Me: WAAAH! STOP THEM!
Shadow: (I've nearly got you now!)
Me: I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU GETTING ME ANYMORE! JUST DON'T LET BLAZE GET NEAR ME OR I'M GONNA DIIIIIE!
Shadow: (So if I catch you, you don't mind?)
Me: I'M SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING YOU BACK FOR NATHEN ANYWAY!
Blaze: (I'm still getting you too!)
LF: Not if we can help it, Blaze!
Kim: Is it always this crazy around here?
All: YES!
Episode 51 (OMG last chapter was the half century!)- Meeting with a Meteor
"Last chapter: A strange man was abusing two young Pokémon, but our heroes saved them and two claimed the Pokémon as their own, due to them taking quite a liking to them. But now what does this all mean for the group?"
"What's taking Gem so long?" Indigo asked as she sat by the little Eevee, Jaspa treating its wounds after finishing with Ralts, who was now getting a light aura heal to help her heal quicker. Auberon was holding her as Lucy treated her, the Ralts nuzzling against the elfy boy.
"Who knows. It might just be a tough battle." Lucy shrugged, giving Hotaru a look subtly. Scarlet shook her head, looking up from peering over Auberon's shoulder at Ralts.
"No, Authoress stronger than such an idiot." She said. Hotaru raised an eyebrow at her, "What?"
"I thought you hated her?" Hotaru asked casually. Scarlet coughed, going a bit red.
"Well, I do! But she's still stronger than a coward who abuses baby Pokémon!" She said, crossing her arms and looking to the side, pouting. The Ralts in Auberon's arms giggled a bit.
"Hey little one, do you have a name?" Auberon asked the giggling Pokémon. She shook her head.
No… he never named us. We never needed names… we were just ingredients to him. She said in her telepathic voice again. Auberon was confused by the last bit, but didn't say anything about it.
"How about I give you a name?" He suggested.
"Oo! And I'll name you too little Eevee!" Indigo said, gently patting its paw. She smiled at the human.
Yes Please! Eevee wants one too! Ralts said eagerly.
"I think I'll name you Guardian then." Auberon said before tickling the Ralts's stomach. Ralts giggled and squirmed. Scarlet giggled at Auberon too, thinking:
He sure would make a great dad someday… She then realised what she had thought and her cheeks flared up, and she looked to her feet before anyone could ask her what was up.
"And… what about Vapor, Eevee?" Indigo said, touching the bottom of one of the Eevee's paws. Eevee smiled up at her to accept the name. Indigo giggled.
Theme: Third Generation of Pokémon,
Comin' at you we're number one!
We're better than ever and we're never givin' up,
Gonna keep on fightin' 'til we reach the top!
Cos' we still gotta catch 'em all,
Never gonna let you fall!
Third generation of Pokémon,
Comin' at you we're number one!
"Sorry I took so long guys…" Gem said as she walked up to them. She'd changed outfit again, but the group could see little other than the white jeans and black boots that showed beneath the long black coat. Her hair seemed to have grown even longer than normal, but no one commented. She was only in this, really, because her other clothes were wet, and the water would burn even more than the questions the other would ask… she had to thank her mysterious friend again at a later date. "Battle took longer than I expected…"
"Did you beat him?" Scarlet asked. Gem threw the now customised Poké Balls to each of the new owners, giving them their answer, "Good job!' she then coughed, and added 'For once…"
Gem smiled a small smile, Scarlet back to her normal authoress hating self, before she walked past them by a few paces.
"Come on, we need to move more. We should be getting fairly close to the centre by now." She said, hands in her new coat's pockets now, "And those Pokémon will need more medical attention from Nurse Joy, not that I don't trust Jaspa and the aura users, but they need an opinion off her too."
"Alright, alright." Auberon said, standing up, cradling Guardian still. Scarlet stood with him, and all the others soon joined them.
"Want a Grumpiggy back, Nevee?" TJ asked. Gemma smiled again, TJ and Nevee were getting along well, and Nevee had exactly the right kind of person for her. Nevee giggled happily and jumped on his back, TJ making funny snorting noises as he pretended to be a Grumpig. Nevee laughed more.
"We all ready to go?" Hotaru asked, stretching a bit.
"Yup/Yeah/Yes." Was chorused around the group, and soon they all started walking.
"How bad did you kick that guy's ass, Authoress?" Scarlet asked as they walked down the path toward the Pokémon Centre. Gem sighed.
"Do you really need to know guys? I kicked his ass to kingdom come, that's all you need to know." Gem lied, knowing full well she would've lost easily if she hadn't've practically surrendered to the flames that had covered the clearing in the forest.
"Oh come on, tell us!" Auberon said, "I'm sure Guardian and Vapor would love the satisfaction of hearing how bad ya kicked his butt."
Gem let a smile form again, and she laughed. Everyone gave her a weird look, but she just calmed the laugh and looked at them, not even tripping as she continued to walk without looking where she was going.
"Fine, I'll tell you. I used Blaziken, and he used a Houndoom-…" She started before someone spoke up.
"Doesn't that mean you couldn't use his fire moves?" Indigo said. Gem nodded.
"Of course. But remember, Houndoom is part-…" She continued, before again she was interrupted.
"Dark Type." Jaspa finished for her. Gem shot him a playful glare.
"Dark Type… yes, Jaspa, that was what I was going to say. And Blaziken is part f-…"
"Fighting type!" Auberon piped in. Gem laughed, covering her mouth.
