A/N: Sorry. My Internet was rather against me.
The two other ideas for the title were 'Deus ex Machina' or 'Explaining the Plot in Chapter 29'.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. I am running out of things to say again.
I also do not own YGOTAS (Yu-Gi-oh The Abridged Series). The second title idea will give you a clue on why it references YGOTAS.
Chapter 29: Explanations
Piplup's small penguin frame grew larger in the light. The blue of Piplup's head grew darker and crept downwards, just above the evolving Penguin Pokemon's chest, where four dots now appeared. His now dark blue wings were still tipped with the light blue coloring. Two golden crests came up from the beak. The cape of a tail that Piplup possessed seemed to have morphed into a tail coat like tail.
The tuft of orange hair that Chimchar possessed now became straighter and resembled a comma. The orange of his head also reached lower, to be met with a mask like markings in the color of blue and a dab of red just above the nose. The color of Monferno's skin was darker then of Chimchar. There was a ruff of white fur at the base of his neck. There was now a gold band on each of Monferno's arms. The tail had extended into a proper one, and the flame blazed fiercely.
The yellow lower jaw of Turtwig had extended into spike –like extensions. The brown shell of Turtwig had evolved into a yellow sectioned shell which had lengthened to rest on Grotle's head and longer tail. Claws now protruded from Grotle's feet. Three brown ridges were upon Grotle's shell, alongside bushes which had grown rapidly from the sprout upon Turtwig's head. The green got slightly darker too and the yellow rings circling Turtwig's eyes vanished.
"They evolved to protect their trainers." Drew remarked calmly. The three newly evolved Pokemon burst out of the orb of destructive energy around them. Grotle seemed to take the majority of the blast, though he had managed to absorb most of the energy with a Mega Drain, which he had successfully learned. After draining enough power, the Hyper Beam ceased to exist and the remains fluttered to the ground like orange embers. In its rage, Deoxys fired another Hyper Beam at them. Monferno dug away, while Prinplup managed to collide with it while spinning at fast speeds, making the beam wrap around him. Behind Deoxys, Monferno resurfaced and his fists were glowing blue with energy. Without hesitation, Monferno hit Deoxys with a newly learned Mach Punch at the same time that Priplup hit his Drill Peck. Grotle had managed to approach the DNA Pokemon despite the temporary loss of speed from the increased body weight. Grotle crunched down on Deoxys while Prinplup slashed at Deoxys with his Metal Claws, another attack learned.
The orange haired woman along with Maylene and her Lucario, raced over once all starters had retreated back to their respective owners. Wally and his new Grotle needed to train, since Wally knew that since Grotle had gained a lot of weight, he would be slower for a while to get used to it.
"Get back!" she commanded, raising her arm, which had a device strapped onto it. A pokeball shot out of it as they watched, and hit Deoxys. They watched the pokeball wobble, and heard the familiar *ding* sound. They all sighed in relief. Maylene glanced over at the group and recognized Professor Birch's Son, Norman's Daughter, and while slightly frowning at the green heads, she realized that the less pale one was the son of the CEO of the LaRousse based Hayden Holdings.
"Come with me to the Gym." Maylene ordered the four.
Four Black Belts greeted them as they walked into the forlorn Dojo of a Gym. The lights had already been switched on again to reveal the altered adjustments to the gym before the attack happened. Maylene motioned them to a table that had been arranged on the battlefield, and it seemed that Maylene had had no challengers the hour or so before the Deoxys arrived. Everyone sat down at the large table, including her Lucario. Maylene turned to the orange haired woman who placed the pokeball in the center of the table. The two were sitting next to each other and Lucario was on the other side of Maylene.
"Has he informed you if he is on the way?" Maylene questioned the orange haired woman. The woman replied with a curt nod, bringing a smile to Maylene's face before the pink haired trainer slightly gestured her head in the direction of their guests. The orange haired woman nodded again before turning to the younger members of their group.
