Pokémon Go!

Chapter 48: Vlad's Challenge!? Clash against the Swords of Justice

Narration: Lacunosa Town has been leveled by the villainous organization, Team Dogma, whose motives remain a mysteriously.


"Hey Zorua, what are you…Zorua?" Nichole uttered to her companion as she noticed it abruptly stop in its tracks. "L…Look up ahead." Zorua muttered in an unusually stunned tone.

"What is it?" Duke asked while he regrouped with his companions. "Just look up ahead." Zorua responded while its teammates did as it commanded and looked in the direction that Zorua had pointed at. "I….it can't be." Nichole mumbled in astonishment. "Impossible!" Duke uttered, being just as surprised as his teammates. Up ahead appeared various cloaked individuals, who all wore green colored attires which had black TD colored symbols at the center of their cloaks. "That's Team Dogma's insignia." Nichole stated in a stunned tone. "So that means that…." 'Those guys are Team Dogma." Zorua begrudgingly declared while it finished Duke's sentence.

"Time to get down to business." one of the cloaked individuals declared as these harbingers of destruction stood over the desolated ruins of the once methodical town.

"Come on, you guys! We have to reach the Pokémon Center!" Golen exclaimed while he forced himself to pace towards the Pokémon Center.

"Take it easy, Mr. Golen. We shouldn't be forcing ourselves so soon after escaping potentially fatal injuries." Vlad stated to his companion as he and the others followed after the goggles wearing lad. "You don't think that there were any casualties, do you?" Carly queried to Tom. "I am not certain, while Lacunosa Town is not a very populated location it does not mean that a blast of that radius could not have wiped out a majority of them. But hopefully they were as fortunate as we were and managed to come out of this alive." Tom answered to the green-haired lass.

"Just what in the world is going on around here?" Duke wondered in bewilderment as he and his companions looked on at the Team Dogma members.

"Sir, what should we do?" one of the Team Dogma members queried to who appeared to be their superior. "Those four haven't arrived yet, so there's no need to do anything drastic just yet." the Dogma member answered. "If I had to guess then I'd say that the survivors of that attack from before will be frantically trying to gather and escape the town. But we won't let that happen." the Dogma member added along as the group departed.

"Why are other Team Dogma members here?" Nichole asked to her teammates, still being stunned at what they had seen. "More importantly, why did they bomb this town?" Duke asked in response.

"Damn it…That's not how Team Dogma is." Zorua uttered while he seethed in an intense rage. "What can we do though? If we confront those guys than we'll just end up in trouble with the other members of the organization and the leader might even get suspicious of us as well." Nichole expressed to her teammates. "Then what should we do? You don't think that those Commanders are behind this, do you?" Duke asked. "No, it can't be them. Even if they are our enemies, these guys just now weren't. Those guys just now, they're trash." Zorua declared.

"I couldn't agree more with you, Zorua. It's pathetic that members like us don't even know what's going on though, it just goes to show how out of our league we are." Nichole solemnly expressed.

"Don't worry about any of that. Our ignorance is exactly what will lead us to the truth." Duke reassured his companion as he comforted her about what was happening. "We can't let those guys escape, at least not until we find out their motives for doing this." Zorua declared to his teammates. "Yeah, there's something strange about all of this so it'd be for the best to follow after them." Duke agreed while the trio prepared to depart, determined on finding answers about what had just happened.

"There's the Pokémon Center!" Vlad exclaimed as the medical facility was within their sight. The quartet had then noticed various citizens lying around in the front of the center.

"This is terrible." Carly muttered in dismay as the group walked through the various injured citizens. "At the very least they survived, it's a relief to see that they're alive." Vlad stated to his companion as the group entered the somewhat ruined Pokémon Center. As they entered the facility they looked over toward the various citizens who lied all around the Pokémon Center along with how frantic and disturbed so many of them were.

"Please, help him! He injured his leg!" a lady begged to the Nurse. "We're trying our but I'm sorry to say that there are just too many injured for us to attend to everyone." the Nurse apologized while she was crowded by the townsfolk.

"This is bad. Um excuse me do you happen to know if there were any casualties?" Vlad inquired as he and his companions walked up to one of the other Nurses.

