Me (pokeninja6600): Here we are! Poke-Lover's chapter, here it is!
Rictor: I...
Roma: Don't worry...He's got a heart...Kind of...
Emerald: Ah, oh dear, LEAVING NOW!
Eva's POV
"You alright Roma?" I asked, watching the silver haired girl bite her fingernails, her foot tapping nervously on the metal floor of the helicopter.
She paused, her entire body going still before her eye flicked to me, "How do you think Ghetsis will react?"
I sighed. I had figured that was the cause of her worry. Ghetsis would meet Rictor, and if I knew the green haired tyrant of a man as well as I thought, it wouldn't turn out well. Ghetsis had his mind set on Cress becoming King someday, so much so that he had commenced the training when we were at the castle. And now that Rictor seemed to be a kink in his plan, I could only guess that he wouldn't react to this news well.
"I don't know Roma."
She went back to chewing on her nail, her foot tapping even faster. I looked down at Deino who was happily perched in my arms still, his legs dangling out underneath my arms as he glanced out the window.
"So is Ghetsis going to meet us in Castelia?" I asked.
Roma paused as her face contorted, "I don't know, he didn't say whether or not he'd be there."
"Do you think the grunt flying this thing would know?"
She nodded, "Probably."
Roma shifted her way towards the front of the helicopter, pulling down the divider between the cockpit and where we were sitting. Much to my surprise our pilot was actually female.
The woman looked surprised, jumping slightly as Roma stuck her head through the opening.
"How can I help ya?" the woman asked.
For a moment I paused, taking in her appearance. She had strikingly green hair, and that caught me off guard. Not many people had green hair. I was pulled out of my thoughts as Roma spoke up.
"Um, do you know if Ghetsis is meeting us in Castelia?"
The woman nodded, "Yes, he'll be there." She then shook her head, "Though I personally think that's a bit of a risk, since he has hundreds of people who want him dead."
Roma nodded before her eyebrow rose, "Do I know you?"
The woman looked back to Roma before glancing back out the front of the machine we were currently on, "No, I don't think we've met before, I'm Emerald."
Roma nodded, "Nice to meet you, I'm-"
"I know who you are, dear," Emerald added something under her breath before chuckling, cutting Roma off mid-sentence.
Roma blinked before nodding. Surely everyone in Team Plasma would know who she was.
"Um, another question. Why aren't the boys flying with us?"
Emerald smiled, "Ghetsis is more than a little worried about you and that Rictor kid, so he wants you separated. But he figured if Rictor was the only one away from the group you'd get suspicious, so he decided to separate you all by gender."
Roma plopped back down in her seat with her arms crossed, "He's so paranoid."
I laughed and so did Emerald.
"Don't worry Roma, Matt's the pilot, he's got them all taken care of," Emerald reassured.
Matt's POV
I swore if those two boys didn't shut up I would jump from this aircraft any moment.
"Why are you so smug?" the black haired boy asked, watching the blue haired gym leader carefully as he smiled to himself, eyes closed and head leaned back against the wall.
"No reason, I'm just thinking of what you'll look like after Ghetsis is done with you."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You'll see."
My hand steadily and slowly reached back toward the divider. If I could just pull it up, I wouldn't have to listen to their arguing anymore.
"Hey!"
The voice was so loud I knew it was addressing me. I sighed.
"What?"
"What does this moron mean by 'when Ghetsis is done with me'?" the boy apparently named Rictor asked.
I sighed. I served my lord without complaint but I was definitely going to hold a grudge over this particular job. Take the boys to Castelia, it didn't sound too hard. But what I didn't know was that I would then be put through the torture of listening to them fight for a good hour and a half about everything under the sun, from Roma, to their differing movie opinions.
"Oh, so you're resorting to asking a Team Plasma member are you? Why don't you just read his mind?"
"Maybe I will!"
"Do it, then maybe I won't have to listen to your annoying voice anymore!"
I liked Cress, however now, even he was getting on my nerves.
"Oh jeez," Rictor squeaked.
"Hah, I guess you read his mind. He's pretty scary, isn't he?"
"That's Roma's grandfather? Now I know why she ran away." Rictor asked.
I glanced back at the boys to see Rictor's face looking dazed. He wasn't seriously reading my mind was he? But how else would he know what Ghetsis was like? I gulped. This kid was an odd one alright.
"Yep, that's him. And he doesn't like you. Imagine how scary he is when he's mad," Cress said, bursting into laughter at the end of his sentence.
"Nothing I can't handle," Rictor said, trying to sound brave.
"Oh please, you couldn't even handle a hospital."
"HEY! That topic is off limits!" Rictor added something too quietly to be heard.
I pinched the bridge of my nose; I would have a migraine by the time we arrived in Castelia at this rate.
"Oh yeah?"
"Oh yeah!"
As the volume got louder in the back, my patience started to wear.
"Hey! You two better shut your mouths until we get there or I'm going to come back there and shut them for you!"
The voices in the back quieted immediately.
I blinked a few times, surprised at the volume I had achieved. I had never sounded so much like an angry parent in my life.
"And that's just one of his grunts," I heard Cress whisper, a tone of taunting in his voice.
I smacked my hand to my forehead. This was going to be a long ride.
Eva's POV
When our helicopter landed on the ground, I swore Roma's feet barely touched the ground as she flew outside.
I lumbered after her and groaned when the bright sunlight hit my eyes. I heard Deino let out a low growl too and smiled. We had sounded almost exactly the same.
"Ooh Eva, remember the first time we were in Castelia?"
I paused, blinking my surroundings into focus. In front of me was the first city I had been in when I had arrived in Unova. I had met Roma and Eve by the large fountain in the center of the city, and when the strange silver haired stranger had yanked me into the ocean when she saw an Officer Jenny I knew that I had gotten myself an interesting traveling partner.
"Yep," I said, smiling.
The wind whipped as the boys' helicopter floated to the ground to land next to ours. Chili, Cilan, Cress, and then Rictor hopped off, shielding their eyes as the blinding sunlight took them by surprise as well.
I saw movement and before I knew it a grunt had made his way off of the helicopter as well, followed by Emerald. I squinted, that was Matt. I couldn't help but smile. I hadn't really spent much time with him, but he seemed to be one of Roma's favorite people in the world.
"Matt!" Roma squealed as he made his way over to us, looking exasperated.
"I don't know how you guys deal with them all the time," he said, jerking his thumb at where Cress and Rictor were still butting heads, arguing with each other, not noticing what anyone else was doing.
"So… where's Ghetsis?" Roma asked.
Matt looked around, "I don't know, but he should be here soon to pick up Rictor."
An uneasy sound left Emerald's mouth as she backed toward the helicopter, "I'm gonna head on back," she said quickly, so fast in fact I had trouble understanding her as she jumped back into the cockpit of the device.
All of our eyes were focused on the black helicopter piloted by the odd green haired female as it took off, and so we didn't notice the small crowd sauntering towards us.
"Roma!"
We all jumped and turned back towards Castelia, finally noticing the group of about thirty people advancing toward us, all lead by none other than Ghetsis.
I looked to Rictor; he was already shaking in his boots.
"Hello Grandfather," Roma said hesitantly as he approached us.
Ghetsis didn't make any move to greet her as his visible eye quickly scanned over our group.
"So where's this boy?" he spat.
Rictor: Oh, oh dear...
Me: *laughs maniacally* BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!