"You guys… god now I know why I still do this. You guys are just crazy, but you're just yourselves…' she let out another laugh 'Anyway… yes, he's part fighting, so I used fighting type moves and beat him that way. Got the forest set on fire in the process, but hey, happens to us all." She had to admit, she hated lying to them but that little bit of truth at the end helped a lot.
"True." Lucy said.
"Now, after the Pokémon Centre, I will go up into the sky and check on things in my Authoress room a bit, but I will be coming back down, this is just as much fun as torturing you from the sky."
"Are we going to spend the night at the centre again?" TJ asked.
"Probably. It all depends." Gem said, "We might end up bumping into some people."
"Which people are you setting us up to bump into next?" Auberon asked.
"Either a trio or a duo." Lucy said for her, using aura to tell, "She doesn't know which yet."
"Helpful." Scarlet said with a roll of her eyes.
"I try my best." Gem giggled, thinking: I guess I can rely on more than just my mysterious friend to help me cheer up… these guys are all the laughter medicine I need…
"I can see the centre!"
"Took less time than expected."
"Blame the dodgy timeline."
They all entered the centre, and Joy greeted them with her usual smile.
"Hello, may I help you?" She asked.
"Yes please, we have two injured Pokémon here; we need them to be checked over." Gem said, gesturing to the Pokémon. Auberon and Indigo gently put the Pokémon on the desk.
"I see… Lulu, Liam! Come here!"
"Lulu and Liam? Wait…" Scarlet started, before two people walked out. The female was about twenty four years old, and the male about twenty two, the girl had long black hair with a red streak and equally red eyes, in a doctor's coat, and the male had the same colour hair, down to his neck, but the same eyes you'd expect on… Brock's Family!
"Well well, look who it is." The two said at the same time.
"Hi Uncle Liam, Aunty Lulu!" Scarlet greeted. The others all waved too, "What're you doing here?"
"We work here, didn't you know? Plus Liam here succeeded where dad didn't and tied the knot with Karen Joy here." Lulu laughed, before scooping up the Ralts, "We kinda expected you'd be coming here."
"Hi you two, geez, I still remember Lulu being six!" Gem said with a laugh, "All the way back in RJC… I don't even think Liam or the other kids made an appearance, did you?"
"Nope. Most of them kinda resent you for that, even if they were mostly babies at the time." Liam said, taking the Eevee.
"Doesn't surprise me really." Gem shrugged, "Well, no time to catch up, right? You guys sort them out."
"Of course. Nice seeing you again, we'll speak when we can." Lulu said, before walking out back along with Liam.
"Would you like me to check up on your other Pokémon?" Joy asked.
"That shouldn't be necessary." Gem said, "Thanks anyway though, and very late congrats on being with Liam, I won't ask your age but you must be around the same ages, right?"
"Of course, what I find strange is his father likely flirted with my mother." Joy laughed, "Well, have a nice evening." She smiled before walking out back too.
"That was random, but I'm guessing they weren't the people we might bump into?" Indigo asked. Gem nodded.
"No duh. Well, we can get a room later if needs be, right now let's just get some food."
"Alright!" Auberon and Scarlet cheered at the same time before racing off to the canteen. Everyone sweatdropped, whilst Gem just laughed.
"Same old, same old, 'ey? Come on, let's go." She said, following them.
"She's sure cheered up fast." TJ said.
"She's like that. I think being around a group like this so much has advantages like that." Hotaru said, "I just wonder who's coming now."
"Look for any friendly auras, that could easily be them." Jaspa said with a shrug before walking off, Indigo not far behind him. TJ – still carrying Nevee – ran after them, Nevee being Nevee and sticking her arms out like an aeroplane. TJ laughed at her now.
"Geez, he can be so sharp and annoying." Hotaru said, crossing her arms.
"That's what Jaspa is like, and we know why, so cut him some slack." Lucy said, starting to walk. Hotaru just nodded, shoving her hands in her pockets as she always did.
"I know, I know."
~X~X~X~
"Yum!"
"You guys really are acting like your Pokémon."
"Uh?"
"Don't ask."
The group was sat around a table in the canteen, laughing a bit and eating… though most of the latter was being done by the ever hungry pair made of Auberon and Scarlet, whilst the former was at the expense of the hungry duo.
"I don't see any signs of anyone we know yet, Big Mouth."
"Really? Back to that name?" Gem said, giving Scarlet (she spoke) a look. The girl shrugged, making Gem roll her eyes.
"Are these people even going to arrive?" Jaspa asked.
"Have I ever said they would then they didn't?"
"She has a point." Indigo pointed out after swallowing a bite of her simple plate of food. Jaspa let out a quiet chuckle.
"They'll arrive sooner or later, don't worry." Gem said, chuckling to herself.
"Good! No offence to the three temporaries' she got a couple of glares off Hotaru and Lucy though TJ didn't seem to be listening anyway (too absorbed with Nevee), 'but getting some new people around for a bit would be a nice change."
"TJ's only been here a few chapters…" Gem said, chuckling again.
"So?"
"You guys are crazy… just eat your food and shut ya mouths." Authoress laughed back again, putting her fork in her mouth straight after, Maybe I can manage to keep myself occupied enough with these guys to keep my cheerful… unless… what leads the three here doesn't go how I hope…
Just then, the power went out.
