Here's chapter 11. Storyline really starts building up around the end of this one. This time, you'll notice that there isn't a name chart or cultural notes. The fact is, there aren't any this time. All names are either the same in the English version (Gyarados, Leaf Blade, etc.), or they were listed in a previous chapter's name chart.
chapter 11: THE RESIGNATION
"Stelias-san!" shouts an excited Hiro upon seeing Stelias standing in the alleyway with his I, S, and Question Mark Unknown hovering around him.
"Hiro-kun, take your Ibui and get out of here now! Let me handle this guy!" he says.
Hiro looks on for a second and says "I got it! Come on Ibui!"
Ibui was posed ready to fight Kiryuu until Hiro said this. Ibui looked at Hiro and ran over to him. They both run out of the alley.
Kiryuu lets go of his arm, which finally stopped steaming, and he talks to Stelias. "Damn you... I wanted to fight that Ibui again."
"Why do you bother fighting children? Try fighting me, a more worthy opponent!"
"What's so interesting about you? All you have are Unknown."
"Yes, but you probably could tell from the pain in your arm that these are very well-trained Unknown."
Kiryuu just spits on the ground and remarks "They are not strong! When I was attacked, I could feel that the Mezamaru Power was burning like a fire element, and one of them was freezing cold like the ice element, both of which are elements I suffer against. All you did was match up my type."
"So you figured my S and I Unknown have fire and the Question Mark Unknown has ice. That's pretty observant of you. However, types aren't my only advantage. These Unknown really are stronger than average. Aside from the Unknown's strength, there's another reason I'm a worthy opponent."
"What's that?"
Stelias takes a sac off of his shoulder, and pours out a ton of Monster Balls, which open up and release every single letter of Unknown there is, all of which hover in front of Stelias.
"I didn't agree to partake in any leagues or championships, so I am not limited to having only 6 Pokemon at a time."
Kiryuu looks at all the Unknown that stand before him and he smirks. "I probably lost that kid by now. I might as well have a little bit of playtime."
"Don't act so arrogant around me! Everyone, Mezameru Power!!!" Stelias commands as every single one of his Unknown forms a dome that surrounds Kiryuu and start unleashing a ton of energy orbs. Kiryuu manages to dodge a few of the Mezameru Power attacks but gets hit by a few. Those that were dodged, however, hit some Unknown on the opposite side of the dome and cause some damage, but they don't get knocked out.
From the outside of the Unknown dome, we hear "Leaf Blade!" being shouted before we see Kiryuu barge through a wall of the dome, the leaves on his arms shining, and a few of the Unknown that were barged down getting knocked out. He then shouts "Giga Drain!" as he lunges at a random Unknown in the dome, drains its energy, and then tosses the fainted Unknown with his mouth at another random Unknown which also faints. Stelias recalls all the Unknown that were fainted so far. Kiryuu then uses Giga Drain on his S-Unknown, but he doesn't cause it to faint.
"Everyone, surround him again!" Stelias shouts. The remaining Unknown form a dome around Kiryuu again. Kiryuu simply laughs. The Unknown just sit and look at him.
"The easiest part about fighting Unknown is knowing that they only have one attack. Almost every other Pokemon, however, is less predictable. You never what attack they'll use next, like myself for example. This next attack should leave you in a bit of a surprise. Skill Swap!" Kiryuu shouts as a yellow aura glows around him and fires a beam of light from his chest. The beam hits a random Unknown, and then the glowing and the beam stop. The Unknown that was hit falls to the ground and does nothing but hop around, while Kiryuu, begins to float and ram through the top of the dome.
"What?!" Stelias is shocked to see Kiryuu flying now. Kiryuu is now hovering out of the alley. "Are you running away now?" Stelias asks. Kiryuu doesn't reply, so Stelias and his Unknown decide to follow him out. They go through part of the city, with tons of people staring at the flying Juputoru and many various Unknown, until finally, Kiryuu and Stelias stop in a little commercial district.
"Why are you stopping now?" Stelias asks, but Kiryuu only says "Juputoru!" as if he reverted to his instinctial intelligence. Stelias clenches his teeth and shouts "Don't mock me, you! Everyone, put every bit of strength you have into this attack! Try and defeat him!"
