Beka Confronts with Team Sky and the Legend of Hoenn
Hours had passed when Steven regained consciousness. He was lying in a hospital bed in the recovery room of Lilycove City Hospital. Brendan, Edgar, and May were standing around him, with signs of tears deep inside their brown and blue eyes. He then realized what had happened and he struggled to sit up.
"Beka!" Steven exclaimed, "I need to find Beka!"
"Steven!" exclaimed May, "You need to take it easy!"
"No," said Steven, "I need to be out of this bed and look for Beka!"
"Well take it easy at least!" suggested Brendan, repeating May's suggestion.
Steven didn't reply, but just grabbed his finger and arm rings, which had been taken off of him to insure comfort, and slipped them back on him. He then pulled out his shoes, which were also taken off of him, that were beside the bed and slipped them on. He then made a dash toward the main lobby of the hospital and bolted out of the hospital, but then, a sharp pain in his forehead made him stop and seek rest over by a resting bench. The pain was intense, as he buried his face and forehead in his thin hands. Edgar, May, and Brendan had reached Steven and noticed that the Champion was slightly shaking.
"Hey, Steven," asked Brendan, "are you okay?"
"If…only…" Steven stuttered in anger, "if…if only I had…told her…she…she…"
Steven fell to the ground on his knees and slammed his fists into the smoothed rock pavement.
"…SHE WOULDN'T BE IN THEIR HANDS! BEKA! I'M SO SORRY!"
The three trainers stood in silence, watching the Champion. They didn't know what to do, what to say, to comfort him. Steven sat there, trying hold back tears, and then, he slowly got up, his sky-blue eyes shadowed.
"I'm not going to just sit here and let Team Sky have their fun with her," said Steven, in a deep, serious voice, "I'm going to find her…now."
"But Steven," said May, "we don't know anything about Team Sky's secret base or anything about their whereabouts…"
Suddenly, a dinging sound filled the air. The group turned to see Edgar pull out his PokeNav.
"Hey," asked Brendan, "what's going on with your Nav Ed?"
"Oh," said Edgar, "it's just a special feature that's been put into it. It's the Pokemon Worldwide Channel, or PWC, it's like a radio station with services from around the world."
"Really?" said May, "That sounds awesome, but, why is it dinging like that?"
"It must be breaking news," suggested Edgar.
Edgar pushed a button and a radio broadcast flowed out of the speakers:
We interrupt this program to deliver this important announcement, came a female's voice, who was obviously the reporter, BREAKING NEWS: The Space Center in Mossdeep City has been taken over by a group, under name of 'Team Sky'. It was reported at around 2:35, which was about five minutes ago, that the center was broken in by the group. Little information has been coming out about Team Sky's purposes at the center and that the head scientist at the center, renowned astronomer Polaris North, has gone missing, either being captured or escaped during the evasion. We will have…
Edgar clicked off the PWC.
"Well, we now know where Team Sky is," said Edgar.
"I'm going to pay them a visit," said Steven, throwing out a Pokeball.
The Pokeball opened to reveal his Skarmory and Steven jumped onto its steel back.
"Wait Steven," came Brendan's voice, "we are coming along too!"
"No," said the Champion, "it's too dangerous to follow me!"
"Steven," said Brendan, "Beka has been May's and mine best friend ever since we began to renown our journey through Hoenn. Even though she seemed very timid when we first meet, she has become a great trainer and a great person to befriend, and if a friend of mine is endangered, so help me, I'll help them out!"
"Yeah," added May, "and Beka would have done the same thing too if we were in her position."
"And adding," said Edgar, "even though I had recently meet Beka, she's a sweet girl with a passionate heart and beautiful soul and if anyone ever does anything bad to her, Edgar Knight will be there to give them their personal karma delivery!"
Steven saw in great pride that Beka had meet and befriended the greatest friends in all of Hoenn. Steven nodded and said:
"All right, if you want to help Beka out, go to my house, which is just north of Mossdeep City, by the ocean, and stay there until I get Beka. If I need back up, I'll call and inform you all."
"Sounds good!" said Brendan, giving Steven a thumbs up.
