Saving Plush And Emma

Kibou flies across route 212 as night begins to fall. While there isn't much to see here, the whole place seems to have been somewhat destroyed by something big. He doesn't care to know what caused said destruction, but rather, is more focused on trying to figure out what happened to Plush and Emma. He knows the PCU was out and about earlier and they had invaded her home once, so he has reason to believe that they found them and managed to take them away. If this is the case, Kibou is going to have to infiltrate the place they're keeping them in and break them out. This is something he's never done before and never thought he would have to do, but then again, he has no idea if they even captured them in the first place. He hopes that Plush and Emma simply left and went to another city to prepare to escape from Sinnoh, and if that's the case, he knows they'll be in the Johto region and he can simply fly there since he's been to Johto a few times with his parents and knows where it is.

As he rounds a corner, he notices that in the distance he can see bright lights and the roofs of a few buildings and homes. He's getting closer to Pastoria City and with that, closer to Plush and Emma's whereabouts. However, he isn't expecting there to be a brigade of wild Pokemon attempting to stop him from entering the city. As he approaches Pastoria, he's tackled out of the sky by a wild Shinx who holds him down. "H-hey! What're you doing!? That's not fair, I wasn't even ready!" he says as he struggles and squirms out from under them. They put their paw up to his mouth and makes a 'shh-ing' noise. Before speaking to him.

"I'm sorry, but I don't want you to get caught! Pastoria City is where the PCU has one of their headquarters located! If they see you, they'll definitely try to catch you!"

Kibou sits up off the ground. A few other wild Pokemon start to appear around him. A Marill, Ralts, Roselia, Starly, and Budew stand in front of him along with the Shinx. Kibou realizes that they're looking out for his health and safety even though they could've caused him to attack in defense. He calls them out for it. "You could've told me by coming out and yelling at me instead of tackling me out of the sky… what if I decided to attack back? I could've hurt you badly!"

The Shinx looks at the ground for a moment. "Yeah… sorry about that. Guess I didn't think that through, did I?" he rubs the back of his head shamefully.

Kibou gives him a friendly smile. "It's okay, you were just trying to help me, but, you should be more careful next time. I wouldn't want any of you getting hurt over trying to help other Pokemon out." They all nod, understanding the danger. Since he's now in the company of a few Pokemon, he wonders if they saw Plush or Emma. "Hey, did any of you see a human girl with an Eevee go through here? I need to make sure they're okay because they're my friends."

The Ralts nods. "I saw them! The PCU truck that came through here a couple hours ago unloaded a bunch of wild Pokemon and humans that were taken in due to not giving their Pokemon up. One of those humans had an Eevee and I think they locked all of them up in their HQ."

This shocks Kibou. "You gotta be kidding me! My friends are in danger, I have to do something!" he wants to get right in there and break them out, but if he were to just waltz in there, they'd snatch him up and then he'd have no means of breaking anyone out. "But how do we get in there? It's not like we can just go in, they'll catch us…"

The Starly suggests an idea. "How about we go cause some chaos? The PCU exists to stop Pokemon like us from creating chaos after all, so it might be the perfect thing to lure them all out."

The Ralts agrees and adds to it. "Exactly. They want to capture Pokemon that are a danger to human safety, so if we can make it seem like we're gonna cause some destruction and hurt people, they'll have no choice but to send their entire unit out after us."

Kibou likes the idea, but all of these Pokemon are volunteering their lives just to save his friends. "You know you could get caught right? I don't want that to happen to any of you. There's gotta be another way…"

They all shake their heads. The Budew insists. "We're gonna be fine, if one of us does get caught, you're gonna be in there and you'll be able to break us all out, right?"

He's unsure. "I don't know… I-I'll try if that happens, but I don't want anyone to be caught at all. It's better to avoid it if you can."

They put him at ease. "It's fine, we're gonna make sure you get your friends back, don't worry about us!"

He frowns, a bit worried even though they said they'd be fine.

All of them approach Pastoria City. The PCU headquarters is where the Great Marsh used to be. They drained all of the swamp and built a massive containment facility in order to allow them to carry out the orders from the one in command. In order for Kibou to get in, he'd have to find a way to lure the 4 PCU members guarding the front door away without getting caught. Luckily for him, his new wild Pokemon friends said they'd help him take care of this and also lessen the amount of people inside the HQ as well. Once inside, he'd just have to look around for a place that they would put people and their Pokemon in for containment. It's not going to be an easy task, and while he's at it, he wonders if he'll be able to break everyone out in the process. This thought reminds him of when he saw the news broadcast about someone releasing a whole bunch of Pokemon. Perhaps this is what they meant after all, and if this is something he can do to help everyone out, he's gonna try his best to do it.