All the Unknown power up their energy balls and fire, but Kiryuu swiftly flies upward, and with Kiryuu out of the way, the Mezameru Power are about to hit a gas station. Stelias gulps as he thinks "He.... he intentially led me here...." He then thinks back to when Kiryuu used Giga Drain on his S-Unknown. "That's why he didn't fully defeat it. He wanted its fire element.... shit....."
After Stelias is done thinking on this, time seems to move again as the gas station explodes. Stelias quickly recalls all his remaining Unknown, then blocks his face with his arm as the flames reach him. Kiryuu is too high in the air to be affected. Hiro looks at the flames from a distance and shouts "Stelias-saaaaaaaan!!!!!" as he begins to run over to there.
In the explosion area, Stelias is on the ground very badly burnt as flames are all around the area. Kiryuu is seen smashing through the window of a clothes store as he now sports a new cloak, big enough to fit his new, evolved size. The hovers over to Stelias, lands, and then he glows and shoots a beam into his bag of Monster Balls, likely signifying that his Skill Swapping has stopped. He looks down to Stelias, who's slowly opening his eyes, and says to him "Hand me all your Pokemon!"
Stelias pants heavily and asks "what...?"
"As a member of Rocket Dan, I have to take the Pokemon of any foes I defeat, so hand them over!"
"You're.... part of the..... Rocket Dan?" Stelias continues panting. Kiryuu nods.
"...dammit.... as I was helping Hiro..... I never would've guessed.... my opponent would be.... one of them. I wasn't.... hoping to get rid of..... all my Unknown. I worked hard.... to gather all of them.... and I've grown attached to them all as well....." Stelias struggles back up.
"But.... I guess I have.... no choice....." he says as he picks up his bag and slowly hands it to Kiryuu.
Right as Kiryuu is about to grab the bag.... "You're already a slave yourself!" the voice of Hiro haunts his memory. "You're already a slave yourself!" goes through his mind once more as he thinks back to certain events. One scene is with him, back when he was a Kimori obviously, and some other Rocket Dan members collecting a ton of other trainers' Monster Balls in a bag. Another is him handing a bag of Monster Balls over to Sakaki. After all the recollections, Kiryuu pulls his hand away from the bag and says "Keep them."
Stelias confusedly goes "huh?"
"I said you can keep your Unknown."
"Why are you doing this?"
"I have reasons I'd rather not take up time explaining" Kiryuu says as he runs away just as sirens are heard. Hiro and Ibui are seen in the passenger seat of Junsa's motorcycle, which skids to a stop. Hiro runs up to Stelias, who's half conscious, and some firefighters are either putting out fires with hoses or using water Pokemon in the background. The scene ends here.
Kiryuu is now seen going up to a Rocket Dan base hidden deep in a forest. It has a chopper on top, so it's probably the base the chopper he was in earlier was headed to. Some Rocket Dan members who're outside notice the familiar cloaked figure.
"Kiryuu-sama? Is that you?" one asks.
"Yes" Kiryuu replies pulling his hood down to reveal the head of a Juputoru.
All the Rocket Dan members gasp and "Wow!", with a few sounds of "Kiryuu-sama evolved" here and there.
"Everyone, I came here to make an announcement!"
"What is it Kiryuu-sama?" All the Rocket Dan members in the area listen intently.
"I, Kiryuu, officially declare myself...... resigned as a Rocket Dan member!" All the members, who were expecting something else, now just look incredibly shocked.
One member looks extremely pissed off and shouts "NO!!! You can't leave Kiryuu! I'm not going to let you leave!!!" as he releases a Gyarados and a Magcargo.
Cut scene to the hospital. Stelias is laying in bed with tons of bandages over his burn wounds, Hiro and Ibui at the side of his bed.
"Stelias-san, how did you reach me? Why did you help me?"
"Not long after I got the Exclamation Point Unknown, I found the Question Mark Unknown. With my work done at the Alph no Iseki, I decided to head to the coast and get on a boat back to Houen. Since I don't participate in gyms or tournaments, I probably reached you faster because of that. When I was in Kogane City, I saw a small person in a cloak dragging you to an alleyway. I didn't like the looks of it, so I decided to help out knowing you were in some kind of trouble."
Hiro looks at him for a moment and says "Thank you so very much. I'll be sure to return the favor someday, even if I get burn wounds as bad as your's."
