Holy Moly you guys, chapter 50. We are finally here. Again, thanks to those of you who are sticking with me, I would like to personally give all of you an internet high-five. Did you get it? Yes, yes you did.
Anyway. I have had the meh's lately; aka I have not been motivated to write, and so I honestly don't have anything past this chapter written yet. BUT, I am going to buckle down and write like a mad woman to get this story finished soon. I was hoping to finish it before Christmas... but yeah, that's not going to happen, haha.
Anyway, sorry for the rambling, and I hope you all enjoy! :)
Chapter 50: The Rescue
I slowly blinked my eyes, my vision beginning to focus. Where was I? What had happened? My brain slowly began thinking and after a few seconds my eyes snapped wide open, remembering the events of the past day.
I jerked myself to a sitting position and flinched at the pain in my head. I really had hit the ground hard when I fell. My eyes darted around. Beside me were Misty, Ash, Brock, and N, all now groaning and blinking rapidly as well.
I looked around us and realized we were in some sort of cage.
"Are you alright sweetheart?" Brock asked, taking one of my hands in his.
I nodded and watched as all of my traveling companions sat up, now looking as panicked as I felt.
"White" I heard N ask from my right. I turned and watched him glance around, his face full of confusion.
"Where are we?" he asked, pushing off of the ground and to his feet.
I sighed and stood up as well, Brock, Misty, and Ash following our lead. I clasped my hands around the bars in front of us.
"I don't know N. But ten to one it's probably Team Rocket's base."
N nodded and I could tell that had been his suspicion as well. He opened his mouth to say something but was cut off as the door to the room flung open to reveal a man. He had pinkish hair and looked to be in his sixties. He wore a white lab coat and had a look of insanity in his eyes.
"So, you are the ones who got a private demonstration of my brilliant new device" he said, walking over to us with his hands behind his back.
"That thing that was on the Pokémon?" Misty asked.
He nodded. "Yes, it is quite an invention if I do say so myself. Harnessing the Pokémon's rage to make it even more powerful, a genius idea."
"That's cruel; you can't just manipulate a Pokémon's feelings!" Misty yelled.
"Ha! Why not? After all they are just tools to be used by humans"
I saw something moving out of the corner of my eye and turned my head to N. He was lightly shaking, his hands clenched into fists, and a look of somewhere between sadness and anger on his face. I knew that all he believed about trainers; how cruel they were to Pokémon, was what this man was preaching. And it was hitting all too close to home for N.
I gently unclenched one of his hands and intertwined my fingers with his. He clutched onto my hand and I suddenly got an idea of what Brock felt like when I crushed his fingers.
"No they're not! They are our friends and partners!" Ash yelled.
"Ha! Pokémon are meant for nothing more than serving humans. And so with this device I shall show you what the power of rage can do to make them even more valuable tools!" the man screeched, pulling out some sort of remote control.
"No you d-" Ash stopped short, his hand frantically prying at his belt that usually held his pokeballs.
"They took our Pokémon!" Ash yelled, anger now on his features as well.
I again looked to N. He was shaking more violently now, especially after what the man had said about Pokémon serving humans and I started to fear for his health. I knew N was about to snap, and nothing good would come of that. I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself.
I quickly grabbed onto N's face and forced him to look at me.
"N, sweetie, everything's fine" I cooed, forcing a smile.
His eyes were still glued to the man and his breathing was becoming ragged.
"N, look at me" I demanded and his eyes soon snapped over to mine.
"Don't listen to him, he doesn't know what he's talking about."
N grabbed onto my hand tighter and lightly whimpered, his eyes showing how much he wanted to believe me, but his brain telling him otherwise.
"Shhhh" I cooed and pulled him into a hug. I knew I needed to find some way to calm N down, and keep his mind off of the current situation. So I resorted to comforting him like a child.
"Everything is going to be fine N, I promise. He's a bad bad man and he won't get away with it, we won't let him. Don't listen to him; he doesn't know what he is talking about. Everything is going to be fine."
I began to run out of things to say so I began repeating myself, gently rocking back and forth in the hug so N would be too. His breathing soon regulated and his shaking ceased. I pulled back and smiled at him.
"Now N, do you have your Pokémon?" I asked. His hand reached down and into his pocket and when it came up empty he began to shake again.
