disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon. I only own my OCs

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Ch 53: Attack on the earth base

The next couple days passed and the group headed to Stark Mountain to get ready for the genesis attack on Heatran and Dialga. The two teams were in their full bi-armor suits and had their weapons locked and loaded. They were stationed on the top of the left side of the volcano, waiting for Genesis to attack. While they were waiting someone was walked up to the group. It was a young man with long, blond mullet and he had on a red cap. He had a jacket with a Groudon on it and he had brownish, gold eyes.

"Ryan, long time no see." He said.

"You must be the one Arceus told me about." Ryan said.

"You really don't remember me do you." He said.

At that moment Merii sees him and hugs him.

"It's been a while, Goruden."

At that moment something in his head clicks.

"Now I remember," He said. "It was a long time ago, back before Vespera was born."

"Bingo." Goruden said. "Arceus contacted me and said you might need some help."

"We need all the help we can get." Latias said.

"Jade, Leon, I am putting Goruden under your command." Ryan said. "Follow their orders to the letter. They may look young but they can take you out in a heart beat."

"I understand." Goruden said.

Ryan gave Goruden the extra suit and weapons he brought and gave him a quick run through of the basics of the armor and it's systems. The groups then waited for what seamed like hours before the center of the volcano erupted and a large spire shot out of it.

"This is it!"Ryan yelled. "Hold till I give the signal."

The doors on the side of the spire opened and drones began flooding out of them.

"Now!" Ryan yelled as Dialga and Heatran escaped through a portal into the other realm.

The groups charged and spire and fought through the drones, ending up inside just as the doors closed. As soon as they did the groups hid and waited for the all clear.

"Well, well, so you made it after all." A voice said from behind them.

The group shot around, weapons drawn to find a single person in green and black armor standing there.

"Hey take it easy!" The person said. "If it wasn't for me you wouldn't be here right now."

"So your an Old Flame." Ryan said relaxing his stance. " Who are you?"

"What Ryan, you forgot me?" The person asked and took off their helm.

Under the helm was a woman a little younger then Ryan was with blond hair and bright green eyes.

"Does this refresh your memory?" She asked.

When Ryan saw her he nearly fall over.

"Nala, but your supposed to be in prison!"Ryan said.

"Genesis got me out and I started working for them." Nala said. "Well until I saw everything they did here. Now I just want them stopped, but there is another reason why I told you about the attack."

"What, you want revenge on me form sending you to prison." Ryan said.

"No," She said as she dropped her sword and walked over to him. " I wanted to apologize for what I did. I know you don't trust me, and probably never will, but I have to at least try. While I was in prison I had a lot of time to think and remember those good time we had before that day. How when you would disappear for a week every so often and how much I hurt when you were gone and how happy I was when you returned.. I know what I did was a mistake and I know you and Latias are mates now and that I can never compete with her for your heart. I just wanted to say I am sorry for what I did. After this is over you will more then likely never see me again. I just wanted to tell you that I still hold you close to my heart and I regret what I did."

Ryan just stood there for a full minuet trying to process everything he just heard before answering. "Nala, that day when I though you died, my heart broke and I though I would never love again. Then Latias came into my life and that changed. My heart isn't hard and spiteful toward you and never was, thats why I let you live. I forgive you for what you did."

"As have I," Latias said. "My step mom is still alive so I hold no ill will toward you."

"Thank you," she said as tears filled her eyes. "Thank you both."

"We need to get to work, we have a lot of ground to cover." Latias said.

"Right." Ryan said. "Nala, your with us. This base is divided into two sections, not like the eight from the other one. Each sector has four sub-sectors that are similar to the other base ship. Jade, Leon, you guys have the weapon storage, specimen storage, the central memory core and the communication room."

"Got it." Jade said.

"Leave them to us!" Leon said.

"Good," Latias answered. "We have the central lab, drone maintenance and storage and last, the control bridge. We all have out orders, move out!"

With that the two teams set out to compete their objectives. As Jade and Leon's team made their way to their first room, the weapon storage she couldn't stop thinking about that dream even though they were under attack.

"Who was she," She though as she blew ten drones apart with an anti armor shell. "Why did she choose me to save her? Just where is she at here?"

The questions continued to buzz around her mind as they went, her body was acting without her thinking which wasn't a problem since thats what she did when she trained with her blades. The battle continued to pass, she would see glimpses of it when she would blow a drone up or cut one of the few humans in the base in half when they came at the group. The first room was nothing more the a burr as her mind was riddles with the questions. It wasn't until specimen storage when she finally got focused and began to pay attention to her fighting.

"How you holding up Sis?" Leon asked as he kept from seeing the horrors that laid inside the cages from Genesis's twisted experiment.

"Fine, I am just fine." She said as she blew out a camera mounted on the roof.

The group continued through the area taking out the smaller generators and then headed to take out the final big one to finish off the area. They were about to set the charges when something caught Jade's eye.

"Whats that?" She though and headed over to the cage and looked in. "OH MY GOD! IT CAN'T BE!?"

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Anyone care to guess what Jade found?

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Jade: (Snickers)

Guard: Jade now you chill out.

Jade: What I can't help it you brought Nala back.

Guard: I had this planned for a while now.

Jade: (Laughs) I know that. So what happens next?

Guard: Ah thats for me to know and you to wait and find out.

Jade: Ah come on just a little clue.

Guard: Nope, your going to have to wait just like everyone else.

Jade: Your mean! (hits me in the face with a pie and teleports away)

Guard: (wipes the pie from my face) Note to self, make sure to pie blast Jade into next year.