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Me: Thanks Your Highness
Chapter 3: New Arrivals to Alola
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3rd person POV
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"Milady… Commander Shelke reports that she's arrived in the Alola region," Rhea's faithful attendant and lover, Akiro, said to his mistress before lovingly wrapping his arms around her waist and tenderly embracing her.
"That's a Porygon hybrid for you," Rhea replied with a smile on her face as she was enjoying the personal and intimate attention she was getting from Akiro. "She's very quick to depart for her intended destination and uses cyberspace like her own personal highway."
"Indeed Milady," agreed Akiro before Rhea claimed his lips in a passionate and possessive kiss.
With discovery of Team Skull, Rhea wasn't going to take any chances and send as much support as she could send to the Oceanic Knights. If the midnight blue haired woman was going to ensure that Team Trident was the only group standing, then she needed to make sure the competition was wiped out or fatally broken before the storm she was planning was to be unleashed. With every syndicate wiped out, it translated into a victory for Team Trident. And the environmental restoration group was going to be the lone surviving syndicate standing to weather the incoming storm.
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Ren Kaiou POV
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"So… this is the Alola region," I said as Benny and I stepped off the plane from Lumiose City to Hau'oli City on Melemele Island.
"Well… I certainly feel revitalized with that familiar warm ocean breeze," Benny said to me with a smile on his face.
"As do I," I replied with a grin on my face in agreement.
"Yeah, okay," a girl replied behind Benny and I. "Now can you get out of my way so I can go somewhere useful?
The girl who passed us felt one of the Pokéballs on her belt shaking as the Pokémon wanted to get out and she said, "Down boy. You don't need to jump on every girl you smell and think is beautiful." The girl herself had green hair that went down to her waist, blue eyes, a white mini dress with pink sleeveless shirt and pink skirt over the mini dress. She had a white sleeveless jacket over the layer of pink and long black leggings with brown traveling boots. As the girl passed us, she took a look at my boyfriend as his riding outfit disappeared to reveal his sexy well-toned abs and the Suicune blue stripes that adorned his body.
"Hello hottie," the girl said as she became smitten with Benny. "Have you ever wanted a girlfriend that had class and sophistication?"
"I don't even know your name and yet you're asking me that question," Benny answered the girl before noticing that I wasn't too happy with the girl trying to hit on him.
Before Benny could finish, the girl cut him off by placing her hand on his lips and saying, "Easily remedied. My name is Kimberly LaRouche. My parents are two well-known celebrities, Drew and Serena LaRouche.
Benny then looked to me and saw that I was getting angrier as the girl was trying to take him away from me as she continued, "How about you cutie? Got a name? Where are you from? Is this all you wear?"
Benny then shook his head to me, trying to get me to back off and then looked to the new girl and answered, "To answer your first question, I have a girlfriend. My name is Benny Abyss and I'm from the Atlantica Islands. And yes, these swim trunks are the only thing I wear."
"Seriously?" Kimberly asked Benny after hearing the revelation that he had a girlfriend. "Who's the flimsy little Magikarp you're dating? You're obviously too cute and too good looking to be their boyfriend."
Being called a Magikarp was what set me off as I didn't like being put on the same level as the flimsy Water-type Fish Pokémon as I was showing my fangs in anger. Benny knew that if there was one insult that would set me off… it would be being put on the same level as a Magikarp. I really wanted to hurt this Kimberly LaRouche girl for her insult to me. As I slammed my left hand down on her right shoulder, I had a dark aura behind me as I was about to… to… "correct" her for the error she made.
"That's my girlfriend," Benny said to Kimberly with a sweatdrop on his forehead after letting out a sigh. "Princess Ren Kaiou, firstborn to Queen Relena Michiru Kaiou, queen of the Atlantica Islands region."
Once Kimberly heard that I was a princess, her blood ran ice cold as her eyes widened in shock at the revelation of me being Benny's girlfriend… and being a princess too. My first impression of the daughter of a Pokémon Coordinator and Pokémon performer was not good at all. Trying to hit on Benny, I would've let it slide. But calling me a flimsy Magikarp made things worse and Benny knew it once the insult left Kimberly's lips.
"I'm sorry to this, but you've just made an enemy with Ren," Benny informed Kimberly as he came to me and embraced me to calm me down. "It's not gonna be easy for her to forgive you."