I once again pulled him into a hug and rocked him until he calmed down. I pulled back and again smiled at him. His eyes flicked down a bit and he smiled, reaching out to grab my necklace. My eyes widened as I realized that Team Rocket had in fact missed one Pokémon. I grinned and turned back towards the evil man, just as he was cackling at a new insult he had thrown at Ash.
"Come on out Talace!" I called, pure joy in my voice. He landed in the cage beside us and looked around, his eyes finally landing on me.
"Alright Talace, we are currently trapped in a cage in a Team Rocket base, and so I need your help" I said, quickly catching my Emboar up.
"Wait, what?" the man squealed, obviously unhappy that a Pokémon had been overlooked.
"Flamethrower" I called and Talace's flames easily melted the bars to the cage.
"You're not getting away that easily!" the man yelled, his arms flying up in the air in desperation.
This time it was my turn to laugh, "Ha! Talace, smash that thing in his hands."
My Pokémon nodded and stomped over to the man. Talace snatched the object out of the man's hand, not without a protest and smashed a fist into it, utterly obliterating the object.
The man twitched, looking at the mangled pile of machine parts which were now on the floor.
"BUTCH AND CASSIDY!" he yelled, storming out of the room.
I scrunched my eyebrows together. He seriously just left us here? He obviously wasn't the brightest bulb on the tree.
"Um, alright then" Ash said, dashing over to a small bin that held all of our Pokémon. As soon as they were back in their respective owner's possession we turned back to the task at hand: finding the two Lugia.
I left Talace out however as I had a feeling he would do well against any grunts we came across; and indeed he did. We easily plowed through every one. I had thought it would be harder to find the Lugia, but oddly enough, it was quite easy. We heard the small squeals of the baby Lugia within minutes and with the help of my Emboar, managed to break the small thing out of its cage. It was too young to fly yet so we found a small rolling cart.
"Okay, now just to find the parent" Brock said, beginning to push the baby Lugia through the door.
Immediately after Brock had spoken a siren went off. I froze, my eyes darting up to the rotating red object on the ceiling.
"CODE BLACK, THE LUGIA IS LOOSE" the voice called over the speaker. As if to accent his statement we all heard a loud boom and the ground began to shake.
We quickly pushed the cart with the small Lugia out the door and up the hallway. Thankfully a fully grown rampaging Lugia isn't that hard to find and soon we found ourselves standing only about a few feet away from it. I could tell it was in another blind rage and was firing Hyper Beams at us because it now believed that we had stolen its child.
"A BREACH HAS OCCURRED, PREPARE FOR IMMIDIATE SURFACING" the voice on the intercom yelled a few seconds after the Lugia's Hyper Beam smashed through the wall.
"Listen to me Lugia! We got your child back, just like I promised!" N yelled, his plea falling on deaf ears.
"Lugia, please don't lose faith in humans, they aren't all bad!" N yelled again, his voice slightly cracking.
I could tell the Lugia noticed how strongly he believed in this and stopped for a second, peering down into the green haired boy's eyes.
"Please Lugia, here is your child, we brought it back, just like you wanted" N said, a little quieter now.
The Lugia leaned its head down slightly, now on N's level and stared into his eyes. It let off a series of screeches and roars and I saw N smile and nod. The Lugia then nodded and leaned to its left to scoop up its child.
The Lugia then led us down the hall and to the opening it had created. We all quickly climbed out, just in time to watch the large black Team Rocket base sink into the depths of the ocean.
I widened my eyes. If we would've been even a minute later, we most likely would've drowned. I watched with a smile on my face and tears in my eyes as the two Lugia happily swam into the distance, calling back to us once before they dove underwater.
"They said thank you" N said softly, a look of pure love on his face.
I sighed. The Lugia were back together again, just like it should be. I again glanced up at N and smiled. He truly loved Pokémon, more than I could've ever imagined. And each day I spent with him I was reminded of this fact. N was special, and I needed to remember that.
But I also needed to remember that he wanted to separate Pokémon and humans, and I didn't. I loved him with all of my heart but I still needed to realize what his true goals were, and that everything wouldn't be carefree and happy forever.
A/N: Well there was chapter 50. The next chapter will hopefully be on Wednesday. Thank you guys for all of the lovely reviews, they always make me extremely happy!
I hope you have a great weekend! :)