They all wait behind a bush, Kibou is in charge of when to start causing chaos. They all eagerly wait to get started but because this is unfamiliar territory, he wants to know of any and all possible escape routes. Of course, he knows the most obvious one, teleporting back to Emma's house, but he'll need to rescue her and Plush before doing that. If things go wrong, he'll need a quick escape to avoid being caught, so he asks the Shinx if they know of any. "Escape routes? Well, the route we're standing on is one of them and to the east of where the Great Marsh used to be is route 213, but you'll have to fly over the checkpoint gate because PCU grunts usually monitor it since there's a pier on that route with a boat that travels to other regions and people have smuggled their Pokemon out of Sinnoh a few times." they say.

This doesn't give him much confidence, but at least there's two options. "I guess that's better than nothing… I just hope you all can distract them long enough for me to be able to get inside."

They assure him. "We've got this. We'll make sure they're distracted long enough for you to do what you have to do."

Kibou nods and then becomes serious, something that's a bit rare for him. "Okay… let's do it!" he throws his paws forwards and the little gang of wild Pokemon rush into the city.

In order to cause chaos, they first start using as many attacking moves as they can to destroy property. Bolts of lightning strike buildings, Psychic energy wracks cars, Powerful tackles and strong pecking attacks break windows and destroy gates, fences, and anything that's in the way. Even some pedestrians are hit with these attacks and while nobody gets seriously hurt, it's enough for people to start running and screaming in response. This loud noise is enough to grab the attention of the PCU grunts standing guard in front of the HQ. Kibou watches as they seem to say a few things to each other before going inside to hopefully get the rest of their team. A few moments later, someone gets onto the town loudspeaker that's attached to the front of the PCU HQ building. "Attention all residents! Attention all residents! Seek shelter in a sturdy car or building! A group of wild Pokemon is running amok and using their powers to cause destruction! Do not attempt to stop them, get to safety immediately! Let PCU authorities handle the situation! We will update when the coast is clear!"

Kibou smiles. "Yes! I just have to wait for them to clear out of the building and then I can go in and save Plush and Emma." he then sneaks off under the cover of the shadows and darkness amidst the chaos to get closer to the HQ. He hides behind a tree near the entrance and waits for the cavalry to come out and after a few seconds, they blast through the doors, ready to catch each and every wild Pokemon.

Kibou can hear them yelling. "Let's go! Move! We need to catch those Pokemon before they hurt or even kill someone!" He watches as a long line of grunts runs out into the city to locate his wild friends and he waits until every single grunt they could possibly have comes out before trying to go inside.

He throws the doors wide open and immediately looks for something to hide under. He's totally exposed in this lobby and can see a few people that work inside the building on the upper level. He sees a couple chairs he could use and dives under them. Thanks to his small size, he's able to be completely covered by the chair and in turn, can't be seen unless someone were to look underneath it. He slowly pokes his head out and looks for anything that could tell him where to go to find Plush and Emma.

By the receptionist desk is a sign that shows a map of the building. He can't quite see it that well and in order to be able to read it, he'll need to get closer but this is risky as there's nothing nearby to keep him hidden and if he's seen, he's sure to be caught and the whole thing would be all for nothing. The sound of someone's footsteps getting closer spooks him and he ducks back under the chair, watching the person's feet go by. As they walk, it seems the little disturbance in the air they create causes something above him to move and fall in front of him. He waits until the person is gone before reaching out to grab it with his right paw. He pulls it under the chair and he lucks out. "Oh wow! This is perfect!" what he's reading right now is a map of the entire facility.

In order for him to get to Plush and Emma, he'll have to get to the containment halls which are all the way on the west side of the building on the second floor. Along the way, he'll be passing by the master controls for that side of the building and if he's lucky, he might be able to use the control panel to break everyone out for good. This isn't gonna be easy though because at the moment, there's too many people in the lobby and on the second floor. "I can't move or else they'll see me…" he says to himself quietly as to not attract any attention. He thinks about what he could do to get everyone's attention at once and an idea pops into his head.

With his psychic powers, he throws a small, blue, glowing orb of psychic energy out from under the chair and controls it with his psychokinesis. He makes it smash into the doors and this breaks all of the glass. The loud sound makes everyone focus their attention on the entrance of the facility and a few security guards come from the top floor to investigate. "What the hell?" says one of them when they take a look at it. They go to pick it up and Kibou makes it bounce up and into the air. "Whoa!" they say in response. They then talk into what seems to be a walkie talkie. "Can we get as many scientists from all sectors to the front entrance? We have some sort of object that could be extremely dangerous and we don't know if it could hurt someone."

