Hey! Well, this is the Initial Incident chapter! Meaning, it doesn't matter if you skipped chapters 1 and 2 'cause this chapter will start getting to the 'big point'. It has a few battles and it'stwice as long as chapter 2 so, I hope you enjoy it.
"Go! MUDKIP!"
Samus, Manus and Violet watched as the ship's navigator, Larry started a battle with his son, Marrik. Five minutes prior, the five had watched Justin's Articuno literally waste the captain's six top pokémon, and it got Larry in a battling mood.
"Go! GEODUDE!" Marrik shouted, throwing a pokéball. There was a flash, and a Geodude appeared, showing off it's stone muscels.
"Ha! A rock type, Marrik?" Larry looked dissapointed. "You know that water erodes rock! Mudkip! WATER GUN!"
Mudkip obeyed his trainer and shot a large burst of water at the Geodude, KOing it.
"Aww, Pa..." Marrik complained. "You always beat my pokémon!" He returned his Geodude.
"That was a great battle!" Samus clapped, her blonde hair blowing with the sea breeze.
"Yeah," Manus agreed.
"Why, thanks kids," Larry said politely. "It was fun."
"I wish I could battle like your friend, down there with the captain!" Marrik said sadly.
"Justin?" Violet asked. "We never knew he was so good! I guess he trained his Articuno well."
"I bet his Articuno was born strong!" Larry inquired. "It is legendary! Did you know thatthere are only six recorded Articunos on Earth? It must havealways beenstrong!"
"Yeah," Samus said. "You're probably right. But, Justin always said that someone had givin' him his Articuno."
"I bet that the person regrets it," Manus said, acting smart.
"No duh," Violet said to Manus.
"You kids should get your friend up here!" Larry told them. "I wouldn't mind meeting the lad!"
"But," Violet began. "We have absolutely no clue where the hell he is! This ship is huge! He could be anywhere!"
"Not really," Marrik said lowly. "He went with the captain downstairs. Unless he plans on climbing down the suit sections walls, you could meet him somewhere down there!" He pointed to a red door, down some stairs behind them.
"Ah," Larry said, rubbing Marrik. "You're right! Go fetch him kids! Bring him here!"
"Ugh...whatever," Samus said lazily.
"Let's go," Violet said.
They climbed down quickly the two flights of stairs, and pushed through the red doors. Beyond them were three split halls, one lit red, one lit green, and one lit blue. Each hall had a sign over it's entrance;
The Ruby Battling Hall; made for the fire inside you!
The Emerald Battling Hall; the plants await your show!
The Sapphire Battling Hall; icy oceans call for battle action!
"Which way?" Manus asked looking quizzically down each hall.
"Who cares," Samus said defiantly. "Just pick one and we'll check!"
"Obviously," Violet said. "This ship is a good place to battle with pokémon! They probably have their own leagues here! We should check the one that Justin would go to."
"The Sapphire," Manus pointed down the blue-lit hall. "Articunos an ice type. It says on the sign; icy oceans. It must mean that ice and water types are welcome there."
"Good point," Samus said to him. "Let's go." And down the hall they went.
Upon turning the corner, they saw a large battle field - a water battle field. It was bigger than an olympic sized pool. On each end of the pool was a floating platform with a picture of a giant pokéball on it. Over the pool was, presumably a score board, on which the only luminated word was; Liguid.
On the opposite side of the field, there was another bluely lit hallway. The three walked around the battle field, but were startled when they heard a spontaneous buzz by the scoreboard. They turned around, to see that the word Liquid was no longer shining, but rather, the word; Solid. And right before their eyes, they saw the battle field freeze. In a matter of five seconds, the pool turned from crystal clear water, to dull, hard ice. The three were lost for words. But instead of commenting on the seemingly impossible of which just occured, they headed for the second exit, and pretended they didn't see anything.
The battle field in the next room was different from the last. It was just a dirt field, but it reminded Samus of a basketball coarse, because that's what all the lines resembled. And again, opposite of the field, was a blue-lit hall.
"Ugh," Violet groaned. "Where are they, dammit!"
"Come on," Manus said, leading them across the stadium.
They climbed the few stairs up to the blue hall, and through it they saw red doors, just like the ones they had came through before. This time, however, they saw who they were looking for. They could see Justin talking with Tetra, and Gers was happily glaring at a pokéball that he was clenching in his hands.
"Guys!" Samus rejoiced. "We found you!"
"You were looking for us?" Gers asked.
"Well, no duh," Manus impolitely replied.
"Why?" Tetra looked at Manus awkwardly.
