Ch 35: Battle of Mt. Chimney
Several helicopters hovered over the top of Mt. Chimney before dropping ropes down.
A few dozen men and women were dropped onto the top of the large volcano before they were joined by men and women in armor and hoods with pokemon.
One larger helicopter actually landed as the back opened and four people walked out, each with a pokemon.
As they got out six men dragged a large machine near the lava pit.
"Get the walkway set up over the pit, we need the machine as close to the lava as it can get while still being safe."
"Yes Mentor."
"Father, you don't think our enemies will find us here, we aren't being very discrete."
"Be calm my son, if Archie shows his hand we'll cut it off. Besides this is the only location we can use that will be able to suit out needs."
"Alright, let's get to work then."
Unknown to them, below the peak was a tree where a man and a Sceptile were watching.
"We need to report this."
"Tile."
Elsewhere on route 112's pokemon center, Jason was up with his pokeballs outside the pokemon center.
"Ok time to start training Aggron." Jason said as he let out his five pokemon.
As they came out they noticed Aggron among them.
"Guys this is Aggron, Sceptile and I caught him yesterday." Jason said.
"Grauu."
"Grouu."
"Swellow." His other pokemon said trying to introduce themselves.
Aggron stared at the others with intense looks.
Jason noticed a lot of hostility in Aggron's aura.
"Aggron is everything ok?"
"Graww!" Aggron roared as he slammed his metal tail into Jason, knocking him onto his back.
His pokemon were dumbstruck when they saw this, Charizard snarled and came forward grabbing Aggron by the head and slamming him into the ground with Dragon claw.
Sceptile and the others looked to see if Jason was ok.
Jason shook his head and cracked his neck as he got up.
"That hurt." Charizard let go of Aggron as the large metal pokemon slowly got up snarling.
"Grauu!" Charizard snarled back demanding to know what his problem was.
The other three quickly joined in but Aggron ignored them.
Jason was now a bit concerned.
"You just have to show him who you really are." Jason said to himself as he tried to reach out to Aggron's aura with his own.
Aggron tilted his head slightly as he felt Jason's aura interact with his own.
He saw Jason's true self as Jason saw Aggron's true self. He saw aggression, and a need for dominance, a large need for dominance, Jason began to see the last thing his Aggron wanted was to fight on a team lead by a human.
Despite Jason reaching out to Aggron with his aura, Aggron snarled again and smashed his head into Jason, knocking him onto his back.
Sceptile quickly rushed over and caught him before Charizard snarled again, grabbing Aggron by the arm and pushing him into the ground with his arm pinned.
Jason couldn't believe it, Aggron wasn't listening, even after he showed him his true nature, he still wanted nothing to do with them.
Jason's other pokemon also looked concerned as they saw Aggron continue to struggle and growl at them.
Jason returned him as he sighed.
Jason's other pokemon were astounded that Aggron not only wasn't listening to him, but going as far to attack him.
Gyarados in particular, Aggron reminded Gyarados of himself before he met Jason. Now it was like a painful memory coming back.
"Alright I guess we'll be training without him." Jason said as they began training on their own.
A few hours later he came back into the pokemon center after dropping off his pokemon.
Jason sat on his bed with Aggron's pokeball in hand.
He kept staring at it as Autumn came out of the bathroom drying her hair with a towel.
She saw Jason on the bed and her face turned red as she wasn't expecting him back so soon.
Jason heard her come out of there bathroom.
"Morning Autumn." he said before he looked up and saw her in her underwear.
His face also turned red as he looked down and she tried to cover herself with the towel.
"I didn't think you'd be back this soon."
"I'm starting to remember why Finn and I would room room separately from you and Emelia." Jason said as he kept looking away.
"Well they probably don't mind these situations since they're dating." Autumn joked.
"Well I suppose I should be more use to it, Zinnia had no problems showing off her body."
Autumn tried to calm herself.
"They're broken up, they're broken up." She said to herself.
Autumn noticed the pokeball in Jason's hand.
"Hey wait, who's pokeball is that?"
"It's Aggron's."
