Chapter 9: Lost is Lost
How long has she had this? Duo-Cevan asked frantically.
Like I should know! Kevin answered. She talked to me, but with something like that, you never want to tell anyone!
"What is she doing?" Mr. Eralch asked. He had not heard what Kevin explained.
Kevin looked at Mr. Eralch. "She's going mad," he said, stepping back at the approaching guards. "Assuming that her hybrid state affects the curse, she should appear to become evil and have a third conscious."
As they watched, three blood-red stripes ran up her Scyther forehead. After further waiting, she finally stood up, and gave a cold look at the approaching guards. Her eyes weren't inverted in color as Kevin's eyes were when he was Dark Cevan, but were pure red, so much that Kevin could hardly tell where her iris was in her eyes.
"What the…??" The approaching guards began. They didn't get to finish as she performed a flip and mega kicked them both into the ceiling. They hung in it for a moment before they fell to the ground unconscious.
"Hahaha!" the insane Jelza laughed in mocking tones. "Do you think your men can stop me? I'll sooner make a new opening in your throat before I kill them!"
"We've got to get out of here," Kevin said to Naria. "If she becomes more powerful as you say, then we better leave before this whole place goes up in smoke!"
"You two! Stop her with the ray!" Mr. Eralch shouted. The two guards readied their devices and fired them at Jelza. However, she quickly dodged, and threw something in the midst of all the guards blocking the door. It immediately burst in a ball of fire, not only sending the guards flying in all directions but badly burning them. She then flew out.
"Impossible!" Mr. Eralch shouted. He then looked back at Kevin. "This is all your fault!"
"My fault?" Kevin replied. "Whose fault is it that they took a recognized creature from our own world and wrote their own destruction? I was ordered to destroy your company. However, I will do nothing to your company if you just let us go." He motioned toward the open door. "Besides, I believe that you may need to worry more about her than us now."
Mr. Eralch looked at Kevin, then at the door. He then gave a growl. "Fine," he shouted, dashing out the door. "I never want to see your kind in here again!"
Kevin gave a sigh of relief, and then turned toward the hybrids. "All right," he shouted. "We have very little time. We need to make like an Electrode and get out of this world!"
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Kevin, Naria, and the hybrids managed to trace back their steps toward the portal. However, the portal wasn't active. It took very little time to realize why, as they heard evil laughter coming from down another corridor.
"Beedrill nests!" Kevin said, looking around. "Jelza must've come down this way before us and cut the power!"
"More than that," Naria said, holding up a short cable that came out from one of the columns. "She cut the cable. We won't be able to give it power!"
Kevin thought for a moment. "Wait!" he said. Focusing on the electric Essence, he fired a thunderbolt onto the columns and gave it a limit. It would be enough for him and the others with him to get through, but not anyone else. The portal opened and Kevin got down on his hands and feet. Quickly spitting a string shot to connect him and the others to each other, he stepped through the portal, fired a vine whip, and motioned for everyone to go through.
"What about yourself?" Naria asked.
"Hey, it's the leader's job to get everyone through safely!" Kevin answered.
Once the last hybrid stepped through, Kevin began to follow behind, before turning back to the portal he stepped through. "Jelza…" he said to no one.
"Kevin, you're holding us back!" Laguna shouted.
"Sorry," Kevin shouted back. He turned toward his home portal and began running, making sure his vine whip was secure and keeping contact with the bridge.
It wasn't until he was halfway before the bridge started shaking. Kevin looked up to Naria, who was already through the portal. "Naria!" he shouted. "The bridge is shaking! What's going on?"
"Jelza must be causing some serious damage over there," Naria answered. "It could be that her attacks is causing one end of the portal to be unstable!"
Kevin pulled back his vine whip, then fired it and latched it to the railing closest to the portal. Kevin began a mad dash, as he and the Raichu hybrid, named Rikki, were still on the bridge.
However, none of them were prepared for what happened next. As Naria watched, a ball of fire suddenly erupted from the opposite portal, which disappeared shortly after. The portal then faded, and the bridge literally shattered, fading into nothingness in the dimension. The string shot Kevin had made snapped in two, not only separating them from the others that were already in their home portal, but separating Kevin and Rikki.
"Aaahhh!!" Rikki and Kevin shouted as they began drifting in directions.
"Hang on!" Naria shouted. Reaching out her hands through the portal, she shot two cables from her wrists at the drifters. She managed to get around Rikki's leg, but Kevin was drifting away from them, and was too far for it to reach.
Kevin quickly fired a vine whip back at the cable that was attempting to reach him. Even through the pulls of the strange dimension, he managed to get it wrapped around the cable and tightly hold on.
"Quick! The portal's closing!" the Ursaring hybrid, Arang, exclaimed. It seemed the entrance to the dimension was fading.
"Keep the cable around your leg, Rikki!" Naria shouted. She began pulling in the two as fast as possible.
Rikki finally reached the entrance, and the others helped him in. Kevin, however, had no time as the portal collapsed and cut his vine whip where he held it.
"No!!" everyone shouted. The Lost Trainer was lost once again.