Pokémon: Wings of Beginnings
Chapter 4: Our Mission
April 24th, 2020
11:23 a.m.
Petalburg Woods
A light rumbling sound is heard, coming from a humanoid-like creature with darkened skin. One of it's arm, instead of a hand and fingers, was rather like barrels fused together to three. It lifts it's barrel arm down, watching the trees with melted holes taken most of the trunks collapse shortly after by the side, resounding loudly.
It looks around it's surroundings. Far from it's location, there was a human male breathing heavily while resting his back onto a tree. He takes a quick peek at the monster.
'What was that... It's crazily... That... thing... tried to... it would've... killed...'
The creature looks about and then focused on a tree before it charges up and fires a trio of beams at it.
The tree then falls down with a heavy crash, causing a yelp before the fall as the trainer ducked to avoid that, but exposed himself to the monster.
It aimed, ready to turn that man into smithereens with its attack.
Something else struck it by the back, causing it to flinch from the sudden attack. It appears to be water...
It turned to see Lenna charge in, she waved a rapier to the side as the vines around the forest formed around and charged at the Dulled, keeping it in place, its movement and cannon fingers away from them for them to blow them into smithereens.
Resting onto a tree branch by his feet was Sunai, as he aimed and fired from the foliage. The shots hit precisely, not striking the vines keeping it in it's place. The Dulled roared wildly as Lenna scanned the Dulled's body, trying to find the spot where it would strike the object that made the Dulled function properly. If they were to destroy it, they would bring it down.
She heard a transmission from Sunai as he told her what to do. She nods and prepares for his signal. He cocks the bayonet he held onto and aims at the Dulled and fired a shot. Charging in, she readied an Energy Ball and followed where the shot hit the Dulled on.
Before the Energy Ball reaches, the area where the shot hit suddenly burst with spikes of water on it, then the Energy Ball strikes into it afterward through an opening.
The Dulled roared as it spasmed around in pain. The body then began to dissolve into black mist, a signal of a Dulled's death. It roared more before it then disappeared completely. The mist flew off and disappeared through the winds.
Lenna breathes and looks around first before she dismisses the rapier she held. She then sees Sunai walk over to her, his hands free of his weapon. "Well, that Blaster is gone from this area." He says.
"Yeah and the trainer's safe." Lenna agreed before putting on her overcoat as the trainer looked at them.
"What... what are you? Aren't you... Who... What was that... thing?"
Sunai shakes his head. "Well, since there is a physical witness... We'd have to do this." He dug into a pocket. He took out a small little device that was shaped like an oval.
"Now, if you may... look over in here." Sunai says.
He pressed a button on it...
A quick flash emitted from the device, causing the trainer to blink... and stare at them rather... confused? As if... he doesn't know who they are in the first place...
Sunai keeps the device back into his pockets. "It's better that he doesn't know who we are and the Dulled." Lenna whispered.
"Yes. That is correct." Sunai whispers back. "Though, the damage to the forest... a light cover-up will do. ...Do you suppose you've got it this time?"
"...I do." Lenna nodded as she summoned her rapier and let some glowing seeds fall to the ground. They then left as the trainer looked around the surroundings.
The trainer blinked rapidly. What just happened around here? Why are some trees leveled down? In fact... What did he want to do in here?
He looked around his belongings and spotted his Poké Balls... "Oh... Yeah. What are my stuff doing there, anyways..." he mumbles as he fits the Poké Balls back and gets his haversack on his back.
Back with the two, they looked at the device they have. This invention...Created by the higher-ups of the research department. Made through the use of the Dynacrystal's energy and several tweaks to make those who don't posses the Dynacrystal to forget what they saw during the previous couple of hours. Helpful if one were to spot them and some Dulled.
"...Seems Zakh and Safka did it again." Lenna commented.
"Yes, they have." Sunai agrees. "They may be slightly older than some of us, but they both have well knowledge of technology."
Lenna nods along with him. "Well, mission complete." Lenna declares. "We managed to destroy the Dulled before it took any lives."
"Yes. I suppose the others would have their respective missions done as well by now." Sunai said.
April 24th, 2020
11:30 a.m.
