Chapter 28:The Entire World Shook that Day

It was any ordinary day on the island. The pokemon were flying and scurrying about, the trees were as green as ever, and the tropical spring weather made it feel great to be alive. An older man was walking in the vicinity of the local Gym, the pride and joy of the island, next to the research center built to reanimate pokemon fossils. The man had a bald head, round sunglasses, and a small grey beard on his chin. Nobody would be able to guess from a single glance that this man was the Leader of the Gym he was taking a leisurely stroll around. Fire type pokemon were always and forever will be his favorites, Magmortar being his best and most loyal pokemon.

"Ah, Linda, what brings you here?" His voice, somewhat gruff and of a higher pitch, was directed at a woman approaching him.

"Oh dad, you know I'm here to visit my pokemon!" The older man was talking to a woman of about 30, obviously his daughter, who also fell in love with fire types (she insists it wasn't her father's doing). She had long black hair and big blue eyes, a small and slender body, and the grace of a swimming Lapras; a true beauty if anyone were to ever see one.

"Typhlosion and its children should be in the back room, you know where to find them."

"Of course, they are my pride and joys!" The two share a laugh before the woman goes around back to the back door of the Gym and lets herself in. The Gym was right at the base of the Volcano, which was also somewhat connected to the inner core of the mountain, which is where Blaine's gym's battlefield was. Although dangerously over lava he always has pokemon on guard to keep the lava in check, and make sure pokemon don't fall in. Slugma and Macargo loved being in and around the Volcano.

He had also taken more physical precautions, such as having an Emboar always at the ready to activate the infinitely durable and extremely hard to obtain two feet thick steel doors that would block the entrance to the battlefield from the rest of the Gym. The pokemon inside, being always Slugma and Macargo, were sure to survive an eruption, even though the volcano had been dormant for some time. He always thought though that you can never be too careful, a lesson learned from handling one of the most dangerous types to humans.

"Magmortar, how are you feeling today?" His best friend smiled and nodded indicating it was doing perfectly well.

"How are you liking the warmer weather?" Much like the last response, it was the same nod and smile.

"How's your special lady friend I introduced to you?" Blaine gave a small wink to his favorite pokemon as it blushed and rubbed the back of its head. The Magmar the Magmortar had recently come to love each other had had an egg earlier that day.

"I'll make sure the egg stays safe, don't you worry about that!"

The Magmortar smiled and smacked the back of his old best friend. "OW! Not so rough buddy! You know I'm becoming more fragile every day!" The two laughed as Blaine continued his rounds. Chimchar was playing with the Litwick and the Charmander while Volcarona was flying above the Volcano, circling it with Charizard. Everything today was as normal as could possibly be.

Until the ground started to rumble, and a black ash started to ascend from the mouth of the volcano. Seeing this start to happen Blaine ran inside his gym and pressed the emergency button, signaling his Emboar to seal the door and alerting the authorities everywhere on the island that the Volcano was starting to act up. Knowing not to question the oldest and wisest man on the island, the police and fire department immediately went into action, driving about the city announcing an immediate evacuation.

"Father," the woman from before ran into the lobby holding four pokeballs, her Typhlosion, its husband, and its two Cyndaquil, "Father what's going on!?"

"The volcano is starting to act up a bit, its safest to get everyone off the island. Start rounding up the pokemon! Tell your husband to leave now! We can't have anything happening to the both of you!"

"Yes daddy!" The woman ran to the nearest telephone and dialed her husband's cell phone. "Hello, Nick?! Hurry up and get off the island! Forget about me for now, just go! Go find our daughter!"

"Ok honey, I'll call you when I find out where she is. Just promise me you'll be safe and come out of this okay."

"I will. I love you."

"I love you too. Don't do anything stupid."

She ran to the back to start taking care of Blaine's pokemon

A special team of Rangers dedicated to protecting the wild and stray pokemon went into action as well, going around to every known nest on the island, making sure for the wilds to follow them to specialized boats to house a few dozen pokemon family each.

The pokemon in Blaine's gym were returned to their balls extremely quickly; all 60 were accounted for, not including Blaine's personal team of Volcarona, Magmortar, Charizard, Chandelure, Arcanine, and Camerupt. The Volcarona and Charizard were flying around the island, trained on what to do in a situation like this, making sure there were no riots and that everyone was evacuating safely. Arcanine ran around the island helping the Rangers, and convincing the pokemon there to go with them. Camerupt and Chandelure were at the docks making sure people went on the boats and left safely, whether they be personal boats, or the evacuation boats. Magmortar stood by Blaine's side as lava started to spew out of the mountain.

