StevenZ12: Good day to y'all, I hope that you are doing well. As for me it's going pretty good i'd say. Got my promotion, got my schooling almost done. Pokemon wise there's Arceus, Legend of that's coming out soon and it honestly looks pretty damn good. Hopefully the game actually delivers and gives more inspirations for fanfics and games alike. That's what I hope. If not, been a bit review starved, so i'm walking in the dark. Oh Well, I still enjoy writing the story so I will keep going. Without further ado, let's jump in this accion packed chapter!
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Chapter 29: Prototype 1 - Calamity of the Grove.
A loud syren blared in the entire facility. All lights turned red, with beams of light flaring all around the facility corridors and rooms. Tied up in a locked room, a familiar face of ours stirred up, sporting a foggy memory and a massive headache.
''Owowow...That hurt way too much...'' Groaned Sven, rubbing his head as he got up. He patted his head in search of injury and was relieved to see that there was none apparent, no blood. Next to him was the young phlask, freshly woken by the siren.
''Hey little guy...You okay over there?'' Asked the poison type trainer as he craddled the small pokemon in his arms and got up.
The small poison type nodded, shaking in the trainer's arms. ''I...O..okay...'' he said, still sounding and looking incredibly frightened.
Sven took pity on the small Pokemon, probably overwhelmed by everything that was happening. Thinking quickly, he presented a Pokeball to the small poison type.
''Look little one, there's no time. I can catch you right now and release you right after once we are in safety. We need to get out of here.'' Sven proposed to the small poison type.
Phlask took little time thinking about it. He jumped on the Pokeball, getting sucked inside without any struggle.
Sven smiled at that, that was one problem taken care of. Now, he didn't know exactly what was going on, but judging by the all red lights and the Alarm blaring, he knew that he had to hightail out of there quickly.
''Well gotta get the hell away from here.'' He said as he sprinted toward the door of the now empty warehouse. Fortunately, the alarm seemed to have unlocked every single doors. Sven rushed outside of the room and quickly ran outside of the facility, the warehouse section being fortunately close to the exit for safe storage purposes. He was fortunate too because not to long afterward, a loud, mechanical roar was heard and the top of the facility quite litterally exploded, releasing a massive amount of Steam in the sorrounding areas. Amidst the steam, a massive shadow was cast, immediately raising the temperature by several degrees. The steam did recede however, quickly transforming into smoke, the presence of the monster litterally burning everything around him. A gust of wind created by all this rising hot air blew around Sven's area, finally showing what was inside.
''Arceus...Almighty...'' He muttered, in complete fear.
The sight in the middle of the smoke and steam was indeed terrifying. It was immense, easily surpassing the 9 feets mark. It was all golden brown bronze. His massive body completely encased with it, with a flame mane cascading on his back. His plated arms, complete with a set of four fingers, were balled into a fist as the beast screamed bloody murder. The scream made Sven cover his ears in pain. It was a scream of pure madness to him. His fire made the sourrounding feel like hell itself, and Sven could feel his skin start drying fast due to the intense heat. The beast's feet, armored by the same golden bronze plating, was complete with a set of three toes, like the ancient statue of the real world babylon. The Monster turned toward Sven, showing his facial features...or lack thereof. The only thing looking like a face being the porthole of a submarine, filled with fire , where one flame like eye was present. It screamed again and made one step toward the Nuevo native.
''Holy Shit...Is this the way I go?'' Sven asked himself, thinking that on insight, it would be a very ironic way to lose his life. The lentimas native stood up.
''No, If I go down, I go down swinging and my Pokemon escapes...'' He reasoned, steeling his resolve as he grabbed his Nidoking's Pokeball.
Just as he was about to release his trusty partner...the beast shut down completely. Not moving, not screaming, the flame on his back completely gone.
Sven was puzzled by this behavior. Only then, he realized that on top of the beast's head, there was an antennae like appendage that was now flashing red.
''Wh..what the heck is that?'' He asked out loud to nobody in particular. Of course, nobody answered that question.