Unova Route 10 (still under construction)
"Owie..." Guy rubs his head with a light-hearted laugh. He gets back up onto his feet.
"Come on, come on, big Gargant~!" He moved about in a ditzy fashion.
The Gargant looked at Guy and did a loud roar and charged at him.
"Ready, steady~..." Guy calls out a long pole with an axe blade attached at one end and held it beside him with both hands.
The large insect monster jumps over and it's mouth pincers clamped... It pierced through Guy's flesh around his neck, blood burst out of his skin as he laughed maniacally. Guy's smile grew bigger.
"I've got a... gargant-uan surprise for you~!" He announces.
He swung his bardiche upward, causing the Gargant to be sent flying from one swing. Guy spun around before dashing in the Gargant with great speed, the bardiche above him. He then spun down like a buzzsaw and smashed the Gargant at the chest, both of them fell to the ground and released a cloud of dust when they landed. Guy fell on his rear when he landed, sitting there while holding his bardiche in front of him as the Dulled disappeared into mist.
"Woo~ Mission complete here~!" He sings happily.
Weiss appeared with a sigh. Guy did more damage than the Dulled because he happily charged in and let it activate his powers. His blood was everywhere as his Dynacrystal healed his wounds.
"Weiss-iss, we're done here~!"
Weiss stared at the damage and bloodstains done on the Beartic's uniform. If only Guy's Dynacrystal was able to repair such material damage too... The various slashes made around that left plenty of tears to show his furred body...
Then they wouldn't had the professor work too much just to pay for the expenses. Speaking of which, where was he now?
"Okay, come on, Weiss-iss~!" Guy gets back onto his feet, now clean of wounds. "Let's get back, like no haste makes waste!"
He groaned, more of that polar bear's terrible puns again.
April 24th, 2020
11:40
Evergrande City
"..." Luigi sighed as he held his head. More memories were gone as he looked at Aria. "How are you holding up?"
"I'm... alright..." Aria breathed out. She held her flute tightly with one fin.
"Right, I need your help in here." Luigi looked down. "A sound-based Dulled is our target. Your ability could help us."
"Alright." Aria said. "Get ready..."
She held her flute close to her mouth.
Luigi nodded and summoned a large sword and a knife and jumped down from the building he was on and glided down using his arms' fins. He looked on and spotted the Dulled he was talking about. It was some sort of mammoth-like creature. It's ears are constantly vibrating, markings similar to speakers in the ears.
Luigi did the signal and called forth Aria's support as the Dulled turned its attention to him. It readied its attack at Luigi.
Aria quickly blew into her flute, holding some of the holes and moving her fins across them.
Luigi spotted the soundwaves the Dulled fired at him. He looked as he heard Aria's flute. The sound ceased the attacks directed at him, an opening was there. He fused the knife into the larger sword and held the weapon like a javelin. He positioned himself, he let out a battle cry.
"Piercing Fang!" He declared and threw the javelin at the Dulled.
The javelin flew and sunk to the Dulled, causing it to screech as it stomps over to the right from the impact.
The javelin appeared back to Luigi as he took off the knife and swung them to the side. He went near the downed Dulled.
"This is the end!" He declared.
His swing cuts through the neck and the creature flinched while mist came out of it before the rest of its' body disintegrated into nothing.
He looked and used the mist so that onlookers won't know that he was there. He then glided up and disappeared before anyone could spot him and dismiss the event as a random show. Not much damage was present in the streets. Dispatched as swiftly as possible. Aria looked at the timer and saw that it only had thirteen seconds to appear. He had done it again.
"That's still fast..." She remarks as Luigi returned to her side.
"This is our mission, to protect lives and prevent panic." Luigi spoke out. "It is better we keep the Dulled a secret, we don't know what will people do if they found out what they are."
"...Yes..." Aria nods slowly. She looked at the people wondering what had happened just now. "Their lives... they've been living it amidst all these sudden happenings..."
She breathed quietly. "Will Fran be alright? I mean... he is your younger brother..." she asked Luigi.
"..." Luigi remained quiet, he still remembers him. Meaning that he's still alive. "I hope so. He told me that he'll be fine with this mission. Though Brandt..."