As rocks and molten steel came flying out of the volcano, Blaine commanded that it take aim with its cannon-like arm, and fired one huge Hyper Beam to annihilate the debris.

"Blaine, after this is done, make sure mine and Magmar's egg leaves the island safely."

"Don't worry buddy, Linda and her husband will take care of that."

"Thank you friend."

The two of them continued to fire at the rocks and spewing lava until Magmortar was almost drained of power. Suddenly Volcarona and Charizard appeared overhead, saying something in their pokemon language, Magmortar translated.

"'Everyone and their pokemon has gotten to the boats safely,' they say."

"Good, now tell them to tell Camerupt and Chandelure to each board a different evac boat, they are to do the same."

"I shall." Magmortar called out to them with their instructions, they obeyed just as with any other command Blaine would give. Soon enough Arcanine came and told them the same thing, about the pokemon of the island. The plan for evacuation was going smoothly.

"Thanks Arcanine, now you make sure Linda gets on the family boat with that Magby egg and leaves safely."

Through Magmortar's translation: "But what about you master?"

"Don't worry, I'll be fine, Magmortar and I are going to make sure the island isn't completely destroyed."

The Arcanine nodded and ran off to protect Blaine's precious daughter and Magmortar's precious child.

"We are fighting a volcano you know."

"Yes we are Magmortar… Are you hesitant to do so?"

"Not at all as long as you give the command, best friend."

The volcano started spewing lava at exponential rates it was traveling down the mountain quickly, burning all things in its path. The lava had already reached the Gym when Blaine stopped in the middle of the city to give Magmortar more commands. It fired one more Hyper Beam out of its cannon-like arm before having to resort to lava vs. lava methods. Lava Plumes possibly 30 feet high came out of the ground at command, stopping the lava from advancing any further in its tracks. This was only temporary as more lava came around the giant plumes created by Magmortar.

It used its own eruption attack at the oncoming stream of lava, coming closer to the middle of town where Blaine stood. The lava was hardly slowing down and it was forcing the two into a corner. They retreated to the docks where his daughter and Arcanine had been, waiting for him.

"Do you have the egg?" Blaine seemed to command an answer with the intensity of this question.

"Yes dad! Now hurry up and get on!"

"Make sure you tell my granddaughter that I'm leaving that Magby in her care."

"What are you talking about dad? Get on! We have no more time!" The lava was approaching the docks quickly. There was nowhere else to turn.

"I love you Linda. Make sure to tell your daughter I love her just as much."

"Dad! Wha-"

"Fire Blast Arcanine." The Arcanine, understanding what was going on, shed a few tears as it obeyed its final command and jetted the boat out into the ocean with his owner's daughter and the ever important egg on board.

"I was born on this island Magmortar."

"As was I."

"We spent many years growing up together here."

"That we did Blaine."

"Our children were created and born here."

"I-… I will never be able to see my child….."

"I'm sorry old friend, we know that this is the only possible way to stop this."

"I know, I'm sorry. I know what must be done. We've discussed this before."

"And now… are you ready?"

"Yes. Lets save Cinnabar."

"Not just Cinnabar, we are rescuing all of Kanto…

"Earthquake." At the command the Magmortar walked onto the last few bits of solid land there was and stamped as hard as possible. The entire ground shook again, the earth started to split, the lava started to fall in between crevasses throughout the island. The volcano itself violently shook and was split in two, causing more and more lava to pour out the sides, engulfing the entirety of the island, save where Magmortar and Blaine are.

"Let's do this together buddy." Blaine had jumped on the back of his larger, but shorter friend.

"For Magmar."

"For Heidi…." Blaine, knowing there was no other way commanded his best friend, "Dynamicpunch."

His cannon-arm jettisoned straight at the ground, causing what felt like the entire world to shake extremely violently. This propelled Blaine and Magmortar to fly up at an angle that would send them straight into the volcano. They both rose up, and fell back down to earth, back down into the cone of the volcano, down past where his battle area used to be, down past his Slugma and Macargo, down further and further through the ash and poisonous gasses until he gave one last command.

"Return"

Magmortar started to glow white, as bright as any flash could ever become, and released a giant beam of light straight down into the bowels of the very earth itself, disintegrating the lava, the rocks, and the dust in its path straight into the earth's mantle, causing the ash to stop rising, causing the earth to stop shaking, and quieting the island once more.