"We're not sure yet, things are just too hectic for us to know everything that happened." the Nurse answered to the crimson-haired lad. "Mommy, daddy, where are you?" a little girl helplessly cried as she frantically wondered where her parents were while Carly somberly looked on at her. "What the hell was that?" the sniper queried after he emerged from the rubble. "That stupid explosion made me lose sight of my target." he angrily stated. "That damn woman, she better pay me double for all of the effort I'm going through in killing her failure of a son." the sniper declared. "Why did that stupid explosion have to happen right when I was about to have his head? *sigh* Well I better go look for him." the man muttered as he walked through the desolated location.

"Darn it! Just who in the world was behind that explosion!?" Golen angrily asked while he smashed his fist against the palm of his hand. "Hey, are you alright?" Carly inquired as she crouched down to talk to the little girl.

"Where *sniff* where are my mommy and daddy?" the girl tearfully asked to the green-haired trainer. "I'm sorry, I don't know. But stay strong, I promise that you'll find them soon." Carly assured to the little girl as she comforted her.


"How are we going to live now? Our hometown was destroyed!" "Where are you, Sara?" "Please help us!" the crowd of people fell into an even deeper panic-stricken disarray.

"Everyone, please just calm down. We're doing our best to attend to the Pokémon along with helping out as many of the injured citizens as possible." the Nurse declared to the crowd. "Forget the Pokémon, we need the help more than they do!" some of the people shouted as they argued against the methods of the Nurses.

"SILENCE!" Tom explosively exclaimed while the crowd all stopped to look at him. "This is not the time to be selfish, your home was attacked and yet all of you have the audacity to just stand here and do nothing more than attack the ones who are doing their best in assisting all of you!" Tom shouted at the crowd. "What do you know!? You're nothing but an outsider!" one of the people shouted at the violet-haired lad. "That's right! You have no idea what we're going through!" another voice shouted while a portion of the crowd agreed with the man.

"Just because you're in a crisis doesn't mean that you get to use that as an excuse to be selfish!" Vlad declared while he joined his companion on berating the selfishness of the townspeople.

"That's right, we're nothing but outsiders but that doesn't mean that we'll just stand by and do nothing!" Vlad added along. "Rather than chaotically wandering around and trying to vent your frustrations on the people who are attempting to assist you, you should all be banning together to leave the town." Tom declared. "Leave the town?" "But this is our home!" the crowd retorted.

"We're aware of that. But it would be for the best that we evacuated everyone out of this town at least until we find out the cause for the explosion from before." Vlad replied to the crowd.

"Are we sure that we should be listening to a bunch of kids?" one of the citizens wondered. "Even if we weren't there isn't really much else that we can do anyways." another person replied as the crowd hesitantly agreed to the duo's suggestion. "Alright, well everyone start gathering into organized groups, take back any of the Pokémon that you might have sent to be treated and afterwards we will begin our evacuation of the citizens." Tom declared, as he and Vlad momentarily managed to quell the disarray and anxiety of the crowd while Golen, Emolga and Carly looked on.

"Hey, have any of you managed to find those other Dogma operatives?" Duke queried to his companion. "No, not yet." Nichole replied. "Me neither." Zorua added along.

"How could they have disappeared so suddenly?" Duke wondered. "Who knows? If one thing's for certain then it's that they'll definitely show themselves soon." Nichole answered to the ruby-haired man. "*sniff* Darn it, this stupid debris is getting in the way of my scent. How am I supposed to find those bastards now?" Zorua asked itself in annoyance. "I'm counting on you, Misdreavus!" Duke declared while he called out the Screech Pokémon.

"Misdreavus, I need you to look around for any other people in this town, preferably someone with these insignias on their chests." Duke declared to his Misdreavus while he pointed at the TD symbol on his chest. The Screech Pokémon then nodded to its trainer in understanding at what it had to do while it then floated away. "Misdreavus should be able to get the job done." Nichole expressed to her teammate. "Still, even if it does succeed we can't just sit around and wait for it to return to us. Come on, we'll continue our search." Duke declared to the sapphire-haired lady. "Zorua, aren't you coming?" Nichole called out to the Tricky Fox Pokémon.