They remembered about how Brandt was shouting about before they all headed out, rather forcing all those words that came out of his mouth...
"He's not a girl. He's not a girl." Brandt chanted repeatedly as he went off with Fran.
"...They... should be alright... I think..."
April 24th 2020
11:41 a.m
Near Sootopolis City
"Aaaahhhhhh!!" Brandt screamed as he rode on the Dread Leviathan, he looked as water flew around them. "Why did I go on a mission with water just to impress a girl!? Why am I not paired up with Claire?"
"B-Brandt!" He hears a shout. He could see Fran flying over through the thrashing.
He quickly aims his bow and his wings vibrate rapidly and fired off arrows and blasts of Boomburst.
The Dulled thrashed harder as it flung Brandt flying into the air. He spun around and spotted that he'll fall into sea water. He knew how terrible he was in water and this was no different.
"Not ag-" he started before breaking the surface and into the water below.
"Brandt!" Fran shrieks in horror.
Brandt sunk down the waters. His conscience losing and he felt light. That was when he imagined some love song as he spotted someone swimming down toward him. He couldn't make it out but as they went closer, he could see that he thought was in heaven. That person who came to his rescue...
It... was Claire? What is she doing here?
"Claire..." Brandt whispered as she grabbed him by the shoulders and lifted him out of the waters.
She dragged him off the shore and laid him down and performed CPR by pumping on his chest then exhaled through his mouth, their mouths and tongues connecting. That kiss was so sweet, he wanted more. Another pumping and then Claire did some mouthings again. Brandt looked and his vision was about to clear and...Oh...
He was face to face, looking at a light green and green dragon with red brille around his eyes as he blew air into Brandt.
"Bwah!" Brandt shot out and coughed dryly, water went out of his mouth and spotted a familiar blue reptilian figure watching him a few distance away from him.
Claire was there, a few meters away from him and she looked wet. Wait...If she's wet...that meant...
"Did you...pull me out?" Brandt asked.
The dark mist from a distance in the seas dissipates from their location.
Brandt looks again...
There... really was... two... One is Claire... and the other... was... Fran...Who was breathing in his mouth as he gave CPR. He finally connected the dots.
"B-Brandt! Are you okay...!?" Fran asks.
Silence.
"B-Brandt?"
...He was out cold but breathing.
Fran kept on panicking as he looked over at Brandt. Claire scratched her head and looked down. She had taken off her breastplate before diving.
'It feels a bit heavier down there now... and he's so weird...' she thinks.
Fran looks at her in his panic. "C-Claire! We have to get him back to HQ!"
April 24, 2020
11:43 am
WINGS HQ
Gardious looked down at Pentaster lying down on a bed as he looked over the thermometer of the temperature of the Starmie's heat.
"...Hmm..." Gardious looked back at the thermometer, registering the condition of the old Starmie right now. It was pretty high, overworked himself again. Not just for the research but he was working much in the past days. "Aquarius..." he begins, grabbing some ice packs and placing them around the body.
"I got a shift later...I'll be fine." Pentaster tried to get up but the younger Corviknight didn't let him.
"No, take your rest here." Gardious says. "Continue to overwork yourself and... something much worse than this could happen."
He looks down. "...I wouldn't know if I am able to afford..."
"...Alright." Pentaster nodded before going to sleep.
Gardious looked and wondered of how long Pentaster took care of him back when he was young and part of his old life as the Aerial Reaper. That title, Aerial Reaper...
He grimaces at the thought of it. Because it had been so long... he doesn't exactly remember clear details of it...
He looked over the three names other than his, one marked as the traitor.
But this one, however...
...Even if he doesn't truly remember everything... He still was able to...
He shook his head, no use trying to remember the past because of the "gift". He looked back at Pentaster, not wanting to lose him too along with those he cared for because...They would forget.
For thirty long years... He had to endure missing people around or whom he'd encountered.
He took another look to make sure that the elder professor stayed in bed before he left the room himself.
The door shuts, an electronic lock beeping which signify the door's automatic lock. He nods quietly and begins to take a slow walk away from Pentaster's room.
