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Chapter 6: Nightmare

It's been three week's since Tony Stark was taken by the Ten Rings and Riolu and Yinsen worked together to save his life. The Ten Rings were able to get everything that Tony needed to build the missile, but little did they know that's not what Tony was gonna build. Tony was pulling apart one of his weapons leaving Yinsen and Riolu confused about his plan.

"You know, we might be more productive if you include me in the planning process." But Tony continued pulling apart a rocket with his hands.

Tony got what he needed, "Okay, we don't need this." He threw away the piece of machinery away and let them see the small piece of metal that he extracted.

"What is that?" Riolu looked at it questionably.

"That's palladium, 0.15 grams. We need at least 1.6, so why don't you go break down the other 11?" Yinsen and Riolu walked away to pull apart the next rocket to get the rest of the element.

While Yinsen tore the top off Riolu gave him a look that said I don't think we should trust this guy. Yinsen spoke to Riolu in Arabic so that Tony couldn't understand them.

"Do not give me that look, were not in a situation where we choose who we can trust. Despite this man's…reputation, he doesn't want to see his weapons in the hands of those bastards and we have to help him with whatever he has planned and hope it'll include you escaping with him, understand?" Riolu looked at the stranger questionably but nodded her head in agreement and went back to getting the rest of the element.

Tony looked on nervously as Yinsen carried the melted palladium, "Careful. Careful, we only get one shot at this."

"Relax. I have steady hands. Why do you think you're still alive?" Riolu held the molded cup so that it doesn't spill while Yinsen poured the chemical in.

Tony asked, "What do I call you?"

"My name is Yinsen."

"Yinsen. Nice to meet you." Yinsen was able to carefully put the liquid in.

"Nice to meet you, too."

Tony looked at Riolu, "What about you? You got a name?"

"I call her Rani; she likes that name." Rani ruffed in agreement

"Rani. cause it starts with an R?"

Yinsen nodded, "That and it's Hindi for queen if you've been with her as long as I have you'll see that she's just as powerful and stubborn as one." Rani ruffed and held her head high in an authoritarian manner to Tony and Yinsen's amusement.

"Easy your majesty I already have two woman back home who rule over me I don't need three." Tony smiled at the memory of both Nine and Pepper, he hopes that their taking his disappearance well.

Yinsen and Rani watched on as Tony was building a circular object connected to the lights. As soon as he turned it on all the lights in the room started flicking on and off and the machine was glowing a bright blue light. Yinsen and Rani looked at the object connected to Tony's chest in awe.

"That doesn't look like a Jericho missile."

"Rio?" Rani questioned.

"That's because it's a miniaturized arc reactor. I got a big one powering my factory at home. It should keep the shrapnel out of my heart."

"But what could it generate?"

"If my math is right, and it always is, three gigajoules per second."

Yinsen was amazed, "That could run your heart for 50 lifetimes."

"Yeah. Or something big for 15 minutes." Yinsen and Rani looked at Tony curiously.

Tony took out his blueprints and piled them on the desk, "This is our ticket out of here." Rani looked curiously on Yinsen's shoulder.

"What is it?"

"Flatten them out and look." Yinsen flattened the thin papers on the table and below the lamp the scribbles came together to form a single drawing of what looked to be a bulky and powerful robot.

"Rio!" Rani finally understood what this strangers plan was and silently admired his intelligence and strategy.


While playing a game Tony wanted to know more about his fellow prisoners, "You still haven't told me where you're from."

"I'm from a small town called Gulmira. It's actually a nice place."

"Got a family?"

"Yes, and I will see them when I leave here. And you, Stark?"

Tony answered sadly, "No."

"No? So you're a man who has everything and nothing."

Tony wanted to change the subject, "What about her?" Tony looked at the sleeping Rani in her bed, "What's her story?"

"I don't exactly know her entire story, but I think I have a small part of it."

"What do you mean you think? And what small part?"

Yinsen sat back, "We'll I first met her five months ago just outside the gates of Gulmira, she was passed out and exhausted. I carried her to my home and cared for her till she woke up, the next day the news said that some soldiers found over ten dead Lucario and Riolu just a few mountains over, when she saw the news I found her on the couch sobbing."

