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Chapter 2: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel*
*Author's note: Since I ended May and Ash's journey before this movie's release, the events will somewhat be similar. But this will have a different set of protagonists than canon.
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"Seriously Mother?" Benny Abyss asked his mother and leader of Team Trident. "You want us to leave the confines of the sea to go into the interior of Kalos?"
"You will do as your Lady commands you to do," Rhea said to her firstborn son in a stern tone as her son and future daughter-in-law were not happy about the orders she gave them. "Besides you should know by now what happens when you question my orders or try to talk back to your mother."
"Come on Benny, a few days in the Azoth Kingdom isn't gonna kill us," Princess Ren Kaiou, the firstborn child of the newly anointed Queen Relena Kaiou, said to her boyfriend, trying to make sure neither she nor Benny got a saltwater slap across their face like Cynthia did a while back. "Besides, we'll have our Pokémon kin with us… and Mewtwo will be joining us too."
"I guess… guess you're right," relented Benny. "Maybe we could make a stop at Cyllage City on the way. I heard there's gonna be a surfing competition there."
"Nice try my son," Rhea said with a smirk. "But the surfing competition won't be for another week. Your assignment won't take long, I assure you. Complete your assignment to the Azoth Kingdom and you'll be in Cyllage City for the competition in no time at all."
Benny sighed as he replied, "Yes Mother."
"I expect the both of you to be professional with your assignment," Rhea said to her son and the firstborn princess.
"Do we have to report to Sheba and the Prototype Corps?" Benny asked his mother, anticipating that she probably had gear for them like the strike team she sent to Alola.
"Sheba is wanting more volunteers to field test the new Ride Pager system that's still in development," answered Rhea as she looked to her firstborn son and Ren. "I do not require either of you to report to Sheba and the Prototype Corps. But if you're wanting to help field test the Ride Pager System, then speak to Sheba and she'll outfit you with an RPS and a light armored riding suit.
"And don't ask Sheba to have your riding suit be skin tight either," Rhea commanded the firstborn princess as she knew her future daughter-in-law's well known and unpopular tendency to flaunt her growing body to others. "I put up with Chloe trying to flaunt her sex appeal and rubbing it in her older sister's face and I will not have you following Chloe's example."
"Yes ma'am," replied Ren as she drooped her shoulders.
"Take a full team with you to the Azoth Kingdom," continued Rhea as she wanted to finish the briefing for her son and Ren's mission. "Once you arrive to the Azoth Kingdom and are in the capital, report in to me."
'Could you remind us of our assignment, Milady?' the shiny male Braixen named Koji asked Rhea.
"You're to head to the Azoth Kingdom and investigate the rumors of a new and potentially harmful system called Mega Wave," Rhea's attendant and Benny's father, Akiro answered for Rhea.
"If the rumors are true, then you are to destroy it," added Rhea. "See also that its creator is brought down and brought to justice as well."
"What if he dies before he's brought to justice?" Ren asked her future mother-in-law as she looked to the Trident leader and knew of the well-known rumors that Rhea would occasionally go into the field and make those who inflict near fatal or fatal harm to Pokémon… disappear without a trace.
"I won't hold it against you if he falls to his death or he gets mauled to death by the Pokémon he has experimented on," Rhea answered quickly and calmly before looking to the console on her desk and seeing that she was getting a report from her great niece, Cynthia.
Rhea then turned to the screen with Ren and Benny still in her office and the visual image of Cynthia and her strike team snapped on the screen. The midnight blue haired leader of Team Trident gave her great niece and her companions a slight nod of acknowledgement.
"What do you have to report from Alola?" Rhea asked the Alola strike team.
"Well," began Cynthia as she let out a sigh, "we made first contact with the local criminal syndicate here known as Team Skull."
"Oh man, they sound nasty," commented Ren as she was listening to Cynthia's report too.
"Yeah… no. They're not nasty in the least bit," Isabella told Ren as she shook her head. "I took them on single-handedly and they were a joke. The Pokémon they were using were all talk and no Bite."
"Just because you defeated a few grunts does not mean you should write this Team Skull off as nothing more than a simple nuisance," Rhea cautioned her strike team in a stern tone. "It is possible this Team Skull will be like Team Blizzard and their grunts get stronger from each defeat."
"Yes Aunt Rhea," Cynthia acknowledged to her aunt before looking to Ren. "Really wish you and Benny could've come with us to Alola. Both of you would instantly fall in love with this place. And there are surfing competitions here."
"Oh man," Ren and Benny moaned in perfect synch with each other.
"Worry not, it's not for another three weeks," Cynthia replied to her cousin and boyfriend cheerfully. "Who knows, Aunt Rhea may have you come to Alola… or you two just come here on your own."
"What about swimming competitions?" Benny asked Cynthia with a smile on his face.
"I signed up to take part in the preliminaries for the Tapu Fini swimming circuit starting next week,"
"I certainly hope that you enrolled into Pokémon School like I instructed the four of you to do… young lady," Rhea said in a sharp and dark tone as she narrowed her eyes at her great niece.
Cynthia sighed and shook her head as she replied to Rhea, "Yes Aunt Rhea. We enrolled in Pokémon School. Class is about to start anyway, so I gotta say bye for now."
Rhea gave a slight nod to Cynthia as she then said, "Very good. Report to me again soon as scheduled."
"Yes Aunt Rhea," replied Cynthia before the screen snapped off.
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Ren Kaiou's POV
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"Welcome to the Little Shop of Horrors," the head of the Prototype Corps, Sheba said to me and Benny as we reported to her to help with the field testing of the RPS. "Your mother said that you and Princess Ren were bound to show up, Benny."
"Stop calling me 'Princess'!" I exclaimed to Sheba as she knew how much I hate being called 'Princess.'
"Just making sure we're still on the same page," Sheba replied to me. "At any rate, I've got the riding suits you'll need for your deployment to the Azoth Kingdom."