"Over one stupid insult?" asked Kimberly as she was in disbelief. "Come on! It was just one stupid and innocent mistake. There's no need to blow your stack over one stupid insult!"
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"Who the Houndour is that Kimberly LaRouche to call me that?" I snarled as I was still furious at the girl who tried to steal Benny away from me. "I should've just used my Scald attack on her."
"Come on Ren, you know it just an honest mistake," Benny said to me as he was calming me down. "Had you used your Scald, you surely would've made her your enemy. And I don't think Her Majesty would be pleased that you attacked someone over a simple misunderstanding."
"It's still no excuse for that insult," I replied to Benny after letting out a sigh and enjoying his embrace.
'Perhaps heading to the beach and do a little surfing will help you forget about her insult,' Ronginku offered as she let herself out of her Cherish Ball. 'We did come to relax and surf.'
"You're right Ronginku," I said to my shiny female Embrace Pokémon sister and companion. "Let's go grab our boards and gear so we can go surf. I'm sure Koji is looking forward to go surfing again."
"That he is," replied Benny with a smile on his face as his shiny male Kalos Fire-type Fox Pokémon companion and brother let himself out of his Dream Ball that Aunt Rhea put him in.
'Let's hurry so we can go on a surfing safari!' Koji exclaimed happily as he was eager to go surfing.
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An hour later, as we got arrived on the beach, the four of us saw that it looked like there was a competition that was starting and that a few people were trying to register for it. Benny, Ronginku, Koji and I looked at each other and then gave a grin as the four of us were going to enter the contest give these guys of Alola a taste of how we do things in the Atlantica Islands. The four of us walked up to the table and saw that the person doing the registration for the surfing competition looked very bored. The man sitting there let out an exasperated sigh and said in a bored tone, "Your names please. Though it doesn't matter. Not like you're gonna win the Sparksurfer Circuit."
"I'm Ren Kaiou," I said to the man registering us for the competition. "I'm from Tsunami Island in the Atlantica Islands kingdom."
The man let out a sigh at first before he started to type in my info until something snapped in him and he then looked at the latest issue of Surfer's Illustrated, Swimsuit issue that he had next to his laptop computer and recognized my face from page 38 of his magazine. Once he saw my face, he became startled as he snapped out of his melancholy mood. He apparently wasn't expecting to see that Benny and I would come to the Alola region for surfing competitions.
"Forgive me for not recognizing you, Your Highness," the man said to me as he bowed to me.
"P-Please… stop bowing to me," I replied to him as I had a sweatdrop on my forehead in embarrassment. "I hate when people bow to me or refer to me with royal titles."
The man then composed himself as he finished filling out my registration info and asked if I was going to compete in singles, pair's competition or both. With Benny at my side, I gave the man a smile on my face and replied that I was registering for both with Benny as my partner. Ronginku was startled to hear that Benny was surfing partner this time instead of her, as she was my usual surfing partner in competitions. But she could have Koji as her surfing partner and change things up with a fresh partner. There was also the fact that Koji knew mine and Ronginku's surfing style and she also was in a relationship with Koji. The man was very surprised to hear that Ronginku and Koji were entering the preliminaries for the Sparksurfer Circuit competition. It was certainly a first to hear that Pokémon were entering a surfing competition for humans. Once all of the registration was finished, the four of us headed down to the beach to cabanas that we had been assigned by the register. Since Benny and I had registered as a pair first, we were assigned to a cabana together and as luck would have it, much to my pleasure with a mischievous smile on my face, there was a queen-sized bed in our cabana. Benny let out a sigh as he plopped down on the bed, laying on his back and having his right arm spread across the bed. Then I decided to lay down and cuddle with my boyfriend.
"Attention competitors and audience," Benny and I heard the MC announcer call out to everyone on the beach, "We have a slight problem as group of Mareanie and their Toxapex leader are causing trouble and are waging a territorial battle against the local Water-type Pokémon here in this area. Until the conflict is resolved, the preliminaries will be postponed until the current battle ceases."
"Ah come on!" exclaimed one surfer as he didn't like hearing the announcement of the preliminaries being postponed. "Forget the MC, I'm competing. As long as those troublemakers stay underwater, I don't see any them causing us any troubles."
