking at his pal.
"Right." Jirachi nodded his head again before closing his eyes, seeing the familiar bright blue flame that emanated from David. He scanned the walls seeing them faintly lighted with blue and saw the lighting bolts ahead shining immensely blue. He followed the lightning with his mind, the lightning acting as if a trail. He turned down a few of the corridors before his mind entered a large open room with an open roof. A lot of electrical equipment glowed bright blue from within and Jirachi could make out a large blue flame in the shape of a Pokemon and a smaller blue aura in the shape of a human.
"Someone's here with the Legendary!" Jirachi said opening his eyes.
"We better find out who it is and what's going on to cause the Pokemon to cry out like this!" David said.
"The Pokemon is crying out for help desperately." Jirachi said as they ran down the corridors, Jirachi listening to its cries. "It's trying everything to escape but…I think the human is harming him." Jirachi said leading David.
"Well, then we have to stop them!" David growled in a low voice as they approached a large double door entrance. Lighting bolts where spraying out from the door onto the ceiling of the building. David timed it carefully before kicking the door open when lightning bolts finished passing threw it.
"And who might you be?" Said a female voice from within the room. David ran in quickly to see the scene.
Zapdos was caught in a large metal cage that was twirling around it. Its electricity was being redirected and thrown everywhere but at the girl because of the cage. The cage seemed to be tiring it out but it was still crying out. The woman who stood before it was clearly a member of team rocket. She wore the same style of uniform the other female rocket had, half a black shirt with a large red R on it. She wear a form fitting black shirt under the big half-shirt and it showed just a little below her over shirt and because of the outfit her breasts where notably smaller than the other female rockets. Her skirt came down halfway down her upper legs and she wore black boots going only halfway up her legs.
"Gah. Team Rocket again." David growled at the woman.
"They just like to bug us don't they." Jirachi said getting into the fighting position again.
"Well my, my. Aren't you a cute one?" The woman said. Her hair was pink and seemed to stick out and curve down on each side of her head not going past her shoulders, a strand of straight hair hanging down the middle of her face and a strand of curly hair down the right side of her face. Her hair extended further down to the small of her back. She was twirling the curly strand of hair in-between her fingers as if nothing was happening.
"Cut the crap Rocket! I can see you torturing Zapdos! Let him go!" David said getting into a ready to fight pose.
"Feisty much?" The woman chuckled, almost like a little girl. "If you want me to stop torturing him…" She said with a sly almost playful voice that seemed to hold a hint of malice behind it as she reached behind her back and seemed to pull out a small black pokeball. She made it grow big and David could see the pokeball was surrounded in what looked like a black aura, electricity sparking from it now and again and his eyes opened wide.
"You only need to ask." The woman grinned before turning to Zapdos.
"No don't!" David cried, but it was too late as she gently tossed the dark pokeball into the cage, the ball striking against Zapdos. Zapdos's body was soon turned into a large purple light that soon vanished into the dark pokeball. The pokeball flew back and landed in the woman's hands as the machine that had held Zapdos stopped, before collapsing and shrinking into what seemed to be an ordinary large cube.
"One Zapdos right for the plucking." The woman giggled to herself with a grin turning back to face David.
"Release Zapdos now! He wasn't made to be controlled by any one!" David yelled at the woman.
The woman blinked at him before a smirk sneaking onto her face as you could hear she was obviously trying to hold back a laugh. Before she knew it she was holding her gut laughing loudly.
"I can't believe you said that!" She said laughing immensely.
"What's that supposed to mean!? I was being serious!" David yelled aggravated at this new girl. She seemed far too childish to be one of the members of Team Rocket he had faced before.
"Oh, alright." The woman said still laughing somewhat, wiping a tear from her eye. "If you really want to see him, be my guest." She smiled throwing out the black pokeball. It opened up and shot out a large purple light that soon took the shape of a large spiked bird Pokemon. Zapdos emerged, seeming to be surrounded in a purple aura giving him a darker shade around his body, his eyes now turned red from the green it had.
"KRAAAAAUGH!" Cried Zapdos cried before landing, looking at David. David's mouth opened a little looking in awe at the large darkened Pokemon. The woman walked over to it and put her hand on its wings. David was still amazed that such a fantastic Pokemon was only 5'3" tall, but he seemed so much bigger in the air.
"It's such a magnificent creature isn't he? Fairly majestic." She grinned rubbing his wing.
"Krah." Zapdos said with a bit of a purr before lowering its head so the woman could now pet its head. She was smiling before turning back to David.
"Happy now?" She chuckled.
"What did she do to Zapdos?" Jirachi asked looking at David.
"I…I don't know. The black pokeballs invented by Team Rocket members in the past have been known to turn Pokemon naturally evil and it physically exhausts Pokemon to death if they force themselves to become good again." David growled, rage starting to build up in his body now.
