Disclaimer: I don't own pokémon
Authors note: I have put my other story on hold, well actually I'm only about two chapters in so I'm planning to trash it but I will start a new one using its same idea with some extras I just have a few questions to ask and I'm starting to lose inspiration as writers block or maybe just the lack of inspiration that has been coming over me since Zreka was beaten but it may be a while until the next update and this chapter will be short and pretty dull like the last one. I think I ruined this story by trying to add a post story and sorry even this chapter is half finished I just can't seem to write more. But I'm working on something BIG and I won't be posting for a while except some polls so I can find out how to fine tune my plans, I'm going to plan out my next project properly.
Chapter twenty six: Twin trouble
"You kids here to challenge the gym?" said a tall guy in his late teens with ruffled and dark hair, he also had a slight tan.
"Only us, she is just watching." Jack said with an air of confidence around him, he seemed sure of himself.
"Ok, me and my twin run this gym. We test your pokémon's compatibility with you and see how you react to your pokémon's opposites." The man explained as another guy just like him came out from behind him.
"Please reveal your starters for our one on one battles." The second guy added and Serva along with Cynder stepped up in front of their respective trainers, the two nodded in sync "Mhmm… I would say mudkip for the snivy and turtwig for the cyndaquil." He continued with his nodding.
"Piece of cake, especially with a type advantage!" Jack said, he was eager to begin his battle. I looked up at Alex and say him rubbing his chin and somewhat lost in thought, he didn't seem as confident as Jack, however booth of us were busy in our thoughts and observations and neither noticed the rest of the group had gone in until Jane called us in.
"Ohh… yeah coming." He said as he walked through the big grey double doors of the overall dark and gloomy building, inside was what quite plainly looked like a stadium with some stands on either side and a dirt field with a few puddles scattered randomly on it.
"Who's first?" one of the two twins asked, I could no longer differentiate the two.
"Me! Me! Me! Me! Me!" Jack shouted as he jumped about with one arm in the air, the two looked over to Alex to see if he wanted to go first and he just shrugged to tell them he didn't really care the order.
A few minutes later everything was set up, Jack and one of the twins on either end of the field and the second twin standing outside of the field at the halfway line and the rest of us in the stands.
"Battle begin!" the twin that stood by the halfway line shouted, he seemed to be the referee. The two battling trainers let out their pokémon, Jack Serva and the twin a mudkip "First move to the challenger." He added before the battle actually began.
"Serva leaf blade and make it quick!" Jack shouted, Serva seemed slightly hesitant at this head on approach but charged at the mudkip with her tail glowing green, she jumped and swung her tail around in a slicing motion.
"Duck down low." the twin said and the mudkip ducked down and tilted its head to make sure its fin was down, Serva's attack clearly missed "Tackle now." the trainer ordered as Serva landed, the mudkip obeyed without question and hit her before she could respond, she fell back and made a short skid before getting up "Follow up with mud slap!" the twin ordered and the mudkip stomped one foot on the ground and the ground there went soft and continued in a trail towards Serva and eventually softening the ground under her, it then lifted its foot and the rest of the mud followed suit in a whip like effect, it lifted over Serva and then fell back onto her. She seemed relatively stuck in the mud that covered her, its weight seemed to make her movements slow and lagging.
"Leaf blade and break free of that mud!" Jack ordered as he swung one arms out and pointed a finger. Serva did as she was told and spun around with leaf blade which sliced through the thick layer of mud and sent it around in a sort of spray.
"Not bad, but no more play." The twin said as he complemented Serva's actions "Water gun and follow it through with an ice beam!" the twin ordered as he struck a pose similar to Jack's, his mudkip blasted Serva with a water gun that quite literally jetted her back to Jack's feet before being blasted by an ice beam that froze the water that was covering her and encased her in a solid shell of ice, her head which stood out of the ice was hanging limply back.
"The snivy is unable to battle, the gym leader wins!" the ref called out as he raised a hand in the other twins direction, Jack's jaw dropped momentarily before he set to work trying to break through the ice encasing Serva.
"Allow me." the trainer who had been his opponent said in a gentleman like manner as he held out yet another poké-ball, a beam of red light shone from the white button and materialized in front of Serva as a charmander, a bi pedal lizard with a flame burning on the tip of its tail "Ember to melt the ice, mind you don't hurt the snivy." He ordered, the charmander nodded and replied with an "Ok" which was heard as "char" before releasing a few small embers of fire towards Serva, they hit the ice and began to slide and dance around it slowly while the ice melted, the flames burnt out as it did.