~X~X~X~
Only a few moments before…
"What on earth was that?-!" A familiar female voice said, shielding her face from the bright light of the flames. A male coughed and stood up, shielding his eyes.
"Never mind that! Where's Crystal?-!" He yelled. The girl panicked now.
"I-I don't know! She w-was here a second ago!"
"Oh god… Help me find her!" The boy said anxiously, before both heard a small voice.
'Help! N-Nathen! K-Kate! O-Over here!'
"That's her!" Kate said, running over toward the voice, Nathen speeding after her. They reached the site of the voice and saw Crystal was lying on the ground with her forehead bleeding, her arm bleeding and beneath a chunk of rock that had come from whatever landed in the ground with such force only a few moments ago, and looking in great pain. "Crystal!"
"Oh Princess, now you really are a right damsel in distress! Kate, help me move the boulder!"
"But what about Aura?"
"Can't, there's a small TUA gathering not too far from this meteorite, I can't risk them picking up on me, that would lead them to us all. We have to move it manually." Nathen sighed, wiping sweat off his brow from the fire's heat. Kathryn gulped a bit, but nodded, and together the two strained to lift the heavy rock, as soon as it was up just enough Crystal painfully moving her arm out of the way so the two could just about drop the weight before their own arms broke or dislocated.
Nathen was by his sister's side in an instant, touching her arm and hearing her whimper. He wished he could heal her straight away, but he couldn't risk it, especially when he felt the other familiar auras that would also be risked in the nearby Pokémon c-… That's it!
"There's a Pokémon Centre nearby, we can go there! Scarlet and co are there too, so it's a good idea anyway!" He said, scooping Crystal up as carefully but as quickly as he could. She whimpered.
"G-Good! Come on, let's go! Quick!" Kathryn said.
They ran fast, leaving a burning meteor behind them, burning up the forest. But once their backs were turned, something glowed in the centre of it, and three things came out, one was hopping curiously, the others floating.
"Clef!"
"Constell!"
"Luna…"
~X~X~X~
Pokémon Centre…
"Why has the power gone out?-!" Scarlet exclaimed, now forgetting her food and standing up. Typical of her, the only thing that could stop her eating was an unusual problem.
"No idea… but I'm sensing a huge aura signature nearby, not a human one, an object coated in strange aura from somewhere… and three smaller auras right by it… not sure what they are yet." Hotaru said, closing her eyes for a moment before opening them.
"Could that have anything to do with the power outage?" TJ asked. Nevee was now cowering by his side, gripping his arm tightly and whimpering. She still hated the dark.
"It could do." Hotaru said.
"I think it might… its forcing my reading away from it, Hotaru." Lucy said, wincing as she too tried to read the aura signature, but couldn't, "My Aura is too weak, I may have been in TUA but I wasn't exactly the strongest of grunts… I was there for years and I never got past Grunt."
"Can you see any of us?" Jaspa asked, being the ever factual boy he is and wanting to have all the answers.
"…Not very clearly… it feels like the object is… blocking my reading… ugh… this hurts…" Lucy said, stumbling a little before she stopped and opened her eyes, rubbing her head, making her purple hair even messier than normal.
"Whatever this thing is, it can't be of this planet if it can turn off all the centre's electricity and mess with someone's aura!" Scarlet said, before turning to look at Gem, "Did you have anything to do with this?"
"How could I? As I said, I can't control much at all from down here. And no, I didn't take so long earlier because I figured the Watch out and went back up, okay? I told you I'll go up later, after this place, not then. I had nothing to do with this." If they're as gullible as they always are they should fall for that one…
"…Fine, but if w-…!" Auberon started, before another voice seemed to finish his sentence for him:
"If we find out this is your bloody fault Authoress I swear to holy Arceus above that you are so going to die!" A male voice called, and a minute later the group could see a trio in the centre of the lobby.
Now in the light, you could see that – like the main group had – the three had all had costume changes, and in Nathen's change a physical alteration. Both of his eyes were now red.
He now wore a black long sleeved shirt, a Dark Blue pair of pants, a black pair of boots with silver trim and laces, a black jacket with silver shields on the shoulders connected to the silver shields around the cuffs by a silver chain design, a black leather clip belt, a black and blue Pokétch, and a crystal shard earring on his right ear.
A panicked Kathryn was in a dark red skirt that reaches just above her knees, black leggings that cover down to just above her ankles, black and pink running shoes, white long sleeved top, black jacket with a red rose symbol on the right side, a black chocker with gold and silver lace which made an exquisite design, a black lace used to tie her hair back with a rose in the centre of the fabric, a black leather clip belt, and a white Pokétch, whilst her red hair was back in a ponytail.
And finally, the injured Crystal a now bloodstained white and light blue pair of running shoes, a dark blue pair of pants, a light gray long sleeved top with a white rose design in the centre, a black jacket with a white flower lotus design along the lower rim, a red leather clip belt, a special crystal snowflake earring, and a pink Pokétch.
"Nathen?-! Kate?-! …Holy crap, Crystal?-!" Scarlet exclaimed, running out of the canteen's glass doors, which unlike many doors in the Centre, did not lock with electricity.
"What happened to you guys?-!" Auberon joined in, running out too. Soon everyone had followed, looking at the blood covered girl. Her forehead still flowed some crimson liquid, and her arm was rested on her own stomach, and she was very obviously in pain.
"We're not really sure… something suddenly just hit the ground from the sky, we're lucky we got out with only Crystal's injuries being even this severe! There's flames and everything, don't know who'll put them out." Kathryn said, voice panicked.