"Larry, the ships navigator, wants to see you, Justin," Violet said to him.
"Yeah," Samus said before Justin could say anything. "I think he wants to battle you."
"ARGGGHHH!" Justin complained. "I just battled the captain! I don't want to battle again so quickly!"
"Plus," Gers said. "They want to capture some pokémon! Like I did."
"Really?" Violet looked at Gers' pokéball. "What'd you-"
"A Poochyena!" Gers interrupted. "We found it in the Ruby Hall, 'er whatever it is."
"Cool!" Manus said.
"Well," Justin started. "We'll look for pokémon on the way back."
"Well, we came through the sapphire," Samus said. "And you came through the ruby, right?"
"Yeah," Tetra answered.
"So let's go through the emerald way!" Gers suggested. "Maybe the pokémon are there."
Everyone agreed. They turned and headed back together, except this time through the green-lit hall.
Upon turning the corner, Justin stuck his head through the opening to look. The stadium was gorgeous, and gorgeous is a strong word used only on super-beautiful looking things. Such things include icy-translucent glaciers or, rainbows or, the feild currently being looked at by Justin or even the the pokémon Milotic. The feild was covered in vines, and flowers, and yes, even a couple of trees! Justin assumed that alot of pokémon were probably hiding in here. Looking at the center of the field, squinting, he detected movement. He looked towards it; it was a little Shroomish.
"Oo! Oo!" Justinwhispered tohis companions. "I see a Shroomish! Tetra! You interested?"
"Oh my God!" Tetra waved air towards her face with her hands. "Yeah!"
"Well then!" Samus pushed her forwards. "Get it!"
Tetra stepped out excitedly. She thought the Shroomish would make a great pokémon. She wondered how she was going to approach it. Slowly, she tip-toed up to it...and...BAM! Tetra, out of the blue, tossed a pokéball right at it. In it went with a brilliant flash. Tetra stood watching the flashing ball until it stopped moving.
"YES!" she screamed.
The others came and cheered for her as she picked up the now heavier ball.
"Great job!" "You're the best!" "A Shroomish! That's cool!" "Awesome"
"Come on guys, we'd better get moving," Manus suggested.
Sighing with relief, Tetra said, "Alright."
Now this time, past the blue hall, was, not another grass field, but what they guessed to be, an electric field.
The field was as large as the grass field, but had at least 15 giant electric poles, which were offline. They looked into the battle field, and saw how they were right in guessing the pokémon were in the emerald section.
There must have been hundreds of pokémon gathered in this room, for it was quite open. They could see pokémon climbing the walls, battling each other, even sleeping. Tetra wondered how in hell they could have not heard all this ruckus earlier!
Justin looked around. It was his pick. He saw Ratattas, Houndours, Teddiursas, Eevees...
Justin always had a small interest in Eevee, with it's five evolved forms. He coud have a choice between any of them!
"I think I'll go for an Eevee," he told Tetra.
"Okay!" Tetra clapped her hands together. "That sounds cute!"
"ARTICUNO!" Justin sent out with a bright flash. "Weaken an Eevee for our party, will you?" The Articuno looked, and then 'Cuu'-ed in agreement and started by chasing an Eevee into the corner. It didn't seem difficult for Articuno to do this because upon entering the field, all the pokémon in the room disspersed in fear. Articuno whacked an Eevee with it's wing, shooting it into a wall. Justin thought this the right moment to throw his pokéball.
BAM! The Eevee was sucked into the ball. It was glowing and wriggling around violently, until Articuno stopped it by holding it down with his talon.
"Oh!" Samus ubruptly said, making Gers jump. "I think it's in."
"Well, no duh," Justin said to her, walking up to the now still pokéball. "Good job Articuno!" Articuno 'Arr'-ed in thanks and let go of the ball.
"Well, now we can finally get to Larry!" Violet said. "Let's go!"
"Hold on!" Tetra stopped everyone. "I wanna see who's pokémon is better! I wanna battle one of you!" She pointed at Gers and looked at Justin.
"Sure," Justin agreed. "I'll battle you." He returned his Articuno to it's ball. "Let's make it quick though."
"Okay."
"Argg!" Violet groaned.
"Go! SHROOMISH!" Tetra yelled proudly. And with a flash, the small bulbus Shroomish appeared.
"Go! EEVEE!" Justin yelled, with the flash that revealed his newly caught pokémon.
"Shroomish! Use...uhhh...ummm... Oh! TACKLE it!"
The Shroomish started to rear up, and seemed to throw itself forward. BAM! The Shroomish rammed the Eevee a few feet, but the Eevee didn't seem too hurt.