"Why isn't he with Nurse Joy?"
"Because he didn't train, and quite frankly I don't trust Nurse Joys with Aggrons anymore."
"Why didn't he train?"
Jason took a deep breath.
"Because he didn't listen to a word I said."
"What?" Autumn said.
"As soon as I let him out of his pokeball he attacked me, and even after I reached out to him with my aura he still attacked me."
"Oh Jason." She said as she sat down beside him and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Gyarados was violent, but he wasn't disobedient. I haven't had a pokemon act like that towards me since my first two failures as a trainer. I really thought after all I went through, and becoming an aura guardian this won't happen anymore. Have I really come so short?"
"Jason don't say that!" Autumn said in a stern tone.
Jason turned to her.
"Jason you've four pokemon that love you and even became Dragons with you. You have to remember everything you've done right and remember that this is just a setback. You only just caught Aggron, he will come around, you just have to make him understand.
Jason smiled and even laughed a little.
"Wow, that's amazing."
"What's amazing?"
"How I can come to you, my friend with a real problem and get more support than I got from either of my old girlfriends." Jason said before he gave Autumn a short kiss on the cheek.
Autumn's face turned red and she became so flustered she thought she was going to faint.
Jason got up.
"I'm going to check on my other pokemon, thanks Autumn." He said before he left the room.
Autumn didn't move for almost a minute before she fell onto the floor.
Ten minutes later there was a knock on the door.
"Autumn? Autumn are you coming out for breakfast? Autumn?" Emelia said as she opened the door and saw Autumn lying on the floor with a goofy smile.
"Autumn?" She said sweat dropping.
A few hours later they reached cable car station.
"Here we are, hopefully it's open." Jason said.
They didn't see anyone by the doorway.
"Well I hope that means it's open." Finn said.
The four walked inside but saw no one was inside the interior.
"Hello?" Autumn asked.
The four looked around but the building was empty.
"Why would the doors be unlocked and those men not there if this place wasn't open?" Emelia asked.
"Hey look." Finn said as they saw the car itself in the center with a control panel on the inside.
"Maybe you're suppose to operate it yourself?" Finn said.
"Could be." Jason said as they walked inside and sat down as Jason turned the car on.
The cars light's turned on as the doors shut and the cable car began moving.
"I guess that's it then. Alright we're on our way to lava ridge town." Jason said.
Outside the building the two men who were suppose to be guarding it walked back to the door.
"Ok so now that we have the coffee and doughnuts we should be good until four." One said before they saw the cable car moving up the mountain.
"Awww shit!" One shouted as they ran to the building.
"Someone went inside!"
"You forgot to lock the door!"
"You forgot to lock it!"
"Oh God, the Mentor's son is going to kill us!"
"No, not if we go inside and cut the power."
"Good idea." One said before two strong hands grabbed their heads and smashed them together knocking them out.
Meanwhile in the cable car, the group were looking down at the side of the mountain and the route below.
"We're really getting high up." Emelia said.
"This is a lot easier than scaling the mountain." Autumn said.
"Though not as fun." Finn said.
As they got closer to the top, Jason noticed men were working at the top of the mountain.
"What?"
As they got closer and closer he saw it was team magma grunts.
"Oh no." He said as the others saw it as well.
Before long they saw at the peak of the volcano were several large groups of Team Magma.
"Are you kidding me!" Emelia shouted.
"It's ok, we'll be fine. As soon as we stop, we get out and get some distance between us and the peak. Maybe there's a team Aqua guild in Lavaridge town. We get help from there."
"I'm ok with that plan." Autumn said.
As they got closer to the top, the cable car was seen by some of the Magma members.
"They see us." Finn said nervously as he saw one of the Magma guardians point his finger at them.
Three Camerupt soon came over to him before unleashing Fire blast.
The fire blasts hit the cable car and made it shake.
"Hold on!" Jason shouted.
The four held onto the chairs and railings as hard as they could but the fire blasts kept hitting the car.
Jason felt the car's supports begin to give way.
"Oh that's not good."
The others heard a crack and snap.
"What was that?" Autumn asked nervously.