"Can we swim and surf in them?" I asked Sheba in the hope that I could do just that.
'Of course not,' answered Sheba's Golduck assistant. 'They're made for you to ride on Pokémon with.'
"I do know that you pretty much only wear a swimsuit and don't care what other people think," Sheba said to me. "Though there are gonna be times when you'll be required to wear something other than a swimsuit, or at least cover it up.
"And no Princess," Sheba continued as she looked directly at me. "You're not getting a wetsuit that's skintight for you to show off your still developing body. However, I was told that I can give you a wetsuit that's formfitting."
"How many times do I have to tell you this?" I asked the Flygon delta hybrid leader of the Prototype Corps. "Stop… calling me… PRINCESS?!"
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"Okay sweetheart, make sure you and Benny are safe on your trip to the Azoth Kingdom," my mother said to me as Benny and I were about to board to the plane to head to Kalos. "The Lumiose City gym leader will meet you at the airport and go with you the Azoth Kingdom."
"Aww… come on Mom," I moaned when she mentioned that we were being accompanied by the Lumiose City gym leader and I had assumed that Clemont Edison was still the gym leader. "You're gonna make us go with HIM?! All he does is spout out about how 'the future is science' and 'science explains all the mysteries of life'."
"Oh… I think you two will be surprised as to who the gym leader is," Mom said with a big grin on her face
"You know I will protect Ren with my life Your Majesty," Benny said to my mother as he bowed to her.
"You're a friend of my family, Benny," Mom said to my boyfriend. "You don't have to address me with titles of royalty. You know, like your girlfriend, I hate titles."
"Forgive me Milady," Benny said to my mom as he looked to her.
"I will be there in a few days to speak with the rulers of the Azoth Kingdom about this 'new technology' being developed in their kingdom," Mom said to me and Benny. "In the meantime, do your job there. Be professional. And for the love of Arceus, Ren, don't try to flaunt your beauty in the faces of other girls or older women."
"Yes Mother," I replied as I let out an exasperated sigh.
"I can't make you wear clothes you don't like," Mom said to me as she knew all too well I hated wearing clothes like most other people, "but I can make you cover up your swimsuit by at least wearing a wetsuit."
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"Man Ren… you and Cynthia are really brave to talk back to yours and my mother," Benny told me as we disembarked from the royal jet in Lumiose City and I was nursing my reddened and sore left cheek. "You know your mom means well. Not to mention she just doesn't want some punk trying to take you for himself."
"Benny, I love you with all my heart," I began in an effort to stop him from lecturing me, "but I really don't need you to lecture me about the dark and greedy impulses of men. I hear enough of that from your mother and older siblings."
"Well… you'd be wise to heed their teachings," the person we were to meet at the Lumiose City International Airport said to us as they came to meet us at the terminal.
Benny and I had expected it to be Clemont Edison who would meet us, but it wasn't the case as it was his sister and her Dedenne best friend. When Benny and I turned to see who was meeting us… I gotta admit I was shocked to see Bonnie Edison as she had REALLY grown up despite the fact she was older than us by six and a half years. She was now at six foot in height, about 125 pounds of lean muscle and athletic build which was evident with her tight abs that were openly exposed. Bonnie wore black shorts and black athletic tank top with orange edges and her midriff openly exposed. Plus I noticed that… she was going commando too. Pushing aside her choice of clothes, I was just happy to see Bonnie again after so long… her and Dedenne.
'Hey it's the young princess and her boyfriend!' the male Antennae Pokémon said to Bonnie.
"Dedenne, you know she hates being called 'Princess'," Bonnie chided Dedenne before turning back to me and Benny. "It's been too long Ren and Benny. I've missed you two."
"It's good to see you again too Bonnie," I said for Benny and myself. "I take it your brother is too busy to run the gym and sent you instead."
"Clemont, the gym leader?" Bonnie asked me with a slight chuckle and a smile on her face.
'Sorry, but Bonnie's the gym leader of Lumiose City now!' Dedenne happily and gleefully exclaimed to Benny and I. 'And I'm her assistant gym leader too!'
"Really?" my boyfriend asked Bonnie and Dedenne in surprise. "Both of you as gym leaders. I bet that was quite the biggest shock the other gym leaders and Kalos Elite Four ever got."
"You're not kidding," replied Bonnie. "I think the Fire-type member of the Elite Four took the announcement of Dedenne and me becoming the gym leaders of Lumiose City the hardest and tried to suggest someone else should be the gym leader."
"Oh Malva is a hotheaded spoilsport," I replied in annoyance in hearing about the Fire-type member of the Kalos Elite Four.
"At any rate, you're heading to the Azoth Kingdom, correct?" Bonnie asked me and Benny.
Benny and I gave Bonnie a slight nod as our answer to her. Bonnie then gave a smile as she knew that we were going to ask her about how she got to being the gym leader of Lumiose City. I'm sorry… I meant how Bonnie AND Dedenne became the gym leaders of Lumiose City.
"Clemont spent too much of his time with trying to invent new gadgets and make advances in science," Bonnie explained to me and Benny. "So for four years Clemont spent most of his time with his technology and science and not enough time battling trainers."
'Plus Clemont was gonna get in trouble with the Pokémon League Commission too,' added Dedenne. 'So Clemont gave up being the gym leader and eagerly gave it to Bonnie and I. And we've completely made the Lumiose City gym a competitive gym.'
"That sounds really cool," I said with a smile on my face.
"Shall we head out to the Azoth Kingdom then?" Bonnie asked Benny and me as she was eager to take a break from battling at the gym.
"Yeah… let's get going," I answered as we headed out of Lumiose City.
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"Didn't think we'd get there that fast," Bonnie said to Benny and I as we returned to our human forms after darting towards the Azoth Kingdom as Suicune.