A few minutes of playing around with them and watching them give chase to it warrants a massive crowd of scientists to come from the upper levels. They all notice the bouncing psychic orb and come down to investigate it. Kibou keeps flinging it around and they all move in unison to follow it. "Bingo! Now, I'll just move them outside and I'll have free reign of the whole building!" He tosses the orb outside and all of them go running after it. He giggles as he watches them chase it. He comes out from hiding and takes a good look at the lobby now that the place is empty.

The lobby is very large, well lit, and all the walls are painted white. The place seems to be monochromatic in color with only whites, greys, and blacks seen across the lobby. The chairs in the lobby are black but comfy looking, the receptionist desk is all grey with a few computer screens and some clipboards for signing your name on. Seems they don't just let anyone into the facility without knowing who they are. In the waiting area with all the chairs, there's a small pool of water with a single fountain spitting water up. There's also a few clear tables with magazines laid out neatly for anyone to read if they just so happen to be there for a while with nothing to do. On the far left and right side of the lobby are stairs that go up to the second and third floors. Kibou needs to go to the second floor and head to the west side to find Plush and Emma so he starts to fly over to the stairs, taking a careful look around him to make sure that absolutely nobody is there. He lucks out and makes it to the second floor and takes a look at the map. He decided to take it along with him just in case he gets lost. He takes a left from the stairs and comes across a whole bunch of weird looking elevators lined up across the wall. He's never seen anything like it before. They seem to be weird, capsule like things that are in some tubes that go up into the ceiling.

"What the? What kind of elevators ARE these? Who made them and why do they look like little capsules?" is what he thought to himself as he took another look at the map. According to it, if he takes the 7th elevator, he'll be brought straight to the containment halls so he floats over to the 7th one and presses the button.

When the door opens, it's accompanied by a space-ship sound. He finds this cool and while he wishes to make that sound play again, he's on a mission and can't fool around. He floats into the capsule elevator and presses the button on the inside and on a small little LCD screen above him, a scrolling message is displayed. "Fasten your seatbelt and prepare to be transported at the speed of light!" He raises an eyebrow at this and behind him, a seat comes out with a seatbelt. Seems the thing isn't kidding around. He sits in it and puts the seatbelt on and a countdown begins with a robotic voice counting down. "3…. 2….. 1… liftoff!"

Kibou's head is jerked towards the floor as the capsule blasts up into the ceiling and travels through a somewhat complex looking network of tubes. He barely gets a chance to see this massive network because as advertised, the ride is already over. He unbuckles the belt and floats out of the elevator. He giggles a little bit at how fast it was and he looks down the hall leading to the containment rooms. On the ceiling is a little sign that says "Containment Control Room" and he flies towards it. To his surprise, there's nobody down here at all and while this is a good thing, he's seen plenty of movies in the past where something like this happened, only for a whole bunch of bad guys to show up from nowhere once the hero did the good thing they were trying to do. He cautiously approaches the door and looks through the window. Nobody's in there and he's clear to go.

He places his right paw on the knob and opens the door, quickly enters the room, and closes it behind him. He takes a look at what he's dealing with now. A whole bunch of monitors are hooked up to the facility's security system and this allows him access to the whole building, but more importantly, access to were Plush and Emma are. He floats up to the control panel and notices the giant array of buttons that control things as small as the heat and AC to things as complex as putting the whole facility into looks at all the buttons and their labels. "One of these has to open the containment hall and allow everyone to escape…" he then notices there's a button to activate the intercom. He goes to press it but stops. He doesn't want to risk having his voice be heard all over the facility so he looks for a button that will allow him to transmit into the containment hall. He finds it rather quickly and presses it.

In the containment hall, the sound of the intercom being activated is heard and the sounds of Pokemon and People crying and screaming at the guards suddenly quiets down. Even the guards go on alert, usually nobody ever pages the containment hall unless they need to release someone. Plush and Emma take note of this real quick. "Whoa… it just got real quiet…"

Plush responds. "Yeah… I-I don't like it…"

She tenses up a bit and holds him closer. "I hope they're not going to finally execute us… we only just got here an hour ago."

Tears begin to well up in his eyes. "I-I don't wanna die… I didn't d-do anything wrong."