"These.... don't worry about them. I've suffered worse wounds when I got my first Unknown" Stelias starts to chuckle, and after a minute, Hiro starts to laugh with him.
Back at the Rocket Dan base, we see Kiryuu, his cloak off, holding up a Gyarados by its head and slams it into a wall, all with just his bare hands. The Gyarados collapses after that blow. The Magcargo, which looks pretty badly banged up at this point, is about to use Kaen Housha, but as it's holding the flames in its mouth, Kiryuu kicks its head and not only forces it to open its mouth and release the flames, but the kick also forced Magcargo's head into another direction, the direction of its trainer, who gets hit by its flames. After the release of the flames, the Magcargo collapses.
Kiryuu picks his cloak off the ground, puts it back on, and starts to walk away as he hears a gun click behind him. He turns around and sees a member pointing a gun at him.
"Dammit, Kiryuu. You're a valuable member of the Rocket Dan. You can't be allowed to leave that easily!"
Kiryuu just continues walking away. Right as he hears the member pulling the trigger, he suddenly stops. A loud bang is heard, and all the members see a bullet fly towards Kiryuu, then it flies... through Kiryuu? Everyone is left confused for a moment before Kiryuu suddenly punches the member in the back of the neck and knocks him out.
"Fool. You forgot that Kage Bunshin was one of the Technique Machine I used" he says as the image of him that was shot fades away.
"Now, if any of you weaklings are smart, you won't get in my way and let me leave peacefully" Kiryuu says as he starts walking away again. This time, every member just sits there and lets him leave.
The sun is setting, Kiryuu now sits on a tree branch and begins to think "It's true.... I have been tricked into being there slave, but not anymore. From now on, I am free. I rely on no one but myself... for food.... for confidence.... for knowledge..... for strength.... I have a life goal, but I do not require any assistance to pull it off, especially not from a human. All I need is my own raw strength and skills. However, to test that, I need a strong opponent with which to beat it with. That kid, his Ibui, Sakaki feared it. I defeated it before, but something must be hidden deep within that thing for Sakaki to have feared it. That will be the strong opponent that I will be after from here on, and this time, Rocket Dan isn't getting in my way."
Kiryuu finishes thinking these things as the sun finishes setting and night falls. Kiryuu continues laying on the tree branch, closes his eyes, and goes to sleep.
END OF CHAPTER
chapter 11: THE RESIGNATION
"Stelias-san!" shouts an excited Hiro upon seeing Stelias standing in the alleyway with his I, S, and Question Mark Unknown hovering around him.
"Hiro-kun, take your Ibui and get out of here now! Let me handle this guy!" he says.
Hiro looks on for a second and says "I got it! Come on Ibui!"
Ibui was posed ready to fight Kiryuu until Hiro said this. Ibui looked at Hiro and ran over to him. They both run out of the alley.
Kiryuu lets go of his arm, which finally stopped steaming, and he talks to Stelias. "Damn you... I wanted to fight that Ibui again."
"Why do you bother fighting children? Try fighting me, a more worthy opponent!"
"What's so interesting about you? All you have are Unknown."
"Yes, but you probably could tell from the pain in your arm that these are very well-trained Unknown."
Kiryuu just spits on the ground and remarks "They are not strong! When I was attacked, I could feel that the Mezamaru Power was burning like a fire element, and one of them was freezing cold like the ice element, both of which are elements I suffer against. All you did was match up my type."
"So you figured my S and I Unknown have fire and the Question Mark Unknown has ice. That's pretty observant of you. However, types aren't my only advantage. These Unknown really are stronger than average. Aside from the Unknown's strength, there's another reason I'm a worthy opponent."
"What's that?"
Stelias takes a sac off of his shoulder, and pours out a ton of Monster Balls, which open up and release every single letter of Unknown there is, all of which hover in front of Stelias.
"I didn't agree to partake in any leagues or championships, so I am not limited to having only 6 Pokemon at a time."
Kiryuu looks at all the Unknown that stand before him and he smirks. "I probably lost that kid by now. I might as well have a little bit of playtime."
"Don't act so arrogant around me! Everyone, Mezameru Power!!!" Stelias commands as every single one of his Unknown forms a dome that surrounds Kiryuu and start unleashing a ton of energy orbs. Kiryuu manages to dodge a few of the Mezameru Power attacks but gets hit by a few. Those that were dodged, however, hit some Unknown on the opposite side of the dome and cause some damage, but they don't get knocked out.