"Oh, someone will." Gem chuckled, thinking that maybe her mysterious friend might think she had done it again, and even if she didn't she was the type to stop the fire anyway.
"Do you know anything about this?-!" Nathen barked, scared for his sister, worried.
"No, I didn't!" Gem said. She knew it would be harder to fool him, but she honestly had no idea that the meteor crash would hurt Crystal. Nathen gave her a look, but let it drop sensing there was also a lot of tension in her emotions, a lot of confusion and hurt, so he couldn't really find the truth about her answer to his bark.
"We have to get her to Nurse Joy!" Kathryn said.
"Can't Hotaru or Lucy heal her?" Jaspa said, an eyebrow raised. Hotaru looked at Nathen's aura, and realising he was one of the elusive aura bearing friends they'd heard about from Miles, she knew Nathen would've healed her if he could've, and he could easily by the look of his aura, so something was holding him back. She closed her eyes for only a blink, and she could see the mass amount of auras nearby… a small base, but big enough to be a problem if they sensed aura usage.
"No, we can't. I just checked the area… there's a big gathering of strong auras, it's a TUA base, too much aura release would attract their attention. We don't want that with Scarlet here, or me and Lu' for that matter." Hotaru said, "Nurse Joy will have to deal with her."
"I'm not sure how much I can do." Joy's voice said. They turned and saw her walking back in from checking the generator, hat gone and her heavy coat covering her uniform. "Without our power, most of our medical systems are down."
"But her injuries don't need that much machinery or stuff to treat, do they?" Nathen said.
"You'd be surprised how much Machinery tells us these days. I am not used to treating humans, so to give her pain relief I have to calculate the amount I need on the computer, to do all sorts I need the computer. Plus, to see how bad that arm is, I need an x-ray."
"Oh great…"
"Electric Pokémon…?" Kathryn suggested.
"I don't even think we have any Electric types on us…" Jaspa said, "Actually, I'm pretty sure we don't."
"…We do." Scarlet said, grabbing one of her Poké Balls, "I got one recently."
"When? You've never had chance to catch one…" Auberon said, confused. He'd normally know she'd gotten anything new at all. Scarlet pressed the button on the Poké Ball, and saying as it opened:
"I didn't catch it."
Her new Pokémon appeared. It was a Pikachu, a female judging by the end of its tail, with a big grin that somewhat mirrored her new trainer's.
"…How did we not see that one coming?" Indigo said, giggling a little. The Pikachu hopped up onto Scarlet's shoulder, wrapping her tail around her other shoulders, and resting a paw on her hat.
"I can use her, she could probably easily set off the backup generator." Scarlet suggested, rubbing the electric mouse behind the ear.
"Alright, I'll lead you there." Joy said, doing her coat back up.
"I'll come!" Auberon said, digging his own light coat out of his bag as Scarlet did the same, "I don't have an electric type, but I wanna come."
"You might be more handy at the meteor site." Gem said.
"Why?"
"Your 'super nature elf' stuff." She reminded, patting his head. Auberon gave her a look before laughing.
"Doing that when you are the same height as me, does not work." Gem groaned at this, facepalming.
"Once again my height of a ten year old betrays me…" She sighed. Auberon laughed, and put his hood up, doing the zip tight so only his face was visible, not even his hair. Scarlet didn't even bother with the hood, but did the red jacket up tight too. Pika (yes, she named her Pika), was sat on her head and giggling to herself, tail now around the back of Scarlet's neck.
"Alrighty, so who's going where?" Hotaru asked.
"I say, the three we've always said about keep the generator running. Jaspa, Indigo, Nevee, TJ, and Nathen, you all go to the Meteor. Kathryn, you stay here with Hotaru and Lucy to look after Crystal whilst they get the generator up and going. Everyone got where they're going?" Gem said in her authoress tone. Everyone nodded, "Good, now let's move out!"
"Where are you going?" TJ asked, "You didn't mention yourself."
"I am going to do my checks 'upstairs', I don't need to do too much down here for now, but I'll be back down later. See ya!" Gem said, grabbing the watch from her bag and pressing a few buttons and sliding things, before she disappeared in a small flash and went up to her most technological authoress room.
Alright people, get moving!
Everyone jumped hearing the voice in the sky, TJ because it was the first time he'd ever heard it, and the others because it had been so long because they'd heard it.
"God that might take some getting used to again…" Scarlet muttered, before grabbing Auberon by the wrist and running out of the doors, Joy following closely after them.
Oh, and also you guys who are helping Crystal, get Lulu and Liam to help too, okay? You need medical help too, since Lucy and Hotaru can't do anything.
"I couldn't even without the base, this meteor thing is really killing my control." Lucy said, sighing and rubbing her temples.
"You sure it's the meteor?" Hotaru asked. Lucy nodded, giving a small look to her.
"Yes, I'm sure, I was fine when I came here, before the crash. Now come on, let's help Kathryn and the two Slate's help poor Crystal, besides… we need to get to know the new people, hey?" She said, giving another look to say what she meant, even she could tell these three friends of the group were the aura bearers out of their friends.
"Alright, let's go."
They ran out back, after Nathen handed over Crystal to one of the three. Now come on, Meteor people! Go, go, go!
"God, I am going to hate having you back up there for any length of time…" Jaspa groaned. Indigo giggled a little and latched onto his arm. Oh, and be careful there guys, who knows what those things Hotaru saw coming from it were, and watch out for the flames.