Despite the MC protesting the surfer, the MC was overruled by the surfing star and the loud roar from his fans. The MC had to announce that the preliminaries were back on despite the turf war raging close by. I didn't like hearing that we were going to be competing while a turf war was raging nearby. But one thing I didn't like about the guy was the fact that he was a sore loser because Benny and I were in the cabana that he usually occupied during surfing competitions. He even tried to force me and Benny out of the cabana, only for me to use Hydro Pump to knock him on his rear.
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"Those are some gnarly moves you've got," a fellow surfing competitor said to Benny as he had completed his portion of the single's competition. "It was like… you knew when the big one was coming."
"Yeah man," agreed a female surfer as she clapped my boyfriend on the back. "And those were some righteous moves too."
"Well… I've got my girlfriend to thank," Benny said to the surfers who had gathered around as he gestured to me. "She taught me everything I know."
"You just got lucky, you little brat," the same surfing celebrity whom we encountered snarled at my Suicune Ouji.
"Sir, if this is about not getting the cabana Ren and I were assigned, I apologize," Benny said to him. "I'm sure that it was an honest mistake on the register's part."
The surfer looked at Benny and narrowed his eyes at him at first and then shrugged his shoulders as he walked away. I couldn't tell if he accepted Benny's apology or not. But wither or not he accepted Benny's apology, he was still rude to us. But before the MC could make the announcement on who won and was qualified to enter the Sparksurfer Circuit, some idiotic thugs came looking for a fight. They were all decked out in black with white trimming and black and white bandanas to hide most of their facial features. These guys were talking like they were cool and gangstas from the street.
"Yo, yo! Team Skull is coming to collect from the suckas who ain't paid their protection fees, yo," the fat idiot said as he was accompanied two others.
"Oh boy," Benny said to me in a whisper as he was quick to recall Koji to his Dive Ball. "Those must be the Team Skull thugs who Cynthia and the others told us about when we were back at Headquarters."
Before I made a reply, I used my Suicune senses and sniffed the Skull idiots, catching a brief whiff of Isabella's fire bending as they had a faint trace of singed skin or hair. Then the Skull idiots turned to Benny and I as they said, "You suckas must be new here. And since ya new here, we'll lay down the law for ya chumps."
The taller Skull idiot then produced a Pokéball in his hand as he was ready to battle against Benny and I as Ronginku came to my side. The three wannabe gangsters demanded that Benny and I hand over every Pokémon that we had as a… "protection fee" from them. The female Skull idiot added that the issue wasn't up for debate and she was right about that. Ronginku and I then stepped forward as we were going to show the trio of idiots that wasn't to be trifled with or even threatened.
"Y-Yo, what's the hold up?" the fatso asked me as he saw that I had daggers in my eyes as I glared at him and his companions.
"You three should know better than to pick fights you can't hope to win," I answered in a venomous and icy tone.
"Oh yeah, we'll show you, you… you…," stammered the female Skull idiot, failing to finish her sentence.
"Forget it," the Skull fatso said to his female companion. "Let's just battle her and take her Pokémon."
"You thieves!" a familiar person shouted as she had arrived on the beach panting with a shiny male Arcanine following her.
'You know Kimmy, I offered to give you a ride on my back,' the shiny male Arcanine said to Kimberly LaRouche as she was catching her breath.
Once Kimberly had new wind, she glared at the Skull idiots and demanded, "Give me back my Goodra you thieving bastards!"
"Sorry, but ya ain't gonna see it again," the skinny male idiot replied with an overconfident grin hiding behind his bandana. "Selling this Dragon Pokémon is gonna give us top change and help us to expand throughout Alola, yo!"
"But that Goodra is my friend!" protested Kimberly as she tried to reason with the idiots. "He was my first Pokémon and is my best friend!"
"Do you really think you can reason with idiots?" I asked Kimberly calmly as Ronginku and I stood next to her. "The answer is no. Idiots can't be reasoned with at all. You have to make a statement that they'll remember and remember well.
Kimberly looked at me as I continued, "You said your name was Kimberly LaRouche, correct? As in the daughter of the current Kalos Queen for 11 years running, Serena LaRouche and the Rose Prince of Hoenn, Drew LaRouche?"
"Yeah," answered Kimberly as she looked to me, "but how do you know my daddy and mother… let alone their titles?"
