The Knight Challenge Part 6
At the Solanet Town, they arrive at the Space Center Tower, a famous sight in the place. Once they get inside, the leading scientist comes and says, "President Ash. You have come."
"Hello there, Neil." Ash shakes his hand. "How is the Probe 493 doing?"
Neil says, "It is getting to the sun, we will be having a lot of data once it reaches there."
"I see. Keep up the work. I need to take the others for the Knight Challenge." Ash says as the workers all nod and leave.
The others are confused about what Ash is doing, Gladion asks, "Ash, what is that for?"
"Oh, it is just a lead of scientists observing the probe to the sun." Ash says. "With RPA funding the project, there should be no problem."
May says, "Wow...I never know that you are a part of the research."
"Professor Amo is the one who asks us to do it." Alice says. "But now enough talking, let's go to the challenge."
They head upstairs until they see 4 rockets. Lillie says, "Gary, Serena, Gladion, and Emily. Here is the first challenge. Choose a door to go inside."
Gary sends out Alakazam, Gladion sends out Silvally, Emily sends out Gardevoir and Serena sends out Delphox. The four get into each of the space shuttles, Mark and Ash go to the control center.
Misty, Iris, and Trip try to follow them into the control center, but Eve stops them and says," Don't you thinking about going in there."
"What we want to do is not your business." Misty says. "How many times we need to tell you that?"
"And how many times we tell you that it is our business when you are interfering with the challenge. As the Elite 4 and the Professor of this region, I have every right to protect challengers." Eve says.
The three grit their teeth as they can't do anything. Ash says, "Now let the challenge start."
Just then, all the rooms start to turn red as the alarms ringing. "Danger! Danger! Asteroids approaching! Asteroids approaching."
Gary asks with a little sacred voice, "What the hell is this?"
Emily notices the front glass and sees some buttons, she reads the instructions. "It seems like we need to play the game of smashing the asteroids, that sounds fun."
Serena says, "Delphox, can you help me?" Delphox nods and then the four of them start shooting.
Just then, sound effects are spreading inside the room as Dawn asks, "What is that noise?"
Lillie says, "Don't worry, the four of them are trying to destroy the asteroids that will hit the shuttle."
"That is a challenge? It sounds cool." Drew says. "I wonder why I didn't ask for this one..."
"You can try it out next time." Drandon says.
The three bullies are listening to them and Misty says, "Cool? It sounds stupid..."
After the game ends, all four of them get out of the shuttle safely as Emily says, "Wow, it is just like I am really in space."
Gladion says, "I have to admit that this one is quite good."
Mark and Ash come out and Mark says, "Now you pass the first one. Please follow us."
They follow them to another room, where there is nothing. Lillie says, "This is the non-gravitation room, the second task will be trying to float to the ceiling and press the button there. But once you tap the button, you will immediately lose gravity, so your Psychic Pokemon will need to catch you."
Eve says, "Now let the challenge start." She presses the button as they all start to float.
Gary, Serena, Emily, and Gladion all jump high to get through the ceiling, but once they press the four buttons, they start to fall as their Pokemon start to catch them.
Things don't look good as Delphox is being hit by Alakazam, who hurts it on purpose to make Serena fall. And once Delphox lost its concentration, Serena starts to fall and scream.
"Serena!" The others yell as Mark quickly floats to save her, also carrying her bridal style and making her blush.
"Are you okay?" Mark asks as Serena blushes, she nods as they all get down.
The bullies are mad that they fail to get their plan to work. Ash says, "You can't interfere with other's challenges. What if you are the ones that fall."
"That won't be happening." Gary gives them a smirk, causing the others to glare at them.
Lillie says, "Now let me say this. If you try to interfere one more time, you won't be having the Dragon Star Badge."
"How dare you! I want that badge!" Iris says.
"Then stop interfering." Lillie says.
Once they all get down, Serena walks to Gary and slaps him in the face. She says, "That is for trying to kill me."
Then she leaves with the others, Gary says, "That is really hurt."
"I guess we shouldn't do that or else Iris doesn't have the Star Badge to use." Misty says.
Once the four people get the Psychic Star Badge, they leave the town and head towards the Pixetty City. Their destination is the Pixetty Gallery, a museum also owned by Ash and his family to portrait the famous artworks.
Once they are inside, Dawn, Serena, Gladion, and Emily are with Ash and Lillie, because others are keeping an eye on the bullies. They already lost trust in them as they think that they are going to interfere once more to make the others fail, so they have been watching on them. The bullies aren't liking how they are doing this to them, but they won't budge and they can only glare at them.