The car was hit once again and the supports finally gave way, snapping the car off the rails.
"Brace for impact!" The car landed on the top of the mountain and began sliding down the sides of the rocks.
The four did their best not to be thrown around as the car tumbled and slid.
Finally it stopped as the group stumbled around.
Finn vomited on a seat as Jason got to his feet.
"Ok, we're alive. The situation has improved one hundred percent."
He opened the door with his great strength only to see thirty Magma grunts and pokemon outside with three guardians.
He shut the door.
"The situation has improved twenty percent."
"What do we do?" Emelia asked.
Autumn took a deep breath.
"There's always my ability." She said nervously.
Jason looked at her with concern.
"Are you sure?"
She nodded.
"We may not have a choice." She said.
Jason took a deep breath as he let Charizard out and drew his hidden blades.
"Alright this is going to be a rough fight." He said when he heard a loud commotion outside.
"What?" He opened the door to see the Magma members being beaten back and away by a large group of Team Aqua Marines and three Aqua Aura guardians.
"Team Aqua!" Jason shouted in excitement.
When Jason stepped out he saw two Magma guardians get thrown to the ground in front of him.
He looked up to see the woman aura guardian he had seen before.
"Good work men, this area is clear."
She looked down and saw Jason below him.
"Well well, we meet again young man." She leapt down in front of the group.
"I see you have hidden blades this time."
"I'm an aura guardian now."
"Well we never got a proper introduction. I'm Master Shelly."
"Jason Ketchum, these are my friends."
"Well as you can see team Magma is here in force, we're also deployed in force. We could certainly use some help." She said.
"What are they trying to do?"
"We don't know, but it has something to do with the volcano."
"You don't think they're trying to make it erupt do you?" Emelia asked.
"I wouldn't put it past them."
Jason turned to his friends.
"Of course we're helping them." Autumn said.
Jason turned back to Shelly.
"Give me a second to get into my armor."
He went back inside the cart as a few marines came down tossing tactical vests and nightsticks to the other three.
"You may want those." One said.
A minute later Jason and the others came out changed.
"Are you ready?" Shelly asked.
"We are." Jason said.
"Good let's get to work."
They hurried over to a higher part of the peak where they saw ten Aqua marines with M4 carbines exchanging fire with Magma grunts with Ak-47s.
"Keep clear of the gunfire." The marine Lieutenant said.
"Guys stay with the marines, I'll go with my brothers and sisters." Jason said.
"Alright try to stay safe." Autumn said sounding concerned.
Jason rushed down the slope with Shelly, a few marines and the other aura guardians, as well as their pokemon.
They used their aura to deflect any incoming bullets before they reached the bottom.
Five magma guardians and ten of their grunts came to meet them.
Jason held his hidden blades out as Charizard flew right over him.
He unleashed Flamethrower into four of the Magma Zubat before he leapt up with his foot out.
One of the magma guardians grabbed his foot and tried to throw Jason onto the ground.
Jason caught himself with his hands before kicking the Magma Guardian in the face with his other foot.
Jason flipped himself up as the Magma Guardian let out his hidden blades.
The two clashed, exchanging blows with their hidden blades as the Magma Guardian's Sableye and Jason's Charizard also exchanged strikes with their claws.
The Magma Guardian guardian tried to unleash an aura sphered.
Jason also gathered his aura as he formed claws in his hands and leapt over the aura sphere. Knocking the Magma Guardian's forearms aside before he stabbed into them with his hidden blades.
After doing so, Jason slammed both his claws across the Magma Guardian's face, scarring him and slamming his body onto the ground.
As this happened Charizard was able to slice across the Sableye's face before blasting him with Flamethrower.
Jason and Charizard saw their allies had also succeeded but one of their guardians and three of their marines were wounded.
"Sergeant move our wounded back to the staging area. The rest of us will press on." Shelly said.
"Yes ma'am." He said as he and the remaining marines used various combat aid carries to move the wounded marines, guardian , and pokemon to safety.
"It looks like it's just the four of us until we meet up with second squad." Shelly said.