'What a ride! What a rush that was!' Dedenne exclaimed happily as he enjoyed the ride from Lumiose City to the Azoth Kingdom.
"Well… we had to get here as fast we could," I said to Bonnie and Dedenne before looking to Benny. "Plus we gotta make sure we let your mom know we made it to the Azoth Kingdom."
"You do that while I check on my Pokémon," Bonnie informed Benny and I as she and Dedenne took a look at her various Pokéballs. "Besides… I recently went on a trip to the Alola region and picked up a few new Pokémon for my gym lineup."
I gave the Lumiose City gym leader a slight nod before looking back to my boyfriend of 7 years and gave him a slight nod to make the call as I reluctantly obeyed my mother's instructions to put my shiny Mega Gardevoir wetsuit on over my skintight swimsuit. Once I had done so, my cherished older sister and best friend Ronginku, my shiny female Gardevoir, let herself out of her Cherish Ball to join us for the rest of our walk to the Azoth Kingdom. However as we were about to set off towards the kingdom, a red Pokémon fell from the sky and landed right next to us and had a strange ring attached to it. Unfortunately for me, I heard a clicking noise and another ring had attached itself to my waist.
"What the Houndour?!" I asked in shock as the big red Pokémon that looked like the same big red Pokémon that Uncle Jonathan Seabright had in his possession took a bit of a breather. "No way… a Volcanion!"
The mythical Steam Pokémon looked to me, Benny and Bonnie in disgust before looking to the sky and spotted an aircraft that it had been in pursuit of and then dashed off… carrying me with him. I was quite surprised and had to keep up with him as best I could since I couldn't use my transformation magic with the mysterious ring still snug around my waist. The only thing I could do was get on his back and hold on for dear life. The male Volcanion didn't like that I was on his back, but proceeded forward in hot pursuit of the aircraft. Much to my own surprise, Volcanion then shot out steamy water causing both of us to be airborne as we both flew into the city and towards a castle where the aircraft had just landed at. After a few more minutes of air time, Volcanion and I landed at the castle where we met a small group of people who were quite surprised to see us… Lord Volcanion mostly.
"So… you still think you can take back Magearna, do you?" the male Pokémon hunter asked Lord Volcanion in a mocking tone as he had Pokémon ready to go into battle against Volcanion.
'You will not stop me,' shot back the Steam Pokémon as readied himself for battle.
As for me, I was thankful that I still had other Pokémon who were ready and rearing to go into battle against this guy. Unfortunately, he and his female companion called on many more Pokémon to try and use overwhelming force against Volcanion. Then I noticed a device on the pair's gloved right hands as they said, "Now the time has come. Mega… WAVE!"
My Suicune instincts kicked in as I felt a menacing energy emanating from the devices. The menacing energy made contact with Pokémon that it struck and caused the Pokémon to feel such pain as they mega evolved. I had also noticed that the Gengar, Pidgeot, Salamance, Aggron, and other Pokémon called out to stop Volcanion weren't holding Mega Stones either. However, once I saw that the opposing Pidgeot had mega evolved the gears in my mind began turning and a smirk formed on my face that caught Lord Volcanion's attention.
'Why do you have that smirk on your face?' Lord Volcanion asked me angrily before looking back to our opponents. 'Can't you see that we have to fight to get to Magearna away from them?'
"I do see that, Lord Volcanion," I answered the male Steam Pokémon with confidence and the smirk still on my face, "though don't take down Mega Pidgeot just yet. Its ability will be very useful for them. But it'll also be useful to us."
'I'm listening,' Lord Volcanion said as he glanced at me.
I then knelt down and whispered to him, "Mega Pidgeot has an ability called No Guard. He's making sure that all of his and his allies' moves are 100% accurate. But it also means that our moves are also 100% accurate. So… it's kind of a… double-edged sword. If you get my drift."
It was then that Lord Volcanion stared at me and back to our opponents. Once he registered what I explained to him, both of us had the worst kind of evil grin on our faces and the little boy who was with them became scared and clung to his Slurpuff in terror.
"P-Prime Minister…," the little boy stammered as he and his Slurpuff shook violently in terror. "Th-Those two are… are… scaring me."
'R-really sc-scaring us,' added the Fairy-type.
"Uh oh," the male poacher said as he knew what Lord Volcanion and I had on our faces.
"Um… why are they looking at us with rape faces?" the poacher's female companion asked quizzically.
"Octillery, let's have some fun!" I exclaimed as I threw a Lure Ball and released my first Pokémon into battle.
"You send a Water-type against my Mega Glalie?" the male poacher asked me as he tried to taunt me into losing my cool.
'Humph, you should know not to underestimate a Pokémon based on its type,' Lord Volcanion shot back in my defense.
"Glalie, use Freeze-Dry on that Octillery!" the poacher exclaimed to his mega evolved Ice-type Face Pokémon.
"Counter with Protect and then retaliate with Flamethrower," I instructed my shiny female Jet Pokémon before looking to Lord Volcanion. "Lord Volcanion, use Steam Eruption!"
My Octillery gave a slight nod and put up a protective field to block the super effective Ice-type move from harming my shiny female Jet Pokémon and Lord Volcanion. Lord Volcanion just snorted and rolled his eyes at the fact that I had given him a command in battle. Nevertheless he complied and fired two streams of steamy and scalding hot water at Mega Glalie and connected with the mega evolved Face Pokémon and inflicted a nasty burn on him. After Lord Volcanion connected with a devastating Steam Eruption, my… mobile battery had a red outline run down her body and a bright blue outline race up her body rapidly. Then she fired a blistering flame at Mega Glalie and connected with more strength than usual thanks in part to her hold item.
'Gah! Too hot!' exclaimed the opposing Mega Glalie as he couldn't sustain his mega evolved form as he was knocked out.
"Huh?!" the prime minister exclaimed in complete shock that one his Pokémon were defeated by my Octillery and Lord Volcanion. "What just happened?! Mega Glalie is powerful!"