Suddenly, a familiar voice is heard. "Plush! Emma! Can you hear me!? It's me! Kibou! I'm gonna get you and all the other people and Pokemon out of this terrible place!"

They both look at each other in shock. How did Kibou get into the facility, let alone, get access to the intercom. Emma's voice becomes hopeful. "K-Kibou managed to break in? We're gonna be saved after all!"

"We're gonna be livers!" says Plush.

The guards standing just outside the little cell look at each other weirdly. One of them comments on the announcement. "Who the hell is Kibou? Are they a Pokemon?"

Another one bonks him on the head, and says with a heavy accent. "You FLAMING IDIOT! That's not anybody within our team! We got an intruder on our hands!"

"Oh, so that's why the name seems unfamiliar to me…" he says while scratching his head. His partners starts running down the hall to leave and he follows suit.

Kibou stops the loudspeaker broadcast. "I hope they heard me… Don't go anywhere okay? I'll be right there!" he then looks at the control panel again and finds a button with a label on it "Emergency Release: press only in case of emergencies that require all contained creatures be removed from the facility."

"This better open up all those… things that are holding them in!" he balls his paw into a fist and slams it down on the button. The moment he does, the whole containment hall is filled with the sound of an alarm blaring as loud as it possibly can, along with red lights flashing all over the place. The containment hall main doors open and all of the cell doors open as well.

The entire hall goes silent, save for the sound of the alarm blaring. Everyone looks around for a second before a mad house is unleashed. All at once, every human and Pokemon that was locked up makes a break for it and attempts to run down the hall and escape. This creates a massive crowd that rushes towards the two unlucky guards that are standing at the end. They try to intimidate the crowd by pointing their capture gauntlets at them but nobody bats an eye and instead of stopping anyone, they simply get trampled over.

Plush and Emma play it smart, and instead of running with the crowd, they wait in their cell for Kibou. He's their ticket out of the facility and the only way they can get home is through him. Emma holds Plush closely. "We're gonna wait. Kibou's the only one that can get us out of here in one piece."

"What and wait for those two to close the door again?" he says, questioning why she'd do that when they both have a chance to make a break for it without any issues.

"Because if we run with the group, they'll be chasing us as well. Nobody's gonna be here and this is the last place they'd look for anyone that could possibly escape. We'll be fine, and if they close the door, Kibou will find a way to get through." she says.

"If we die this is on you…" he says with a low tone.

Kibou flies out of the control room to see the end of the hall with the open doors. The containment hall is empty and as he looks to his right to make sure nobody's on the bottom floor, he makes haste to where his friends are. Nobody in sight behind, below, or ahead of him meaning he's got the chance and time he needs to do what he has to do. He quickly flies into the containment hall and Kibou looks around to make sure no guards are there. He doesn't see any and calls out to his friends. "Plush! Emma! Let's get the heck outta here! Come to me now!"

They hear him and run out from the cell they were waiting in. Upon seeing him, both of them take a breath of relief, especially Emma, she didn't want to end up dead with all the others. She runs up to him. "Get us the hell out of here, nobody's watching so let's go!"

"Finally, I thought we were gonna die in this cell…" says Plush.

Kibou shakes his head a couple times. "I wasn't gonna let anything bad happen to either of you, and look! I also helped everyone else who was trapped here!"

Emma cuts into him before he goes off. "That's great and all, but we gotta go! You're able to teleport, right?"

He nods.

Her voice has a bit of panic in it. "Then teleport us home! Now! I don't wanna be found and end up dead!"

"Take us home, take us home, take us all back home!" says Plush in an equally panicked tone.

He smiles and then puts two fingers on his head, then rests his right paw on Emma's shoulder. A few seconds go by before Kibou speaks. "Hang on tight, we might end up landing badly…" Before anyone can say anything, they teleport out of the facility, and just in time too because a whole bunch of PCU members had found out about Kibou breaking in and they arrive just a little too late to try and stop him.

Plush, Emma, and Kibou end up back in Fairview where Emma's house is, but when they come out of teleport, just like he said, they all end up in the sky and fall a short distance onto the ground. Emma ends up dropping Plush due to the impact and he faceplants into the dirt. Kibou on the other hand ends up landing on his butt hard and he makes a whiney noise upon hitting the ground. This is a better alternative to what could've happened instead had they stayed any longer.

Emma rubs her arms as she landed on them. "Oww…. you could've given me more time to prepare myself for that."

Kibou rubs his butt. "Hey… I also landed on my butt and it hurts… I said it wouldn't be a good landing, didn't you hear me?"