"Eevee! You use TACKLE!" Justin ordered.
The Eevee did basically the exact same thing that the Shroomish did first. It rammed the Shroomish a few feet back.
Then, in syncronization, both Tetra and Justin yelled, "Use TACKLE!"
Both the Eevee and the Shroomish reared up, and had a head-on collision with each other. Neither of the pokémon were able to withstand the hit. They both knocked themselves out cold.
"WAHOO!" Manus cheered.
"Aww, I lose," Tetra sighed.
"Whadya mean?" Justin asked. "We had a draw!"
Tetra looked at him. "You still have one pokémon." She called her Shroomish back.
"So?" Justin called his Eevee back. "I wasn't going to count him. We drawed!"
Tetra looked up at Justin. "Thanks."
"Come on guys!" Violet said quite impatiently. "Let's go see the island!"
"Okay," everyone else agreed together. And they walked through the crowd of pokémon, through the greenly lit hall, and through the red doors.
When they came outside, they noticed it was alot more cloudy than before. It seemed a bit cooler, and the ocean was a bit calmer. The kids didn't know whether this was all good, or bad.
The six of them ran up the stairs fast to see Marrik and Larry right where they had left them.
"Alright!" Larry rejoiced. "You actually decided to come back." He strode up to Justin. "Are you the lad that ass wiped the captain?"
"Uhhh...yes?"
"Splendid! How'd you do it?" Larry exclaimed.
"Well...uhhh...the captain said that my Articuno was...uhhhh...very strong," Justin coughed.
"Really?" Marrik said. "How strong is it?"
"Ummm... I'm not so... I dunno!" Justin said.
"Why were you in the Halls, lad?" Larry asked.
"Oh," Tetra answered for Justin. "The captain gave us permission to catch some pokémon on board after his ass whooping."
"Really?" Larry said. "Did you catch anything?"
"Yeah," Gers said quickly.
"Well, me and Marrik, here, caught some new pokémon too! Wanna battle?"
"Sure!" Gers answered quickly to Larry's offer.
"Alright, then!" Larry said happily. "If you beat Marrik, you can face me. If you beat me, I will let you have something of mine."
"Okay!" Gers said.
"This'll be good!" Samus told to Tetra and Justin.
"Yeah!" Manus said.
"Go! RATTATA!" Marrik yelled, throwing his ball. This time the flash revealed a small, purple Rattata.
"Go!" Gers yelled. "POOCHYENA!"
"Gers!" Justin yelled. "Try to stun his Rattata!"
"Uhhhh..." Gers said. "Oh yeah! Poochyena! SAND ATTACK!"
Poochyena obeyed it's trainer and a gush of sand, presummably from nowhere, blew right into Rattata's face.
"Rattata, look out!" Marrik called, just as Poochyena hit Rattata with a TACKLE. "NO!"
"Poochyena!" Gers called. "Uhhhh... Finish it off with a... a BITE!"
Poochyena ran to Rattata, and grabbed it with his teeth. It shook Rattata a few times before throwing it backwards. Marrik called his Rattata in distress.
"How and why do I lose-so-often," he sobbed.
"Marrik stop crying!" Larry grabbed Marriks shoulder. "Watch me, okay! Go! SKITTY!"
There was a flash, and a small, cute looking Skitty appeared. "Use TACKLE!" Larry ordered. And it obeyed.
Gers told Poochyena, "Dodge it!" The Poochyena obeyed, just in time to evade the oncoming attack. "Good! Now BITE it!" The Poochyena did just that.
"Skitty! Use TAIL WHIP!"
The Skitty waged it's wierd looking tail into Poochyena. It let go of it, and then Skitty TACKLE-ed it into a wall.
"No! Poochyena!" Gers shouted. "Try to get up!" The Poochyena was just barely able to stand the massive pain it must have just felt, but it did. "Try to BITE it again, but BITE it's tail!"
The Poochyena waited for Skitty to get closer. When it tried to TACKLE, Poochyena jumped away, and Skitty hit the wall. Poochyena then took the opportunity to BITE Skitty's tail. Skitty wriggled around in Poochyenas teeth.
"Poochyena!" Gers ordered. "Throw it!"
Poochyena threw the Skitty towards the railing of the ship, but Larry called it back before it went overboard.
"Whoa!" everyone except Gers yelled. Then they all went to congratulate him and such, but Larry pulled something out of his pocket.
"Look, kids," he started. "You guys are obviously very strong! But, in order to know what your up against, you're going to have to have this." Larry stuck out his hand, and showed them what looked like a cell-phone earpiece.