"Thanks." Jack said as he looked up at the trainer after picking up Serva and returning her to her poké-ball "Thanks to you too Serva." He whispered under his breath.
"Nice battle, now its my turn." Alex said with a grin as he walked over to the twin who had battled Jack "Cynder, you ready?" he asked the mouse pokémon standing behind him, he nodded with a look of excitement on his face to match his trainers, though it seemed it had a closer link to Jack's attitude.
"Ok, I'll be your opponent. Me and turtwig." The formerly ref said as he let out a green turtle with a pale yellow under jaw and sock like markings on its feet as well as a dirt brown shell with a darker border and a short stem with two leave coming out of its head.
"Fine with me." Alex said with a shrug as he pointed a position near center field for Cynder to stand at, the two twins swapped places and the new opponent pointed to a spot in front of Cynder where the turtwig went to.
"Battle begin!" the new ref shouted, booth sides prepared for an attack "First move to the challenger." He added as with before, Alex nodded.
"Start things off with an ember, don't let your guard down and dodge any counter attack." Alex said, he was making sure Cynder new what he wanted done right from the start, Cynder however didn't take the order of not letting his guard down. He was acting very confident with the type advantage. Exactly like Jack before the battle, I was pretty sure I wasn't the only one seeing this. These thoughts didn't linger as my concentration returned to the task I had been set by celebi and mew, I needed a plan to find the three legendary beats and what was harder was that unlike the sword master trio they were far from stationary. I heard the impacts of the battle and the shouted orders that were given thought I did my best to drone them out, I just couldn't though. I slid off my seat quietly without letting anyone else know and jumped down through the gap under the plank which was used for the seat, these weren't the professional seats, more like the foldable bleachers you would see in a high school. From here I quietly made my way out, I checked behind me a few times to see if the ever conscious Evona hadn't followed me, she hadn't.
I walked slowly out and onto the dirt path, the towering grey figure of steel which the battles were held in behind me cast a long and deep shadow in the mid morning sun, I stood in its middle and took a deep breath it which was accompanied by the gentle and soothing breeze behind me, it was cool but not cold so I welcomed it. Raikou has a storm to accompany him so it wouldn't be too hard to find him, suicune and entei were a different matter…unless…unless they came to me…This thought began to stir in my head but it wasn't for long, some deep and indescribably instinct woke me from my thoughts, it seemed to be a habit more than an instinct though. I checked my senses everything seemed right, I was still where I was before, I could see and smell it all, the ground was still solid and all the sounds were present, and the wind was blowing… no, it wasn't. the trees were moving and I could hear it whistle by but I didn't feel it like before, it was much weaker and more patchy. I turned around instantly to see the trio of kidnappers from before, they were holding a big sack and looked like they were going to try and put me in it.
"Hiya kiddo." The bronzor teased, I jumped back quickly as the man and woman made a lunge at me with the bag between them, I made a menacing growl which intimidated the trio.
"I thought you said a riolu with three weeks of memory wasn't worth anything to you?" I questioned as I back up further, with every step I got further from the gym and closer to the forest line, none of them would be able to pursue me there, yet another habit of sorts told me to stop retreating, as if something was wrong with it. More than just making me look like a coward. The trio made no attempt to cut me off, they seemed to encourage my retreat…. It's a trap…My thoughts lit up, a moment to late to my dismay as I felt a rope tighten around my legs before a sharp jerk upwards left me hanging by my ankle from a rope attached to a tree branch.
"Your ours squirt." The bronzor bragged in victory with a self righteous and over confident look on his face.
"We'll see about that." I growl before charging a quick force palm, I put up my torso and blasted the rope which made no resistance and made a almost snapping sound as it broke and I fell to the ground with a thump to follow. I got up before any of them could react and charged booth paws with a force palm "Can't catch what you can't see can you?" I asked him, this put a look of confusion on his face, the last I saw of him before slamming my paws together in front of me in a sort of clap, booth pools of energy colliding with each other in a violent explosion. I stood my ground but looks away with my eyes in a near closed squint while I heard the trio shout in surprise, a moment later the blast was exhausted and leaving behind a smokescreen, I wasted no time as I opened my sense to auras, the dim purple and aqua blue auras of the woman and man in the respective order and the dirty yellow of the bronzor shone through the smoke screen. The bronzor was hovering about aimlessly with his comrades doubled over in violent coughing fits, a gap between them. I charged through silently and exited the smokescreen in the direction of the gym, the trio of people I was travelling with and the gym leaders stepped out at the same time, the pokémon gathered at their feet.
