Chapter 36: All Is Revealed

[Chris' POV]

I sit up in my sleeping bag. Dawn is still asleep. I stretch and get out of the tent. I sit on a rock and start meditating, but a tent opening startles me. Eve get out of my tent and walks over to me. She smiles at me. "Good morning Chris."

"Morning."
She sighs. "I'm so bored."

"It's not like we can go outside."

"I mean… we can. We'll die, though."

I shiver at the thought. "It's still cold, though."

"Infernape and Combusken can't sleep in tents, so they're out here somewhere."

"I know."

Roark gets out of his tent. "Morning, Chris. Good morning, Eve."

Eve smiles. "Good morning!"

I smile and translate for him. "I'm going to get to cooking some breakfast."

"I'll help."
"Oh? Thank you."
Roark gives me orders as I cook. Eve watches us as we make some food. I feel a tap on my shoulder. Roark turns around and freezes. "Whatcha cookin'?" I hear a woman say.

I turn around. A brunette is staring me in the eye. I yelp in fear. "Did I scare you?" she asks. She puts out her hand. "Samantha Blake. Nice to finally meet you in person, Chris Moore."
I freeze in fear. "H-how do you-?"

"Oh, I know quite a bit of people who know your name. I don't think I should say though."
"Who?"

"Oh, the International Police, the Pokémon League, the Gym Leaders… Team Galactic."

"You know about Team Galactic?!" Roark asks.

She giggles. "Why would an Admin not know about her own organization?"
I gasp. "Y-y-y-you're a-"
"Team Galactic Admin? Yup," she says, winking. "I've been told to tail you and report back to base about your movements. I was given special orders to show myself and tell you a few things."
"What kinds of things?" I growl, flaring up my Aura.

"No need to use your Aura, Chris."

"You know?"

"All of Team Galactic knows."

"Really?"
She nods. "First things first, I'm on your side. Some grunts, admins, and even a commander are on your side."
"I don't believe it. Why should I?"

"Didn't you get the message Saturn gave you?"

"What are you talking about?"
Eve looks away. Sam looks at Eve. "You didn't give it to him, did you?"

I look at Eve. "What the fuck?!"

"I didn't believe them! They're Team Galactic!"
I sigh. "Okay, I'll buy it for now, but I still don't trust you."
"You don't have to trust me, but you should trust Saturn. Either way, you're stuck with me for the moment. That blizzard is gonna last a couple months, according to the reporters."

"Really?!"

I hear someone groan. Riley peeks out of his tent. "Can you three keep it down?"

He sees Sam. "Hi," she says.

Riley gets out of his tent and rubs his eyes. "Who the hell are you?"

"Samantha Blake, Team Galactic Admin, at your service."
Riley stares at her. "What's wrong?" she asks.
"I'm trying to find out if you're serious or not."

"Of course I'm serious!"

Riley goes back to his tent. "Whatever, just let me sleep."
Sam turns back to me. "That's all I can really tell you right now, Chris, so I'm just gonna stay here until I'm given orders."
I stare at her as she lies on the floor and hums a tune to herself.

[Saturn's POV; Team Galactic HQ; Two Weeks Later]

I run to Cyrus' office. "Charon's asleep. What is going on?"

"The Red Chain will be completed soon. He found a way to speed up the process."
"That's bad. How long?"
"A month and a half, maybe even shorter if he gets more people working with him."

"Damn."

"Call them right now."

"I couldn't get through last time. I even tried our agent's Pokétch."

He growls. "Leave the base. I'll say you went on an extended research expedition."

I nod. "Get them out of that cave. Tell them everything."
"Really?"

He nods. "Get going. Time is of the essence."

I run through the halls and reach the teleporter to the elevator room. If I take the car, I'll get there in a day. The grunts I called arrive. "We need to go!"

[Chris' POV; Unmarked Cave; That Night]

I walk through the corridors of the cave with Dawn. We hold hands and look at the crystals on the walls and ceiling.

Dawn opens her mouth to say something, but she's interrupted by an explosion. We stop and turn around. "That was back at camp," she says.

We start running back through the cave to the camp. I see the man that Dawn and I saw in the woods. Eve comes running to me. "It's the man who gave me the message!"

He sees me and runs over to me. "Chris!"

I step back, startled. Samantha walks over. "Commander Saturn," she says, saluting.

"You don't have to do that, dear."
She sighs in relief. "Thanks," she says.

I look at Saturn. "So you're him. The last commander?"

"No. There's one more. He's our enemy."

"Cyrus," Dawn says with malice in her tone.

"What? No!" Saturn and Sam shout.

"Then who?" Barry asks, running over.

"The person we have to worry about is a man named Charon. He and Cyrus created Team Galactic. Cyrus can tell you later, but Charon is a dangerous man who wants to remake the world in his own image."
"I thought Cyrus wanted that," Roark says.

Saturn shakes his head. "No. He wanted an organization that would help both people and pokémon. From what I know, Charon tricked Cyrus to give him permission to construct a contraption that would summon Dialga and Palkia, the Legendary Pok-"

"Yes I know. We've met them."
"What?!" Sam and Riley shout.

"In Alamos Town, we had a little problem with Darkrai."

"Darkrai?" Saturn says with wonder.

"Yeah," I answer. I point to Darkrai. "He's over there."
Saturn jolts around. Darkrai nods to him. Saturn turns back around. "Cyrus didn't say anything about that."

"Continue please."
He nods. "Charon wants to use the powers of the Legendary Pokémon to create a new universe."

"How does this involve the Lake Trio?"

"He needed their DNA to complete the Red Chain. It is also said that they can reverse the power of the Red Chain, so he wanted them locked away."
"We need to stop him!" Barry yells. "Take us to the HQ and we'll beat him."
"He'll kill Cyrus as soon as the alarm goes off. He knows that Cyrus is planning something."

"Oh…"

"I can take you to Jubilife City, though. I'll explain everything else on the way."

I nod. "Let's go. We'll finish this."