"Yeah, though I need to get out of this stupid form." Zorua declared while he back-flipped and returned back into his usual form.

"Are you sure that you want to go back to your normal form, you might blow your cover." Duke informed the Tricky Fox Pokémon. "That's the least of our problems. After all I'm at my best in this form so it shouldn't be too hard to sniff out their scents now." Zorua answered to his teammate. "Alright, you can take the lead." Duke stated in response. "I would have done it with or without your permission." Zorua smirked as it took the lead. "That guy's sure got guts to be acting so confident at a time like this." Nichole stated in amusement while she, the ruby-haired man and the Transform Pokémon followed after their teammate. "Heh, it's not much of an act. I'd say this is just his way of dealing with adversity." Duke chuckled in response while the trio continued their pursuit of their fellow Team Dogma members.

"Alright, so is everyone prepared to depart?" Tom queried to the crowd of people, who mostly agreed with him albeit with some thought as to whether they were willing to leave their hometown no matter how devastated it was. "Since everyone is ready, we'll break into four distinct groups." Vlad declared to the crowd's confusion. "The first group will be the main evacuation group, which will consist of those who do not own any Pokémon and they will be led by Master Tom." Vlad announced. "The second group will be the secondary evacuation group, which will consist of those who are carrying along with them injured companions and family members and they will be led by Carly." Tom added along. "The third group will consist of the other citizens who are in a well enough condition and don't have any Pokémon and this group will be led by Mr. Golen." Vlad announced. "Excuse me but what about the fourth group?" the Nurse queried to the duo in confusion.

"The fourth group will be the search party. They will be the ones who remain in Lacunosa Town to look for anyone who could have potentially gotten left behind and that group will be led by Vlad." Tom declared in response.


"For those of you who were wondering, it is optional to join the search party." Vlad added along.

"We will be heading out now, are there any more questions?" Tom asked to the crowd of people as one of the citizens rose their hand up. "Um? Where exactly will we go if we do manage to leave the town?" the person queried. "I am not certain, at the moment our top priority is ensuring the safety of all of the children, the elderly and the injured." Tom answered. "Are you sure that Vlad should be the one in charge of the search party? I mean I know that he's reliable and all but if the explosion from before is revealed to have been setup by someone else than that could put him in danger." Carly stated to Golen.

"Don't worry about it. Vlad will do his best regardless of what kind of obstacle gets in his way." Golen assured his worried companion.

"Everyone, we need your assistance!" Tom declared while he, Carly and Golen called out their respective parties. "Our Pokémon will assist those of you who are in need of it. But please bear with us, even combined we only have enough Pokémon to assist a handful of people." Tom stated to the groups. "Alright, all of the small children should ride on Bouffalant and if any of you have fevers I'll get my Snorunt to make ice packs for you." Golen called out to his group. "Everyone, stay together! My Pokémon will handle any potential hazards so just follow me!" Carly called out to her group.

"Everyone, I promise that I will not allow any of you to be harmed any further." Tom declared to his group.

"This group is pretty small. Well its fine, after all the safety of the citizens is our top priority." Vlad muttered to himself as he looked over at his small group. "Mr. Golen, Ms. Carly, Professor Tom, I wish you all the best of luck." Vlad expressed to his companions while they prepared to separate. "The same to you, Vlad." Golen smiled to his companion. "Just make sure not to push yourself too hard." Carly added along. "Rest assured. We will all meet together after we guide the citizens out of this town. Besides we all have communicators so we can communicate with one another if an obstacle does appear before us." Tom assured his companions. "Well, until then." Vlad stated while the quartet split up and departed with their respective groups. "Do your best, everyone." Vlad thought to himself in concern for the safety of his dear companions.

While the four groups separated Duke's Misdreavus lurked in the shadows as it watched them all leave before flying away.

"How much longer will it be until the others arrive?" one of the Dogma members queried to their superior. "They'll be here soon. I'm certain of it." the superior answered to their underling as the group of Team Dogma members lurked through the ruins of Lacunosa Town.