"What is it?" Justin asked.
"It's like a cellphone earpiece!" Larry answered. "When you see a pokémon, it'll tell in your ear the strenght, gender, and type of the pokémon!"
"Oh, cool!" Tetra exclaimed. "We could really use something like that."
Justin took it, and put it in his ear. "Articuno!" he shouted, and with a flash, Articuno appeared.
Justin looked at Articuno and touched the button on the earpiece. It said to him, and he repeated it aloud to his friends. "Level 52, male, Ice-Flying."
"Whoa!" Samus exclaimed. "That is strong!"
"Most good trainers have one of these!" Larry told them as Justin returned Articuno. "It'll really help you out. Anyway, kids. Go out and have fun! We still have a few hours before we reach Orre!"
"Yeah!" all the kids agreed. And they all went together inside the frigat to get down to the deck.
"Hey," Tetra looked at Manus. "Where did Yvon and Medli go off to?"
"I dunno," Manus told her. "They went for the ballroom!"
"Ah," Justin said. "The captain is with Jasmine and Paff."
"Ah," Violet said. "They'll show."
"Yeah," Gers agreed.
"What do you mean, they're on Orre?" Medli shouted at Yvon.
"Well, I'm not positive their all on Orre!" Yvon said hushly. "I just know that the Ruby, Sapphire, and Emeralds are there!"
"God!" Medli retaliated. "Do you have any idea how much danger Orre is in!"
"Yeah, actually, I do!"
Medli screamed into her hands. "We have to tell the others!"
"NO!" Yvon shouted. "THEY CAN'T KNOW!"
"WHY NOT!" Medli screamed. "THEY'LL KNOW WHAT TO DO!"
"Do what?" Medli and Yvon turned to see Jasmine and Paff entering the room.
"Oh, uhhhhhh" Yvon said. "Nothing. Just, whatever."
"Alright," Paff shrugged.
"What are you two doing here?" Medli asked quietly.
"We wanted to got to the indoor jakuzzi!" Jasmine clapped sarcastically. "We thought they'd let us rent bathing suits. If not, then, whatever."
Yvon began to blush. "We don't know where it is," Medli said. "We don't know where the others are either."
"We do though," Paff said. "They're all on the front deck, swimming and stuff."
"Really?" Yvon asked. "Should we join them all?"
"Why not?" Jasmine said. "I just wanted to know where you two were! Now that we've found you, we can ride this ship like it's supposed to be ridden! In style!"
"Alright, fine!" Medli told the two girls. "But me and Yvon need to talk alone a bit longer, okay?"
"Sure, okay," Paff said. "See you downstairs."
The two girls started giggling and went through the doors out.
Medli and Yvon waited for silence.
Medli broke the silence. "Look, everyone is thinking that they're going on a vacation! They need toknow that this could be a huge trap!"
"No, but, you see?" Yvon said. "They don't need to know!"
"Hey!" Medli started shouting again. "Everyone wants a vacation, or to catch pokémon, or to study things! Nobody wants to be obliterated off the face of the Earth!"
"Nobodies going to bo obliterated off Earth!"
"It could happen if we don't tell them what we know!"
"ARRGG!" Yvon groaned.
"Just listen to me!" Medli yelled. "They must be aware of our situation!"
"They don't need to know crap!" Yvon screamed.
Those words told Medli that the discusion was over. She stormed out of the room, and jumped off the railing down. Yvon knew she'd be fine, for she was a half-bird girl that had wings.
Yvon made a large sigh, and walked out of the room himself. Upon walking out, Yvon looked out into the view and saw the large, half green, half pale island of Orre. Yvon thought that the ride there would be just another 20 minutes. He wanted to make the most of it, with his friends. Whether or not this trip is just a trap, is yet to be seen.
"Hey, there! Welcome to Orre! My name is Jihan! I'll be your tour guide for today!"
"Hi, Jihan." Everyone said in unison.
"Okay, now," Jihan said. "You are now standing in Gateon Port! This town is a great spot for hanging by the sea! It is known for it's great variety of wild water pokémon. Now, if you kids would please follow me into the bank, you can withdrawl some cash."
"How much do we have?" Paff asked.
"Your king sent me alot of money for you," Jihan answered. "You kids'll be able to stock up plenty of times!"
"Stock up?" Justin asked.
"Well, sure!" Jihan said cheerfully. "You could go shopping, go to the pokémart, or go for an attraction or something like that!"
"Cool!" Jasmine said. "How nice of Lief to give us so much!"