'Heh, not powerful enough,' shot Lord Volcanion with a triumphant grin on his face as tried to fire off another Steam Eruption and was out of water.
"Octillery, use Water Spout on Lord Volcanion," I quickly said to my shiny female Jet Pokémon.
'Here you go Lord Volcanion,' Octillery said before firing off the said attack at Lord Volcanion.
Lord Volcanion was quite surprised when he was hit by the attack, but his arms sucked up the water from Octillery's Water Spout attack. Lord Volcanion was confused at why my Octillery attacked him with her Water Spout. But then a charging Mega Aggron got our attention as our next opponent was eager to avenge his comrade's defeat at our hands. I recalled my Octillery as her Moody Dream World had a tendency to be a double-edged sword when battling against Rock, Ground and Steel-type Pokémon and I figured that Lord Volcanion would need an extra boost of power. Letting out a sigh, I reached for the Dive Ball that had a sticker marked with the Greek letter α on it. I remembered my mother telling me not to call on him unless things were getting to a point where I needed to call on him for battle. Well… considering that Lord Volcanion and I were facing a horde of mega evolved Pokémon, I considered our situation a point where I needed to call on him.
"Mighty lord and master of the sea and all who live in your domain," I said getting Lord Volcanion's attention directed at me, "I ask of you to come to our aid in this hour of need.
"I summon you… Lord Kyogre!" I shouted as I tossed up the marked Dive Ball and set loose the Water-type Sea Basin Pokémon.
'What are you doing, human?' Lord Volcanion asked me with contempt after I called on Lord Kyogre. 'I thought we had a plan.'
"We do have a plan, my lord," I reassured Lord Volcanion. "I just figured we needed… some heavier fire power. Besides… Lord Kyogre has a special item that'll force these wicked humans to rethink their approach to battling with and inflicting unnecessary pain to their Pokémon."
Before Lord Volcanion could ask me what I meant, the weather then changed from sunny and clear to cloudy and drizzling rain. Lord Volcanion demanded from an explanation as to why the weather changed to rain and I complied by explaining that Lord Kyogre has the Drizzle ability and could instantly change the weather to rain from sunny and clear. But Lord Kyogre wasn't finished as the Blue Orb glowed brightly engulfing him and causing him to change to a more dangerous, ancient form. It was then that the weather changed from a light steady drizzle to a heavy downpour thanks in part to Lord Kyogre's ability in his primal form.
'Now what's going on here, human?' Lord Volcanion asked still in a demanding tone.
"All I can tell you is that you shouldn't try to use any Fire-type attacks," I answered Lord Volcanion as I tried remain calm and not go off on the Steam Pokémon for calling me a human.
"Aggron use Flamethrower!" the male poacher ordered his mega evolved Iron Armor Pokémon.
'Take this you… you… OVERSIZED MONSTER!' the male mega evolved Iron Armor Pokémon exclaimed as tried to use his Fire-type attack only to have it doused in a split second. 'I said take THIS!'
The Iron Armor Pokémon tried to use his Flamethrower again only to have it be doused again to shock of his human. Lord Volcanion looked to me for another explanation as to what was going on and how Mega Aggron's Flamethrower had failed twice. But before I could comply with Lord Volcanion's demand for an explanation, we had received reinforcements that descended from the sky and even transformed into a very familiar Suicune that I knew all too well and loved. Both the Suicune and Lord Kyogre launched powerful Water-type attacks at the opposing mega evolved Pokémon, taking a couple of them down with Magearna being thrown in our direction from the heavy fighting. Without a moment's hesitation, I recalled Lord Kyogre to his Dive Ball, allowing the weather to clear up as Lord Volcanion and I retreated thanks in part to Benny and Bonnie finding us and helping us out.
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'Magearna, I'm glad to see that you're safe,' Lord Volcanion said to the Steel/Fairy-type Artificial Pokémon as we caught our breath from the fierce battle that we fought.
"Hey there's my lovely and gorgeous Suicune Hime," Benny said with a grin after he changed back into his human form and held me close to him.
"Arigato… Ouji Suicune," I replied in Japanese before kissing him passionately.
Lord Volcanion just rolled his eyes snorted in disgust as I was being romantic with Benny. Seeing Lord Volcanion roll his eyes and snort in disgust was it and I was at my limit with my patience with him. I felt that it was time to set the record straight with the male Steam Pokémon and make sure that he didn't forget it at all.
"I've had it with you Lord Volcanion," I said in an angry tone as I glared at him with Ronginku holding me back and restrained by use of her Psychic attack. "You've called me 'human' and you belittled me ever since we met. And I'm tired of it!"
'Oh really 'human'?' Lord Volcanion challenged me as he aimed his cannons at me. 'What are you going to do about it? Anything you try, I'll just make sure you get a hot scalding reminder to know your place.'
'Ren, stop this now!' Ronginku ordered me as she was trying to get me to be calm. 'It is not wise to upset Lord Volcanion now.
"Stay out of this Ronginku," I shot back to my faithful companion even though I knew she was right. "I'm not afraid. Lord Volcanion can try to use his Steam Eruption on me and see what happens."
'Very well… 'human',' Lord Volcanion said as he readied his cannons to fire at me, 'since you insist on it, I will be happy to comply with your challenge. Though you may not survive this.'
Lord Volcanion then fired his Steam Eruption at me thinking that he had badly and severely burned me. But it was not to be as Ronginku shook her head and caught Lord Volcanion's attention as he was curious as to why my shiny female Psychic/Fairy-type was shaking her head. Benny had remained silent as he too knew what would happen should Lord Volcanion try to attack me with a Water-type attack. When the steam cleared, I walked towards everyone and wasn't fazed by Lord Volcanion's Steam Eruption.
