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Für Führer und Reich
Chapter 2
Ash rolled the master ball attached to his belt between his fingers. Pokéballs were not allowed on airplanes because pokémon could be used in terrorist attacks. Ash kept checking it to make sure that it remained hidden from view from the roving eyes of the flight staff. Ash of course had special privileges accorded to those who can make their own rules but not drawing attention to himself was still more important.
Ash patted down the hem of his suit coat as a stewardess asked him if he wanted a beverage. "A scotch will be fine," he said glad that he was not taking a middle eastern airline that would have some stupid alcohol prohibition. It wasn't everyday Ash was asked to wipe out a terrorist training camp and right now Ash could use the drink.
Several hours later the plane landed in Beirut. To cover his stay Ash was to meet with area leaders to promote pokémon training and pokémon merchandising in an area where in many places religious leaders for no good reason have banned it. That was to take place tomorrow. His immediate concern was to travel to the Beka Valley, find the Hamas training camp and deliver a crippling blow against them.
Ash had spent much of the day in an airplane and it would soon be evening. It would be difficult enough without having to find the camp at night. Adding to the pressures was that Axis, the giant pokémon, would not stay in that ball indefinitely. If he let her go too long without being released from the ball she would come out on her own. That was not something he wanted to have happen in downtown Beirut.
After checking into his hotel room Ash drove out into the Beka Valley. The road was at least decently maintained and the Mercedes Benz glided over the potholes with relative ease. The City of Beirut gave way to smaller villages and farms of various kinds and the chic city dwellers soon turned to burka-clad traditionalists. As Ash neared the training camp he turned off the main road and parked. He locked the doors to the Mercedes knowing that despite threats of hacking off limbs car theft was an important part of the Lebanese economy.
Proceeding on foot Ash soon found the training camp. He peered through a pair of binoculars and much to his surprise he found it far more sophisticated than he had thought it would be. In addition to the well dug in caves there were large number of permanent structures including schools and clinics. Some of the buildings bore the pockmarks of blasts indicating that they were used to test car and bus bombs. The burned out remains of cars and busses stood in testament to that fact.
Ash didn't see any nuclear fuel rods but didn't concern himself with that little detail it was unlikely that the terrorist would leave it in full view it was more than likely they were buried deep in one of the caves. He took Axis' pokéball from his belt and released her from the pokéball. Axis looked confused for a moment then gave a mournful cry then began to walk away from Ash.
"Hey where are you going?" Ash asked the pokémon rhetorically. Axis continued to walk parallel to the camp completely ignoring Ash as she picked up more speed. Ash began to lag further and further behind her.
Fortunately a pokémon who is a hundred meters tall is not easy to lose and Ash was able to at least keep her in sight. The company she found, however, encouraged him to keep some distance between himself and them. The small group contained not only several bearded men wearing fatigues and holding AK-47's but a number of out of place people in business suits. Ash peered from behind a rock and attempted to listen, to spy on the conversation. There were three men in business suits, a fourth one was wearing a suit so gaudy that Chairman Kaga would reject it, a fifth wore beige pants a red shirt and a white lab coat and a sixth wore a beige uniform with an armband with an uncertain insignia on it. The giant pokémon seemed to fixate on the latter individual.
The leader of the suits was discussing something with the apparent leader of the bearded camouflage wearing people. Within a few minutes the bulk of the gun toting thugs packed up and drove off in some waiting pick up trucks leaving their apparent leader with the suit brigade. At this point curiosity got the better of Ash and he moved down closer to the pokémon so he could hear better.
He found a safe place as close as possible to the remaining people around the pokémon. He could see that they were five Caucasians, one Arab and one Asian. Now he could hear them talking and could make out some names though he could not hear exactly what was being discussed.
The Arab man named Mohammad and the leader of the apparently European people was Kurt. Ash didn't know who the others were though the green haired Asian man did look familiar.
Ash was not in the mood to make friends he would settle for just getting the pokémon back at this point. He really did not want to have to go back and explain how he lost the pokémon because it walked away from him. Ash finally got as close as he could without being seen by anyone the only thing he could understand that was spoken was a German and Spanish accented, 'Adolf teleport her off the coast of Israel.' Ash gasped as the man in the beige uniform commanded the pokémon and jumped from behind his hiding place the master ball at the ready to try to pull the pokémon back in at that same moment the pokémon and the humans around her teleported.
The pokémon teleported herself to a point about 100 kilometers off the coast of Israel; she teleported the people in the vicinity of herself into the sea around her. The waterlogged pokémon thieves swam towards the pokémon seeking safe purchase. Needless to say their first taste of teleportation left them to believe there was room for improvement.
Kurt was the first of the group to reach the head of Axis. He shook himself off as best he could but was certain his designer suit was ruined for good. Bill was the next his clothes were ruined as well though in Kurt's opinion tossing them in the trash would be an improvement. The clone, Adolf, was next followed closely by Kurt's two subordinates who were assisting the heavily panting scientist. Last was Mohammad the training camp's leader he too was soaked though Kurt and the others believed that that was the first time he had bathed in years.
Now that the group had reassembled at the top of the pokémon they looked out to where Israel lay unknowing of its coming fate. "This will be an appropriate place for a test of this pokémon's power. Adolf, have Axis target that area," Kurt pointed to a bright spot on the horizon, "Give it an Aurora Beam full power."