Shelly, Jason, the other two guardians, and their pokemon continued down the large peak until they saw a trio of Magma guardians each with a Camerupt in front of them.
"Now!" The middle one shouted as all three touched their mega evolution stones and mega evolved their Camerupt.
"Lava plume!" All three mega Camerupt unleashed a combined wave of lava at Jason and the others.
"No you don't!" Shelly shouted as she mega evolved her Swampert.
"Surf!" She shouted.
Mega Swampert formed a tidal wave that extinguished all the lava and continued on to hit all three Mega Camerupt.
"Let's finish them!" Jason shouted as he mega evolved Charizard into Charizard X. At the same time the other Aqua guardians mega evolved their Blaziken and Tyranitar.
"Dragon rush!"
"High Jump Kick!"
"Superpower!"
Charizard X glowed green as he flew at one of the Mega Camerupt. Beside him was the Mega Blaziken and Mega Tyranitar.
"Grauu!" Charizard roared as he slammed into the middle Mega Camerupt, the Mega Blaziken slammed his foot into the one on the left, and Mega Tyranitar slammed his fist into the one on the right.
All three Mega Camerupt were knocked out and reverted back to normal.
Shelly used this opportunity and leapt in front of the three Magma guardians, slamming her fist into the ground and unleashing a blast of aura that knocked the Magma guardians off balance.
Shelly began to glow blue with aura as she let out her hidden blades and began fighting all three Magma guardians.
Jason and the others tried to help, but by the time they reached her, all three of the Magma guardians were defeated.
"What took you so long?" Shelly said smiling.
As they reached the top of the next peak they saw another fierce battle in the area near the volcano's crater.
Jason noticed a metal platform built over the lava and a machine sitting on it.
"That machine is our objective we must reach it." Shelly said.
Below them they saw a large melee with Magma grunts and Magma guardians, battling Aqua Marines and Aqua Guardians.
"Let's get down there." Jason said.
He got onto Charizard's back and flew down into the melee.
Near the machine, two Magma masters were standing by Mathis as he saw Jason fly down.
"Him!" Mathis shouted as his Houndoom snarled.
They were about to join in the fight when the two masters stopped him.
"What are you fools doing?"
"You will now join the fray until I say to."
"But father he's here."
"and I need you here."
Mathis tightened his fist in frustration as his Houndoom snarled.
Meanwhile he looked below at another section of the volcano below him.
He noticed a group of Aqua marines battling their grunts, but he also noticed three teenagers in tactical vests also in the fray.
Autumn was among them, Combusken unleashed fire spin on three Zubat as Autumn was grabbed by a grunt.
He held a knife to her neck smiling.
"Say goodbye sweetheart."
Moments later Autumn's eyes began to glow red.
Mathis's eyes widened as he saw Autumn's eyes glow as well as the symbols forming on her.
The grunt was hurled off the side of the mountain as Autumn made quick work of the other grunts.
"So it is true." Mathis said.
He was about to tell his father when he looked at his Houndoom.
The two had a conversation via aura messages before Mathis nodded.
"You're right. Let's keep watching, ascertain all the information for ourselves."
Jason held back the hidden blades of another Magma guardian before he swiftly moved under his next strike and knocked him back with a pulse of dragon aura.
As the guardian stumbled backwards he slammed his fist into the ground unleashing a pulse of aura.
Jason leapt over this before slamming his foot into the mans's face, knocking him to the ground before plunging his left hidden blade through his armor and into his chest.
At the same time Charizard X slashed an X shape across the man's Mega Sableye, knocking him out.
Moments later, Jason saw two Magma guardians and their Sableye get hurled across the peak.
They looked over to see Master Ushio and his Mega Blastoise.
"Ushio!" He shouted.
The massive man saw Jason and his Charizard X.
"Well, I wasn't expecting to see you here young man."
"Ahh so you two are already acquainted." Shelly said as she joined them.
"Our people have cleared a path, let's get to that machine." Ushio said as the three and there pokemon ran at the mega pathway.
As soon as they reached it, their paths were blocked by the two Magma masters.
"You will go no further." The woman said.