Plush pulls his face out of the dirt and shakes it off. "Oww…"

Emma sighs. "For fricks sake… at least we're back home now." she then turns on Kibou. "I wish you didn't leave earlier like I told you not to! Those guys came in literally 10 minutes after you left and we had no chance against the Pokemon they brought in. Some weird, rock-type that knocked Plush out in no time at all. Had you been there to help us, we would've been here cleaning up and probably would've finished cleaning too.

Kibou stands up and puts his paws behind his back. "...I'm sorry… I was in a bad mood and I didn't want to deal with that again…"

"My head…" says Plush as he rubs it with his right paw.

Emma stands up and goes over to him. "You alright? That drop you took wasn't long but still."

"I-I think i'm fine…" he says as he walks over to her.

She picks him up. "At least we're home in one piece now, and good thing too." she looks over towards the direction of Pastoria City. the faint sounds of what sounds like yelling and screaming can be heard. Whatever's happening over there seems to be dangerous and quite possibly deadly. She's glad that they were able to get away from it all before it started getting out of hand. She might not know what exactly is going on, but she knows that whatever is, isn't anything that's good.

Kibou yawns. "Ahh…. I wanna sleep, I'm very tired after doing all of that."

Plush makes a good point. "Are we sure we are safe here?"

Emma's voice lowers in tone and becomes serious. "That's a good point. After seeing what had happened the last few times, I don't think it's a good idea to keep staying here. If the PCU wants you and Kibou, they're gonna keep trying to get us, and that means they'll keep breaking in and coming at us with stronger and stronger robot, mind controlled Pokemon until we face something that we won't be able to stop. Once that happens, we're gonna get caught. I know I said I'm not ready, but not being ready is better than waiting for someone to catch us. I think we should head out to the pier and hop on a boat to Johto, it's better than staying in one of those cells waiting for them to kill us."

"Is Johto doing the same thing?" he asks.

Kibou answer his question. "You forgot already? We said that Johto is safer because the PCU there won't know who we are, and we'll be going to a place that allows us to stay with Emma."

She nods. "Yeah, he's right, Plush. Johto isn't like Sinnoh. They make different decisions on the same things, so if the PCU was granted the ability to do what they just did to the town…" she turns around and allows Plush to see all the damage they caused. "...Then Johto probably didn't allow it."

Plush takes in what he sees, a bunch of homes deserted and a few of them with dying embers from burning away. "I think I got short term memory loss from that rock Pokemon… Anyway… this place is turning to ashes…"

She points this out as well. "That too, we can't stay in this town, it's pretty much turned into a warzone…" she becomes angry. "And it's all because of those stupid, no good, bunch of weirdo fucking bastards that don't understand that none of you little cuties are fucking up anyone here…" she grunts with her last statement.

"Yeah, I only fought in self-defense…" he says, remembering bits and pieces of what happened during the fight, but interestingly, he can't remember what the opponent looked like.

Emma pats him on the head. "You tried your best and that's all that matters. We made it out alive and that also matters too, so if there's one thing we got going for us, it's this good streak of living through everything. If we're gonna keep that streak alive, then we'll have to leave Sinnoh, I don't want to deal with the PCU anymore. I want you to try and get some rest because tomorrow might be very hard on us especially if the PCU is watching boats and stuff, so at least try to rest up so you'll be alert when we go tomorrow, okay?"

"Why can't we just have Kibou teleport us there?" he asks.

Kibou answers this. "Because it's too far!"

"Can Arceus get us there using not a boat?"

He shakes his head. "I was told by her to not go back up to the hall. Last time I went, we got attacked by those bad guys and she doesn't want them to get me."

"Is there anyone who can get us to Johto without using a boat or other public transport?"

Emma shakes her head. "Face it Plush, we have no other choice. Going by car isn't an option as there's no bridge to Johto, going by airplane is extremely risky because they'll search the bags and find you, and going by boat is the least risky choice. It's still risky since we don't know what we're gonna encounter at the pier, but it's the only option we have."

"Alright fine…"

They all head into her house, hoping that during the night, the PCU won't attempt to attack or raid them. The little kid's got guts I tell ya, breaking into a facility by himself with the help of a few others on the outside. He cracks me up, but still, he managed to save his friends and all of those innocent people and Pokemon along the way. This is only just a taste of what I foresee him doing in the near future, and it will only get more and more difficult as he gets closer and closer to fulfilling his destiny.

PD: Jail break! Jail break! With Kibou reunited with Plush and Emma, they can now prepare to escape the terror and go to Johto! Lemme know what you thought and I'll seeya in the next chapter!