The clone nodded in compliance, "Axis target that area; Aurora Beam full power!"
Axis complied. She opened her mouth and the energy attack began to coalesce. Slowly a glowing ball formed; the assembled group could feel the energy build up such that the hairs on their arms and the back of their necks stood on end. They scanned the horizon watching as darkness fell over Tel Aviv for fifteen minutes, "Well," Kurt said annoyed that nothing was happening.
"Patience," said the clone moments before the Aurora Beam discharged. A beam of energy emitted from the pokémon's mouth and blasted into the water a few kilometers off Tel Aviv. The aurora beam dug into the rock beneath the city the buildup of energy at that one point became so great that the result was a massive explosion.
The people of Tel Aviv never knew what hit them. One second they were going about their daily lives; the next the city and everything within a thirty-kilometer diameter was instantly vaporized. That included people, buildings, automobiles, and infrastructure; even the rocks of the Earth's crust down to the mantel were blown apart and sent up in a giant mushroom cloud.
At the Beka Valley training camp many of the inhabitants were aware of what was to happen. The sight of the Mushroom cloud even without sound set off cheers and shouts of, "Allah akbar!" Throughout the villages their confederates passed candy to children and people danced in the streets clapping and cheering rejoicing that their hated enemy had been destroyed. Their revelry would be short lived as soon a warm breeze began to pick up from the direction of the blast. At first it was nothing more than an unusually hot night desert breeze but within seconds it climbed to over 2000 degrees centigrade and blew at over 2500 kilometers per hour. It melted any organic matter it came in contact with almost instantly so the unlucky persons caught up in it never heard the sound of the blast a few minutes later.
The scene repeated itself throughout the Middle East though with longer times before the inevitable blast consumed them. Further out, however, there was an added terror. Red hot boulders dredged up from the bowels of the Earth rained down on the hapless citizens of the middle east who ran terrified into their houses to escape the onslaught. Doing so proved futile, if they were not crushed by falling rock the force of the blast blew them apart or the heat incinerated them.
At the blast crater a massive hole was gouged into the Earth. The force of the blast temporarily pushed back the Mediterranean Sea creating a scene eerily reminiscent of 'The Ten Commandments.' The energy that held the sea back dissipated after a short while and seawater poured into the crater onto the hot partially molten rocks deep within the planet. The water immediately evaporated to steam and blew out of the crater at supersonic speeds.
As they watched the events unfold from afar, "Magnificent," was Kurt's awestruck utterance, "her power is incredible."
One of Kurt's subordinates looked through his binoculars. "Uh, sir, we had better get out of here."
"Why? We should bask in our glor…" Kurt turned to face in the direction of Israel only to find it coming at him at twice the speed of sound. "You," he pointed to the clone, "do something, get us out of here!"
"It's too late to teleport," Adolf calmly said, "Axis use barrier." Within seconds a physic force field formed around the pokémon and the humans on her. Just as the barrier went up the leading edge of the shockwave hit them like a freight train. Despite her size and the barrier Axis was thrown back by the blast her human passengers scrambled to hold on. Mohammed, who proved invaluable towards capturing Axis, fell into the sea.
After the initial shock passed chunks of rock began to rain down. Axis roared her disapproval at being pummeled by the boulders. Her barrier was holding but she was still losing hit points. She turned away from the scene of devastation and began to walk slowly to the west.
"What is this stupid beast doing?" Kurt asked still gripping tightly to one of Axis' antenna.
"She senses danger, so she is leaving the area." Adolf said still seemingly nonplussed by any of the events that had just happened.
"Keep her still, we need to study the effects of the…"
"Oh Shit!" One of Kurt's subordinates said as he peered through a pair of binoculars.
"What now?" Kurt asked.
"The ocean was pouring into the hole." The subordinate answered.
"So what?"
"It appears that we blasted a hole down to something really, really hot."
"Steam," Kurt turned to the clone again, "teleport us back to base in South America!"
"I cannot teleport us to base in South America. She has never been there."
"She hasn't been to this spot either but she got here."
"She was within a few hundred kilometers of the area she teleported from. She cannot teleport to an entirely new area with having been there first." The clone explained.
"We had better teleport somewhere or we are going to be boiled." The other subordinate interjected.
"My lighthouse! She has been to my lighthouse. Teleport there." Bill finally came to enough to save their lives.
"Do it now!" Kurt shouted to the clone.
"Axis teleport, to the lighthouse."
Misty half watched the television as she prepared herself something to eat. The news channels had been going wall to wall with the terrorist attack in Britain and she had changed to the networks in the hopes of finding something less depressing. Unfortunately daytime TV fare seemed to involve either; 'teen lovers and cousins who marry' or 'guys who find out their lovers are she-males'. Misty took a taste of what she was making when the chants of, "Jerry, Jerry," were interrupted by a News bulletin.
"We have a breaking news story about a massive explosion in the Middle East. It is believed an unknown meteor or a comet hit the Earth in the vicinity of Tel Aviv, Israel. The object has left a nearly thirty kilometer wide crater across what was once the Israeli coastline. Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon have been wiped out by a combination of the impact and the massive cloud of steam which billowed out of the crater after the Mediterranean Sea began to fill in."
When Misty heard 'Lebanon' and 'wiped out' she fell to her knees. Her tortured cry was only, "ASH!"
End Chapter Two
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