From the outside of the Unknown dome, we hear "Leaf Blade!" being shouted before we see Kiryuu barge through a wall of the dome, the leaves on his arms shining, and a few of the Unknown that were barged down getting knocked out. He then shouts "Giga Drain!" as he lunges at a random Unknown in the dome, drains its energy, and then tosses the fainted Unknown with his mouth at another random Unknown which also faints. Stelias recalls all the Unknown that were fainted so far. Kiryuu then uses Giga Drain on his S-Unknown, but he doesn't cause it to faint.
"Everyone, surround him again!" Stelias shouts. The remaining Unknown form a dome around Kiryuu again. Kiryuu simply laughs. The Unknown just sit and look at him.
"The easiest part about fighting Unknown is knowing that they only have one attack. Almost every other Pokemon, however, is less predictable. You never what attack they'll use next, like myself for example. This next attack should leave you in a bit of a surprise. Skill Swap!" Kiryuu shouts as a yellow aura glows around him and fires a beam of light from his chest. The beam hits a random Unknown, and then the glowing and the beam stop. The Unknown that was hit falls to the ground and does nothing but hop around, while Kiryuu, begins to float and ram through the top of the dome.
"What?!" Stelias is shocked to see Kiryuu flying now. Kiryuu is now hovering out of the alley. "Are you running away now?" Stelias asks. Kiryuu doesn't reply, so Stelias and his Unknown decide to follow him out. They go through part of the city, with tons of people staring at the flying Juputoru and many various Unknown, until finally, Kiryuu and Stelias stop in a little commercial district.
"Why are you stopping now?" Stelias asks, but Kiryuu only says "Juputoru!" as if he reverted to his instinctial intelligence. Stelias clenches his teeth and shouts "Don't mock me, you! Everyone, put every bit of strength you have into this attack! Try and defeat him!"
All the Unknown power up their energy balls and fire, but Kiryuu swiftly flies upward, and with Kiryuu out of the way, the Mezameru Power are about to hit a gas station. Stelias gulps as he thinks "He.... he intentially led me here...." He then thinks back to when Kiryuu used Giga Drain on his S-Unknown. "That's why he didn't fully defeat it. He wanted its fire element.... shit....."
After Stelias is done thinking on this, time seems to move again as the gas station explodes. Stelias quickly recalls all his remaining Unknown, then blocks his face with his arm as the flames reach him. Kiryuu is too high in the air to be affected. Hiro looks at the flames from a distance and shouts "Stelias-saaaaaaaan!!!!!" as he begins to run over to there.
In the explosion area, Stelias is on the ground very badly burnt as flames are all around the area. Kiryuu is seen smashing through the window of a clothes store as he now sports a new cloak, big enough to fit his new, evolved size. The hovers over to Stelias, lands, and then he glows and shoots a beam into his bag of Monster Balls, likely signifying that his Skill Swapping has stopped. He looks down to Stelias, who's slowly opening his eyes, and says to him "Hand me all your Pokemon!"
Stelias pants heavily and asks "what...?"
"As a member of Rocket Dan, I have to take the Pokemon of any foes I defeat, so hand them over!"
"You're.... part of the..... Rocket Dan?" Stelias continues panting. Kiryuu nods.
"...dammit.... as I was helping Hiro..... I never would've guessed.... my opponent would be.... one of them. I wasn't.... hoping to get rid of..... all my Unknown. I worked hard.... to gather all of them.... and I've grown attached to them all as well....." Stelias struggles back up.
"But.... I guess I have.... no choice....." he says as he picks up his bag and slowly hands it to Kiryuu.
Right as Kiryuu is about to grab the bag.... "You're already a slave yourself!" the voice of Hiro haunts his memory. "You're already a slave yourself!" goes through his mind once more as he thinks back to certain events. One scene is with him, back when he was a Kimori obviously, and some other Rocket Dan members collecting a ton of other trainers' Monster Balls in a bag. Another is him handing a bag of Monster Balls over to Sakaki. After all the recollections, Kiryuu pulls his hand away from the bag and says "Keep them."
Stelias confusedly goes "huh?"
"I said you can keep your Unknown."
"Why are you doing this?"