Steven gave back a thumbs up with a wink and then tapped on Skarmory's sides, signaling for the Steel/ Flying Pokemon to take off. With a powerful cry, Skarmory kicked up into the on its steel and red wings and caught an air current to Mossdeep. Steven could also see Brendan and May, together, on Brendan's Skarmory and Edgar on his Charizard, a Fire/ Flying Element that looked like an orange dragon with a yellow underside, blue flapped wings, and blue eyes, nicknamed Inferno; as they rode on air currents as well behind Steven.
Beka, came Steven's deepest thoughts, I will save you…
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The darkness of unconscious slowly lifted from Beka's mind. Beka softly fluttered her hazel eyes opened and quickly sat up in shock. She was in some kind of well-lighted storage room, for a few boxes were inside with her. She had been laid upon a rough, green, wool blanket with a flat pillow at the top.
"Where…" Beka asked, "where am I?"
She looked to see that her messenger bag and her Pokeballs were safely laid beside the blanket. A soft stream of tears filled her eyes and she reached and cuddled her six Pokeballs in her arms.
"My friends," said Beka softly, "I so glad you are all here with me…"
She then reached into her messenger bag and began rummaging through a pocket on the side of the inside lining of the bag. She breathed a sigh of relief to see that the Blue Orb was still safe with her, since she placed it in her bag before the invasion of Team Aqua's base.
Just then, the door blared opened to storage room, causing Beka to jump and let out a surprising yell. She saw it was Lee, of the Team Sky Elite, standing before the door with Wilma and Emily behind him. Lee let out a gleaming grin at Beka and said:
"Have a nice nap Emerald?"
Beka growled softly at Lee and held her Pokeballs close, fearing they would take away her Pokemon.
"Relax Emerald," came Emily's voice, "we of Team Sky don't believe in take another trainer's Pokemon for torture. We are much more noble that of Team Rocket, Magma, and Aqua."
"Then what do you want from me Team Sky?" asked Beka, knowing the time for questions was now.
"We aren't the ones who should answer your question," chimed in Wilma, "our leader has all the answers for you. Please, place on your bag on and your Pokeballs on your belt, we don't want to make a bad first impression on the boss, now do we? Also, I would advise that you keep your Pokemon inside their Pokeballs, unless you want them to be attacked by our special simulated attack panels on the walls. Once they come out, the panels will quickly analyze their DNA data and sent out the best attack to knock them out. "
Beka didn't want to go with the Team Sky Elite, but what choice did she have? She didn't want her Pokemon to get injured, so she disgruntlely stood and walked toward the Elites. Lee stepped out first into the hall, followed by Beka, and them Wilma and Emily followed beside her. Beka knew that they wanted her escape routes blocked, but she had no intention of escaping, she was going to meet the leader of Team Sky and figure out why she was so important to them. Lee led the way toward an elevator, where they all entered. He then pushed a button that would lead them to the top floor of the building.
'I wonder what building we're in?' questioned Beka softly in her mind.
Soon, after the pull up, the elevator dinged and the doors slide open. Another hallway lay before them and they made their way forward. They soon came to an elaborate door and Lee stepped up and knocked on the doors with his leather-gloved hand. He then said:
"Madam, the Emerald has awakened and we have brought her here."
The doors were soon opened and Lee and the others stepped in with Beka. The room was huge, with red velvet carpet and black walls that had a starry background. Pictures and cases containing space matter were also in the room in a circular position along the walls. A huge oak desk was ahead of her as well, with one chair at the front and another chair behind the desk, the back turned to face Beka.
"Madam," said Lee.
"Thank you Elite," came a woman's voice, "you may all leave now."
Lee and the others nodded and they turned to leave the room. After they exited, the doors closed behind Beka. Beka's heart was throbbing in her throat, over both fear and anger. She was about to meet the leader of Team Sky and a fiery passion of emotions was burning inside her.
"Welcome, Emerald of Hoenn," said the woman's voice again.
Beka remained silence, but her eyes were telling a different story.
"Please, take a seat."
Beka silently sat in the red velvet seat before the desk, her emerald eyes hardened and focused upon the chair before her.