He stops by at the Training Grounds first, taking a glance at the recruits training around there. Young and full of life. However, he knew about the risk of casualties of recruits were. He looked down at this and spotted the red crystals glistening on their bodies. They also had Dynacrystals. Once they die...they'll be forgotten...just like everyone here.
He looks down. They were all brought all together with the sole mission to defend others from Dulleds. And dying... no one would remember them, their very existence in the memories of others... gone.
A cruel fate of those who bore them...He looked and spotted Iggy walking up to him. "Emberkin?" He asks.
Iggy looked at the door and back to Gardious.
"How is every one of the recruits?"
Iggy looked back and nodded. He then began to report the status. "They're all doing alright. So far, most of the missions have been completed for this morning."
Gardious nodded. No casualties, good. "Alright. Without anything right now... Is everyone returning back to HQ as we speak?"
"Yes, Commander."
He felt his heart easen up, all of them were alright and coming back. He was relieved.
"That's good... Again, these sort of battles... aren't normally ones people your age should be brought onto..." he says.
Iggy looked back at him. "Commander?" He questions.
"...No, do not mind this old bird." Gardious assures.
Iggy nodded as he heard some signals that there are members who've returned from a mission. "Commander, they've returned." He was the first to say.
Gardious nodded and followed him to the hangars to meet up with the rest of the team.
April 24th, 2020
WINGS HQ: Hangars
11:50 a.m.
"Brandt! Are you alright!? Please!" Fran's panicked voice could be heard.
"..." Brandt just stared blankly, not knowing what happened nor was this really real. Was this man, who looked and sounded much like a woman, really doing this to him?
"Are you feeling alright?" Claire wonders.
Upon hearing that voice, Brandt stood up and smiled widely.
"Of course I am, Claire." He announced. "I am here."
"Arceus... Finally... back to HQ... after this... polar bear..." Weiss breathes heavily. How he made it look like was that being partnered up with Guy is worse than these missions. He slumps down on the steel floors as said polar bear hops.
Weiss looked as Arubo lifted Gray down after the mission was complete. He looked while Lusiane let out an exhale, another scolding to Gray for his behavior. Gray quietly sat knelt down with his head bent down...
Arubo went to Weiss and mumbled about what happened in their mission. Weiss sighed about this and about Gray's recklessness that caused Lusiane to lose her cool again.
"Still the problem member of WINGS..." he comments.
"We totally got it complete, Weiss-iss~!" Guy gets close to him to pat, but he quickly made distance.
"I'd very much... prefer if I didn't reek of blood."
Guy tilted his head with the beady lackadaisical eyes blinking repeatedly. He wondered why Weiss was so distant, not knowing that his blood was dripping down to the floor and clothes still in tatters and filled with so much blood. The blood he lost was ten litters yet the Dynacrystal took care of the wounds and blood loss he had.
Gardious looked at Guy's state and sighs. "...Flashrost. The older one." Guy stands at attention. "Grandpa Bird~!" As he did a salute, he sprayed blood over to a direction, prompting another sign from Gardious. "...Please wash up immediately. And into a fresh set of clothes."
Guy nodded before rushing off to a distance. Of course, he left a trail of blood, prompting screams.
"I-I suppose... everyone is hungry now...?" Fran begins. "Maybe I could, um, cook something up?"
But the moment Fran mentions the very word, 'cook' ...
More screams.
"H-huh? Everyone?"
"...Just...no." Brandt mumbled.
"I'd very much like to have another meal that... doesn't taste like sand." Sunai agrees.
"Fran, please don't take it the wrong way." Lenna apologized.
Luigi went up to Fran... was he sweating just now from his head? "Yeah...No need to bother cooking." He answers.
"Um... okay..." Fran nods.
Most of the members here sighed in relief, averting that... crisis.
'Getting my mouth forced open and forcing sand in my mouth...' Brandt thought, remembering the "dish" Fran made.
It was... horror... He can't even describe the appearance as Fran held it out to him...
"What is this?" Brandt shrieked at this...thing!
"Um, I made pan-fried salmon..." Fran replies.
However... the dish really... doesn't look like... fish...
The plate neared him... It looked at him with lust, threatening to suck his soul.
"B...Brandt?" Fran's voice echoes.
He jolted. "Yes, Fran?"