"Hello, Jihan!" All the kids turned to see who said those words. It was a man. He was very tall, muscular, and seemed to have two mustaches. One on his upper lip, and one on his chin. "Who are all these kids?"
"They're visiting!" Jihan said to the man. "Kids! This is Andrew! He is the most well-known, most rich man in Gateon Port!"
"Thank you kids!" Andrew said. "I am also good with pokémon, so-" His words were cut off when he was interrupted by another man's voice behind him. He was alittle chubby, but he looked serious.
"Andrew! You and I have a score to settle!"
Andrew looked at him in a mocking way. "Oh, I see! You want a rematch, eh Matthew?"
"You're damn right I do!" the man named Matthew answered. "Let's get it on! Go! LUDICOLO and GLAILIE!"
With a big flash, Matthew's Ludicolo and Glailie appeared.
Tetra nudged Justin's side. "How strong are they?"
Justin looked at her and then at the pokémon. He touched it's earpiece, listened, and repeated for the group. "Ludicolo, level 30, male, Water-Grass. Glailie, level 31, male, Ice."
Andrew stared at Matthew's pokémon in disgust. "Ha! I have pokémon that will whoop yours! Go! GROUDON and STEELIX!"
There was another large flash, and two giant pokémon, Groudon and Steelix appeared.
Justin listened to his earpiece and said, "Groudon, level 55, male, Ground. Steelix, level 52, female, Steel-Ground."
"Whoa," Samus said. "Andrew is much stronger than Matthew!"
And Samus was right. While Justin was telling everyone how strong the pokémon were, Andrew had already beaten Matthew. His Groudon had used FIRE BLAST on Glailie and his Steelix had used IRON TAIL on Ludicolo. Matthew had gone down in one turn.
"AARGGGGGGHHH!" Matthew screamed. "I'll get you, Andrew!" He called back his pokémon. "You'd better watch out!" And with that, he ran off.
"Wow," Jihan cheered. "Wasn't that an intense battle, kids! Get used to it! There are lot's of tough trainers here!"
"Awesome battle, man!" Gers said to Andrew.
"Why thank you, kid!" Andrew said. "That guy, Matthew's got issues."
"Yeah," Paff said.
"So," Jihan said. "Let's get you kids some money. Follow me."
The ten teens followed Jihan into a building that had a huge sign which read; Bank of Orre. Inside a woman said to Jihan, "These the kids?"
"Yes," Jihan replied. "Withdraw it all please."
"Alright," the woman said grumpily.
After a couple of moments she returned with wads of cash. The ten thought that that seemed too little of an amount, but the woman solved their suspisions by saying, "You kids can access the rest via PC."
"Alright," The kids all agreed. Jasmine went up and grabbed a bit of the pile, followed by Yvon who took a bit, then Justin, then Samus took the rest.
"Go and enjoy Orre, kids!" Jihan said happily. "You'll find your hotel at Pyrite town, southeast of here!"
"Alright," some of the kids agreed. The others were already out the building.
Jasmine and Paff ran across the town towards a gift shop. Medli and Yvon started heading down the dirt paths out of the town. Samus, Manus, and Violet went inside the 'Gateon Lighthouse' and Justin, Gers and Tetra, headed two shops down to the Pokémart.
Upon going inside, they could see all kinds of pokémon merchandise such as toys, pokéballs, and food.
They walked up to the cashier. "Hello, how may I help you?"
"Yeah, hi," Justin said. "We would like to buy some stuff."
"Sure!" the cashier answered. He handed Gers a list of items. "What would you like?"
"Uhhhhh..." Tetra looked at the list. "A few Hyper Potions?"
"Sure!" The cashier said. "How many?"
"Uhh..." Justin thought aloud. "How about 20?"
"Sure! That'll be $24000."
Justin counted up the cash and then gave it to the cashier.
"A great ball?" Tetra asked the cashier.
"Yeah," the cashier said. "Makes it easier to catch pokémon."
"Okay," Gers said. "We'll take 3."
"Okay," the cashier said. "That'll be $1500."
Justin again counted the money, then handed it to the cashier.
"Lastly we'll need 3 revives and 15 pokésnacks." Justin said.
"Alright," the cashier added the math. "That'll be about...$3600."
Justin counted the money, again, and handed it to the cashier.
The cashier handed them five bottles full of blue liquid, three little cakes, three packs of 5 pokésnacks. He then gave each one a small greatball. They looked similar to the ball Articuno was kept inside, except it was blue, white and had red, stripey parts.
The cashier finished, "If you want the rest of your hyper potions, you can get them off your PC."
"Thank you sir," Gers said, and the three stepped away from the counter, and out.