"Hey, what if we end up getting into a fight with those other members?" Nichole asked to her teammates while they continued to search the ruined town. "I'm not sure, I guess if things end up getting violent that we'll have no choice but to mop the floor with those guys." Zorua answered to the sapphire-haired lady. "We can't afford to end up fighting them so easily. After all no matter how much we may disapprove of what they did, they still are members of Team Dogma just like we are." Duke declared Nichole and Zorua. "Hey, but if these idiots end up doing more things like this than they'll end up blowing our cover!" Zorua shouted to the ruby-haired lad.

"I'm sure that the Master will deal with them if they try anything like this again, if he finds out about this that is." Duke stated in response to the Tricky Fox Pokémon's statement.

"We can't take that chance though since up until now secrecy was the main objective of our organization so it makes no sense for those other members to suddenly decide to attack a town like this." Nichole stated to her teammates. "Maybe but even so, who's to say that they decided to attack on a whim?" Duke queried to his teammate. "What do you mean?" Zorua asked in response. "For all we know, this could have been planned as a way to create a distraction while they then used the commotion this attack was sure to have created to go and achieve whatever their true objective was." Duke responded to the Tricky Fox Pokémon. "Those bastards, so they were willing to blow the cover of our entire organization just to ensure that they could get some stupid prize?" Zorua uttered in a rage at his fellow Dogma members.

"It's possible, but we can't be sure until we find out the reason for their motives by directly confronting them." Nichole declared to her enraged teammate.

"Have any of you found any survivors?" Vlad queried to his group while they looked through the rubble of the town. "Unfortunately we haven't." the members answered in response. "Huh? I think I see some movement over there!" Vlad exclaimed as he ran towards a pile of rubble. After removing all of the rubble, Vlad and his group were overjoyed to find that they had rescued an unconscious man. "Alright, one of you should go and take this man to one of the other groups." Vlad stated to one of the other group members.

"Understood, should I return as soon as possible to assist you after I take this man to one of the other groups?" the member queried.

"No, you should stay with them for at least a while until they regain conscious. Afterwards you can return to assist us but if you feel like you wouldn't be able to do anything more than you can stay with the other group." Vlad answered to the man, who then departed while he carried the unconscious man on his back while he went to go and find one of the other groups.


"We should do our best to find some more survivors. With any luck there weren't anymore people left behind and we'll be able to regroup with the others soon." Vlad declared.

"But before that, we should continue our search." Vlad stated while he and his group then moved out. "Is everyone alright?" Tom asked as he looked back at his group while his Pokémon assisted a few of the citizens. "Things are proceeding smoothly." Tom smiled while he continued the evacuation of his group. "Alright everyone, if anything comes out to attack just leave things to me. I'm pretty strong you know." Golen egotistically smirked while Emolga looked on at him with a completely unimpressed expression. "Everyone stick together." Carly told her group. "Alright, everything's going by smoothly….too smoothly." Carly suspiciously mumbled to herself.

"Misdreavus." Duke's Misdreavus called out as it approached its trainer. "What did you find, Misdreavus?" Duke inquired to his Pokémon, who talked to Zorua.

"I see, so you found the chumps who attacked this town, eh?" Zorua reiterated as it then let out a smirk. "Oh…so there are humans, who are helping the townspeople evacuate too?" Zorua uttered in confusion. "That has nothing to do with us, so we should avoid a confrontation with those citizens and go straight to our fellow Dogma operatives." Duke declared. "Yeah, I couldn't agree more." Zorua declared while he back flipped and reverted back into his human form. "Now come on, let's mop the floor with these guys." Zorua eagerly grinned.

"Hey, calm down. Jeez we have to see why they would have wanted to attack this town and if they don't cooperate with us or give us a unsatisfying answer then we'll mop the floor with them." Nichole declared while the Transform Pokémon agreed with its trainer. "Thanks for your hard work, Misdreavus." Duke thanked the Screech Pokémon as he recalled it back into its Pokéball. "They're here." one of the Dogma members declared.

Then suddenly from four distinct parts of the town occurred four loud crashes. "What is that!?" one of the people with Vlad queried out loud.