Before I could give Kimberly an answer, the female Skull idiot squeaked in terror as she heard me mentioning Kimberly's mother, Serena LaRouche. Her companions were startled when they heard their female squeak in terror as the Kalos Queen had a reputation for dealing with thugs and Pokémon thieves with excessive force much like my mother does. Once Kimberly heard the female Skull idiot squeak in terror, she came to her senses and something snapped in her.
"You're gonna give me back my best friend you thugs," Kimberly said in an icy tone with stern authority and her Arcanine right behind her growling and snarling at the Skull idiots.
"You ain't scarin' anybody, yo!" snapped the female Skull idiot.
'Trust me, my foolish morons,' Kimberly's shiny Arcanine snarled at the female Skull idiot, 'you should be scared of the Kalos Princess. She is not so… forgiving as the Kalos Queen might be.'
"Go get 'em Yungoos!" the fatso Skull idiot said as he called on his Normal-type three Loitering Pokémon in order to foolishly battle against Kimberly.
"Sweep them away with your Heat Wave," Kimberly calmly ordered her shiny male canine Fire-type Legendary Pokémon with a venomous icy tone.
Arcanine did as he told and effortlessly swept the three Normal-type mongoose-like Pokémon aside like it was child's play for him as he said, 'Next.' The Skull fatso's eyes widened in shock as his three Pokémon were brushed aside like it was nothing to Arcanine. Next was the skinny Skull idiot as he called on three sludge Pokémon that were different from the Grimers that Benny and I had seen Kanto and Unova during our times in those regions for surfing competitions. Shaking my head, I knew that the skinny Skull idiot had made a mistake if I was correct in guessing that Kimberly had taught her Arcanine the Ground-type move, Bulldoze.
"Quick, use Bite on that Arcanine," the skinny Skull idiot ordered his Poison-type Sludge Pokémon.
Kimberly's Arcanine was about to dodge the three Poison-type Pokémon that were lunging at him until Kimberly shook her head and wanted him to remain where he was. Her Arcanine complied and that got a lot of the spectators and the surfing celebrity having question marks above their heads as they were confused as to why Kimberly told her Arcanine not to dodge incoming Bite attacks coming from the Grimers. As for Benny and I, we could think of only one reason why she would have Arcanine not dodge the incoming Dark-type attacks. Most of the crowd watched in helpless horror as the three Sludge Pokémon left their marks on Kimberly's Arcanine and thought they had the battle in bag.
Oh boy, were those Sludge Pokémon in trouble as Arcanine wasn't defeated. It was then that Arcanine felt new energy surging through him as he was covered in a red outline that raced up his body three times. Seeing the red outlines racing up Arcanine's body was enough confirmation for Benny and me as we knew his ability.
"Now Arcanine, knock them out with your Bulldoze attack," Kimberly ordered her shiny male Fire-type canine Pokémon, "and be sure to thank them for their help too."
'Yes… thank you, you stupid Poison-type Pokémon for using your Bite attacks on me,' Arcanine said to the three Poison-type Pokémon as he then used Bulldoze on them, inflicting super effective and critical damage on them.
"Uh… what just happened here?" the surfing celebrity asked as he had no idea at had just transpired.
"Her Arcanine has the ability known as Justified," I explained to him and the crowd. "Justified is an ability that's thought to be known only to the Swords of Justice back in the Unova region."
"But various other Pokémon have Justified as their ability if they or their parents were born in the Dream World," added Benny. "Arcanine is one of those Pokémon that has the Justified ability."
"What does it do?" asked another onlooker.
"Every time my Arcanine is hit by a Dark-type attack, his physical Attack stat is increased by one stage.
"Well… let's see that mutt try and use his Bulldoze on my Zubats, yo!" the female Skull idiot said as she called on her three Bat Pokémon.
"No worries… I have an app for that," Kimberly said as a pink fairy-like Pokémon wings and green tips on her ears came out of a Luxury Ball on her own and made her way to standing on the back of her Arcanine. "And my app knows how to deal with problems that make it difficult for my Arcanine to battle against Flying-type Pokémon.
'I'm… ON IT!' the shiny female Clefable exclaimed happily as she used Gravity on the three Zubats, catching them completely off guard.
'Gah! N-not the move Gravity!' cried out the surprised Zubats.
'Now to sweep them aside,' Arcanine said as he used Bulldoze on the three helpless Zubats that were stuck on the ground vulnerable to Ground-type attacks like his Bulldoze attack.