"My name is Rui." The orange haired woman introduced as her hands absentmindedly played around with the pokeball containing Deoxys, though she did not send it out of course. "My home region is confidential stuff, but I have worked over in the Orre Region before."
"You should know that I am Maylene." Maylene assumed. The group nodded in unison.
"So, do you guys know what caused the Deoxys to come?" Drew said at last in a clear and questioning tone. Rui smiled at him even if it was a question that anyone could have asked. He had just simply worked up the courage to speak the minds of everyone else around his age group.
"It is a horrible Team." Rui started simply to the teens' surprise. Their eyes had widened at the same time, including the more reserved Hayden heir. Maylene had heard stories of the Hayden heir and about his nature, though she also knew a bit about his coordinating. Only a small tad though.
However, Drew had gone back under his façade quickly. Drew knew there had to be a motive behind the event and did not want his ego to be heavily damaged. There was no way a Deoxys would suddenly come to Veilstone and attack everyone. There were the meteorites, but when the Deoxys came to LaRousse, it was because it had lost it's friend.
"Team Rocket?" May asked first, though she doubted that they would be capable of doing such a thing. It had been the first team on her mind after all.
"Team Magma? Team Aqua?" Wally and Brendan guessed together, remembering the deeds that that team had done back in their native region.
"Team Galactic?" They all questioned, having heard about the team that dominated Sinnoh. Drew decided to stay out of the guessing. He hated being wrong.
"Actually, it is the reason I had been in Orre." Rui informed them.
"Who?"
"A Team called Team Cipher."
"Team Cipher?" They chorused. Well Drew did not join in of course. He merely observed though he could not stop his urge to break the fourth wall.
"Let me get this straight. It has been 29 chapters and we are only just now explaining the plot?" Drew inquired, raising an eyebrow. Maylene shrugged as Rui continued.
"They found out how to corrupt Pokemon, or as they coined it 'Closing the doors to the heart' though in logic, that would kill the Pokemon in question. They mean that the Shadow Pokemon as they have been called are heartless beings that are stronger than average Pokemon because they know no mercy. This is a weird case, as this Deoxys has managed to use its normal abilities." Rui said. "I believe that for many years they have improved their technique to the point where they are indifferent to normal Pokemon to the average human.
"Then how do you know that it was a Shadow Pokemon anyway?" Brendan pointed out with a frown.
"Well you see, Maylene, her Lucario and I have heightened senses of Aura Detecting." Rui explained. "But I deal in Auras of peoples' and Pokemon's personality. Maylene deals mostly in the presence of Auras and how strong they are. Therefore she can know where her opponents are at all times. She can also use her Aura to make herself faster or she can even send it out in Aura Spheres." Rui continued.
"Oh." Brendan said in an awed tone before moving onto his next question.
"So why did you capture the Deoxys with that special machine, just to help its accuracy?"
"Actually it is a Snag Machine that used to be used by criminals, now we use it to snag Shadow Pokemon, who are owned by someone in Team Cipher already, and purify them. Otherwise we cannot capture them as they have a trainer already. You can see why it was a tool used by criminals." Rui replied just as there was a knock on the Gym door. The black 'ears' on Lucario's 'mask' perked up and it went over to the door and opened it to reveal four people. The familiar ones of the four were Professor Rowan, Lucas and…
They noticed the brown spiky hair of the teenager next to Lucas. He was older it seemed. May saw that he was around the same age as Ash and by the looks of things, he must be…
"Gary!" Brendan exclaimed. The young Oak smirked at him to show that he knew him. Gary Oak had become kinder than the arrogant trainer he was when he first started.
Their vision turned to the last one, a tall guy with black hair coupled with a high forehead and beady eyes all on a round face. The man was dressed in a large light brown coat draped over a dark brown suit. He wore a purple tie to go with it.
"Ah yes." Maylene exclaimed when she saw him. "Looker."