"I have Muddy, Gem." True. Okay, just go! Hurry people! "Maybe you will get more annoying again…" Oh just go!
~X~X~X~
Pokémon Centre Backup Generator…
"What happens if this doesn't work?" Scarlet said, letting her Pikachu charge up her power before she had to release it onto the generator.
"Why wouldn't it?" Joy asked. Scarlet shrugged her shoulders, her hair falling out of one of its bobbles and her casually fixing it.
"Hotaru and Lucy said that it was interfering with aura, not just electricity supply, for all we know we could be basically shooting Electricity into a void that'll just suck it all away because of the meteor again." She said. Auberon nodded.
"That does make sense. Even I'm feeling a disturbance from this, and I don't get that many feelings. Its faint for me because I'm only linked to nature because of this defect, but it's there." The elf boy explained, though Scarlet couldn't help but wonder if his 'nature senses' weren't as much to do with his elfyness, but more to do with that strange incident back in the woods when they were lost. When he'd seemed to make aura and use it to make a Pokémon move work for them, humans.
"Pika-Ka! Chu-Ka!" Pika then said, looking at the two young trainers.
"You ready? Okay, use Thunderbolt Pika! Right on that Generator!" The coordinator of the pair ordered, pointing her arm in typical Ketchum fashion.
Pika unleashed her electric attack right on target, the generator buzzing into a noisy life as the electricity was pumped through it, powering it again. The gage showing power went up and up. They could see lights flickering on through the windows, the power being restored to the building.
"Yes! It worked! Alright, it's at full, you can stop now Pika." Scarlet said, punching the air above her head. Auberon sweatdropped.
"Honestly, couldn't you have thought of a better name?"
"Shuddup, you're killing my buzz." Scarlet said, giving him shifty eyes.
"Um, this might kill your 'buzz' more, Scarlet. Look." Joy said, pointing to the gage on the generator. As soon as the attack had stopped, it was falling, fast.
"Ah shit…"
SCARLET!
"Double shit."
~X~X~X~
Medical Room…
"Great, almost had power then it went out, just peachy…" Kathryn said, pacing a bit.
"You're getting pretty anxious." Hotaru pointed out.
"I know, I'm worried about Crystal, that's why. I bet Nathen feels just the same, if not worse. She is his sister after all." Kate said, sighing now as she just reverted to wringing her hands instead of the constant pacing.
"We can only do so much for her now, like try to stop the bleeding." Lulu said as she gently moved the broken or dislocated arm from resting on the pure haired girl's stomach, "The head doesn't seem to be as bad as it appears, luckily."
"Let me double check that, I've seen a lot of head injuries in my time." Hotaru said, gently urging the nurse's hands away and touching the cut forehead, apologising for the pain it caused, she had gloves on to make sure no germs were passed, "Well, you do seem to be right about the injury itself, but…"
"The blood?" Lucy offered. Hotaru nodded.
"The blood is coming pretty darn quick, I think something from that huge bloody rock is making her bleed faster than normal."
"W-Will I-I be okay?"
"You should be." Liam answered as the girl spoke weakly.
Hotaru whispered in her ear, "Don't worry, we can heal you with aura once we're out of range of that darn base nearby. Even if we can't treat you now you'll be okay in less than twenty-four hours." Crystal let out a small sigh of relief.
"If they can get the power on, we should do fine. God I hope they just hurry." Lucy said, "Normally they're faster at this stuff than this!"
"Maybe there's a problem with it taking in the energy, that would explain it being on but going off again seconds later." Hotaru said. The others nodded.
"That meteor was pretty big… do you think Nathen and the others will be okay?" Kate questioned, stopping the wringing now, but biting her lip instead.
"I'm sure they will. Even the figures I saw come out of it were small, I think. It's hard to tell with aura sometimes. No matter the training level." The ex-commander replied, trying to sound reassuring but not really helping.
"Thanks… that helped…" Kathryn said with slight sarcasm.
~X~X~X~
Meteor…
Whoa… I so did not expect this to be this bad…
The forest fire was even worse than the fire set alight by Gem's battle with that horrid man. And the fire seemed to have a strange radiation around it, probably to do with the meteor. Electricity, probably the energy absorbed from the nearby centre, was sparking around it, making it dangerous to get too close. Not that it would've been particularly safe even without the electricity…
"Bloody hell… I didn't realise how bad this was…" Nathen said, scarlet eyes wide. Indigo automatically gripped Jaspa, who had gone extremely tense at the amount of flames around him and, of course, lil' Nevee, who was clutching TJ as if her life depended on it, which it very well could. Though she didn't really know that consciously.
"How on earth do we stop this? It doesn't really help when two of us can't do much." Jaspa said, gesturing to TJ and the frightened Nevee, even if somewhere he also partially meant himself.
"We need to put the fire out with Muddy for one." Indigo said, patting her starter's Poké Ball.
"Not sure if that'll be safe for her with the electricity." Nathen pointed out. His eyes closed for less than a second, and even in that time he could see the glaring aura signature that was greatly disrupting his vision through aura from such a close distance. "We might have to try and find another way."
"Like what?" Jaspa asked, rolling his yellow eyes. Nathen shrugged. "So, we're still on square one."
"Pretty much."
"Helpful."
"Jaspa, be nice." Indigo said, sounding somewhat patronizing, though Jaspa easily overlooked that.