"What is going on?" Jack asked as he saw me running in their direction with a smokescreen behind me which was now blown away for the most part, the trees didn't provide much shelter from the wind.
"Oh we'll- skip -our little song and dance- to do this- plain and- simple." the mans voice came as he and the woman emerged from the remains of the smokescreen with a few coughs to interrupt his speech (marked with –s).
"Glad you decided to save us that nightmare, going now before you're beat to a pulp would complete the package nicely." Alex said as he prepared for a battle, he looked down at Cynder to see if he was on the same page, he was but him and Serva didn't seem in top shape for the moment and I didn't think Bulba felt like a battle judging by their auras.
"Shut you yap!" the woman snapped angrily, she seemed to have a temper to suit and electrode "We were caught off guard last time." She said with a toss of her head.
"Sure." I said as I crossed my arms and blow out, adding a roll of my eyes for good measure. This came to them as "Riii" of course. The angrier they were the more reckless, the more reckless the better for me.
"Why you little smart mouth!" the bronzor growled at me and was the only one who my response was directed to that could fully understand it. A snarl stood out boldly on his face.
"Well if you are actually any good in a fight come and get me, fair and square." I challenged, I was confident he wouldn't decline, not in the way I said it. He let out a growl before translating to the puzzled humans present.
"That bronzor may be a sorry excuse for a pokémon but he sure provides some insight." Alex noted, much to the blue disks annoyance.
"Enough talk." The man said as he threw his poké-ball, the klink popped out, the woman did the same "Use gear grind and make that pesky riolu suffer for his insults!" he ordered with rage seeping into tone, the klink seemed to take on his masters attitude and a snarl formed on booth gears face's before levelling out and sliding through the air at me with booth gears whirling away at high speeds, I stood my ground and didn't make a move to dodge. Booth gears struck me with one at each side and began to spin, pulling me in as they did. I winced in pain but didn't make any other move.
"Skorpio pile on a poison fang!" the woman shouted, I opened my eyes to see the small bug type scuttle over with its pincer on the sides of its mouth glowing a menacing purple, it circled around me and out of my sight, a moment later I felt to fangs bite the back of my neck with each taking one side and its legs grappling my back, an acid-like sensation pulses through me in regular waves.
"Now for a top up of gyro ball." I heard the bronzor say evilly but didn't open my eyes, it would be a waste of my concentration, I needed to focus all I had on enduring the attacks. A moment later I felt something tap down on the top of my head, it was spinning almost like a drill trying to puncture my skull. Once the initial pain of each passed they began to drone out, everything went black and my feeling went numb, all I could feel and heart was the faint sound and feel of my heartbeat. This lasted a mere moment before a familiar voice hummed in.
"We didn't choose you just so you would give up in a situation like this, things will get worse before getting better." Mew's voice echoed in my head, well that's a great pep talk.
"You call that encouragement?" I thought back, I quite honestly didn't think she had taken me into account as a living pokémon.
"No, I call it a dose of reality." She answered simply, why was I helping them? I heard a slight giggle and remembered she could hear my thoughts, but the giggle wasn't hers.
"Well you're in a good mood aren't you?" came celebi's cheery voice, those two had no idea what was going through my head, well actually they had every idea what was going through my head but it was as if it was a foreign language.
"Find someone else to do this job, I have my own issues, and plenty of them for that matter." I thought with an inner roll of my eyes, I would have given them booth a hearty slap across the face if I could, sadly I couldn't.
"Well you're stuck with the role weather you like it or not." Celebi snapped back as if she was my mother, they were booth treating this like I had to clean up my room or something.
"At least get out of my head and let me get out of my tight spot." I thought with an inner sigh which was partnered with yet another inner roll of my eyes.
"Deal." Mew chirped in and their voices and presences faded, I was left in my normal state of mind with the pains resuming.