"It couldn't be…another attack?" Vlad thought to himself in confusion as he looked on. "Everyone stand back!" Carly called out while the others cowered in fear. "Just what in the world is going on?" Tom wondered as he looked on in bewilderment. "Huh? W…what is that?" Golen wondered in astonishment while the debris cleared and before him stood a quadruped, colt-like Pokémon with a cream-colored body.

It had a short, rounded snout with large nostrils, and blue eyes. It had a large, feathery red mane, long, dark blue, ridged eyebrow-like protrusions, and a single cream-colored horn that curved slightly. The back of its head, as well as its neck, was covered with fluffy, light blue fur. It had blue hooves, which were capable of ejecting water. Its tail was light blue with white spots and resembled an elaborate feather in a cap. It also sported a strange collar around its neck.

"What's going on?" Carly wondered while before her appeared a bovine, quadruped Pokémon. I

t had a black, rounded forehead adorned with two sharp brown horns that curved forward. Its face was beige with orange eyes and short snout. On top of its head were several short spikes. Down its back were two brown ridges that joined just past its shoulders. There were two orange protrusions on its shoulders. The bands around its legs were the same color as its face, and it had black hooves underneath these bands. Its striped underside was also beige. It had a short, stubby tail.

"To think that of all Pokémon, you would appear before us." Tom muttered with a slightly nervous tone.

Before his group was a stag or antelope-like, quadruped Pokémon that was primarily green. On the sides of its head were long horns that ended in dull, curled points. It had a pointed snout with a black blaze running from its nose to the back of its head. Its face, hind legs, and underside were white. There was a pinked-tipped leaf on each side of its neck, and leafy tufts on its shoulders. On its back, there were pointed tufts of fur forming a medium-long tail. Its lower legs resembled knee-high boots with pink highlights at the knees, and it had black hooves.

"It can't be…" Vlad uttered in astonishment.

Before him appeared a quadrupedal Pokémon that possessed traits of stags and goats. It was covered in aqua blue fur, and had jagged yellow horns similar in shape to thunderbolts. Its snout was a lighter shade of blue than the rest of its fur, and there a black blaze ran from its nose to the back of its head. On its long neck and hind legs, there were small gray spots. It had a white tuft of fur under its neck, resembling a cravat. On its shoulder blades were yellow protrusions that resembled fins. Its tail resembled these protrusions, albeit in the same color as its snout. Its legs had black bands with lighter fur underneath and large black hooves. It also sported a strange color around its neck like the previous three did.

"To think that we'd be confronted by one of the Legendary Musketeers." Vlad uttered with a slightly fearful expression. "W…what Pokémon is that?" one of the people in Tom's group asked to the violet-haired trainer. "It is called Virizion, more precisely it is a part of the legendary group of Fighting-type Pokémon, also known as the Swords of Justice." Tom answered to the astonishment of the group while elsewhere Carly pulled out her Pokédex.

Terrakion, the Cavern Pokémon. Spoken of in legend, this Pokémon used its phenomenal power to destroy a castle in its effort to protect Pokémon.

"A…a Legendary Pokémon?" Carly mumbled in astonishment as the fierce Pokémon stared at her with an enraged expression.

Keldeo, the Colt Pokémon. When it is resolute, its body fills with power and it becomes swifter. Its jumps are then too fast to follow.

"Hold on, what exactly is this Pokémon?" wondered the oblivious Golen. "Everyone, we're in big trouble!" Golen declared to his companions while he talked into the communicator.


"Same here." Carly answered. "I am also facing quite the dilemma." Tom added along. "I wouldn't exactly say that I'm in a good situation either." Vlad stated as well.

"I was just confronted by the Legendary Pokémon, Terrakion." Carly declared to her companions. "What?!" Golen uttered in astonishment. "How unfortunate, I was planning on us all gathering together to assist me in besting Virizion." Tom replied while his companions were stunned at his statement. "Hey you guys, is Keldeo a Legendary Pokémon?" Golen obliviously queried. "Yes!" Carly exclaimed at her companion. "Vlad, you're not up against anything, are you?" Carly inquired to the crimson-haired lad.