"Luuunaaa…" Everyone suddenly heard something moan. Nevee clutched TJ tighter, whimpering. Everyone else was looking around frantically.
"Wh-What was that?" Indigo stuttered. Nathen had gotten into a defensive stance in what seemed like almost the blink of an eye, fists clenched.
"I don't know… but it did not sound human to me…" He said in a low tone, looking around.
"Clef! Clef!"
"…A-And that?" Indigo continued.
"That sounds kinda cute…" Nevee said, cheering up a little, looking around herself now. TJ chuckled but sweatdropped, ruffling her hair.
"Constell! Conste Constell Escent!" Another voice said. Everyone continued to look around the meteor crash site, seeing nothing before three shapes floated up from behind part of the huge meteor. Everyone backed up a step, before they could see the shapes being lit up by the flames and electrical energy.
One was a little pink and brown creature, the brown being two triangle shapes that protruded from the top of its head, and it had a blue glow around it signalling it was only floating because of psychic. It was vaguely shaped like a star and had a curl on its forehead.
The next creature was floating without the glow, and it resembles a crescent moon. It has red eyes on either side of its body and has an unusual beak-like structure in front of it, coming from the deepest point of the curve.
And the final creature was one none of the group could recognise, it was about the size of Solrock. A golden yellow five armed star with a four armed one behind it, that's clear, like crystal or glass, but with an orange tint. It has large eyes, and on the end of two of its arms there are glowing orbs. The orbs were constantly changing places around the five front arms.
"What on earth…?" TJ said.
"…I don't think they came from earth, TJ…" Indigo said, eyes a little wide.
"A Cleffa, a… Lunatone… and… a… I don't recognise that last one…" Jaspa said, yellow eyes just as wide. Nathen pulled out his Pokédex, aiming it at the Pokémon none of them recognised.
No data.
"No data… that Pokémon is either brand new or from another region…" He grunted, putting away his Dex in his bag again, closing his eyes for a second again, but this time being completely forced out of the aura reading sight.
"Constelescent! Constell!" The star Pokémon said, large eyes focusing on the humans, seeming confused but also irritated. "Humans! Darn humans!"
"…What the hell? Telepathy?" Indigo said, gripping tighter to Jaspa.
"Clef! Cleffa!" The little Cleffa said, giving a stern look to the star.
"I don't care if they're not the humans that tried to shoot our meteor down! They're human!"
"…Wait, they were inside the meteor?" TJ said.
"And someone tried to shoot it down…?" Nathen added. Lunatone was next to speak up, using telepathy again.
"Well, they don't seem bad… one of them seems a little dodgy, but not bad…" Jaspa visibly cringed, but luckily no one was looking at him.
"I don't care!" The star continues.
"Constelescent…" Lunatone then just sighed. Constelescent glared at the group of humans, and the back star started to spin, as the glowing orbs moved faster and faster around its five 'arms'. It was going to attack.
"Watch out!" Jaspa exclaimed, all of them preparing to dive out of the way, when something unexpected happened. Three mechanical arms shot out and grabbed the three floating Pokémon, making all three let out their own shrill shriek. Everyone just watched with huge eyes as a large vehicle, with the top being somewhat similar to a robot cabin TRm3 would use, but the wheels were much larger than an average TR machine's wheels. It was coloured purple.
"And we got them, Kelsey! Just like always!" A male voice said.
"Of course we did, Max." A female voice replied, "We always, always get what we go for."
"Who's there?-!" Nathen exclaimed, wary. He knew that big, flashy entrances were not TUA's thing, they weren't Team Rocket, they didn't use novelty machines that they didn't even really need, they did it all themselves. Only a few times in their known history had they ever been spotted in their crimes, let alone alerted a whole town to their presence… except that explosion… hmm… "You're blabbing, Authoress!" Nathen shouted, giving a look to the sky. Only he heard the bit about him knowing about the lack of flashy entrances, everyone else just heard everything from 'big', but naturally it still annoyed them all. Alright, alright, sheesh! God I can't wait to torture you all more…
"Stupid freaking freaky humans! Let us go!" The unusually feisty Constelescent said as it tried to twist and turn its starts to struggle. It wasn't working very well. And yes… most Constelescent are not so feisty…
"I believe you are the freak here, extraterrestrial being!" Kelsey's voice snapped. Oh you have to be kidding me…
"What?" Nathen asked, confused.
"Yeah, I double team that." TJ said. I'm not going to ask about the phrase, man… but believe me, the two you are now facing are no contest for you… hell, you can beat them easy!
"OI! Shut up out there! We are the PMC and you are not going to beat us! We are here for these Pokémon! Now leave us alone, earthlings!" Max yelled from the vehicle.
"You say that like you're an alien." Jaspa said in a monotone, arms folding.
"…Who says we're not?-!" Max exclaimed quickly. A loud facepalm was heard.
"Max, shut up and bring in the catch! You are not good at talking without making us seems like fools!" Kelsey said, groaning loudly. She must've pressed something, because a minute later you could see into the cabin of the vehicle through clear class, not the darkened stuff it was before. A young man and woman dressed in dark goggles, black and red uniforms and boots, the boy had purple hair, and the girl dark green.
"Wait… PMC?" Indigo said.
"Know something about them?" Jaspa asked.