"Um, could you try it?" Fran asks.
He looked at this. There was no other choice but to eat it. He hoped that looks could be deceiving and it was really good in actuality.
As he put it in his mouth, however... it was an entirely different story...
He froze and fell to the ground, twitching violently.
"B-Brandt!?"
That moment of his life...He hoped he never experienced it ever again.
Iggy scratched the back of his head. "...Well... let's all get some grub and see what we'll do for the day." He tells the members. They all agreed, ready to just clear the idea of Fran cooking again...
April 24th, 2020
7:15 p.m.
WINGS HQ: Showers
Most of the day was uneventful with the members doing their own things for the entire day up to now. Right now, in the public showers of the HQ, two members are cleaning themselves up.
"..." Luigi leaned on the walls with his arms on it as water dripped down his bare muscular body.
Iggy runs his hands across his face, before proceeding to scrub across the fur around his skin and bare body. For a member whose' combat speciality is close quarters, he is quite lean on his torso and back, but his arms and legs are more built and durable. Sizzling sounds continued from where he stood as the two males showered. Garchomps are known well for their athletic builds. For Luigi...
He moved his clawed fins around his stomach and built chest as the water ran down around his torso. He looked up and let the water flow on his face and down his body.
"..." Iggy first turns off the knob of the shower he used and rubs a bit more around his eyes so that he could see more clearly without water trying to drip to his eyes. He heads over to a set of machinery that had multiple vents by the sides of the walls.
"No one died today..." Luigi muttered as his four-packs expanded while the water went down from his breathing. He then let out an exhale. "That's good, I don't feel like I am forgetting someone."
"You done yet?" Iggy calls out, Luigi could hear that the Infernape was done drying himself up already. "I've got your clothes ready."
"I'll be there just a minute." Luigi called out.
"Alright." Came the reply.
As he left, Luigi then turned off the showers and let the water drip down his torso.
He looked over at the dryers built in the public showers, a quick and efficient way to dry oneself without a towel.
He turned the knob and let it dry off the waters off him. He spread his arms up and let the dryers blow off the remaining water from his sides. He looked over before heading out to take his new set of clothes.
He slips on a simple night sky shirt, a hole at the back for his fin and pulls up a black knee-high pants, one hole necessary for his knee spikes and a larger one for his tail.
"Weeg, you done yet?" Iggy called out from outside.
"Right...I'll be coming, Iggs." Luigi called out.
As he left the public showers, Iggy waited for him dressed in a plaid white sleeveless shirt and cream shorts. "So, we've got our showers done." Iggy says. "And... you want a spar between us? Bare handed? No weapons and the like?"
"Hm...That's your field in expertise and Professor and Commander told us to use them to know how to defend ourselves when disarmed and know to counter Dulleds who use martial arts." Luigi agreed. "And to integrate those with the skills we have with our weapons."
"Alright, then. Let's head over to the Training Grounds." Iggy says, motioning Luigi to follow him.
"Right." Luigi nodded and followed him.
After a few minutes of walking, they've reached the Training Grounds. Iggy nods over to Luigi and gets into a position.
"Right..." Luigi prepared a stance. "Let's get on it."
The Infernape nods and bends a knee before he dashes over with his right arm bent back.
Luigi knew this as he seemed like he was about to block that punch before moving at the last moment to block the kick meant for his side. A deceiving tactics in fields of martial arts, deceiving the opponent for the blow was one to break one's guard. Luigi smirked, "Thanks for the tip the other day!" He deflected the kick and came in with a chop.
"Yeah, you're getting it!" Iggy responds back by retracting his leg along with bending his other knee down and going under Luigi's chop. Both feet of his are on the ground and he quickly raises an arm in front of him to block against the incoming kick.
He then flips back and used his left leg to block the chop which follows.
Luigi swerved to the side from a hi-snapping kick and then did a low elbow blow to the hip of Iggy, who blocked it with a chop. Iggy then used a throat chop as Luigi blocked it with his other arm. Luigi pushed that chop away to evade the kick and rolled to the side to evade a roundhouse kick. Rolling was quite difficult for him because of his dorsal fin, but he trained several times so that it wouldn't hinder his ability.