"I'm sorry Lord Volcanion," I began as I called out my Golduck and motioned for him use his Shadow Claw on the already heated and malleable metal band snug around my waist and sexy girlish surfing figure, "but were you trying to attack me with that Water-type attack? Cuz… I didn't feel a thing at all."
'WHAT?!' demanded Lord Volcanion in surprise and shock. 'Wait a minute… you deceived me so you could get that metal ring off your waist?!'
"And it worked perfectly too," I answered Lord Volcanion with a grin on my face.
'Then try walking away from this!' the angry Steam Pokémon snarled at me as he used his Flamethrower at me.
"You know… I have the ability to redirect attacks so long as there's moisture in the air," I informed Lord Volcanion as I did as I said redirecting his Flamethrower at his front left leg where the metal band was still attached, making it weaker and more malleable to be taken off easily. "Golduck, use your Shadow Claw to remove the band around Lord Volcanion's left leg."
'Yes Your Royal Highness,' the shiny male Duck Pokémon acknowledged as he used the said Ghost-type move to slash off the half melted and malleable metal ring around Lord Volcanion's left front leg.
My Golduck using his Shadow Claw surprised Lord Volcanion as the metal ring came off of his left front leg. The male Steam Pokémon then looked to me quite surprised when the metal ring came off of his leg. He studied me intently as if he was searching for an explanation as to why I did the things I did to get us free. Even though my plan had gotten myself and Lord Volcanion both free, Benny and I needed to stay with Lord Volcanion and Magearna and see our mission through to the end. As for Magearna, it reunited with Lord Volcanion and it seemed that Lord Volcanion was affectionate with Magearna as we heard Lord Volcanion telling Magearna that he would always protect her.
"Lord Volcanion, we need to exit the city quickly before those guys we battled lock down the city and we won't be able to escape," I informed the Steam Pokémon as he looked to me. "We'll… we'll argue and bash each other's heads in later. I'm sure you want to get Magearna away from here safely."
'Um… yes. Escape would be a good idea,' Lord Volcanion said out of his stupor.
It was then that Magearna took the lead and lead us out through a secret area that got us out of the city before it was locked down as I had called it correctly. Once we were out of the city, Benny and I then transformed into Suicune Pokémon again much to the amazement of Lord Volcanion and Magearna. Lord Volcanion then led us towards his home, deep in the forest where few humans ventured to. Bonnie was amazed to see all of the Pokémon that were there in the forest. Of course she was saying how cute some of the Pokémon were. [Sigh] Ever since Benny and I knew her, she's always been a little childish, acting like the little girl that accompanied Aunt May and Uncle Ash when they went to Kalos for his last hurrah before settling down and becoming a member of the Atlantica Islands Elite Four. Unfortunately for Bonnie, most of the Pokémon wouldn't go near her as they were afraid of her. As for myself and Benny, the Pokémon we encountered on the way to Lord Volcanion's home seemed to take an interest in me and my lovable boyfriend and that caught Lord Volcanion's interest.
"I don't get it," huffed Bonnie as she saw some Pokémon coming towards me and Benny, sniffing us as if we had some sort of unusual scent. "They're going to you two, but they won't come to me. Why is that?"
'I would like to know that as well,' chimed in Lord Volcanion as he looked to me and Benny. 'You are humans, are you not?'
"For myself, the answer is yes… and no," I answered Lord Volcanion. "Only 1/8 of me is human. The remainder is Pokémon. I am ¾ Suicune and 1/8 Raikou."
'So you are a hybrid I've been hearing whispers about, then,' surmised Lord Volcanion as he looked at me then to my boyfriend. 'That must be the case for you as well.'
Benny shook his head as he explained, "Sorry Lord Volcanion, but I'm 98.5% Suicune with trace amounts of Primal Kyogre DNA. I just have the ability to change between this form and my true self as a Suicune. I was born a Suicune pup and my mother transformed me into this human form with the ability to change back into my original form at will."
'This world never ceases to amaze me,' replied Lord Volcanion as he shook his head. 'As much as I have my doubts, I believe your stories.'
Within a few hours and when we were close to Lord Volcanion's home, we were joined by another person who had flown in from the Azoth Kingdom herself. She introduced herself as the princess of the Azoth Kingdom, Chymia. Chymia recognized me and Benny right off the bat as she knew we're surfing celebrities just from the stripes we have on our bodies. No, not surfing celebrities… more like surfing royalty. Lord Volcanion was of course not thrilled with the presence of Princess Chymia, but he was willing to tolerate her presence for a while. Once we had reached Lord Volcanion and Magearna's home, a little Fletchling approached Lord Volcanion in startled and alarmed manner, telling him of a "human with wicked intent" had come to their sanctuary. Benny and I had translated the Fletchling's words as a poacher had trespassed into Lord Volcanion's home where they didn't belong. Sure enough, we had found young Amaura that had been injured not from battle. Benny knew that the poor young female Tundra Pokémon had been injured by a human's weapon and not in a Pokémon battle. Seeing this enraged him and myself as if there was one thing worse than bullies, it was Pokémon poachers. Before Benny could call on his childhood pal, Koji, Ronginku and I took charge of the situation and we dealt with him, forcing him to give up on the young Amaura and even the possibility of taking to take Lord Volcanion to sell for money. His vehicle however was left behind after he had crashed. With the poacher gone, things settled done and Ronginku used her Heal Pulse to help the little female Tundra Pokémon with her wounds inflicted by the poacher in his lust for money with no compassion for Pokémon.