"Actually, Cobalion is the Pokémon who appeared before my group just right now." Vlad answered. "Cobalion? Vlad, you've got to get out of their!" Carly called out to her companion.

"Yeah, don't risk anything and….GAH!" Golen wailed while he avoided Keldeo's attack. "Golen!" Tom and the others exclaimed as his connection was cut off.

"Darn it, I was talking, you jerk!" Golen shouted at the Colt Pokémon. "Destroy….humans…." "…Destroy…Pokémon…" "Destroy….EVERYTHING!" all four Legendary Musketeers shouted in a rage. "Quickly, everyone flee!" Tom called out to his group. "Houndour, I will need your strength to overcome this." Tom declared to the Dark Pokémon. "Aipom, you and the others have to watch over the citizens of Lacunosa Town. I am counting on you!" Tom declared to the Long Tail Pokémon, who hesitantly left behind its trainer as it and the rest of the team barring Houndour departed.

"Pignite, we'll have to hold this Pokémon off. Everyone, run away from this place as fast as possible!" Carly commanded to the group.

"Slowpoke, Gabite and everyone else, protect them with all of your might." Carly declared while her team followed their trainer's orders and went along with the group while the green-haired lass stood together with the Fire Pig Pokémon.

"Hey, Gurdurr. Let's show this thing what we're capable of." Golen smirked while the Muscular Pokémon moved forward.

"Emolga, you take the rest of our team and the Lacunosa Town residents to somewhere safe!" Golen called out to the Sky Squirrel Pokémon. "Emolga, emoh!" Emolga shouted at the lad. "Don't worry we'll be fine, I mean I know that you'd be a better match but our top priority is saving the townspeople not winning this battle." Golen replied as Emolga did as its trainer asked and took the lead as it left to lead the others to safety.

"Everyone, please leave." Vlad politely told his group. "But, you don't have any Pokémon. Are you really planning on confronting that thing?" one of the people queried.

"Your safety is far more important to me than my own, so do as I say and just leave." Vlad replied, with an unusually stern tone while the others did as he said and departed from the scene. "I would hope that we could resolve this without fighting but that would be foolish of me to expect it to be that easy." Vlad declared to the Iron Will Pokémon. "Silence human, you and your worthless race will pay for the pain you have put us Pokémon through." Cobalion growled. "Pain?" Vlad uttered in confusion.

"You will perish at my hands, you disgusting human." Virizion declared to Tom. "Disgusting? Why I never!" said the offended Tom while Houndour looked at its trainer in annoyance.

"A little girl like you dares and challenge me!?" Terrakion shouted. "Hey, you don't have to be so rude about it!" Carly retorted in irritation. "I'm going to pulverize you, you little freak!" Keldeo declared. "Little!?" Golen reiterated in annoyance.

"Sacred Sword!" the Swords of Justice simultaneously declared.

Virizion's body glowed green. Then a long, curved horn glowing with a light green aura formed on its forehead. Terrakion's body glowed brown. Then a long, curved horn glowing with a golden aura formed on its forehead. Cobalion's body glowed blue. Then a long, curved horn glowing with a white aura formed from its forehead. Finally Keldeo's body glowed orange. Then a long, curved horn glowing with a light blue aura formed from its horn. The Swords of Justice then simultaneously charged at their respective opponents, being bent on slaughtering them.

"Pignite use Fire Punch!" "Houndour execute Flame Charge!" "Gurdurr use DynamicPunch!" Carly, Tom and Golen respectively commanded as each of their Pokémon charged at the Legendary Pokémon that approached them. Pignite and Gurdurr clashed with their opponents while Houndour instead opted to use its attack to avoid Grassland Pokémon's attack.

"Die human!" Cobalion shouted as it attempted to skewer Vlad, who luckily managed to avoid its attack.