Tony understood, "It was her family and pack."

"Yes I came to that conclusion as well, it was too much of a coincidence that she ran to Gulmira exhausted on the same day her kind were found murdered."

"Did they find who did it?"

"If they did we wouldn't be in this hellhole right now."

Tony's mind went into shock, "They…"

"Yes our lovely friends outside the door massacred her family."

"How do you know?"

"Because when she saw Abu for the first time she nearly scratched his eyes out, his Houndour got her off him and bit her hard as a reminder for her to not do that again."

Tony didn't have much time to connect with Rhea as he did with Yinsen due to the emanation Pokémon avoiding him and clinging to Yinsen at all costs. Now he understood why, apart from Yinsen the only humans she has probably ever met either shed innocent blood of both humans and Pokémon or were too blind to notice that their weapons were responsible for that bloodshed. Tony looked over at the sleeping Rani and felt sorry for this poor creature who has to work for the people that made her an orphan, he knew too well what it felt like to have your parents die all of a sudden.


Rani tossed and turned in her springy bed as she was caught in a nightmare. She and her pack were on top of the mountains trying to escape a group of man carrying guns and shooting at them. She was in her fathers arms while her mother was trying to keep up due to being shot in the knee.

Her mother collapsed when they were on the side of the mountain, "Leave me here! Take her and keep her away from these monsters!"

Her mate didn't want to leave her, "We can make it I'll carry both of you."

"I will only slow you down, our daughter's life matters more than mine if you carry both of us it will slow you down and all of us will die!" She tearfully accepted her faith and pleaded with her love, "You can't save us both I want it to be me not her, if you love us both then you need to do this please!"

Rani looked and saw tears in her fathers usually stoic face and he reluctantly nodded his head.

Rani had tears in her eyes, "Mama no! Please get up!" She leaped off her father's arms and tried to hold her mother up but she was too heavy.

The Lucario mother hugged her daughter close for the last time and whispered in her ear, "Live your life to the fullest my darling, don't blame yourself this is my choice and my choice is to love you more than my own life that is every mothers choice…I love you." She let go and her father held her against him again. Her mother was out of sight but she heard a gunshot and knew what it meant, her heart broke it half right there.

The Lucario father ran to the other side of the mountain and went inside a cave when he saw a sliver of light hoping it was a shortcut. He reached the end of the cave and both of them were scared to see that there was a pile of rocks blocking the exit but he saw a small hole in the corner that the light was coming from.

He put Rani down, "You go first and then I'll go." Rani was able to fit through the small hole and waited on the other side for her father to come out too, but he wasn't to her fear.

"Papa! What are you waiting for come on!" Only Lucario's face was able to fit through the hole but not the rest of him.

"I can't get out."

"Okay then just knock the rocks back." Her small but slightly developed ears picked up lots of footsteps coming from the other side, she could tell that the bad men were getting close.

Lucario looked at his daughters face through the small hole, "There's not enough time, I need to keep them distracted long enough for you to run."

Rani couldn't believe her ears and shouted at her father, "No! No! Please don't make me lose you too!"

Lucario kept a stoic face to make it seem like he's not afraid for his daughter, "I'm sorry my darling but there's not enough time, run as fast as you can for as long as you can please."

Rani's eyes filled with tears again she didn't want to leave but her father was gonna fight them none the less and she'd rather not be here to see her father die especially if it's for her, "I love you papa."

"I love you my darling so much, now run!"

Rani ran on cue as fast as she could and faintly heard her father fighting the pack of Houndour as well as the man with guns, tears were streaming down her cheeks as she was running. Her feet pounded the desert sand all night desperate for a village or town to seek help from. She ran for seven hours until she was in front of a small town, it was already dawn. She couldn't register anything else as her heart was beating faster and her breath was rigged, her knees gave out and she fainted flat on her face.

Rani woke up in a cold sweat in the uncomfortable bed she was lying in, she looked around and saw Yinsen and Tony also asleep in their bed. She laid back down staring at the ceiling silently praying to Arceus that this Tony Stark can get her out of here and that she will have her chance to kill every single one of those killers.