"I have reasons I'd rather not take up time explaining" Kiryuu says as he runs away just as sirens are heard. Hiro and Ibui are seen in the passenger seat of Junsa's motorcycle, which skids to a stop. Hiro runs up to Stelias, who's half conscious, and some firefighters are either putting out fires with hoses or using water Pokemon in the background. The scene ends here.
Kiryuu is now seen going up to a Rocket Dan base hidden deep in a forest. It has a chopper on top, so it's probably the base the chopper he was in earlier was headed to. Some Rocket Dan members who're outside notice the familiar cloaked figure.
"Kiryuu-sama? Is that you?" one asks.
"Yes" Kiryuu replies pulling his hood down to reveal the head of a Juputoru.
All the Rocket Dan members gasp and "Wow!", with a few sounds of "Kiryuu-sama evolved" here and there.
"Everyone, I came here to make an announcement!"
"What is it Kiryuu-sama?" All the Rocket Dan members in the area listen intently.
"I, Kiryuu, officially declare myself...... resigned as a Rocket Dan member!" All the members, who were expecting something else, now just look incredibly shocked.
One member looks extremely pissed off and shouts "NO!!! You can't leave Kiryuu! I'm not going to let you leave!!!" as he releases a Gyarados and a Magcargo.
Cut scene to the hospital. Stelias is laying in bed with tons of bandages over his burn wounds, Hiro and Ibui at the side of his bed.
"Stelias-san, how did you reach me? Why did you help me?"
"Not long after I got the Exclamation Point Unknown, I found the Question Mark Unknown. With my work done at the Alph no Iseki, I decided to head to the coast and get on a boat back to Houen. Since I don't participate in gyms or tournaments, I probably reached you faster because of that. When I was in Kogane City, I saw a small person in a cloak dragging you to an alleyway. I didn't like the looks of it, so I decided to help out knowing you were in some kind of trouble."
Hiro looks at him for a moment and says "Thank you so very much. I'll be sure to return the favor someday, even if I get burn wounds as bad as your's."
"These.... don't worry about them. I've suffered worse wounds when I got my first Unknown" Stelias starts to chuckle, and after a minute, Hiro starts to laugh with him.
Back at the Rocket Dan base, we see Kiryuu, his cloak off, holding up a Gyarados by its head and slams it into a wall, all with just his bare hands. The Gyarados collapses after that blow. The Magcargo, which looks pretty badly banged up at this point, is about to use Kaen Housha, but as it's holding the flames in its mouth, Kiryuu kicks its head and not only forces it to open its mouth and release the flames, but the kick also forced Magcargo's head into another direction, the direction of its trainer, who gets hit by its flames. After the release of the flames, the Magcargo collapses.
Kiryuu picks his cloak off the ground, puts it back on, and starts to walk away as he hears a gun click behind him. He turns around and sees a member pointing a gun at him.
"Dammit, Kiryuu. You're a valuable member of the Rocket Dan. You can't be allowed to leave that easily!"
Kiryuu just continues walking away. Right as he hears the member pulling the trigger, he suddenly stops. A loud bang is heard, and all the members see a bullet fly towards Kiryuu, then it flies... through Kiryuu? Everyone is left confused for a moment before Kiryuu suddenly punches the member in the back of the neck and knocks him out.
"Fool. You forgot that Kage Bunshin was one of the Technique Machine I used" he says as the image of him that was shot fades away.
"Now, if any of you weaklings are smart, you won't get in my way and let me leave peacefully" Kiryuu says as he starts walking away again. This time, every member just sits there and lets him leave.
The sun is setting, Kiryuu now sits on a tree branch and begins to think "It's true.... I have been tricked into being there slave, but not anymore. From now on, I am free. I rely on no one but myself... for food.... for confidence.... for knowledge..... for strength.... I have a life goal, but I do not require any assistance to pull it off, especially not from a human. All I need is my own raw strength and skills. However, to test that, I need a strong opponent with which to beat it with. That kid, his Ibui, Sakaki feared it. I defeated it before, but something must be hidden deep within that thing for Sakaki to have feared it. That will be the strong opponent that I will be after from here on, and this time, Rocket Dan isn't getting in my way."
Kiryuu finishes thinking these things as the sun finishes setting and night falls. Kiryuu continues laying on the tree branch, closes his eyes, and goes to sleep.
END OF CHAPTER