"Courtney and Tabitha, Maxie's errand boy and girl are here to stop us it seems." Shelly said.
The two mega evolved their Camerupts and drew their hidden blades.
"Try and get past us, and die." Tabitha said.
"Jason, we can handle these clowns, get to that machine and stop it." Ushio said.
"Are you sure?"
"We're got this." Shelly said.
The two Aqua Masters and their pokemon clashed with the Magma masters and their pokemon.
Jason and Charizard rushed forward onto the walkway when he saw the machine.
It was a strange rectangular blue machine with a large tube siphoning lava into the machine.
"We need to destroy it." Jason said before a massive blast of fire flew in front of them.
The two backed up and as the fire cleared they saw Mathis standing there with his Mega Houndoom.
"You!" Jason shouted.
Mathis had a very sinister smile on his face.
"I was hoping we'd meet again, now you've come to me. I see you're finally a real aura guardian, and a dragon too. I always found dragons overrated. You just need a good ice type and their worthless."
Charizard X growled at Mathis and his Mega Houndoom.
"This will be different than the last times Mathis. It's like you said, I'm a dragon now." Jason said as his eyes and body began to glow greenish blue and dragon aura claws formed around his hands and hidden blades.
Mathis smiled as he began to glow blue.
The two charged at each other and began to furiously exchange blows with each other.
Jason did his best to keep up with Mathis, but he was still now as fast or skilled as Mathis.
"You're still not as good as me." Mathis said as he grabbed Jason's arm and hurled him into the ground.
"He's too good, I can't beat him head on. But maybe with a little misdirection." Jason said as he got back up.
"Die!" Mathis shouted as he leapt up at Jason trying to assassinate him.
Jason came forward and grabbed the inside of Mathis's arm, flipping him onto the ground.
Mathis grunted as he got up.
"How dare you." Mathis said as he formed two aura sphere's in his hands before unleashing them at Jason.
Jason slid under the first before acrobatically leaping over the other.
As he came down he unleashed a pulse of dragon aura that Mathis was barley able to block with an aura shield.
Jason's hidden blades met Mathis's as the two struggled.
"You can't be me!" Mathis shouted as he began to push Jason's arms back.
"I can't beat you, but I can still win." Jason said smiling as he ducked down and forced himself into Mathis's lower body, causing Mathis to flip over Jason with his own force.
Charizard X followed Jason's example, letting Mega Houndoom come to him with Thunder fang, and then using Dragon claw to catch the fiery dog and whipped himself around, hurling Houndoom next to Mathis.
As Mathis got up he no longer looked like he had before.
Jason could see and feel an uncontrollable rage in his expression and aura.
"You made a big mistake!" Mathis roared as he sprinted at Jason looking like fire was coming out of his eyes.
Jason braced himself as Mathis crashed his hidden blades into his and began a more feral attack.
Ironically, this gave Jason an unexpected advantage. Because Mathis was moving with such rage , he wasn't acting as competent. Thus Jason was able to get the upper hand in martial arts, blocking Mathis's blows and then knocking his elbow across Mathis's face.
As Mathis came back he looked even more enraged before they were both hit by a blast of aura that knocked them down.
Jason got up and saw another man.
He looked a lot like Mathis, but older. He wore a red and black jacket with black team Magma symbols near the collar. He had long combed back red hair and modified glasses on.
"Mathis, I thought you could control that fiery temper of yours. But it appears I was wrong."
"Father I."
"Enough you fool! You have allowed your rage to make you vulnerable to mistakes, I thought you could handle this little dragon, the one you begged me to let you kill. But you can't even do that. So it appears I'll have to kill him myself."
The man's eyes glowed blue as he snapped his finger and unleashed a pulse of aura that hurled Jason and Charizard X back.
He let out his hidden blades as he slowly walked at Jason and Charizard X who now looked terrified.
Before the man could reach them , a massive aura sphere hit him and hurled him back.
Another large man leapt over Ash and got between him and the Magma master.
The man was very muscular with tan skin, a black beard and a dark blue hooded armored jacket, that looked better than any team aqua one Jason had ever seen.