"What!?" Jirachi said shocked before looking back at the Zapdos that now had the aura around him.
"Oh, what of it. Zapdos doesn't seem to mind." She said smiling before hugging Zapdos's head, rubbing her face up against his head, Zapdos letting out a soft noise of approval.
"You BITCH!" David yelled suddenly running forward, raising his fist. The woman looked at him with a bit of a grin on her face before letting go of Zapdos's head. David threw his fist and the woman moved just ever so slightly avoiding his fist. David growled before throwing his other fist at her. She ducked a little avoiding the new fist.
"Hold still!" David yelled kicking his leg up at her face. She pushed off with her legs back flipping, just seeming to avoid his leg and she landed a few feet away. Zapdos's head turned to look at David with glaring eyes as David glared at the woman.
"Your not very good at this fighting thing are you?" The woman grinned.
"I'll show you!" David started to say and run at her again before Zapdos opened his wings knocking David halfway across the room.
"David!" Jirachi cried as David hit the floor. He turned on his side and saw Zapdos standing with its wings unfolded glaring directly at him.
"KRAAAAAUGH!" Cried the Zapdos, the purple aura being included with an electrical aura.
"David!" Jirachi said jumping in the way as Zapdos let out a strong electrical attack. Jirachi closed his eyes as he was hit by the surge of electricity.
"My, what a brave little Pokemon." The woman grinned.
"No! Jirachi!" David cried as he saw his friend in pain from Zapdos's Thunder attack. Zapdos's lightning was shooting out at Jirachi and at the machinery in the room. Zapdos was setting it all on fire, certain machines exploding and spreading the flames out further into the room. Soon the entire room was full of fire and small explosion, pieces of wall starting to fall.
"Ugh…" Jirachi said falling down as Zapdos's attack ended.
"Jirachi!" David said catching his injured friend and looking down at him.
"I'm…ok." Jirachi said smiling a little looking up at him.
"Seems that was the limit of your Pokemon. Oh well, it's a shame that your legendary can't meet the power of my legendary." The rocket woman grinned petting Zapdos again.
"Who ARE you?" David growled at the woman.
"Well, if you must know my name is Alicia. I am the newest member of the up and coming Team Rocket return!" She grinned at David. "No one will be able to stop our uprising now that we have Zapdos! Soon we will have Pokemon so strong no one will be able to stop us!" She laughed almost like a kid who had just received an amazing gift.
"Your insane!" David growled at her.
"Think what you will, but it goes to show you that we already have Zapdos!" She grinned as Zapdos began to shoot electricity all throughout the room again, causing more explosion and the flames to intensify. Smoke was pouring out of the open roof now, as the power plant seemed to be being destroyed.
David reached into his blazer and pulled out a pokeball, but Zapdos zapped it out of his hand.
"Gah!" David cried as he felt the pain jolt threw his hand. He looked at his hand and saw that it was burnt and charred from Zapdos's attack.
"Wow, Zapdos must be strong. Most electric attacks don't do more than shock humans." Alicia laughed.
David glared at her again. He could feel the flames growing stronger around him as he was now starting to sweat up a storm from the heat of the flames.
"Anyways, lets finish this off cutey!" She laughed.
"KRAAAAUUUGGGHHHH!" Cried Zapdos as it lifted its head. Surges of electricity shot out threw the ceiling and seemed to extend everywhere. The electricity was seen shooting up into the night sky causing the smoke to silhouette in the sky.
"GAH!" David cried as he was hit by Zapdos's lightning. He felt his entire body surge with the electricity, parts of his skin burning from the intense heat combined with Zapdos's lightning. He felt the immense pain as it surged throughout his body before he collapsed on the ground, breathing heavily.
The flames seemed so loud from the floor. Jirachi was still clutched in his arms but his vision was starting to get blurry. He was loosing consciousness and he could feel it.
"Well, that was fun." He could barely hear Alicia talking. He couldn't tell if Zapdos was still in the room or not. His head was throbbing and he could only hear so few sounds.
She was standing over him, looking down at him with a smile.
"Aw, poor fellah got shocked." She knelled down next to David smiling down at him. She was chuckling like a little girl at David's pain. "Here, let me make it better." She grinned grabbing David's collar, lifting him up and placing her lips against his. She let them sit there for a few seconds before letting go.
"Now I have to go you cute thing, but if you survive we might see each other again." She laughed poking his nose before letting David go, him falling back against the floor.
David heard Zapdos's wings flapping and soon he heard the big bird letting out a screech into the night sky. Soon it was all quiet. All he could hear was the crackling of the flames and the fall of metal off and on. He could barely feel Jirachi struggling to move in his arms. He felt his eyes closing. He knew it was dangerous to fall asleep in a fire.
He couldn't stop himself from passing out.
-End Chapter 25-