The man referred to as Looker nodded and sat down.
"So why are Brendan, May, Wally and Drew here?" Gary questioned as he sat down alongside Professor Rowan. On Professor Rowan's other side sat Lucas. On Gary's other side, Drew sat.
"They were here when the Deoxys came, and were the last ones remaining there." Maylene replied. "I also understand that they were there during the Spiritomb Incident near Soleceon Town."
May's ankle gave a little jolt when the incident was mentioned. Her eyes scanned the table. It seemed that everyone knew about the incident, though she wondered if they knew about the turmoil of the Ruins. She swallowed hard nervously, though she was sure no one noticed.
"Was that linked to this investigation on Team Cipher?" May inquired. Maylene nodded.
"Are you aware that the Spiritomb was originally sealed by an Aura Guardian?" Gary questioned the four of the newcomers, being the last person that they thought would ask them about the incident, sans the people who had been there of course. May nodded, while the other two of her little trio looked dumbfounded. Drew nodded with a smirk too. His hands were crossed across his chest smoothly.
"It seems that May is smarter than you, Brendy-boy." Gary drawled. "And I could not expect anything worse from Drew here."
"How do you know Drew?" Brendan blurted out. He knew Gary because they were relatives of Pokemon Professors, he being the son of Professor Birch, and Gary being the grandson of Professor Oak. Gary was going to be a Pokemon Professor too, though he was originally a trainer. However, there were rumors that Gary was going to be the Gym Leader of Viridian City. Gary gave a small chuckle and Drew smirked, flicking his bangs in his usual way. Drew vaguely realized he had not done that as much those days.
"If you have not guessed, Drew is the heir of the large company based in LaRousse City called Hayden Holdings." Gary explained. "While Silph, Devon and the company which runs the Poketchs dwell in equipment for trainer and coordinators, Hayden Holdings deals with the more advanced things. They also have significant shares in the other major companies too."
Brendan realized his stupidity, and if there was one thing that Drew and Gary had in common beside their varying degrees of narcissism, it was bothering Brendan.
"So, Spiritomb was sealed up by an Aura Guardian, then last year Ash-" Maylene started after she was aware that Gary was not likely to finish speaking once he had the mind to annoy Brendan.
"Ashy-boy." Gary butted in causally.
"Ash Ketchum accidently knocked the shrine-"
"Typical." Drew drawled. Gary was sitting beside him after all the two boys grinned at each other.
"And let Spiritomb out, who tried to find the one who had sealed him, but that person was already dead. After a fierce battle, Spiritomb retreated in its Keystone and the shrine was rebuilt." Maylene continued. "But this time, a member of Team Cipher informed it that though the sealer was long dead, there was another powerful Aura Guardian capable of doing such a deed."
"And that is Riley, who is an advanced user of Aura." Rui added after Maylene's large portion of limelight. Maylene nodded at her response. The younger teenagers sans Lucas looked puzzled though.
"Riley currently lives on Iron Island near Canalave City with his Lucario, though he was considered for the position of Oreburgh Gym as Byron was the leader there before the position of Canalvave Gym became open. Riley declined, stating that Byron should have considered his son Roark first. Besides, Riley is a steel type user and would have fit Canalave Gym's standards if Byron had not been so adamant to gain the position there." Maylene informed them. "And he is a descendant of the legendary Sir Aaron who also had a Lucario."
"Wow." May gasped remembering the events concerning Sir Aaron. Riley seemed to be a rather impressive figure to her already.
"Riley is currently the strongest Aura Guardian there is, and I am currently being mentored to hone my strong Aura Detecting skills into attacks." Rui told them. "Maylene has been taught how to enhance her own skills."
"And Team Cipher knows that his current mission is to bring it down." Maylene said
"So they expected the Spiritomb to fly over to Iron Island?" May asked doubtfully. Rui laughed but nodded in response.
"No one said that part was a good plan."