"A story from May and Ash, and Grandma! They met a group that called themselves the 'Pokémon Mystery Club', they try and prove all Pokémon come from outer space. These guys, must be either the kids or grandkids of those people." Indigo explained.
"And we have now got even more evidence! We have caught many a Lunatone and Cleffa, but this Pokémon, this star, this Pokémon is new!"
"I believe others of my species usually land in Monoko, stupid bastards!" Constelescent said as it struggled more. Lunatone seemed to sigh, and Cleffa giggled a little, making Nevee 'Awww' at it. TJ ruffled her hair.
"Oh shut up!" Kelsey snapped.
"Everyone want to join me in saving these poor Pokémon?" Nathen said, grabbing a Poké Ball. Jaspa, surprisingly, was the second to call out a Pokémon, and right after that… Nevee did! Geez, the scaredy-cat is being brave, and the uncaring one is caring! Freaky!
"Shut up, Authoress, I can be a normal human sometimes too." Jaspa said, giving the sky a glare. I know, I know, sheesh, take a joke!
"Come on out Cynders!" Nevee called, throwing her fire type starter's Poké Ball.
"Bulbasaur, come on, you too!" Jaspa called, prying Indigo off but grabbing her hand for a moment after. She smiled.
"And out you come Pidgeot!" Nathen said, throwing his Pokémon's ball too. All three Pokémon appeared, all ready to attack.
"…Crud…" Max said.
"This is so why we should carry Pokémon! We left all our technology back at home! Ugh!" Kelsey groaned. …Well you guys sure didn't turn out to be the filler people I wanted. "Oh shut up!"
"First the arms, then the machine!" Nathen said, getting a nod off the others. "Aerial Ace, Pidgeot!"
"Vine Whip, Bulbasaur."
"Ember with allllll ya power, Cynders!"
Aerial Ace hit and broke the arm holding Constelescent (who promptly made a speedy get away), Vine Whip repeatedly smashed against the arm holding Lunatone until it also snapped, and Ember somehow managed to shoot all the way through the arm on its first connection. Nevee, of course, cheered overenthusiastically about this.
"Clef! Cleffa!" Cleffa giggled, landing inside the curve of Lunatone's moon shape, and being floated by it to safety. PMC soon decided it was time to end their short part in this story, and quickly fled, leaving their machine behind and just using jetpacks to escape. Wait, didn't they say they left their technology? Eh, never mind. They're gone.
"That was just way too easy…" Indigo sweatdropped, TJ nodding in agreement.
"Thank you, humans… we are both very grateful… sorry about Constelescent…" Lunatone said.
"Its fine, at least you're all saved." Nathen said. Jaspa nodded, and Nevee just giggled. Cleffa had hopped into her arms, smiling at her.
"It appears my friend wants to stay with the girl." Lunatone then said, looking at the human and small pink Pokémon. Cleffa giggled more.
"Yay! Really little Cleffa? Awesome!"
"She actually calls herself 'Star' more than Cleffa, dear girl." Lunatone explained, sounding as if, if it could, it would be smiling.
"Clef!" Cleffa said, somehow knowing what a Poké Ball was and pointing to an empty one. Nevee giggled and grabbed it, pressing it to Cleffa so the button to capture it was activated, and she was sucked inside, the 'click' noise signalling capture almost immediate.
"I caught my first wild Pokémon! Yay!" Nevee cheered, holding the ball up. TJ laughed.
"If that can be called a Capture…" Jaspa muttered. Lunatone looked to him now.
"You boy… battle."
"Huh?" Jaspa said, for once using that rare confused tone.
"Battle me. Catch me. You seem… intriguing, boy. Catch me."
"…I suppose I can't turn down a challenge." Jaspa said with a dismissive shrug.
~X~X~X~
Generator/Centre…
"How much longer do you think she can keep that up?" Joy asked, getting worried for Pika's health. She'd been pumping electricity into the machine continuously for most of the time that we were with the team at the Meteor. Pika didn't seem to be having any trouble, she truly was just as strong as her ancestors (meaning the previous two generations, *sweatdrop*), keeping the power up with ease. Thus, inside, they were doing what they now could for Crystal, even if the three teens present with her and the doctors knew that as soon as they were out of the area, she could be healed fully.
"She can, don't worry. Besides, soon they should be able to destroy the meteor and everything'll go back to normal. Whatever normal is." Scarlet said with a shrug.
"What's taking them so long anyway?" Auberon said, now sitting up in a tree, absentmindedly twirling a Poké Ball on top of his finger. Show off. "Says you."
Anyway, they're just finishing off some business, the Meteor will be dealt with soon. Just keep it up a little longer.
"Easy for you to say."
"Auberon, you're doing nothing…" Scarlet said, giving him a look and sweatdropping. Auberon shrugged, letting go of the Poké Ball by accident, and quickly reaching to grab it as he fell… causing him to fall right off the branch and land face first in the dirt.
"…I meant to do that…" He grunted.
"Sure you did, Aube, sure you did…"
~X~X~X~
"Alright, Bulbasaur, do you think you're up for fighting Lunatone here? Even with the few moves you have?" Jaspa asked. His starter nodded, getting into a battle stance. Jaspa kept a hand on an empty Poké Ball.
"This should be interesting." Lunatone said, before its eyes began to glow blue.
"Leech Seed!" Jaspa called, knowing if it hit he'd automatically be at a slight advantage. Bulby's bulb grew a little bigger for a second, then out of the top it shot a little brown seed. Lunatone dodged it, though, and it fell harmlessly to the ground, the vines that sprouted from it trying to connect to something but they couldn't, only used to being used against a breathing creature. Jaspa cursed.
