Chapter 32: Where the Adventures fight the Forces of Evil.

Moments later they arrived at the field in front of the guild. The air was filled with smoke and the smell of burning wood was stronger than before.

Gathered in front of the guild were many different Pokémon. Most of them members of the Air Continent police and the local fire department, all of them consisting of strong water type Pokémon and lead by the former leader of Rescue Team Hydro. Others were Pokémon from Baram Town that came to see what was happening, like the Kecleon who runs the item shop, the Kangaskhan who owns the Baram Town's Café Connection and her baby.

The police had already arrested and gathered some of the Pokémon responsible for what was happening. Mo understood was Bellossom meant. Almost all of the Forces attacked the guild when it was the most vulnerable.

The arrival of Lunala and the sudden shift from day to night didn't made the situation better. Many to almost all of the present Pokémon were disturbed by her appearance. The Magnemite and Magneton prepared to for a fight.

"Its alright!", Amy called out to them. "We're from the Adventurer Guild! She's on our side!"

Lunala slowly lowered to the ground and one by one the adventurer teams and the Klefki left her bag, surrounded by the police and the towns Pokémon looking at them and Lunala in amazement.

Officer Magnezone hovered towards them as fast as he could.

"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! AND WHO IS THIS?!"

"First, what happened here?!", Axel asked the officer.

"The Forces of Evil.", a familiar voice answered him. Alfons, with slight bruises, joined Magnezone. "The other team member are still inside, as well as a few police members and Ashley and King Kamili are still inside."

"Are they okay?!", Amy stepped forward and almost pushed Axel aside.

"Your mother and the king demanded to fight, too. You know she cares about the guild. It could have been worse. Hours after you three left as well the Guild Master, Bao and Gangolf returned. They found out about the imminent attack, so we were prepared when it happened."

"Good to hear.", Ziggy commented.

"I only the old Guild Master was still here ...", Alfons lamented.

"DINGO KNEW HE COULD TRUST HILARIUS WITH LEADING THE GUILD. THERE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE: I JUST WISHED GABRIEL WAS STILL HERE. HE WAS ALWAYS THE TRUE LEADER.", Magenzone told.

"Now, where have you all been, who is this and who is THAT?", Alfons pointed at the Klefki and then at Lunala.

"My name is Lunala, I helped your teams escaping and receiving the key you need to find the Origin Stone.", Lunala explained. Dietrich presented the key to the Delibird.

"AMAZING!", Magezone exclaimed.

"Can you aid us in our fight?", Alfons asked.

"No.", Lunala answered. "This is a battle you have to fight alone. I know you can win. Dietrich, keep the key save until the battle is over. Axel, Amy, adventurers, I need to go now. There is nothing more to do for me here."

Before anyone could protest, Lunala flew up high and looked down to them.

"Do not worry! We will meet again!", she spoke and flew off, taking the nights darkness with her.

"FASCINATING!", Magnezone exclaimed.

"What do we do now?", Mo asked in the round.

"We get inside and help kicking butts, of course!", Nya answered him.

"How's he situation?", Axel asked Alfons.

"The inside is a mess, the left wing and party the team rooms are on fire and we are trying our best to get things from getting even worse. Every kind of aid is welcome.", Alfons explained, then turned around and turned around to the HQ touched his forehead. "Oh, this will be expensive!"

"I'm sorry guys, but I have to skip this one out .", Ziggy admitted and sat down, holding his hurt eye. "You two, go without me!"

Alfons picked up the hurt Ziggy and carried him to an Audino nurse, treating hurt and captured Forces members.

Mo could see Nya was hurt seeing Ziggy this way.

Wasting no more time, the three teams ran towards the HQ entrance. One of the two huge hinged doors was broken off and laid in the ground, leaving the guild for everyone to enter. Both statues of the old and the current Guild Masters were completely shattered, only the feet remained.

The entrance hall was full of light smoke and the smell of burning wood was intense. The floor had cracks, the wall burning marks and cracks, the frames with maps fell to the ground and shattered too. In this mess was Bao from Team Yellow, who was walking up and down with crossed arms, like he was thinking very hard.

"Bao!", Amy called out to him and got his attention.

"Amy?! ... where do you come from?!", Bao was visibly surprised and not so calm as Mo had known him before.

Axel quickly explained Bao the whole situation, Lunala, Ziggy, and the key. Bao was surprised hearing about the key, but stood in a neutral mood the whole time.

"Where is my mother?", Amy asked him.

"She's in the library together with Hilarius and Gangolf. The main battle is taking place in the there.", Bao explained. "I have sent Paul and Phil to aid the fire fighters, the twins, the king, Heidi and two of the Guild Master's boys are held captive by the Force's leader, a Spiritomb with the name of Ferhat. He used to be the leader of the first Team Purple, I once met him before he turned against the old Guild Master. He returned for revenge and wanted to finish us off. They told us about the Chosen One's capturing. But how I see it they weren't successful keeping you captured."

"And they won't be successful taking this guild as well!", Axel announced. Amy put her hand on his shoulder.

"Lead the way!", Amy told Bao. Team Blue and Purple prepared to help them as well-

"One thing!", Bao interrupted. He looked over to Mo. "Team Purple, we have a situation. Hilarius II. and Fabius are with the others, but Publius ... one of the Force's members took him and locked himself in Team Blue's room. He demands to see a Mimikyu of ours, wearing a purple scarf, or else he will hurt Publius."

Aaron and Charlotte and everyone else looked at Mo. Mo began to think while looking at Bao.

"Please don't tell me it's a Gourgeist.", Mo said.

"You know him?!", Bao asked surprised.