"Alright... Remember this one?" Iggy questions as he does a right punch first.
Luigi smirked as he evaded the punch and used both his arms to block a high knee from the left leg.
Next up was Iggy using his left hand to grab onto Luigi's arms as he then lifted his right leg for a sideways kick.
Luigi looked and used his feet to jump and used that kick to jump over Iggy. He grabbed the Infernape by the shoulders and threw him after landing behind him.
Iggy flipped about in the air backwards and as he reached the floor, his hands first touched the ground and in a brief handstand, quickly bends his knees and touches the ground with them before instantaneously straightening them and looking at Luigi with a recovery to his balance.
"You remember that maneuver well." He comments.
"Yeah, took a while." Luigi complimented. "Those strikes really hurt."
"Sorry about some of them: You all know how my Waving Fire style uses all of my hands and legs to hit the enemy in quick and fluid alterations." Iggy smiles back.
He brings an arm forward and the other arm backward. "Ready for a few more?"
Luigi nodded and returned his stance. "Okay then."
April 24th, 2020
8:00 p.m.
WINGS HQ: Training Grounds
Iggy took a breath as he twisted open the cap of a water bottle and passed it to Luigi. "Here you go." He offers.
"Thanks."
Iggy nods and he opened another bottle as he sat beside Luigi on one of the benches situated here. Sweat had dampened their clothes, showing both of their builds, with Luigi's one slightly less visible from the dark coloration of his shirt.
Iggy took a few gulps of water before stopping and turning to Luigi. "So, got anything new in mind after all that?" He asks.
"Hm...Quick and wild, a lot to counter all defensive arts present." Luigi answered. "Unique kind of martial arts."
"You got to have quick thinking as always in these sort of thing. Anything can just change after all." Iggy replies.
Luigi exhaled after stopping with a gulp, his upper abs pressing against the fabric and making their outline more visible just like his upper torso.
He hears Iggy sigh. "I think I've noticed that you got more muscle in these past few days."
"Oh...Right, been training a lot lately." Luigi answered. "Sunai does agree with this but I fear it taking you and everyone away from me. Your physical form and memories. Your very being that makes you alive. I don't want to lose them."
Iggy pats his arm. "Come on, Weeg." He laughs lightly. "I don't go down that quickly. I know my limits. It's not like I'll overwork myself."
Luigi fell silent. He'd never talked about the dreams borne from his worries and fears towards any of the others...
He remained so silent that Iggy quickly picked it up.
"Weeg?"
"Huh?" Luigi blurted out, he was seeing a Garchomp getting blasted apart by a blast of energy but didn't know why he kept seeing those in his dreams. "Sorry, what was it you were talking about?"
"I'll be alright, I just said that." Iggy tells him. "And besides, you guys can also watch out for me before I try to do what you all call 'stupid' things."
Luigi frowned slightly at that.
"...Just don't be more stupid than Gray before Professor finished his project." Luigi scolded.
"Hey, I won't fall to that level..."
Luigi sighed and leaned back on the bench.
"Commander, Sensei, and Professor...They're like our fathers..." Luigi muttered. "We don't remember our own and they're the only ones we can call 'father'."
Iggy taps onto the bench. "Our childhood's pretty much... a blur other than us and our friends and all of WINGS, too."
He taps again more. 'I think... there was someone else there? But... I don't remember who else...'
Soon, a trash can welcomed two empty water bottles.
"...I heard Professor got ill." Luigi spoke out. "Doing it because to pay for the expenses and damages we did."
"Will Professor be alright...?" Iggy said. He puts his hands in his shorts pockets.
"He will, just a fever." Luigi assured, though sounding worried. "Commander said so and he doesn't get sick all the time despite his age."
"Hmm... How about we do something? Like..." Iggy bends his head backwards. "...Get some herbs, thank Professor with something... or..."
He snaps his fingers. "Come to think of it... Freeze Ice. It's supposed to be incredibly cold ice, right? If we stock some up, just a bit will help with that fever."
Luigi could just see where this is going...
"I'll get Arubo to take a day-off tomorrow first and see if I can get someone else to help harvest some Freeze Ice."
And... there it is.
Chapter 4 Concluded