The man had two hidden blades out and was now glowing blue.
"Fighting such a young man yourself, you call yourself a Mentor Maxie!"
Maxie's eyes widened as he looked legitimately frightened.
"Archie!"
"What say we settle this whole war here, Mentor vs Mentor!" Archie shouted.
Archie sprinted at Maxie, unleashing a furious assault on Maxie, who could barley keep up.
As this happened Mathis got up and regained himself.
"I think it's time to retreat." He said as the helicopters flew back over them.
One tossed a rope down to Mathis as he returned his houndoom.
"We'll meet again, don't expect to survive next time." Mathis said as he grabbed the rope and pulled himself into the chopper.
Archie was still fighting Maxie , and caught his arm, hurling the Magma Mentor into his own machine.
As Maxie got up he saw that the Machine was starting to tilt before it fell into the lava below.
"No! My machine!"
"Throw down your weapons Maxie or you'll join it." Archie said.
Maxie sweated with nervousness before a rope landed in front of him.
"Mentor quickly get inside!" Tabitha shouted.
Maxie grabbed the rope and was carried off.
"Dam it! Well at lease his machine was destroyed." Archie said.
He turned to Jason before Shelly and Ushio came up behind him.
"Are you ok?" Archie asked.
"I am, so you're the mentor of Team Aqua?" Jason asked.
"I am. My name is Archie."
Jason and Charizard respectfully bowed.
"It is an honor to meet you mentor."
"Ushio has told me about you, son of Ash Ketchum and grandson of the Grand Mentor. What brings you to our war with Team Magma?"
"I'm just doing my best here in Hoenn and thought I'd pitch in." Jason said.
"Well we're glad to have your help." Archie said.
"What about my friends?"
"They're fine, they're waiting for you at the base of route 112 towards Lavaridge town. Captain Treivor is with them."
"Thank you." Jason said before he left the crater and met the others.
"Jason!" Autumn said excited to see him unharmed.
She hugged Jason when he got within reach.
"Are you guys ok?".
"We're fine, just glad the battle is over." Finn said.
"The path is clear to Lavaridge town." The captain said as the group made their way towards the town.
The captain gave a concerned look as he watched Autumn.
"Sir, have you ever seen anything like that before?"
"No, we need to let the mentor know immediately. This could be big."
"Why didn't we just detain her?"
"That's not what we do corporal." The captain said.
Elsewhere Mathis and his father were alone in a room.
"We lost the battle."
"Tactically my son, but strategically, we have won. " Maxie said as he took out a small stone with ancient Byzantine markings on it.
"It took a lot go lava to do so, but the seal was broken. With this we can find the Red orb." Maxie said.
"Very well father. It appears you were right."
"Of course I was, not it appears you have work to do sharpening your skills. Best get to it." Maxie said before he walked out of the room.
Mathis returned to his own room where he started to think more and more about the girl he saw and her abilities.
"How very fascinating. The report seemed to be true, could this be the lost Blue orb?"
Author's note
So we finally saw the big battle at Mt. Chimney,
Mathis knows about the orb, and Jason has a disobedient pokemon
I'm afraid it will take him a few chapters before Aggron respects him, though not ridiculously long like the anime did with Charizard
Seriously 4-5 episodes at most, not a season's worth of episodes, come on anime writers
The next chapter will show the lavaridge gym battle, after Jason earns his badge there they head back to Petalburg for gym 5, expect more contests after gym 5
Also for those who have seen my Wattpadd account FictionKnight2 where I have been experimenting with my potential Teen titans story, please leave comments, I need to know what you think of them, or at least PM me what you think.
Also I will be experimenting with another potential story idea since I'm on break now , for any lord of the rings or Eragon fans, I am experimenting with a crossover.
The crossover will be set in the lord of the rings universe with just a few characters from Eragon added, nothing else from that universe other than the characters and what they have with them, they have new backstories and everything, it will all be explained and what not when I put the protoype up on wattpadd, so if you're interested keep watching as I may post it soon.
So until next time, please review, comment, suggest, or ask(via PM)