The antennae flashed once again, making the beast rise to live again, making for a very eerie spectacle. The flames came back abruptly, burning several trees once again. This action caused many bird Pokemon to fly away, some toward the city, other deeper in the neighbouring forest. The non flyier quickly started fleeing the area, making Sven grit his teeth at the level of threat this monstrosity was posing. Then, the beast screeched once more, a ring of fire reputing from his joints, accompanied by a lot of steam, encasing the area in more steam. Then it turned away from Sven, walking slowly but with great strides toward the east mountainous area. Each step of the giant seemed to burn the sourroundings to a crisp. Sven sweated, not liking the direction it was taking, since there was the direction of the next village he had planned to bring his two companions. Close to it was the Achichiacpan Grove ravine, which arbored a small temple. This beast would make one bite of anyone or anything over there if he reached. Gritting his teeth, He ran after the beast, knowing that he had a duty to try to stop it.
''Get back here you hellspawn!'' Shouted the Nuevo native as he ran after the beast.
In the achichiacpan ravine, the old priestess, matron of the temple was making her ablutions with her acolytes when all the Shibalbats around the temple activated at the same time. This was hardly a normal circumstance, as they would only activate simulatenously if they felt a disturbance from their spirits residing in Xotecbalbà. Near them was a known amyaket warrioress, having went back to this temple to pay her respect to Patama, which was revered in the temple, and as well to protect the codex. She saw the activation and quickly made her way toward the matron.
''Cihualtlamacazqui! The sacred protectors have all awakened and are making one hell of a noise... What is going on?'' She asked aggressively.
The other acolytes looked at the Ocelotl with anger in their eyes. While they knew the reputation of the jaguar jungle warriors, it never sat well with them that they would talk to the Matron with such lack of reverance in their voice. However, nobody dared talk back when she did, if not the matron herself.
''I have seen that. The omens of the last few days were already bad, but I had no idea that it would be this dire... A calamity is on its way here...'' She said gravely.
Malitzin frowned, immediately releasing her Absol, Yoalli. ''In that case, I shall go deal with the menace. The sun God kill me if I don't deal with that. Protect the Codex with your life i while I'm gone.'' She said loudly before hopping on her Absol, who took off.
The old priestess looked at the eager Amyaket enforcer's quickly dissapearing form before turning toward the Large Patama statue that was behind her seat. ''Protect that child...will you Patama...?'' She prayed softly. At that moment, a ray of light pierced the canopy, illuminating the statue. However, the Cihualtlamacazqui wasn't completely relieved. The calamity that was incoming could very much mean their end.
Malitzin felt the wind rush on her skin, her Absol running at full speed toward the calamity. Having an Absol was a blessing to a Jaguar warrior. No other Pokemon was as adept to sense disasters as them, making them excellent trackers. Yoalli was exceptionnal at this. Although, all around her, Pokemon were fleeing in the opposite directions. From small bug types to relatively large forest dwellers, they were all panicked and wild, stampeding away from a single point west.
The beautiful Amyaket grit her teeth, that was indeed not good. Having been raised all her life in harmony with nature and Pokemon, she could feel their fear and distress in her bones. Whatever they were fleeing from, must have been something beyond nature itself.
''Faster, my beast of the night. Whatever is causing this much distress must be dealt with!'' She egged her mount on
''I hardly can go any faster, Tlacahua...But for you, I shall...'' Expressed the disaster hound before snarling and rushing even faster.
The sorroundings became a blur. Normally, The Adrenaline of mounting her Absol would have filled Malitzin with intense pleasure, but right now, It only sharpened her senses.
''I must be ready to lay my own life in order to stop whatever is up ahead...'' She thought as she gripped Absol's fur harder.
Around them, the air was heating up slowly and surely, until it became as hot as a stove. The lush green environnement slowly making way more and more to burning trees, charred bushes and terrain and a bordeline unbearable irony scent in the air. The air was hotter than ever and the ground was getting very uncomfortable to walk on. However, both beast and Pokemon, laser focused on their task, didn't let that stop them as they continued to make their way to the source of that heat.
