The Crimson Dragonite
Chapter
6
"The Rescue
Begins"
By:
Shadow~Of~Shadows
Author's Notes: Oh crap, I was looking through my fics and
realized this hadn't been updated since April. Instantly my muses glared at me viciously and told me to stop
procrastinating and WRITE! Feel free to
email me at lonelyshadow42@yahoo.com
and kick me viciously for not writing faster, and to kick me viciously and tell
me to WRITE faster.
Disclaimer: They sell Pokemon toys, they sell Pokemon
videos, and they sell Pokemon games. They do not sell control over Pokemon and all things therein, or I'm
sure someone would have bought it at one point or another, myself
included. So, needless to say, I DON'T
OWN POKEMON!
-~-
"So how do we get to this legendary ring?" Unicorn piped
up, looking around the circle of gang members.
"Easy one there." Said Gryphon, another gang member with
brown hair that he pulled into a short ponytail. He pulled out a Pokeball and held it up to the light.
"We fly."
-~-
The golden one flew.
He flew until his wings trembled
and ached from the flying, and until his song became mournful and pained
instead of light and joyous.
He flew as the sun set and the
moon rose, as the stars made their leisurely path through the heavens, as the
waves rose and the wind blew.
Onward he flew.
-~-
Merlin ran out of the
hideout and looked around. A good bit
of time had passed, and he wondered where Maria and Lyra were. Just then he heard a shout from behind him
and turned to see the two girls dressed in all new clothes and carrying
accessories.
Maria was now wearing a
pair of camouflage colored pants and a t-shirt, and carried two backpacks. She tossed one to Merlin when he was close
enough.
"That's for you." She supplied.
Lyra had picked up a pair
of khaki pants and a blue t-shirt from somewhere, and had a backpack and a pair
of sunglasses as her own. As Merlin
watched, her Pichu poked her head out of the backpack and waved at him before
ducking back inside. Merlin smiled.
Remembering the task at
hand, he turned to the two girls. "I
met up with some friends of mine…okay, my old gang." He swallowed and licked
his lips. "Lyra, we're going to save
the place you came from, because Giovanni is likely to totally destroy it in
his haste to get inside. Therefore, our
rescue attempt will have two divisions, sea and air. All will travel there by air; but at the end the sea division
will remain in the water while the air division conducts an aerial defense." He
said.
The two girls nodded
slowly.
"With me, you two will be
in the air division. We need to leave
as soon as possible. I hope you're
fully equipped?" he asked.
"Yes. C'mon, let's go get your friends and get out
of here."
Before long, an odd and
mix-matched assortment of flying Pokemon were winging their way towards the
legendary ring.
-~-
Shadow sighed, watching
the air team fly overhead. Just like
them to go off and forget about her. She leapt up into a tree and roared loudly, alerting them of her
presence.
Lyra, alone with Rex on
Blood's back, turned towards the noise and saw Shadow standing in a tree. She guided Blood down and Shadow leapt onto
the Dragonite's back. Without another
word he flew faster, catching up.
Shadow remained silent,
and the constant silence would have been unnerving if it wasn't for the fact
that Lyra was a quiet person herself.
-~-
The Rocket fleet reached the legendary ring at last.
"Sir, we've found the ring. I repeat we've found the ring, over." One of the field commanders said through a communication feed.
"Excellent. Try
and find a natural way in before we commence more devastating procedures."
Giovanni ordered from the base in Viridian.
"Yes sir. Right
away sir." The commander said back, and the feed died abruptly.
Giovanni allowed himself a chuckle.
-~-
The sense of chaos and of destruction was growing
stronger.
The golden one sang out in anguish, and Pokemon rose to
him, trying to calm him with their earthly voices even as he flew faster and faster.
The others rose and followed. The weather grew strange.
Strange weather was no match for worldwide destruction.
-~-
Maria looked up from her seat behind Merlin on the
Aerodactyl's back. "It's…It's snowing…"
she said quietly.
Merlin looked at the snow, his mouth set in a grim
line. "Not good. Something bad's going on." He turned to the
fleet and shouted as loudly as he could.
"FASTER!"
The others nodded and their Pokemon flapped their wings
harder.
-~-
The icy one looked over this fleet of manmade ships and turned to the fiery one, a foe most times, an ally now.
"Destroy the ships! Destroy! Destroy!" she shouted,
spitting a beam of ice at one of the ships and encasing it in a crackle of
clear blue.
"Destroy! Burn! Destroy it by fire! By lightning! By ice!" the fiery one shrieked, spitting flames at another ship.
It burned.
-~-
"Giovanni! Sir! Something's attacking the fleet!" the commander shouted urgently.
The rocket boss swore. "What is it?"
"Fire and ice!" the man shouted.
Giovanni shivered. That didn't sound good…
"Put up the shields! Don't give up!" he roared.
The commander muttered a reply and signed off.
-~-
The small number of gang members on their flying Pokemon
arrived, after hours of being baked and frozen. They'd made good progress, and were astonished to see that the
ships were being attacked. They couldn't
see the attackers, but decided that since a defense was being mounted, they'd
go to take out the main part of the resistance, obviously on the largest ship.
Blood looked up. "Missiles. They have missiles."
Merlin's eyes widened. He swore.
"Merlin."
The black haired ex-rocket looked over his shoulder at his
partner.
"I can hack. I can
take care of those missiles. Let's do
it! If it gets too bad, they might just
set them all off at once, and that would be catastrophic."
Merlin debated with himself for a moment, then sighed and
nodded.
"All right everyone! Let's go!" he shouted loudly.
A ragged bunch of cheers rose from behind him, and the
Pokemon dove, flying among the fleet, staying out of sight as best they could.
Rescue was on its way!