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Later that evening, things settled down as I was finally able to take my wetsuit to reveal my shiny Mega Gardevoir swimsuit and I could feel comfortable again. I may not have been able to practice for the next surfing competition, but I was able to relax in the clear blue lake as I swam and even sank into the lake as I wanted time to think while Benny reported in to his mother. I always let Benny make the reports to his mother while I hid myself under the calm waves of whatever body of water we were close to. As for Lord Volcanion, he kept watch over his home, the Navel Plateau, from a cave that held a hot spring. Chymia explained that her little brother was being used by the prime minister that Lord Volcanion and I had battled against back at the castle. The 18 year-old princess felt that the Prime Minister, Alva, was using her brother's good intention to further his own evil scheme to use the machines that had been developed 500 years against the people of the Azoth Kingdom and potentially the Kalos region. I was listening to the princess tell her story as I remained floating in the lake. Once I had enough in the lake, I just… stood up and walked on the top of the water's surface surprising both Bonnie and Chymia as neither of them had ever seen a person walk literally walk on water. I think even Lord Volcanion himself was surprised to see me walking on water.
"How is it that you can walk on the water?" Chymia asked me in a surprised tone.
'Magic perhaps?' asked Dedenne as he was quite surprised himself.
"The look on your face tells me that you've never encountered a Pokémon/human hybrid before," I answered Chymia with a smirk on my face. "I'm one of those hybrids. I'm ¾ Suicune, 1/8 Raikou and 1/8 human."
"I've heard my share of legends about hybrids," began Chymia, "but I never thought they existed in real life."
"Yes well… that's good and all but we need to make a plan to keep Magearna safe and out of the hands of that monster," Benny said as he brought focus back to mine and his mission.
"Hey Benny, you remember that Lady Vera said she owed us a favor for that field job we did for her while she was pregnant with Ishtar, right?" I asked my boyfriend as I remembered that the head of Team Trident's Science unit was willing to help us out after doing a job for her.
"Oh boy," Benny replied after he let out a sigh and shook his head. "Guess we need a scientific genius to help us battle an evil scientific genius. But you realize Lord Volcanion is most likely not going to like what you have in mind if it involves Magearna."
"Yeah, I know Lord Volcanion won't be pleased, but it has to be done and we have to take the fight to that prime minister," I said to Benny as he knew I was right. "Besides, I know your mom is gonna tell my mother and she'll be here within a day. So we've gotta stir things up and get that guy fighting us while my mother and the Royal Guard get here.
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'You must be out of your minds if you think that I will put Magearna in any such danger,' Lord Volcanion said to me and Benny angrily as we told him our plan to defeat Prime Minister Alva. 'If you wish to fight him, then you return to the human town and battle him yourselves.'
"If we're gonna beat him, than we need to use the right kind of bait," I explained to Lord Volcanion. "Besides… who said anything about taking Magearna back to the Azoth Kingdom with her real Soul Heart?"
"Alva will know Magearna doesn't have the real Soul Heart if a fake one is put in its place," Chymia informed me nervously.
"And that's why Benny and I have our 'Phone a Friend' lifeline in play," I calmly said to Lord Volcanion and Chymia with a grin on my face. "I give you my word, on my family name that no harm will come to Magearna."
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"I see… so you require the assistance of the Discovery Corps, do you?" Lady Vera, the head of Team Trident's science division asked me and Benny as we made the call to her. "I've been made aware of your mission to the Azoth Kingdom and have been brought up to speed on the details."
"So you'll help us then, Lady Vera?" Benny asked the incomplete Thundurus hybrid and proud wife of the shiny Raikou, Jupiter.
"I will do more than just assist you," answered Lady Vera. "I am preparing to deploy into the field and personally deliver the item that you have requested."
"You sure that's a good idea?" I asked Lady Vera quizzically. "I mean aren't you still on maternity leave after giving birth to Ishtar?"
"My newborn daughter will be fine with her father and siblings," Lady Vera answered calmly. "Aphrodite has returned from the field to help care for her newborn sister."
"Ishtar is in good hands with me and our father," Lady Vera's firstborn daughter, Aphrodite said as she came on the screen with a smile on her face. "Besides, once Mother makes up her mind, there's no stopping her at all. You should know that by now Your Highness."
"My staff is already in the works of creating the desired item you wish to have created," added Lady Vera. "I will be there within 12 hours then you should be able to carry out your plan."
"Has my mother… I mean Milady Rhea contacted Her Majesty about our situation?" Benny asked Lady Vera.
"She has," answered Lady Vera. "Her Majesty is on her way there and she's brought the Royal Guard with her too."
"Oh man…," I moaned as I knew my mother was more than likely to call on them instead of using the kingdom's special-forces units. "Mom really likes to make a statement. And she makes it with a hard exclamation point too."
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"That's what's going on," I summarized to Chymia, Bonnie and Lord Volcanion.
"I just can't believe that the Queen is calling on her Royal Guard for this job," Chymia said as she shook her head. "I'd heard that no ruler of the Atlantica Islands had ever called on their royal guard for jobs outside of the kingdom."
'I bet this… Royal Guard are a group of powerful warriors,' Lord Volcanion said to me as he assumed that my mother's Royal Guard were elite soldiers.
"My mom's Royal Guard isn't what you guys are thinking they are," I said to Lord Volcanion, Chymia and Bonnie. "Her Royal Guard consists of the gym leaders and Elite Four of our home region of the Atlantica Islands."
"Wait, are you serious?!" asked a really surprised Bonnie at the revelation I had revealed to her, Chymia and Lord Volcanion.
"Oh don't worry, they're very strong and they've trained their Pokémon to battle against the Pokémon of myth and mega evolved Pokémon as well," Benny added to the conversation. "But we have to wait for Lady Vera to arrive so we can set our plan into motion."
But before Lord Volcanion could speak up, we heard the distant scream of the poacher we encountered earlier. I knew from the scream and additional moisture in the air that he no longer breathed the breath of life. After sensing the passing of the poacher, all of us could hear the cry of a Raikou as it was fast approaching us. Benny knew the cry of the Raikou all too well as Lady Aphrodite's companion, Kohaku. The head of the Discovery Corps dismounted from the back of her daughter's companion before he transformed into his human form which surprised Chymia as she thought that she had been bitten by a love bug. But with a Correction Chop, the princess of the Azoth Kingdom got the message that Kohaku was off limits to her and happily married too.