Not to long after...they saw, they heard and the vision borderline Paralyzed them with fear.
The huge 'Calamity' was a hulkish automaton of bronze and Flame that was launching devastating jets of fire toward a Purple Dinosaur like Pokemon and a relatively tall human. A pale face. Her insides twisted. Looking back at the creature, it was acting so erratically and mechanically that the Amyaket couldn't tell if it was a Pokemon or something else entirely. In her confusion, her insides tightened in anger. Anything unnatural had to be the Pale Faces doing... As such, she ran toward the two, hoping of her Absol who took off after her.
''Yoalli, Dark Pulse on both of them...'' She said as she released her ianima, Ocelopilli.
''My Ianima, let's destroy this Pale face creation! Mach Punch!''
Wordlessly, the stoic female fighter Pokemon's fist glew white as she jumped toward the beast with every intension to destroy it until it was a hunk of smoking metal.
''Curse you, curse all of you outsiders...!'' She swore under her breath.
Sven had released his Nidoking and had been fighting the beast for a good 15 minutes, escaping death by carbonization a few times when he remarked a jet of black intertwining circles full of darkness energy rushing right at him and the beast.
''Nidoking! Watch out !'' He cried out to his titan of poison.
''What out for wh-WHOA !'' replied the poison beast before slapping his tail hard on the ground, making a wall of rock appear to block the attack incoming his way. The other jet did strike the beast, who let out a terrfying roar of Pain before turning eastward, in the direction of the blast.
''YOU!?'' Sven shouted unpon reconizing the figure on the other side.
A jade clad, tan, beautiful native female was on the other side, her Absol faithfully at her side. She looked pissed. Very pissed. Before the said female could respond however, a loud, metallic impact resounded around the area, making the Nuevo native flinch. Looking back at the direction of the noise, he could see a humanoid like Pokemon jumping back toward the jade clad woman, her left fist slightly charred from hitting white hot metal.
''Yeah, it's me, you ball-less pale face. I take it that you remember me?'' She spat disdainfully, her eyes never fully leaving the flaming beast, who was a bit stunned by the blow.
Sven sweatdropped. ''Damn, who fucked you wrong this morning?'' He asked without really thinking about what he was saying.
Malitzin didn't even spare him a blush, launching 4 razor sharp Hul-Che at him in a blink of an eye. Sven barely dodged, with one Hul-Che scoring a glancing hit on his cheek, drawing blood.
Sven's eyes widened. ''ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?'' He shouted loudly, glaring at the Amyaket Ocelotl.
Malitzin was hardly impressed. ''You had it coming, outsider! Why did you bring this calamity close to our temple?'' She accused sharply.
The beast shook its head, slowly resuming his slow, destructive walk toward the east, undisturbed.
Sven sighed in aggravation. ''I have nothing to do with that. I was trying to stop it!'' He howled as he extended his arm forward. ''Nidoking, stop the beast with Earthquake!'' He also commanded the gigantic dinosaur.
''Crazy bitch...But right now, YOU stop right there...!'' Muttered the drill Pokemon before jumping and landing hard on the ground, creating a massive brown shockwave that slammed into the beast.
The howl was terrifying. It had hurt. In retaliation however, the Beast lifted both fist in the air, steam forming all around it as the air became superheated.
''Uggh...Listen Malitzin, right now, we have to stop that thing. You can try to kill me afterward... OK?'' He asked loudly as he ran toward her, his Nidoking in tow.
Now that he was closer, Malitzin reconized the pale face that was accompanying the white haired pup and her prey. The remembrance of her claiming that tan pale face's lips...what was his name...? Andre?...right.
The remembrance of her claiming Andre's lips quickly sent a pleasurable shiver down her spine, despite the situation. She however could tell, that Sven was strong. When you were trained to fight ever since you were old enough to walk, you just felt these things about people.
''Hmph. Well keeping you alive mean that I will see my prey again. And you are right. Stopping this calamity comes first. If you get in the way though, I won't hesitate to sacrifice you if it can give us the strenght to win.'' She warned.