"That was close." Vlad thought to himself in relief as Cobalion instead rammed its attack into a building, which was quickly sliced in half as a result. "N…no way." Vlad mumbled to himself in disbelief. "Pignite!" Pignite wailed after it was sent reeling from the force of Terrakion's Sacred Sword. "Gurdurr!" Gurdurr declared while its clash with Keldeo was abruptly ended due to the Colt Pokémon falling back. "Pignite use Arm Thrust!" Carly ordered while the Fire Pig Pokémon charged at the Legendary musketeer. In response, the Cavern Pokémon opened up its mouth and a metallic gold orb of energy that was surrounded in orange energy appeared in front of it. Terrakion then fired the orb at the incoming Pignite, who knocked the attack back using its Arm Thrust.

"Alright!" Carly exclaimed at the sight of Terrakion getting struck by its own attack, but to her dismay the Cavern Pokémon emerged almost unscathed.

"You worthless human, as if I would fall at the hands of my own technique." the Cavern Pokémon rudely stated to the green-haired lass. "Houndour repeatedly attack with Flame Charge!" Tom commanded while the Dark Pokémon then repeatedly stomped on the ground until a cloud of dust covered its entire body. Its body then became surrounded in an orb of red and yellow flames as it charged at the Grassland Pokémon.

"You insolent…!" Virizion exclaimed as its body glowed green and it jumped into the air.

Then, light-green leaves quickly circled around its body and the leaves were then shot at the incoming Houndour. The leaves then exploded on contact with the Dark Pokémon, who then proceeded to emerge from the smoke and land a clean hit in on the Grassland Pokémon, who fell back.


"How dare you, touch me." Virizion angrily growled. "It is quite hypocritical of you to protest against physical contact despite the fact that you are trying your hardest to eliminate us." Tom stated to the Grassland Pokémon, whose rage only increased as a result.

"Hah, you sure are a tough one." Golen mumbled as his battle raged on.

"Stop right there, you bastards!" a voice exclaimed as the group of Team Dogma operatives soon stopped and looked back to see who had called out to them. "What do you all think you're doing in this town?" Nichole asked to her fellow operatives. "Heh, the Dogma trio? So you finally show yourselves?" one of the members chuckled. "What? Did you blow this place up simply because you believed that we were hiding out here?" Duke queried to the group.

"No, that's not the reason. But if I do remember correctly, it has been quite some time since the last time you made contact with the Leader." another member stated to the trio.

"How do you know that?" an angered Zorua inquired. "The recklessness and aloofness of your actions make you expendable." the leader of the group declared while they prepared to attack the Dogma trio. "What now?" Nichole asked her teammates. "There's no question about it, we fight!" Zorua shouted. "For once, he's right. These guys are not our allies, so there's no reason to hold back on them." Duke declared while he and Nichole called out all of their Pokémon as they prepared to do battle with their fellow Team Dogma operatives.

"Hold on…If we're stuck battling against these legends then that must mean…Vlad's in trouble!" Carly thought to herself as she came to a realization.

"Vlad, you have to run away!" Carly shouted while she talked into her communicator. "Unfortunately, it appears that he is too preoccupied to answer his communicator." Tom answered to his companion. "B…but, he's in trouble! He doesn't have any Pokémon so there's no way that he can fight alone!" Carly declared in concern for her companion. "You are wrong, Vlad can fight." Tom answered to the confusion of the young trainer while their respective battles raged on. "AH!" Vlad shouted as he jumped out of the way while Cobalion attempted to strike him down.

"What's wrong? Aren't you going to call out one of those disgraceful Pokémon who tarnish the very pride of all Pokémon?" Cobalion inquired to the crimson-haired boy.

"Hehe, I actually don't have any Pokémon." Vlad chuckled in response. "So you are nothing more than a worm who hopelessly attempts to escape their own demise." Cobalion declared. "A worthless human cannot fight against beings of supreme strength. You are nothing more than a pitiful weakling." Cobalion added along, as it looked down on the young lad. "I guess you're right." Vlad declared to the Iron Will Pokémon's confusion. "I am nothing more than a weakling. Ever since I began this journey I've tried to do nothing more than hide behind the very friends that I so desperately wanted to stand beside. The more time went on the more I realized that I was doing nothing more than hiding behind my own inability to fight and using it as an excuse to make the others carry the burden of having to risk their lives in battle. I was nothing more than a coward, whose very purpose was nothing more than to be a burden to those who around him." Vlad muttered to the Legendary musketeer as he briefly recalled his mother.