"Let me introduce myself," said the voice, turning the chair around. Beka's eyes widened to the person before her. It was the woman she meet or rather bumped into, in Oldale Town. She was now dressed in a green aviation hat with a green, World War II-type pilot jacket with a golden Team Sky S symbol crest imbroaded on the left side of her jacket's chest. Since she was now standing out of her chair, she also wore a green long skirt with yellow, circular designs along the sides that connected each other by a yellow line, followed by two splits going through the pattern, the cut just reaching her lower calves. She also wore a pair of green high-heel shoes to match her leader uniform. A smile pressed against her full red lips, her silky blue hair flowing down her back, and her half-closed purple eyes gleamed into Beka's emeralds.
"My name is Samantha, Leader of Team Sky and soon future ruler of the world!"
"I see," said Beka, "so, I got some questions for you, Samantha."
"But of course," said Samantha, sitting back down in her chair, her hands folded on the desk, "please, ask away."
"All right," said Beka, "question one: what am I to you?"
"Simple," replied Samantha, "you are the key to our plans in capturing the Legendary Rayquaza."
"Questions two and three: what do you mean by 'key' and why do you want to capture Rayquaza?"
"Well," began Samantha, "according to the 'true' legend of Hoenn, a girl from another world would come to Hoenn, signaling the coming of the second battle of Groudon and Kyogre. When these two legendaries arise from their slumber, their climax battle over land and sea will commence once again. During that time, Rayquaza is said to descend from the heavens, with the Emerald of Hoenn to awaken it, and stop the fighting between Groudon and Kyogre. Once their anger gone, they will return to their resting place and Rayquaza free to live in the skies forever."
"So that's why you want me," said Beka seriously.
"Yes," nodded Samantha, "and to answer your second question, we want Rayquaza so that the atmosphere of Earth can be expanded, causing us to have more air to breathe, and once we have more air to breathe, the world will see us as the saviors of mankind!"
"But you can't do that!" exclaimed Beka, "The Earth may not be able to handle a massive expansion like that!"
"How would a child like you know?" said Samantha, "Yet, if this world is destroyed because of this, we have a new plan. Would you like to know, I think you would be surprised…"
Beka stared at her in silence, waiting for an answer.
"We will just simply go and take over your world Emerald!"
Beka was shot with the sudden words that had passed out of Samantha's mouth. She couldn't be serious, take over the real world?
"Yeah," said Beka, smirking, "if you ever went to the real world, would you know anything more about it as here?"
"As a matter of fact I do," said Samantha, laughing, "to tell you the truth, I come from the real world as well."
Another hit was delivered to Beka, Samantha was from the real world too!
"Then," asked Beka, "if you come from the real world as well, then how come you aren't the Emerald of Hoenn?"
Samantha was silent; a pain was showing in her purple eyes.
"I…wasn't chosen…" she finally said.
Samantha then slammed her fist onto the desk, Beka could see she was shaking with anger.
"That stupid prophecy," murmured Samantha, turning her gaze away.
Beka just sat there in silence, a little puzzled as well about the legend of Hoenn that she was just told.
"What do you mean by chosen?" asked Beka finally.
Samantha took in a deep breath, to relax herself, and then said:
"When I first came to the Pokemon World, it was about ten years ago. Not knowing what to do, I seeked refuge in a Pokemon boarding school, where I was given my education for the time being. I didn't even know about Pokemon, only heard about it from a few anime websites from the real world. Anyway, while I was at the boarding school, I befriended Archie and Maxie, the current leaders of Team Aqua and Magma, and back then they were the best of friends, but after graduation, those two got into a furious fight about the Legendaries of Hoenn, especially Kyogre and Groudon. After the fight, they never spoke to each other again and chose the path of world domination. Weeks later, after the fight, I read a book to better understand the legends of Hoenn and found that prophecy. I knew I had to be the Emerald of Hoenn, I just knew it and if I was her, maybe I could somehow show Maxie and Archie their ways back to friendship! So, with my Pokemon in hand, which I had trained them ever since I came here, I went to Sootopolius City, where I knew that I could find a better understanding of the legends. When I got there, it was a different story, for I wasn't allowed into the Cave of Origin and was turned back, but I refused to leave without them testing me to be the Emerald of Hoenn. They did test me with a sacred emerald tablet, but the energies contained in the tablet we too much and I fainted before I could even touch the gem. Angered by this, I vowed that I would create a team more powerful than Archie's and Maxie's teams and that once a girl from the other world came, we would capture her and her see if she is truly, the Emerald of Hoenn…"
"Wait," said Beka, cutting into the story, "back in Granite Cave, Team Sky, along with Magma and Aqua evaded a sacred underground temple called Temple of the Legendaries and one of your Executives stole that emerald tablet. So how could she…"
"Thanks to more secrets uncovered about the emerald tablet and," cut back in Samantha, "we of Team Sky developed a pair of special gloves that would protect one holding or being near the tablet."