"Now the first task is simple. You have to find the number hidden in the paintings." He gives each one a photo. "Once you find it, write down the name of the art and give it back to me."
"Wow, it sounds easy." Dawn says as they send out two Sylveon, a Togekiss and a Silvally.
It took them a while since there are a lot of paintings and they have to find one of them that fits the description. Once they all find it, they immediately return to Ash and gives him the pictures
"I take my words back, it isn't easy." Dawn says. "Who knows that there are so many artworks in the gallery..."
"A lot of them look the same as well, I really need my Sylveon and Gladion's help to find mine." Emily says.
"Now you know how hard it is, Minami is the one that creates the challenge after all." Lillie smiles. "Now let's go to the second challenge."
They head upstairs to a room that is filled with dolls and models of the fairy tales. Ash says, "The second task is to choose the 3 figures from three different fairy tales and make a story. You also need to add your Fairy Type Pokemon in the story."
They nod as they go find the figures, they have a hard time coming up with a story, but they did somehow.
"And with Sylveon's Attract, the Mermaid finally falls in love with both the Prince and the Swan. The end." Emily says.
"I must say, those are some great imaginations, and you really did a good job making up those stories. Now all of you have passed the tasks, so you earn these Fairy Star Badges."
Once they get the badges, Emily says, "Now I need one more badge and I will get every one of them."
"Me too. I just hope that the last one is not going to be as hard as this one." Gladion says.
As they get back to the first floor, they don't see the bullies except for Iris, who is glaring at them with anger. Not only that, the ones who are in the place are their own Elite 4. Ash asks, "What happened? And where are the others?"
Mark says, " Gary, Misty, and Trip bad mouth some artists, so we decide to teleport them back to the School with Reisa and our siblings accompany them. Mom also knows what they are doing and they are going to have detention. But Iris has yet to get the Dragon Star Badge, so she will be with us."
"I see. One people won't be able to cause serious problems." Lillie says with a sigh and a shake of the head. "Let's go."
Their last destination is the Dragon Safari that is in the middle of Pixetty City and Fiero City, they get into the building and they arrive in a room filled with some claw-like machines.
"Your task is to dodge all the claws grabbing you in a minute." Eve says. "If you get hurt, you will need to start over again."
"Wow, this looks hard." Emily says. "As expected from the final challenge, it is indeed not going to hold back on us."
"Yeah… but can we fight back?" Gladion asks.
"Sure, but only Dragon Types, and when you are caught, if you escape without the machine making an alarm, you will pass."
Iris sends out Haxorus, Gladion sends out Silvally and Emily sends out Garchomp to help out. Then they start the task and survive the dragon-like hands. Emily is caught at one hand, but Silvally uses Multi Attack to save her.
"Thanks, Gladion." Emily says as she hugs him, causing him to blush a little.
Then as the time is up, all of them aren't caught. Ash smiles and says, "Well done, you really have the skills to become the new dragon tamers. Now let's go onwards to the next part."
They get to the room full of swords, much to their awe. Ash says, "In the story of the Dragon Prince, there is a sword that the prince uses to kill the witch. And that sword is in this room as well. What you need to do is to find out which one is the sword from the story."
Iris says, "But what is the sword look like? I haven't read the story..."
Drandon says, "You have to figure it out, we aren't going to tell you the story because of that. You could just ask Emily and Gladion as they might have read the story."
But Gladion and Emily are not sure about the sword, so the three of them search everywhere, they are so cautious as they don't take any of the swords for safety.
"Man, this is hard…" Gladion says with a sigh.
"But we won't give up till it's over." Emily says as Ash smiles.
Iris then sees a sword that has a blue hilt and a red blade, and there is a dragon's fang on the hilt on the top shelf. Despite Gladion and Emily's protests, she picks it and takes it to Lillie. Lillie widens her eyes and shes says, "You found it. That is great. Two tasks are done for you. Here are your badges."
Once the three get the badges, Emily says, "I hate to admit it, but thanks to you Iris, we passed the challenge."
Iris says, "No problem, now who is the real dragon master here, huh?" She says the last one directly to Drandon.
Drandon snorts and says, "Tell me that if you conquer your Ice and Fairy-Type fear. I am not in the mood to fight with you."
Iris tries to retort back, but without her friends by her side, she doesn't have the courage. She just glares at them as they go back to school.
Here is the new chapter. And the end of the Knight Challenges. I hope you enjoy all 18 challenges. The next chapter is the reunion of the big group and the acceptance of Dawn, May, Paul, and Drew.