With the glaring of the crowd stabbing at the Skull idiots like a Leaf Blade attack, the three Skull idiots threw the Dive Ball back to Kimberly as shouted that they'd be back for revenge on her and her Arcanine. Once the three numbskulls had retreated, Kimberly's Arcanine then began to take a sudden interest in me as he began to sniff in my direction until Kimberly then snatched the shiny male Fire-type canine Pokémon by his right ear, causing him yelp in surprise, as she said, "Sweetie, let me put this in a way you'll understand. From the waist down… her shields are up."
"Seriously, you watch Star Trek?" I asked Kimberly in surprise to the reference she made to her Arcanine.
"Not like I have a choice in manner," answered Kimberly as she rolled her eyes before recalling her shiny male Arcanine into his Dream Ball and then seeing her Goodra being corralled back towards Kimberly and the Dive Ball he let himself out of.
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"Ren… Benny, you guys made it here," Isabella said as we made our way to the apartment that she, Cynthia, Shelby and Benjamin were renting for the five months they told to stay in Alola. "Unfortunately, Cynthia isn't here right now. She's with her big brother and her new swimming partner, Brionne on the beach."
"Wait… Cynthia has a new swimming partner?" I asked as I was surprised at the new development. "I thought her big brother, Victini, was her swimming partner."
'He was,' chimed in Rika, Isabella's shiny female Meowstic sister, 'but Cynthia felt that he's been too… focused on the human females than helping her prepare for the preliminaries for the Tapu Fini swimming competition across the Alola region.'
"I see," replied Benny. "I think Cynthia made a wise choice to switch to a new partner for swimming practice."
"Yeah, but going to Pokémon School really sucks," said Isabella as she rolled her eyes. "I figured once we were through with the tutors back in Sol Palace, our education was done."
"Well… Benny and I came for the surfing competitions and…" I began to say until I noticed something on Isabella's left arm, a white armband that was quite new. "What's that on your arm? You get new jewelry from some idiot in a bento brawl?"
"No, the four of us each got one of these Z-Rings from the local deity Pokémon here on Melemele Island," answered Isabella. "We got it from a Pokémon called Tapu Koko."
'Heh, when he approached Isabella, Tapu Koko was a bit afraid because he saw her catch three Flame Burst attacks and swallow them like a meatball,' Rika added with a slight telepathic chuckle.
"Ugh… it's time for us to get to the Pokémon School," snorted Isabella in disgust. "We've been at it and the four of us still don't like being there. Still, we need to meet them at the Pokémon School."
'Why not come with us?' offered Rika as Isabella put her Love Ball necklace on around her neck. 'I'm sure the others would like to see you two.'
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"Hey there Isabella," a girl with green pigtails greeted Isabella before noticing me and Benny behind her. "Oh? You brought guests with you?
I became uncomfortable when the green haired girl looked at Benny, becoming infatuated with him and said, "Hello handsome cutie."
'Isabella and I hate to be the bearer of bad news,' began Rika as she moved quickly to stop any further attempts to hit on Benny, 'but he's already spoken for. So you might wish to cease any future attempts to hit on him.'
"Aw man…," moaned the green haired girl as she walked towards a classroom.
"Ren… Benny…?" Cynthia asked as she was entering the school grounds from behind us.
'Ah… so the Surfing Queen and Surfing Prince have come to join our ranks,' added Cynthia's Victini big brother with a smile on his face.
"We just came for the surfing competitions," Benny corrected the cute little Psychic/Fire-type Victory Pokémon. "We've had enough schooling."
"We said the same thing, but still we're here," Cynthia said before letting out a sigh. "At any rate, let's get to class before the bell rings."
As Benny, Ronginku, Koji and I followed Cynthia, Isabella and their Pokémon, Victini's ears twitched and he let out a telepathic sigh and shook his head. Cynthia took notice of this and looked at Victini as if to ask him "They're back again?" I looked at Victini and towards the entrance of the Pokémon School and noticed three motorcycles and familiar unpopular idiots that the four of us encountered back on the big beach where the preliminary competition for entry into the Sparksurfer had been held. Ronginku and I shook our heads in perfect synch as they arrived at the Pokémon School. Those three had no idea what they were going to face when they would try to face Ronginku.
"Hey! Hey!" the tall skinny Skull idiot shouted to the people on the grounds of the Pokémon School. "Team Skull is in the house, yo!"