"Where should we go now?" Tetra asked Justin.
"In terms of pokémon?" Justin asked.
"Duh," Gers impolitely answered.
"Well," Justin pointed to a house, over which was a sign that said; Orre Pokémon Experts.
"Sounds good!" Tetra said. They jogged on over. The doors opened up automatically for them, revealing the room within. It was covered with bookshelves and paintings and pokémon-related furniture. There was a Wynaut in the corner with a book open in front of it (was it actually reading!).
The three walked up to a desk in the back of the room. An old woman was sitting there.
"Hello!" she beamed. "How are you kids, today?"
"Fine thanks," Justin answered.
"You are the expert, right?" Tetra asked. The old woman nodded nicely. "Well then, we would like to know where we can find the pokémon we're looking for."
"First," the woman said. "Tell me the pokémon you absolutely wish to aquire!"
"Dusclops," Tetra replied.
"Milotic," Justin replied.
"Zapdos," Gers replied.
"Ahh, yes," the woman closed her eyes. "Young lady. To find your Dusclops, you must hunt for Duskull on the east side of Mount Battle. Allow your pokémon to fight by your side and your pokémon wish will come. Black haired one. To find your Milotic, you must hunt for Feebas in the waters of Phenac city. It may look ugly on the outside, but on the inside is an eruption of beauty waiting to happen. Up your Feebas's beauty, then let it fight by your side and your pokémon wish will come true. Tall one. To find your Zapdos, find the one south of Orre Colloseum. Gain it's absolute trust and your pokémon wish will come true."
"Are..." Tetra started.
Gers finished it, "Are you serious?"
"You're damn straight I'm serious!" the woman started shouting. "Go and check for yourselves! Go!" She got up off her chair with a serious look on her face. "GO!"
The kids (and the Wynaut) jumped with startlement, and they quickly left the room.
They started running at about the ten metre point from the house, and darted for the exit to the Orre Woods.
"Where do we go?" Tetra asked the others.
"Well, there is a subway that leads to Phenac from the Pokémon HQ Lab!" Gers said.
The two others looked at Gers to see him holding a map.
"How'd you get that?" Justin asked Gers.
"I took it from the bank," Gers answered confident sounding. "They won't care."
"So," Tetra looked at the mapover Gers' shoulder. "How do we get there? Oh I see, we go left!" She looked down the path. "Do we go straight down?"
"No," Justin said over Gers other shoulder. "We take the second right." He followed the path with his fingers. "Uhhh... Yep! Second right!"
"Alright, then!" Gers rolled upthe map. "Let's go!"
They started walking down the dirt road quickly, and calmly. After a few hundred meters however, they started to slow down to look around at the scenery. The path they were following was surrounded by trees, and to the left of them, they could see the ocean horizon, shining with reflected sunlight. The path soon split into two directions. Left and Right. There was a sign that said;
Left to; Pokémon HQ, Michael Town. Right to; Mt. Battle Training Area, Kaminko Dam.
"Oh, Mount Battle!" Tetra pointed at the sign. "That woman said I could find a Duskull there!"
"The Training Area is on the West side of Mount Battle," Gers recalled reading on the map. "She told you to look on the East side!"
"Oh yeah," Tetra said gloomily.
"Come on," Justin started down the left path. "This way."
"Look," Yvon started. "We haven't found anything suspicious yet!"
"I know, but," Medli looked out the train car opening. "You know as well as I do that something is getting cooked up by someone!"
"We don't know that yet!" Yvon's tone grew a little louder. "All we know is-" Yvon couldn't continue for the train made a large bump, sending him and Medli a foot into the air.
"Rough tracks!" Medli said, disgusted. "I don't think this place is very..." she took a pause. "Together."
"Look," Yvon stood up. "I don't think anybody here has the knowledge to use... something like them as weapons! We will find them, and nobody will be the wiser!"
"Dear God, you'd better be right!" And at that very moment, the train stopped so abrubtly, the g-force sent Medli and Yvon flying.
"Ow!" Medli held her head. Yvon got a bleeding nose. He stuck his bloody face out the opening, and saw that the train had pulled up at a station! The station looked very new, but there weren't many passengers waiting there. Just about ten or twelve. But what made Yvon go tense was that he recognized three of the waiting passengers.They were his friends! He recognized them as Justin, Tetra and Gers.
"Hey!" Yvon whispered to Medli, still clutching her head. "It's Tetra and them!"
"All of them!" Medli whispered back.
"Uhhh..." Yvon couldn't see any of his other friends. "No. Just her, uhhhhh, Gers and Justin, too."