Mo moaned annoyed and rubbed his eyes under his cloth.

"Alright. You fight that ghost in a rock, I'll fight that ghost in a vegetable. We'll get him out."

While Team Red and the others went down straight to the library, Team Purple hurried to the team rooms. Mo had the strong urge to see if their own room was okay, but at the same time he was scared to look. At the other side of the corridor Mo could the outside sky and the water of the fire fighters pouring in.

At Team Blue's door Mo pressed his side against it, if he could her something. Nothing. He looked back at his team mates and decided to knock politely.

"Who's there?!", a almost female voice shouted from the other side.

"Yep, it's him ...", Mo looked back again to his friends. "You 're backing me."

Mo gently opened the door. The inside was a complete mess, even worse than what they saw in the entrance hall. Stuff scattered all over the floor, some things that could be broken easily were, and the hay bed was only a pile of ash., still smoking and glimmering. On the other side of the room stood André the Gourgeist, strangleholding the missing Pawniard.

Since last time, André did not only kept the old mark from Mo's kidnapping and the one from Mt. Avalanche, his whole body was now covered in similar marks, even tho only two where clearly Mo's.

"There you are!", André said pleased and smiled grimly.

"Please, help me!", Publius cried out to them and struggled in the Gourgeist's clutch.

"Well, I'm here now. Let him go!", Mo demanded.

"Not so fast.", André said and held Publius even tighter. "I won't just let him go because you came, so we can fight. I will let him go once you're dead!"

"What?!"

"A life for a life. Isn't this fair? I can't stop thinking about you! You haunt me! ME! This needs to stop! This needs to stop! I already demolished you nice team room, but I still haven't enough!"

Mo looked at Aaron and Charlotte, then back to André.

"So, you are offering me the choice of either letting me be killed by you, or else you will kill him?", Mo asked him.

"Exactly!", André answered.

Mo began to think. Aaron looked at Mo, worried.

Mo answered.

"First of all, this is not OUR room, OUR room is the next one. On the left. And second, ... no."

"No?!", André shouted. "What do you mean with no?!"

"I'm not going to sacrifice myself to that brat!", Mo explained. Publius was not alright with what he was hearing. "Also, please think about what would happen IF you actually go through with your plan. The boy dies, then I personally beat you to a pulp like last time. Then, if you did not know, the boys father is our Guild Master, and he will find out what happened and I will also tell him there was nothing I could do ... oh, you wish you would have stayed in that comfy cell they put you in Capim Town."

André began to think.

"You will be put away for good, if you are lucky, because that Bisharp will be hunting you to the end of the world. And then I will be the smallest problem.", Mo further explained.

"He got a point! Daddy will not like this!", Publius supported Mo's point.

André began to shake him.

"Shut up! I need to think!"

"I'll make you an offer.", Mo said. "You let the Pawniard go and then we have a duel, just you and me. If you win, you have my consent to finish me off. No interventions what so ever by my partners. What do you think?"

"Mo, are you sure about that?", Aaron asked.

"Fine.", André answered and then threw Publius at Aaron. He managed to catch him and put the Pawniard on the ground. Publius immediately hid behind Aaron. "But no tricks!"

"No tricks.", Mo answered.

André prepared for battle.

"But there are some thing I would like to say before we start.", Mo interrupted. "First, I beat you last time and I only became stronger since. Second, the first time you were only able to subdue me because you got me from behind and because you were a team of three that time. And third, ... I lied. And look who is a team of three now!"

Mo quickly turned to his team mates.

"You two!" Get 'em!"

While Aaron was confused about what was going on first, Charlotte right away rolled towards the Gourgeist with high speed.

Just as she was about to him him in his face, she was caught by André with his bare hands.

"You lying son of a -!", André cursed and wanted to throw her to the ground. Just then, Aaron stepped in and threw some dust from the ash pile into the Gourgeist's eyes. André let Charlotte fall and held his eyes in pain.

"My eyes!", he shouted.

Mo stepped in as well while André was blinded.

"This is what I call: The Power of Bofa!", Mo spoke.

"Bofa?!", André asked and tried to open his hurting eyes, only to see Mo jumping at him with his glowing claws and scarring and knocking him out instantly once again.

Aaron looked at Mo.

"What is Bofa?"

"I'll explain to you later. Not right now, not in front of the kid.", Mo said.

Mo grabbed the Gourgeist by one of his arms and dragged him out of the room behind him.

"Would you two be so kind and take care of Publius? I'll go and take out the trash.", he said.

On the way to the entrance hall, echoes of another fight could be heard, quietly in the distance.

"You know.", Mo said to André, who was slowly getting to his senses. "I actually feel sorry for you, and after what happened today I just feel tired. A wise man once said, that there is always good and evil in everyone. Good Pokémon can become corrupted and bad Pokémon can be redeemed. Another wise Pokémon said, that Pokémon can change with the time. In fact, I guess I would hated the Mimikyu I was this morning, but I'm not him anymore. Jet another ... Pokémon told me the power of forgiveness. Seeing you this way ... I forgive you what you and your friends did to me all those weeks ago. There is still the chance for you to go out there and fix things. There still is ... but one day there might won't be anymore."

Mo and André arrived at the entrance, or what was left of it. He further dragged him to two Magneton police officers and handed him over to them.

"Another one of the Force's. We have arrested this fellow three times now. Please, make sure he does not break out before serving his crime."

As he was about to go back into the HQ, Mo thought of something.

"And ... could you make sure he gets a therapist of something like that. He needs help and someone to talk to."

André looked at Mo.

Mo turned around, fixed and tightened his scarf and went back inside.