Sven sighed, expecting that much from Malitzin at this point. ''That's a deal. Let's do this shit. We got to.'' He said before releasing his Necrow.
''10-14 - Preparing to lay the Infernal to rest...'' He shouted as both his Necrow and Nidoking stared at him, looking weirded out.
Sven looked back, with Malitzin itching to spear him with her Hul-Che. ''What?'' he asked.
Nobody answered as their attention was immediately attracted back to the Beast that lowered his arms, his metal hide red hot. The beast rose his hands again, with even more steam coming out of his joints.
Sven's eyes widened. ''Not good! He's stoking...'' He said fearfully.
Malitzin cocked his head. ''What do you mean?'' She asked.
The Nuevo native didn't respond, instead showing by pointing his finger to the prototype, who's metal now turned white with heat.
The Amyaket warrior put a brave face on, but inside, her stomach was melting at such intense concentration of Power.
The beast then turned toward the two, extending his arms toward them.
Sven immediately knew what was coming. He grabbed Malitzin and slammed her to the ground, him following.
''Return your Pokemon to your side Maltizin , Quick!'' He said in a voice that allowed no talkback.
She complied while grumbling a bit.
Sven smiled and did the same with his Pokemon, leaving only his Nidoking out. One glance between the two was sufficent. The hulkish dinosaur knew what to do.
The Nidoking punched the ground... and within seconds, everything for them became white.
At several kilometer above the fight, an helicopter was surveilling the zone. To his board was a red haired man, watching the scene unfold with his military grade binoculars. He had a very stylish all black tuxedo on, a gold outline on all of his sleeves and pants frames. He had lacked black shoes as well as black socks. A gold hankerchief was completing the attire. On his lap was resting a black Umbreon, purring away undisturbed at being so high up. Her form was glowing purple, giving her an even more eerie appeareance. Next to him, a tall, burly man with similar clothes and a Black Lab coat on with a remote and a tablet was observing the scene closely as well. The Helicopter itself was big enough for some other scientist to take measures with various instruments and that is what they were doing. Wordlessly, as to not disturb the very important guest that was with them.
A wicked smile was on the black clad man's lips. ''Marvelous...such intense Fire Power, which powerful destruction...No matter how often I see scenes like these...I cannot help but feeling fascinated about it.'' He said softly to no one in particular.
''As my master says...I pity the Pokemon down there...'' Said a voice telepathically.
The man smiled, gently caressing the Umbreon's chin with a finger, earning himself a contented purr from his strongest Pokemon.
''You can't fool me, Negra. You throuroughly enjoy their suffering...'' He chuckled, making the black cat eyes open as a cruel smile formed on her lips.
''Happiness alone cannot make the world turn right. For all of happiness must exist the same amount of misfortune. I merely enjoy watching that side of life...'' She said wickedly while giggling a little bit and gratifying the fingers scratching her with an appreciative lick.
The man nodded gravely before turning toward the burly man. ''Cocytus, how long until Prototype 1 reaches that filthy rathole of a temple? The Achichiapan, I believe.'' He asked the executive.
Cocytus checked his readings, then replied. ''Yes. Ren sir. In 30-45 minutes at most. It seems that Eronze is being stalled by someone or something. But it is nothing to be feared. His Power should be more than enought to wash that temple away from the map and whatever could stand in between him and the objective.'' He reassured without an ounce of fear, which Ren appreciated. Cocytus wasn't a boot licking type of subordinate, which honestly was a welcome change of pace.
Being who he was, he knew that boot licking was inevitable, but he'd rather have subordinates that could think for themselves aside of being hounds for his attention. He did roll his eye when he mentionned the Prototype's name however.
Eronze...The Bronze age Pokemon. A Monstruous beast created by the Gods in order to show mankind and Pokemon Kind the error of their ways and the importance of respecting nature and each other alike. To him, such tales used to be Ludicrous tales from People refusing to change, but after their discovery of tangible proof of their existence, had them search for parts to recreate their Power. That project definitely had bore fruit as he was witnessing a Proto-Eronze burning the Forest to the ground below. That hulkish automaton of metal was now just a weapon in his hands, and he would use it.