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"Okay Lady Vera, we've made it back into the Azoth Kingdom's capital city," I reported to Lady Vera as we had reentered the city the same way we had escaped from it. "We're heading back to the castle now."
"Make sure that you're in plain sight of everyone as you head back to the castle," Lady Vera instructed us as we made our way towards the marketplace. "I'm sure that the prime minister will have some form surveillance making sure that no one tries to sneak up on him after you had escaped."
"Hey look, they've got Pokémon with them," whispered some of the people as they noticed Lord Volcanion and Magearna just we had planned it. "Anybody know what kind of Pokémon they are?"
'I feel very uncomfortable around all of these humans, especially being surrounded by so many of them,' Lord Volcanion commented as many eyes were staring at him and Magearna. 'But for the sake of Magearna, I must ensure this plan succeeds.'
"You'll have to forgive us then Lord Volcanion," I said to the male Steam Pokémon. "But once this mission this is over you can take Magearna back home and… watch Ichigo taunting Achilles."
I looked up after hearing the distance shriek coming from my baby brother's shiny male Aerodactyl when he gets irritated from being taunted by my brother's Togekiss, Ichigo. The male Jubilee Pokémon was certainly having a ball taunting his Rock/Flying-type companion. As for the shiny male Fossil Pokémon, he wasn't enjoying the taunting at all.
'You can't catch me!' my baby brother's male Togekiss happily exclaimed as he dodged an incoming Steel Wing from his shiny Rock/Flying-type companion. 'You call that a Steel Wing? Let me show you what a Steel Wing looks like.'
"Come on Ichigo, stop taunting Achilles!" my baby brother, Hayato Kaiou exclaimed to his first Pokémon, which was a gift from his girlfriend, Vanna Seabright. "We came for a little break, not cause a ruckus."
"He and Oberon made another bet," Hayato's girlfriend, Vanna, said to Hayato.
"For the love of… not again," moaned Hayato as he facepalmed himself.
"Hard to believe your guys' Pokémon have a gambling problem," I said to my baby brother with a wicked smirk on my face.
"Shut up Ren!" Hayato shouted at me as he didn't like that I picked on him.
"They don't gamble too much," Hayato's girlfriend said to me before she and I hugged each other.
"I know," I said to Vanna and Hayato. "I just like to pick on my baby brother because I like him."
The pair we met happened to be my baby brother and his girlfriend, from another family who were close friends with mine and Hayato's parents. She had scars from previous burn marks over certain parts of her body and Hayato was carrying her on his back because of her problem with metals. She wore a red tank top and black shorts with a pair of cute pink glasses to help her see.
"So what brings the little Sky Prince and his Fairy Princess to the Azoth Kingdom?" I asked my brother and Vanna.
"Mostly we're here before going with my brother, sister and Lily Sakura to a new region," answered Vanna as she held on to Hayato tightly.
"What about you two?" Hayato asked me and Benny. "It's not like you two to be so far away from the oceans."
"Milady Rhea asked us to come and investigate the rumors of the so-called Mega Wave technology," I answered my baby brother. "Mom's on her way here."
"And Her Majesty is bringing the Royal Guard too," added Benny.
"Oh man," Hayato said as he grimaced at the thought of our mother bringing the Royal Guard. "Mom likes to bring on the overkill when innocent Pokémon are being targeted or used as pawns for experiments."
'It's so disheartening to hear that Pokémon are still being used as pawns and test subjects for such cruel things,' commented Vanna's Sylveon, Oberon.
"Well… let's try to focus on defeating this nut job," I said as I was trying to get things back on track.
"I just got Achilles an Aerodactylite," my baby brother said with a slight grin. "I've also got my Pidgeot with his mega stone too."
'You might want to reconsider allowing you Pidgeot to mega evolve young human,' Lord Volcanion said to Hayato, remembering the ability of Mega Pidgeot.
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"How come we can't defeat simple children?!" the female poacher asked as Ichigo mocked Mega Salamence with little difficulty. "And he knew Steel Wing and Iron Tail to take on that stupid little fairy."
'You underestimated me,' Ichigo answered gleefully as he continued to show his nimble display of maneuverability.
'Oh boy… Ichigo is showing off again,' commented Vanna's mega evolved Mawile as she shook her head.
"And while you two keep those dorks busy, we'll head into the belly of the beast and get that prime minister to confess," I said to my baby brother and Vanna.
"Sure thing sis, we'll hold 'em until Mom gets here with the Royal Guard," replied Hayato as he gave me and Benny a slight nod of acknowledgement before looking to Ichigo. "Ichigo, come back. Time to let Achilles have some flight time."
'Aww… you're spoiling my fun!' we heard Ichigo complain as he complied and then got smacked on his head by Titania's Iron Head.
'Is… the Fairy-type always like that?' Lord Volcanion inquired as we proceeded further into the castle with Chymia following us.
"Yeah… Ichigo likes to be a showoff," I answered Lord Volcanion. "About the only Flying-type he can't outfly or outperform is Mom's Articuno, Frost. Every time Ichigo tries to go against Frost, he gets shot down with a Sheer Cold attack."
'Harsh,' replied Lord Volcanion, 'but it is necessary for the young to be scolded and taught humility.'
With Lord Volcanion's words, we finally entered the target area we needed to be at and it unfortunately made me feel very uncomfortable as I felt something was wrong. The prime minister was certainly waiting for us with a cocky smirk on his face. Before any of us had time to react, the prime minister activated some sort of weapon to keep us in place.
"So the famous Surfing Queen has decided to leave her domain and come to her death here," the Prime Minister, Alva, said to us in an overconfident and maniacal tone. "If only you had stayed on the beaches and surfed to your heart's content."