"It only ever became apparent to me when my dear friends nearly lost their lives in the Comet Tower." Vlad added along.

"At that point I thought that I'd be able to do nothing more than be a burden to them for the rest of their journey but then I came across an interesting piece of information during that battle back then. Ever since then I wondered to myself, 'How could I become an actual help to my friends?' and realized that to advance and finally be of help to them that I needed to overcome my greatest challenge!" Vlad declared as the Iron Will Pokémon looked on.

"What did you mean when you said that Vlad can fight? Just what is going on Tom?" Carly inquired to her companion.

"I presume that I should finally tell you. Ever since the Comet Tower, I have been assisting Vlad in a special project of his." Tom answered to his companion. "It was quite the amusing challenge to be honest. It was at that moment when I realized just how much potential Vlad truly possessed." Tom added along to the confused green-haired lass.

"My greatest challenge, to overcome myself and evolve into someone who wouldn't need to hide behind or hinder the companions he so desperately wants to be with." Vlad declared to Cobalion.

"What nonsense do you speak of, human!?" an irritated Cobalion inquired while the crimson-haired boy took off his backpack and from it brought out a black capsule. He then opened up the capsule as from it emerged a black bag. "What is that?" Cobalion wondered to itself.

"It is not my desire to hurt others….but I will do whatever I have to, to save those dear friends that mean the entire world to me!" Vlad declared as from the bag he took out a strange ball.

"Vlad will fight on, in his own way. He will fight with the gadgets of the future!" Tom boastfully declared to Carly. "ThunderOrb!" Vlad exclaimed while he tossed the orb at the Iron Will Pokémon. The orb then made contact with the Iron Will Pokémon and proceeded to let out an intense thunderbolt. "W…what was that?" Cobalion angrily queried.

"You are a Legendary Pokémon, who dearly treasures his companions, which is why I'm going to get past that blind hatred of yours and change you back into your true self!" Vlad declared to the angered Cobalion.

"I finally found you." the sniper declared as he was perched atop of one of the remaining buildings. "This is a present from mother to son, now die." the sniper declared while he held out his rifle and took aim at the crimson-haired lad.


Narration: The legendary quartet, the Swords of Justice, these powerful opponents stand before Vlad and the others as they enter one of the most intense battles they've ever had while elsewhere the Dogma trio stand against their traitorous companions, ready to defend their honor as members of Team Dogma. What awaits everyone as this crisis reaches its climax?

Major Events (11/10/13): Vlad's mother, Veronica, is revealed to have hired a sniper to murder Vlad.

The citizens of Lacunosa Town are evacuated from their home.

The Swords of Justice make their full debut and each begin a battle with Golen, Carly, Tom and Vlad.

The Dogma trio begins their battle against the Team Dogma members who attacked Lacunosa Town.

Vlad is revealed to have finished the project that he and Tom had worked together on and that project is revealed to have been a unique kind of gadgets.

Characters:

Golen

Carly

Tom

Vlad

Nichole

Duke

Veronica (flashback)

Team Dogma members

Sniper

Nurses

Citizens

Pokémon:

Emolga (Golen's)

Zorua (Team Dogma)

Vibrava (Golen's)

Gurdurr (Golen's)

Skorupi (Golen's)

Snorunt (Golen's)

Bouffalant (Golen's)

Pignite (Carly's)

Slowpoke (Carly's)

Gabite (Carly's)

Roselia (Carly's)

Vanillite (Carly's)

Vespiquen (Carly's)

Aipom (Tom's)

Ursaring (Tom's)

Skitty (Tom's)

Piloswine (Tom's)

Houndour (Tom's)

Jellicent (Tom's)

Tirtouga (Nichole's)

Ditto (Nichole's)

Durant (Nichole's)

Scraggy (Nichole's)

Archen (Duke's)

Heatmor (Duke's)

Misdreavus (Duke's)

Cobalion (wild)

Terrakion (wild)

Virizion (wild)

Keldeo (wild)


* This is the first chapter of Pokémon Go! to fully feature a Legendary Pokémon.