"And we here to collect from all y'all our protection fee," added the Skull fatso trying to act tough.
"By the grace of Lord Arceus, not those three again," I moaned after hearing them trying to act tough.
'We thought the Kalos Princess put them in their place,' added Ronginku as she too was annoyed by the Skull idiots.
"This is fourth time this month they've come back," complained a blonde haired in an all-white outfit and white beach hat.
"Then we need to put them down," I said with venom in my tone as I was annoyed by the Skull idiots. "Come on Ronginku, let's put them down with a message that needs to be hammered in hard."
'I am with you Ren,' agreed Ronginku as she gave me a slight nod in agreement.
"Huh? But wait a minute!" the blonde girl tried to protest as me and Ronginku went to face the Skull idiots.
Once Ronginku and I had gone out to the courtyard, we greeted the Skull idiots who weren't happy to see me or Ronginku again. Another person had come into the courtyard of the Pokémon School as he had arrived on the back of a Charizard and even both he and the Charizard weren't happy to see the Skull idiots.
"Alright old man, now hand over the Charizard or else ya gonna face our wrath," the Skull fatso threatened the man who had recently arrived at the Pokémon School.
"When will you ever learn to not make threats you can't back up?" the man asked the Skull idiots as they set their Pokémon out against him.
Before the Skull idiots could reply or even issue a single command, Ronginku and I stepped forward with daggers in our eyes as we brandished our secret weapon. I had Mega Bracelet on my right wrist and Ronginku had her Gardevoirite Mega Stone necklace around her neck. Before the man could say anything the fatso Skull idiot then took notice and panicked as he knew what was about to go down.
"Uh oh, they've got Z-Move… I think!" the Skull fatso cried out in terror. "Or is it Mega Evolution?!"
The man was surprised to hear that Ronginku and I had ability to perform Mega Evolution and was interested to see what we had in store for the Skull idiots. Everyone else had gathered nearby and were watching the soon to be one shot to end all battles. Three people in the small crowd had never even heard of Mega Evolution, but were interested to see it up close and personal.
"Now Ronginku, let's show these wannabe gangsters our true strength," I said to my cherished companion and older Pokémon sister. "Let's show them that our hearts beat as one and our strength joins together to become one."
My Mega Bracelet and Ronginku's Mega Stone resonated with each other perfectly as they both came to life and their energies fused together. Then Ronginku was bathed in a bright light as she began to change form right before everyone's eyes. Her white dress changed to look like a black ballroom gown with black gloves on her arms and then the orange horn on her chest opened up like it was blooming into a flower of sorts. The students who were watching were quite surprised to see Ronginku mega evolving into Mega Gardevoir.
"Uh… what's going on with that Pokémon?" the shorter girl asked as she witnessed Ronginku mega evolve.
"It's called Mega Evolution," a guy in lab coat answered the short girl. "Though I never thought there'd be a trainer who had a Pokémon that could mega evolve."
"This looks bad, yo," the Skull fatso said as his three Pokémon shook in terror at the sight of my mega evolved sister, Ronginku.
"It don't matter," replied the tall skinny Skull idiot as he called on his three Pokémon. "We still outnumber them. It's nine against one."
'You'll regret thinking that numbers will scare me,' Ronginku said to the Skull idiots who called on their Pokémon.
"You know what to do, Ronginku," I said to my shiny female Psychic/Fairy-type Embrace Pokémon sister. "Get rid of them."
'With pleasure my cherished sister,' replied Ronginku before using her Dazzling Gleam with such power the Skull idiots and the students of the Pokémon hadn't seen before.
All nine Pokémon were knocked out with little effort and were sent flying with their idiots blasting off high into the sky. Once they were gone, Ronginku reverted back to her regular self and confused the Alola students as to why Ronginku reverted back to her original self. The man in the lab coat had to explain that Mega Evolution was temporary and allowed the wielder to have power to go toe to toe with legendary Pokémon on equal footing.
"I'm sorry guys, but this is Ren Kaiou," Isabella said to the Alola natives. "Her Pokémon with her is her Gardevoir, Ronginku. With them is Ren's boyfriend, Benny Abyss and his companion, the shiny male Braixen, Koji."
While Benny and I were getting to know the natives, we had no idea that we were being watched by an unknown party outside of the school grounds.
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3rd person POV
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"Lady Lusamine, Team Skull has once again made an attempt at the Pokémon School on Melemele Island," an Aether grunt reported to the leader of the Aether Foundation.