"I can't exactly turn a blind eye when innocent Pokémon are being used as test subjects," I shot back to the Prime Minister as I narrowed my eyes at him. "And this Mega Wave is a complete abomination too."
"We'll see about that," snarled Alva before pressing a button. "Hand over Magearna and I'll make sure you at least live. You won't be able to see the sun again for treason against the Azoth Kingdom."
"Hate to be the bearer of bad news," I countered back, "but I have diplomatic immunity. You can't arrest me. The kingdom recognizes the Atlantica Islands as a sovereign nation."
"That won't be the case once I take over," Alva said as he had his thumb over the same button ready to push it again. "I'll say it one last time. Hand over Magearna and I may not kill you."
"Do as he says, Lord Volcanion," I requested of the Steam Pokémon.
Lord Volcanion was a bit hesitant to relinquish Magearna, but he had no choice but to do as Alva said and he relinquished the Artificial Pokémon. Once Lord Volcanion had stepped back, his shiny mega evolved Gengar then used its Psychic attack to bring Magearna towards his master. Alva thought he had won as he yanked the fake Soul Heart from Magearna's chest and eagerly threw the lifeless body of the Steel/Fairy-type Pokémon towards us. We were thankful that Alva was too busy in his overly happy state to notice that we stuck the real Soul Heart back into the lifeless corpse of the Artificial Pokémon. Once the Soul Heart was back in Magearna's chest, she came back to life and had to quickly be quieted in order not to alert Alva. However his shiny Mega Gengar saw Magearna coming back to life, but didn't alert his master to the development. Once Alva had placed the fake Soul Heart into the slot of the ancient weapon that had been built to protect the castle in older days. While Alva was ranting and thinking that we were paying attention, we sprung our pre-emptive attack on him with Magearna springing to life and firing a Shadow Ball attack at the unsuspecting shiny Mega Gengar, catching him off guard. The force of the Ghost-type special attack caused Mega Gengar to be slammed against the wall and lose his mega evolved form. When the shiny male Ghost/Poison-type Shadow Pokémon came to, he saw us and Alva and was quick to flee from the chamber without a moment's hesitation and noticing a reddish-orange outline running up Magearna's body to show that her special attack stat had been increased.
'This is Magearna's ability,' Lord Volcanion said proudly with a grin on his face, 'the ability known as Soul Heart. When any Pokémon is defeated, Magearna's Special Attack is raised.'
Alva was shocked to see that Magearna was standing and even able to launch a blindsiding attack knocking out his shiny Gengar in mere seconds. Looking at me and Lord Volcanion, Alva demanded an explanation as to why Magearna was functioning even after he yanked out her Soul Heart. Before Alva could get an explanation, alarms blared as the weapon he sought to take control was about to self-destruct thanks in part to Alva's idiocy and linking the ancient weapon to a computer system. With no time to spare, we beat a hasty retreat from the weapon chamber as the weapon was blowing itself apart. Within five minutes, the small party escaped from the weapon chamber and we escaped on Princess Chymia's aircraft while Mom and the Royal Guard were each sitting comfortably on the back various Flying-type Pokémon.
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"You did an excellent job, Your Highness and Benny," Lady Vera said to me and Benny as she was putting on new fingerless gloves she used to control her Electric-type powers. "The Mega Wave technology and all related research data to it has been destroyed."
"Is Commander Shelke going through cyberspace to make sure it's completely gone?" Benny asked Lady Vera.
"Going through as we speak," answered Lady Vera as she turned her back to us. "Speaking of which…"
Before Lady Vera could finish even half a sentence, Benny and I were already long gone as we both had transformed to our Suicune form and bolted before we could get another assignment from Milady Rhea. I felt bad that we left Bonnie and Dedenne back in the Azoth Kingdom, but she wanted to stay there a little longer to get some additional training in before returning to the Lumiose City gym. As for Benny and I, we wanted to get to the surfing competition in Cyllage City. However, as we got to the surfing competition, Benny and I were sorely disappointed at what we saw. Everyone at the competition weren't at the same caliber as me and Benny and we really wanted to find someone or different people who would be on the same caliber or potentially better. And we figured that the better competition would be in Alola, where Cynthia, the Summers siblings and Isabella Greyson were at.
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"The Princess and my son are their way to Alola then?" Rhea asked the commander of the Ghosts in the Shell electronic warfare unit of Team Trident.
"Yes," the commander of the Ghosts in the Shell stoically answered Rhea with a straight face as she watched the flight leaving Lumiose City and heading to the Alola region. "They should arrive there in 12 hours."
"Looks like they took the bait," Rhea said with a smile on their face as two of her older children came by and stood behind her.
"So… you're sending our brother and Princess Ren to Alola?" asked Rhea's second daughter, Sango.
"He's not our brother," the eldest daughter snapped at her younger sister. "I don't see why you suddenly flipped and decided to accept him."
"Why can't you accept him as our baby brother?" Sango asked her older sister. "He's done nothing wrong to receive such hostility."
"Did you forget about the cruelty of men?" Rhea's oldest daughter, Ariel, asked Sango. "It's because of their cruelty that you and I were born."
"Ariel, you need to let that go," Rhea said calmly to her firstborn. "But seeing as how you suggested that your brother and the Princess go to Alola, you'll be going there as a teacher to the Pokémon School as well."
"But Mother!" Ariel exclaimed in protest before having a sweatdrop on her forehead as her mother glared at her with daggers in her eyes.
"You leave in a few hours," Rhea said as she regained her calm composure.
"Yeah… about that," began Ariel, "I came to tell you that I'm with Ramauh's offspring. Just got pregnant last week."
"When you have gotten through your nine month maternity leave, we are going to have a discussion," Rhea said as she narrowed her eyes at her firstborn.
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Author's note: And cut! Another chapter in the books. Let me know what you guys think. The next chapter is being worked on currently. Until then, ja ne! ^_^