Remembering something else, the man typed a few things on his phone then layed back on his comfy seat. ''This is going smoothly so far. Let's pray that it keeps up...'' He said as he closed his eyes, deciding to enjoy some rest, confident that his subordinate would keep the good work up.
Down in the Achichiapan ravine, a small bip was heard. The bip was what woke up the agent from his drowsiness. Looking down at it, he smiled. The long awaited distraction had finally arrived. Tapping his faithful colt awake from the crag he was in, he got out of it, cover and all. What he saw was utter madness.
An array of burning trees was filling the air with the scent of charred wood. Even the grounf itself was blackened. Close to the temple he was monitoring, a line of big Bat Pokemon had formed a massive yellow wall that spared them from certain death. However, the being there meant that they coudln't protect the back of the temple, where he knew his target was.
''Seems that our client went crazy on the prep. Let's go Colt, we have to go!'' He said as they moved quickly toward the temple.
With his unparallel stealth and lack of defensor due to the extreme circumstances, the thief came in, took what he had to take and vanished, quickly fleeing further east to the next massive town. He was almost laughing at how easy it was.
''Those fools really need to protect these better. A simple calamity should not ease my job to that point. '' He commented as he left toward the horizon.
Back in Ground Zero, Malitzin and Sven emerged from their impromptu protection hole that Nidoking had created in extremis. Anymore seconds and they would have been utterly carbonized by the pressured flames jet launched by the beast.
Malitzin emerged first quickly, jumping quite high and gracefully landing like a cat. When she looked at the landscape, she could only let out a squeak of disbelief.
Sven also emerged and when he gazed upon his sorroundings, he honestly wished he hadnt.
''Arceus Almighty...'' He muttered in pure terror and shock.
The sorrounding areas looked like they were taken straight out of a warzone horror movie. The victiny had been napalmed, for a lack of a better term. The ground was completely charred to the point that litteral lava had formed in spots around them, raising the temperature of the sorrounding area to the point like they could have been close to the heart of a volcano. Charred corpses of unfortunate Pokemon that hadn't been able to get out of the blast zone were visible on the edge of the blast zone as the bulky beast howled mechanically, steam coming out of his form. Clearly it was recharging. What wasn't completely vaporized by the fire attack was still buring, filling the air with an unbearable scent of burning wood and plants. It was utter destruction, utter violence. Sven, unable to properly process what he had seen, quickly turned away and vomited. It was how graphic the scene unfolding before him was. Some Pokemon, carbonized by the blast, still held a rigid expression of pure terror on their faces... It was honestly terrifying.
''Hey pale Face! Don't grow weak on me here. We need to take care of this monster now or it'll destroy everything!'' Malitzin said in an attempt to wake Sven from his terror induced stupor. However, unbeknowst to her, her legs were shaking.
Sven did not miss this. ''You say that, but how can you even fight on those trembling legs you little rincheg...'' Sven retorted.
Malitzin stared at him blankly for a second. You could see the joke flying right over her head
Sven's starter, Gilla , also had to hold back a sigh. ''How can you crack these horrible jokes at a moment like this..?'' He complained to his trainer.
''Nido!'' Agreed his hulking dinosaur Pokemon.
Sven grew embarrassed and sheepishly rubbed the back of his head...''Leave me alone, it's my way of coping okay!'' He explained as he turned toward the beast once again.
Said beast let out a Roar of fury, signaling that he was done recharging. Once again, he started his heavy stepped march toward the achichiapan ravine... his mere presence causing the fire to spread.
This snapped the poison type trainer out of it. Now wasn't the time to be traumatized, now was the time to act to destroy that beast.
Shaking his head, he slapped his cheeks hard before looking back at the beast. His expression had changed.
''Come on you Lazy Amyaket. Let's transform that thing into scrap Metal. Nidoking, Earth Power!'' He commanded, trusting his hand forward.
