Me: It's. So. HAAAAWT! I'm currently writing this on the outside, I'm sitting in the shadows and it's still hot.

Anyway, chapter 36! Yaay!

Fiore is getting taken over and it looks like the bad guys are going to succeed!

Let's see how this all turns out, shall we!

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Chapter 36: Takeover

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„Walk?! Are you out of your mind, Lunick?!" protested Joel.

„How would we do that, we would get sucked into it." added Solana.

„I know I know, but can't we use, like, gas masks? This way we wouldn't breathe this stuff in. I mean, Jacob said that this would be a way to prevent it, and he knows about everything about that." replied Lunick.

„Knows everything you say? Don't you find it a bit strange that he left so quickly after the interrogation? Also he used a strange powder, which had just the same colour as this smoke.. Frankly, I don't trust him." said Joel.

„Jacob is trustworthy, I'm pretty sure about that, I mean, he helped us so much in this whole thing, it would be ridiculous if he betrayed us." replied Lunick.

„You said you were 'pretty sure'? Spenser told me that your brother, Lupine always stuck to one thing, 'never trust anybody you can't be more than hundred percent sure of' no matter what this person did or how long you know them." said Joel.

„We'll see about that, but first we have to get to Ringtown and tell them what happened, even if I think they already know." said Solana.

Joel nodded and had two rangers go to the storeroom to get four gas masks, two for the rangers and two smaller ones for their partner pokémon. After that they handed them the masks and Solana and Lunick put them on.

„Good luck, rangers." said Joel finally before the two left the base.

The city was covered in a dark fog and it was raining. It was truly a bleak and unsettling atmosphere, in the distance they heard shots and terrified screams.

„What the hell is happening.." mumbled Solana.

„I have no idea, but we best get to Ringtown as fast as possible." replied Lunick.

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They suddenly heard vehicles coming closer, so they decided to hide behind a building. Out of the car stepped two men in uniforms, they wore helmets, which were aswell equided with gas masks, so they wouldn't breathe the smoke in. They had two rifles with them.

„I swear, I saw two people here just a few seconds ago.." said the first one.

„Must've been your imagination, I told you it was nothing." said the second one.

„Wait. Don't you think we should at least look around? Just to make sure."

„*sigh* Fine.."

The two soldiers split up and searched the area around their vehicle. Solana and Lunick shortly looked at each other and decided to split aswell, they agreed to meet in the forest.

Solana was the first one to leave the city and so she decided to wait for Lunick near the exit..

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Lunick's way out was different...

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„Damnit, I'm surrounded.." mumbled Lunick.

„Mai.." whispered Minun worried.

„It's okay, buddy, we're going to get out of here in no time." comforted Lunick his little friend.

„Hey, I think I heard something over here!" said one of the soldiers.

They approached the source of the noise and were slowly coming closer to Lunick from both sides. Lunick was trapped in his hideout and there was no way for him to escape.

Suddenly he heard something behind him, his heart stopped for a moment, when he felt cold steel in his back, „Found you."

Lunick turned around and tried to attack his opponent with a kick to the head, which was easily dodged. He was sent back to the ground when the soldier hit the young ranger with his weapon.

„Minun, run as fast as you can! You have to get out of here!" said Lunick to his little partner.

Hesitatingly the little pokémon ran away and managed to escape. He ran into the forest to Solana.

„Hey Minun. Where's Lunick?" asked Solana.

The little pokémon just looked discouraged at the ground.

Solana's expression immediatly darkened and left her in shock and despair, „No.."

Meanwhile the second soldier joined them and they handcuffed Lunick.

He had no chance to free himself and was soon after brought into their car and they drove off into the lost city..

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Solana ran as fast as she could through the forest to Ringtown, followed by Plusle and Minun. The forest seemed to be untouched, luckily. However, there were no pokémon anywhere..

The young ranger saw smoke in the distance, in direction of the base! Solana now ran even faster, driven by the adrenalin and the fear.

In Ringtown she saw people running around, screaming. It was a mass panic..

Near the base were several medic tents and people getting carried in them, but the most shocking sight was the base itself – It was almost entirely in flames and had a huge whole in the roof.

Rangers were trying to calm the people down, so luckily there was no fog here. Solana spotted ranger near the base, he was helping to carry some of the injured.

„Leader!" Spenser looked around and spotted the young ranger approaching him, followed by two pokémon.

„Solana! Where is Lunick?" asked the leader concerned.

„He was captured by those soldiers! They have taken over Fall City entirely! The whole city was covered in this purple fog, from bombs that Lapan dropped out of some zeppelins." replied Solana worried.

„Bombs?! In Fall City?! That's horrible.. Lapan has yet again gone too far! And what about the citizens?" asked Spenser concerned.

„I don't know, but I think that this time they used fear gas to make them submissive. We also heard several shots and the soldiers were armed. Also there were no pokémon in the forest, it looks like they captured all of them now!" replied Solana.

„The rangers in Fall City won't be able to withstand them much longer I suppose.. I just hope that the others are unharmed.."

He then received a call - it was from Cameron!

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„Damnit, try to keep the god damn doors shut! - Oh hey, Spenser! Um, I just wanted to inform you that we have a huge problem over here.. and some kind of.. um answer.. I guess. Good news, we found your missing pokémon! Bad news, they are completely NUTS! The jungle is being overrun!" Cameron was panicking on the other end.