"Should we bail?" Medli asked in a whisper.
"No," Yvon looked at her. "Something tells me they'll lead us to our destination! We'll bail when they bail."
"Alright," Medli agreed. "Where d'ya think we're going?"
Yvon stopped whispering, but still spoke quietly. "I dunno! But, they do." He winked at her.
"You're not as good at winking than Tetra is, so stop trying!"
Yvon frowned at this. When they had met Tetra, she had been pretending to hate them, but they knew she didn't really mean it when she winked, which was always.
"Whatever."
"There's the mountain top," Medli pointed out the opening.
Yvon looked out. The top of the mountain was clear, not cloudy. Yvon assumed this was so because of all the generators and crap located on top from the Training Area. Something told him he was going to see it first hand at some point, and it wasn't going to be for a good reason.
Medli felt the same way, but not about the Mountain Training Area, but about the river set down below the train. She thought it was a beautiful sight, yet she could not pass the feeling of eerieness towards it. She thought that something bad was going to happen there, at some point. She didn't really like Orre very much, probably because she was the only one of all the ten of them that was right about it. There is an evil plot happening, something bad will happen to Orre, and she knew it and she will help stop it. She just wasn't positive...yet.
"Next stop! Phenac city!" The conductor yelled towards the crowd of thirteen people seated on the passenger train.
"Alright," Gers said. "That's our stop!"
"No duh!" Tetra said anxiously. "I wonder what the city is like!"
"I wonder how I'm gonna catch that Feebas..." Justin wondered aloud. "Do I have to fish for it?"
"Probably," Gers told him. "You might want to use one of the pokésnacks we bought."
"Oh yeah," Tetra said slowly. "I'm sure they rent fishing rods. It would be damn stupid if they didn't!"
The train started to slow down. Justin looked out the window.
"Whoa!" he said, sounding quite astonished. "That huge thing is Phenac!"
A woman sitting in front of Justin looked out, shook her head, and told him, "Oh dear boy, of coarse not! That's Realgam Tower! Although, it is part of Phenac. But Phenac city is on that side!"
"Realgam Tower?" Tetra asked.
"Yeah," the woman answered. "It's a pokémon entertainment tower! You can do Battle Bingo, or Colloseum, or Battle CD's!"
"Okay," Gers said looking out the window over Justin.
"You should visit there!" The woman inquired.
"Something tells me we will," Tetra told her.
At that moment, the train started to slow down gradually. The three looked out the window, trying to see the station, but they couldn't see anything except the scenery, but the scenery was beautiful. There were little crystal, clear streams flowing all around the sandy ground. There were pokémon everywhere! Clawing at the water, jumping out of the water and back in, or just laying around. Gers looked out in awe until the scene was cut by the walls of the Phenac station.
"Did you see'em all, guys?" Gers asked.
"Now stopping at Phenac!" The conductor yelled into the crowd. "Oh, and any ONBS or PHQ representatives looking for mayor Danté must stay on the train to Nia Town in order to meet him."
The teens heard a few groans and moans from behind them. And then the train took a small leap forward and made a loud steamy noise. Justin shot up quickly, followed closely by Gers and Tetra, and they skipped out the train.
The three immediately put away their happy smiles and jumpy moods after looking at the crown ready to board the train. They were all looking at the three like they had said something innapropriate and immature. The three walked a little slower, until they were far enough away from the station to talk.
"Geez," Gers half-whispered. "What the hell is up with everyone today?"
"I guess-," Justin stopped. The three turned around suddenly, they had heard their names called.
"No way!" Tetra started smiling. "Hey guys!"
Justin, Gers and especially Tetra recognized the two running towards them as Yvon and Medli.
"Where did you guys come from?" Justin asked quizically. "Were you on the train?"
"Yeah," Medli panted. "We stowed!"
"Why?" Gers asked, sounding a little suspicious of them.
"Well, uhhhhhh," Yvon thought for a moment. "The train already had took off, so, we jumped in that car over there." He pointed at the car he and Medli stowed in.
"Okay," Justin shrugged. "Come with- What happened to you?" Justin pointed at a bloody spot under Yvon's chin.
"Oh," Yvon rubbed it off as good as he could. "Isaac Newton's fault, dammit."
"Ah," Gers nodded. "Now, let's go!"
"Where?" Medli asked.
"We're gonna try and rent a fishing rod for Justin," Tetra explained as they walked down the stairs into the city. "He wants to try and catch a specific fishpokémon."
"Pokémon?" Yvon said in disgust. "What's so cool about pokémon?"
"They're strong!" Justin rebuttled.