Malitzin grit her teeth. On what nerve did that pale face was insulting her like this. However she did appreciate him spurring into action, it allowed her to temporary forget how actually scared she felt. ''Don't make me kill you first, you disgusting pale face. My Ianima, to my side. Sky uppercut!'' She shouted as her Ocerumi jumped toward the beast straight from out of her Pokeball.
The giant poison dinosaur Punched the ground violently, sending a straight line of pure sismic energy toward the beast as the giant recoiled from a vicious uppercut, curtesy of a very angry Battle-Ready Pokemon.
The blast from Earth Power engulfed the beast which howled in pain. Normally, this would have made sven flinch, but right now, he was way past the point of caring. ''Nidoking, Earth Power Once More!'' He commanded mercilessly.
Now feeling once again like a Jaguar warrior, the Amyaket warrior shouted like a banshee, trusting her hand forward. Ocerumi also let out a powerful battlecry and launched herself at the hulking beast, raining holy wrath of blows onto him.
The beast retaliated by swinging his now glowing arms around, knocking both Pokemon away. It didn't do as much damage, but from the nasty burns marks that were left, their Pokmeon wouldn't be able to bear many hits like this.
''We gotta wrap this up quickly before that thing burns the whole forest off.'' Sven warned the jaguar warrior.
Malitzin grit her teeth in frustration. '' I had figured that out, dickless... Now how do we do this?'' She replied rudely.
Sven's forehead grew a tick mark. ''Didn't you want to bone my friend Andre? If you want a chance at that you better stop fucking cursing and listen closely to what i'll say.'' He replied without ending
Maltizin opened her mouth...and closed it, stunned speechless. Her mind quickly remembered how deliciously pleasurable it had been to kiss the lentimas native in front of a very obvious love interest and knew full well she wanted to dominate him. It was in her nature, to be on top, to be an alpha. But now, if she indeed wanted a chance at that...she'd have to listen to another pale face. Not allowing herself to blush, the Amyaket warrior threw an Hul-Che at Sven, purposely aiming for the projectile to graze his cheek. ''One more provocation like that, you dickless pale face, and I will throw an Hul-Che straight through your skull... Now i'm all ears...'' She said as she came closer, their Pokemon occupying the beast as to stop his advance toward the ravine.
On the helicopter above, Dr. Cocytus was narrowing his eyes. His Antennae was ending him data on the proto-Eronze every second. It listed his stamina, his moves, his current stoking level and many other data that would be used on other projects. However, he could see that the beast's stamina gauge was steadily decreasing. It was a bit fascinating, as the beast was made pretty bulky by design.
''Ren sir...'' He called.
The red haired Man looked at him lazily, barely opening his eyes. ''What is it?''
''The Prototype is steadily losing stamina but his stoking is now reaching unprecedented level.'' He said as-matter-of-factly.
Ren nodded. ''I see.'' he replied as he looked at his phone. Smirking at what he saw, he turned to Cocytus, now wide awake. ''The hidden objective has been achieved...now command him to create another of the explosion... but using his entire power this time. I want to test him as a true weapon of destruction now...'' He said.
His umbreon growled in anticipation... She sure liked the sound of that.
Cocytus narrowed his eyes. ''Sir if we do that, then he will have to refuel. Should we prepare a retrieval team to get the hulk once he has finished his work?'' He asked politely.
Ren waved at him dismissively. He is merely a prototype. Once his purpose is served, he won't be of any use. I'll let you have the call on what to do with him once we are done.
The scientist nodded. ''As you wish sir.'' He said as he imputted the command on his pad.
''Pilot, raise the helicopter a few hundred meters higher. This next stoked attack will very likely cause a disturbance in the area.
The pilot did as instructed and Cocytus put his glasses on. It was about to get flashy...
End of chapter...
StevenZ12: Hey there peeps. I know it has been a while since I posted. You now how it is...Between covid, writers block, real life and all. Putting these out aint easy. But As I said, I will keep this story going until its done. It's heating up though. Have fun and stay safe guys...