"Luuunaaa…" Lunatone then moaned in Pokémon language, before the glowing eyes became a Confusion attack, lifting poor Bulby a couple of feet off the ground. Bulby yelped a bit, the psychic move being super effective, not helped by the fact he was then slammed against the ground by the move.
"Bulbasaur…!" Jaspa exclaimed. Indigo couldn't help but smile at the fact her cared. "Use Leech Seed again, get your energy back from it!"
Bulby pushed himself to his feet, just about, and the bulb on his back shot another seed, this one catching the end of Lunatone's curve as he tried to dodge, digging its way in and spreading its life-sucking vines all around the rock type. Lunatone let out a pained moan as a red light shone, signalling the fact its energy was being taken, but despite cringing it fought against it, and used a slightly wobbly tackle attack.
"Vine Whip!"
Bulby shot out vines, grabbed the Pokémon and threw it away before it could hit him with tackle, and the red light shone again, Bulby getting more energy and Lunatone losing more.
"And now Take Down!" Jaspa ordered. The small Pokémon charged at the fallen Lunatone, but before it could connect its attack it was thrown away by Confusion, meaning it got not only the super effective damage, but was the only one to receive damage from the Take Down attack. It was given some health back by another zap from Leech Seed, but it was barely enough to get it standing again. "Crap… wasn't the best of ideas… um… try Vine Whip!"
But Lunatone dodged, it wasn't a fast enough attack now, Lunatone had the most energy left, and if it got another hit in before Bulbasaur had regained enough energy from the leeching, then the battle was over already.
But suddenly, and believe me I mean suddenly, even I didn't see this coming, Bulbasaur began to glow. Everyone's eyes became their widest yet as its form changed, growing into a larger form. When the bright light disappeared, Bulby was now an Ivysaur!
"Ivysaur! Saur!" Ivysaur said, with a more confident smile than normal, firing off a stronger Vine Whip and catching Lunatone by surprise. He was hit, and this time he was beat.
"Whoa…!" Indigo said. Ivysaur turned to Jaspa and grinned.
"Ivysaur! Ivy Saur, Saur!" He said. Jaspa smiled a little once, threw a Poké Ball, waited for Lunatone to be captured and the ball to magically fly back to him (yes, now they will even do that!), then bent down and rubbed Ivysaur behind the ear, making him lean into his master's hand, smiling.
"Well done, B-… Ivysaur." He said. Ivysaur continued grinning.
"That's your second capture, right?" Indigo asked as he stood up, holding Ivysaur in his arms and with Lunatone's ball clipped to the side of his belt.
"Yes, first was Devire, and this Lunatone was my second." Jaspa nodded, "And I believe I'm second in our group to have their starter evolve."
"Auberon'll be jealous." Indigo giggled.
"Now we have to get rid of that Meteor somehow." Nathen said, grabbing a Poké Ball, "We need to destroy it."
"What do you have in mind?" TJ asked.
"This, Lucario, Bone Rush repeatedly on that Meteor!" He ordered, throwing the ball. His Pokémon came out and immediately began the attack, breaking the meteor up. Ivysaur helped the best it could with its vines, but it wasn't much. It took about five minutes, but soon it was dust, and the sparks that had been there disappeared.
"I think that did it. Return, Lucario, Pidgeot." Nathen said, aiming the Poké balls at them and letting them be returned. Jaspa rubbed Ivysaur's head once more before also returning him. Indigo's smile never wavered seeing how much he now started to care.
"I caught a cutie too! Yay!" Nevee giggled as she jumped back on TJ's back for another Grumpiggy Ride. TJ smiled, and looked like he was thinking something along the lines of 'And I think I found someone just as cute.'
"Come on, I need to see how Crystal is. We better hurry back to the others." Nathen said, already beginning to walk.
Wonder if Jazz cares about me as much as Nathen cares about Crystal… Nevee thought as they started walking. She looked to her brother, and he caught her, and… he gave a small smile. Nevee giggled again, happy.
~X~X~X~
Me: WAAAH! CATCH THEM ALREADY!
Kim:I AM NOT A CHATTER BOX MAYLU! Dammit, get back here Shadow!
Me: NATHEN'S UNIVERSE, HUH?
Kim: Yup…
Me: WELL PROVE YOU'RE NOT A CHATTERBOX AND CATCH SHADOW! I'M DYING HERE!
LF: Not quite…
Me: BLAZE AND SHADOW HAVE BOTH NEARLY GOT ME! OH THANK GOD THE ONE WHO ISN'T ACTUALLY OUT TO KILL ME IS FASTEST! HEY, KIM, WHILST YOU'RE HERE DO ME ONE FAVOUR! READ THIS! *throws paper*
Kim: Okay…? *reads* Authors note stuff? Oh! Um… *cough* Sorry for the wait, and hope the length makes up for that, and that is not too long. Hope that is okay with you, Nathen, with how your OC entered into this, and as mentioned, Crystal won't be injured for long. To other OC owners, your OC will make appearances, don't worry, there's been a big break since we had someone's OC (minus TJ) in, but she'd promised Nathen and LF a certain location(s) for their OC, so… Well, that's all it says! *then waves* Hi Nathen!
Me: GET BACK TO HELPING!
Kim: Oh, right! *starts running again*