"Right," said Beka softly, thinking about the long gloves Isabel wore, "I remembered…"
"Well," continued on Samantha, "once we had the tablet in our grasps, we melted that gem into a orb and…"
"WHAT!" exclaimed Beka, slamming her hands on the desk in anger, "You melted the tablet! Have you lost it!"
"Calm down Emerald," said Samantha, pushing a button.
From the desk, a hole opened and from the hole lifted a magnificent emerald sphere that glittered in a beautiful light.
"We just merely melted the tablet into this, the Green Orb," continued on Samantha.
Beka stared at the Green Orb in awe, but then said:
"You going to use this to control Rayquaza, right?"
"Well, not us…" said Samantha, putting on the same pair of gloves that Isabel wore and picked up the Orb, "…you…"
Samantha threw up the Green Orb in the air, in an attempt to let it smash on the ground. Beka, seeing how this artifact was in danger, dove under it and grabbed it in her gloved hands like a right fielder catching an almost homerun hit. She stood there holding it in her hands.
"Hmm…" said Samantha, "the Orb hasn't caused you to faint. I was right, you are her…"
Suddenly, Beka felt something strange in her hands. She looked down to see the Orb glowing and fading in a green light, along with the sound of a heartbeat and the glowing of some yellow markings as well. She could feel a strong energy beat out of the Orb, powerful and ancient it was. She suddenly watched in horror as the Green Orb absorbed into her hands in a green light. Powerful streams of energy flowed through her veins, nerves, every portion of her body was beginning to seep with this ancient energy. It was becoming too much for her and she yelled:
"What…what's happening to me!"
"Since you are the true Emerald of Hoenn," said Samantha, "the Green Orb has bonded with you and since you have bonded with it, you will have the ability to summon Rayquaza at anytime you wish, of course, you can't awaken it until you meet it face-to-face…"
Samantha let out a harsh laugh, as Beka slammed down onto the floor on her knees. Beka looked down at her hands to see the yellow circular markings of Rayquaza were forming on her skin, but instead of being yellow, they shown in a green aura. Beka was beginning to fell weak as her energy and that of the Green Orb battle inside of her.
'I don't know how long I can stay awake…' Beka's thought's filled her mind, '…Steven, help me…Steven…'
Beka passed out on the red carpet floor. Samantha walked over to Beka's side and pressed her index and middle finger together next to her neck, checking her pulse.
"Just taking a rest right?" Samantha questioned the unconscious Beka.
Samantha just smirked and walked over to the desk, pressing a button that was on her desk, which was a speakerphone.
"Send in a Grunt," said Samantha.
The doors again opened up and a Team Sky Grunt walked in, his eyes shadowed over his aviation cap and parts of sky blue hair poking out from underneath.
"Yes madam?" asked the Grunt, not looking up.
"Take the Emerald back to her room," said Samantha, "and make sure you keep a good eye on her."
"Yes, madam," said the Grunt.
The Grunt bent down and picked up Beka's unconscious form in his arms. The Grunt walked out of the room with Beka and was heading back toward her room. He looked down at Beka and thought:
'Bad choice of picking out your Grunts, Team Sky…'
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RW: Next chapter is Beka's escape from Team Sky's evil clutches…