„Cameron! What is going on?!" asked Spenser.

„The pokémon. Are. CRAZY! And they are currently breaking through the damn door! Damnit, barricade it with something! Anyway, we heard some horrible things about Fall City and we can't reach anyone there, how does it look in Ringtown?" asked Cameron concerned.

„A bit better. There are no dead, only injured. Unfortunately the base blew up, someone must've snuck a bomb in there without us noticing, how ever this would've been possible.."

„So there was an explosion in your base?!"

„Yes. But Fall City is basically in ruins right now. I also want to check how things are in Wintown."

„You do that, we'll be trying to get things here under control. Oh right, why I called, could you send someone to assist us a bit? Only if you don't mind it and if you don't need all of them right now."

„Sorry, Cameron, we need everyone to get things under control here aswell, but I'll call you as soon as I have someone."

„*sigh* Well, ok, thanks Spenser, bye."

Cameron hung up. Concerned Spenser looked at the scene, people getting carried away, getting treated by medics and all rangers trying to calm the townsfolk down. How could it come to this..

Spenser then called Elita on his styler...

„Hello?"

„Hello Elita, Spenser here, is everything ok in Wintown?" he asked full of concern.

„Yes, everything is fine. We've seen what happened to Fall City, they are currently broadcasting and someone in a trenchcoat is talking, he looks like he belongs to the police.." replied the Wintown leader.

„Tanaka.." mumbled Spenser angrily, „Anyway, Fall City has been taken over by this man and his leader. Their goal is to take over Fiore! Our base exploded, because someone planted a bomb in it. Summerland is currently overrun by the pokémon, which they captured, it looks like they all have been injected with this poison that makes them so terribly angry."

„I see it. They are showing the island right now. Oh my god.. There are pokémon everywhere.. They are saying that this is the true nature of the pokémon, that they are dangerous and should be locked up. They should be thanked for that they isolated the pokémon on the island, where they can't hurt anybody.."

„What?! It's worse than we thought.. They want to create a world without pokémon.."

Suddenly Spenser heard someone in the background enter the room in which Elita was.

„Hello, how can we help you, sir?" 'Hold this for me, okay?'

Spenser's eyes shot wide open, he recognized the voice – It was Jacob!

„Elita, get out of there, immediatly!"

The last thing he heard was a short explosion followed by nothing.. everything went silent.

Shocked and completely lost Spenser fell to his knees, his expression.. fear and sadness..

„Leader..." mumbled Solana worried.

„It's.. it's okay, Solana.. I'm sure she'll be fine.." replied Spenser sad.

It is well known that Spenser and Elita were in a relationship, so of course this was really getting to him..

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He slowly rose back up and shook his head returning to his bold role as a leader.

„Solana, I want you to tell me what the actual hell is going on, from start to where we are now, every detail and then we'll think of something." commaned Spenser.

„So, it started when I saw two men in black trenchcoats sneaking around the harbour, they got to a wall and talked about something. I decided to spy on them and told Lunick to join and help me, he made some photos, which are still on his styler, but I don't think that he managed to get any good ones, since they were almost entirely disguised. Suddenly we saw those zeppelins, it were three, one bigger than the other two. This must've been the main airship, where Lapan was. The two men suddenly ran away as fast as possible. So we followed the zeppelins and they stopped directly above the city center, where the monument is. The other two then spread across the city and then they dropped the bombs. The city was almost immediatly covered in purple fog and we fled to the base. Joel, Lunick and me were then talking about what to do, but we only came up with running back to Ringtown and this is when we got separated after we left the base again. Lunick and I were on our way when we heard a car approaching, so we hid. Two men stepped out, they wore uniforms, the same ones that we saw in Summerland and were armed, they looked for us. Lunick and I we split up and I made it out of the city before him, where I was waiting for him but only Minun returned.." explained Solana.

„Wow.. that's horrible, but don't worry, we'll find Lunick and he'll be back in no time, but we have to find a way to stop Lapan. Also it looks like Jacob is now on his side for some reason.. Why would he do that.. I thought he was one of Lupine's best friends, what reason would he have to do that?" wondered the leader.

And out of nowhere Chelsea stepped, with tears running down her face.

„Chelsea, what is wrong?" asked Spenser concerned.

„It's about Jacob.." replied the young leader.

„Why? What did he do?" asked Solana.

„I just found out what he did.. I never thought that someone like him would do that. He's always been so nice to everyone and yet he was on Tanaka's side all along," the young woman whiped away her tears and shrugged her sadness off, „I wonder for how long he's been..."

„Well, it is obvious, that he was the one who created this purple smoke, which means that we can't rely on what he taught us. Also I'm more than sure that he gave them about every piece of information." said Spenser.

„I just now noticed that it was pretty convinient that he showed up just after Lupine was arrested.." said Solana.

Suddenly they heard someone running towards them from behind, he was calling for Solana.. What they saw left them shocked and reliefed at the same time...

„Lunick!"

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Me: Yeah, I gotta be honest, I really didn't want to have this cliché of someone getting kidnapped, I'm not really a fan of this concept so, yeah. That's that.

The next chapter will give us a bit of background on the baddies, their intentions and stuff like that. We maybe even see a glimpse of redemption with one of them...

So stay tuned for this! And as always I thank you for reading and hope that you enjoyed this chapter! :D

Auf Wiedersehen! :D

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