"Again?" asked the blonde haired leader of the Aether Foundation as she was annoyed to hear that Team Skull had made another attempt at the Pokémon School. "Who does that Guzma think he is to attack a school just for Pokémon?"
"By the way Lady Lusamine," the female Aether grunt said to her leader, "they were thwarted by a single trainer and her very powerful Pokémon."
Lusamine raised an eyebrow in interest as she saw the photo that had been taken from surveillance that was keeping an eye on the Pokémon School where her daughter was at. Lusamine looked at the photo and saw Ren and her shiny female mega evolved Gardevoir, Ronginku before the Dazzling Gleam that sent the Skull grunts blasting off.
"I think that might be the Surfing Queen and her Gardevoir surfing partner," the female Aether grunt reported to Lusamine. "I remember seeing her when I was on a vacation in the Kanto region and I saw them competing in a surfing competition in the Seafoam Islands.
"I think she's some kind of princess in real life," finished the female Aether grunt.
Lusamine's eyes widened when she heard the grunt mention that the girl in the photo might be a princess in real life. After pausing for a few minutes, Lusamine gathered her thoughts and looked back to one of her trips that she had taken recently to the Atlantica Islands in the past few years. The 40 year-old blonde leader of the Aether Foundation was not liking the developing situation and certainly wanted to avoid dragging the Kaiou royal house into her plans.
"Lady Lusamine?" the female Aether grunt asked her mistress. "Is everything alright?"
"No," answered Lusamine. "We have a problem. It seems that the firstborn of the Kaiou royal house's ruler is here in Alola. You were right in saying that she's a princess in real life."
"So… what do we do if we want to avoid bringing a royal family into conflict against us?" the Aether grunt asked Lusamine.
"It's simple," answered Lusamine, "we make sure that the Surfing Queen is nowhere near any conflicts that might involve battles between us and Team Skull.
"As for the newcomers," continued Lusamine, "I'll admit that I wasn't expecting to see the firstborn daughter of two of the strongest members of the Atlantica Islands' Elite Four sitting below the current co-champions."
The female Aether grunt paused for a moment to think and then had a light bulb click on as she got what her mistress was saying. The grunt apparently was from the Atlantica Islands herself and had washed up on the shore of an island in the Alola region where Lusamine found her with amnesia. At least that was the ploy being laid out.
"And what about that girl who swallowed fire and used it against the Skull grunts?" the female Aether grunt asked her mistress as they looked at the photo of Isabella swallowing the three Flame Burst attacks like a spicy meatball.
"She's the firstborn child of the former Sinnoh League champion and a native man from a clan who use fire magic," explained Lusamine. "But I have to say that her skill is quite advanced to swallow fire and not even be burned by it. I don't think any those who still practice fire magic here in Alola are that skilled.
Once all of the explanations were finished Lusamine looked to the grunt and finished, "Thank you for the information, you can go now."
Once the Aether grunt had dismissed, she went towards a storage closet where another Aether grunt was unconscious. This grunt was the same grunt exactly like the grunt who was standing. The grunt who was standing then pressed a series of buttons on her wrist pad and dispelled her disguise to reveal her true self. She had plasma orange hair with frosted blue tips that made her look like a Rotom. She wore nothing but a skin tight midnight blue dive suit with thumb-less gloves with her wrist pad on her right wrist, a specially made electromagnetic knife held on a leg holster and no footwear on her feet. Taking a deep breath, she looked to the prone and unconscious Aether grunt as she said, "I'm sorry, but it was necessary to know what the Aether Foundation knows. Now that we know you're inching ever close to learning about us, we can't have your organization snooping around where it doesn't belong.
Letting out another sigh, she looked to the computer that the grunt was carrying with her and said, "I'm sorry, but your computer will be destroyed once I enter it. You will… get a new one soon." With those words, she entered the computer screen and disappeared, letting the grunt's computer be destroyed and the hardware getting fried as the Aether grunt awoke to the sound of her computer getting fried and dying.
"No, no, no," the Aether grunt said as her computer died on her. "And this was my favorite gaming computer too!"
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Author's note: And cut! Another chapter in the books. Hope you guys like this chapter.… and that Serena at least hasn't been forgotten completely. Please read and review. The next chapter is coming soon. Until then, see ya later. ^_^