"They're cute!" Tetra said.
"They're fun!" Gers said.
"Whatever," Yvon shook his head.
"Oh, over there," Tetra pointed to a blue building within their range of sight. It's sign read;Phenac's Fish and Fishing gear. "Let's go!"
The five quickened their pace down the stairs, and passed the two walls beside them, and saw the belly of Phenac city. It was like an island city, because there was water everywhere! It was contained in dips that led the water from atop the city down and around all the homes and buildings. The water was very clear. Gers thought that the city's water must flow out into the desert, that's probably what he had seen earlier. On the top of the city is what looked like a pokémon colloseum, or just a sports dome. A couple stories below was another section to the city, in the center was some sort of small building. The third section of the city was shining because it seemed to have the most water. The last section of the city had a giant fountain of the pokémon Wailord.
"Whoa," the five said in awe.
"This city is beautiful!" Medli clapped her hands together, admiring the city.
"Come on!" Justin said rushingly. "We'd better get moving."
"Oh, but look at this place!" Medli took a breath of the fresh, vaporey air. "We should try and enjoy this place! I wonder if all the towns on this island are like this."
"Who cares!" Gers said. "I like this town!"
"COME ON!" Medli, Yvon, Gers and Tetra turned a bit to see Justin already down on the second section of Phenac. "LET'S GO!"
The four still on the first section climbed down fastily. Justin had already went inside the 'Fishing' building.
"Wait, up!" Gers hollered, knowing that Justin probably couldn't hear him.
Upon entering the building, the five teens could see that the building was very new. They looked for anyone inside, but there was nobody. Justin walked over to a shelf, and took a fishing rod for himself.
"What are you doing?" Yvon asked in a whisper.
"Relax," Justin assured him. "Nobody's here! No one will know what we're doing."
"Good point," Gers said, taking one for himself, too.
"What are you gonna catch?" Tetra asked Gers as they left the store.
"I dunno," Gers shrugged. "Maybe a Whiscash, or a Barboach, or a Carvahna!"
"Alright," Justin said. "Let's go out of the city. Maybe we'll have some luck in the desert!"
"Whatever," Medli said. "Just as long as we get back soon."
Justin, Tetra, and Gers looked at each other, while going down the stairs connecting the second section of Phenac to the third. They had planned to leave Phenac after some pokémon hunting.
After leaving the door to Phenac, they headed right, towards a nearby tree. Justin took a pack of pokésnacks out of his poket and opened it. He broke on piece in half and gave it to Gers. Gers put it on the hook of his fishing rod.
"Thanks, man!" Gers said.
"No prob," Justin said, attaching the other half to his rod.
Gers jogged up to the tree, and saw all the streams- rivers rather crawling around. Gers thought that the rivers must've looked like streames from the train windows.
"So?" Justin asked aloud to everyone. "Let's pick a spot!"
Tetra and Medli decided to follow Justin down the path to, say about the sixth river, and Yvon stuck with Gers. Gers threw his fishing rod hook into the river nearest the tree he was laying under.
"So, what'ya waiting for?" Yvon asked him.
"Anything, really," Gers answered.
"How 'bout you!" Yvon called to Justin, as he put his hook into the water.
"What!" Justin yelled back.
"Aww, screw it!" Yvon shouted.
"Hey!" Gers stood up, holding his fishing rod tightly. "A bite!"
"What?" Yvon said loudly, yet disbelievably. "How can you get a bite that fast?"
"Who cares!" Gers yelled out loud so everyone can hear. "Justin! Help me out, dude!"
"Fine! God, man! Hold up!"
Gers reeled and pulled hard at his fishing rod. He pulled until something came out with the end of his line. It was a Chinchou!
"Ugggg!" Justin groaned. "It's fine! It's a level 16 Chinchou! Let your Poochyena weaken it, moron!"
"Fine then!" Gers said defiantly. "Go! POOCHYENA!" There was a bright flash (Yvon covered his eyes in surprise) and out came Gers' Poochyena. "Poochyena! Weaken the Chinchou!"
The Poochyena obeyed his master. He gave a little growl, and then started to TACKLE and BITE the Chinchou. The Chinchou tried to SHOCK and use WATER GUN on Poochyena, but it didn't seem to do anything.
By then, Tetra and Medli had gotten beside Justin watching the battle. Tetra asked Justin, "What's Poochyena's info, dude?"
"Oh, uhhhhh," Justin looked at the pouncing Poochyena and listened to his earpiece. He repeated it to the girls, "Poochyena, level 25, male, Dark." As Justin said this, Poochyena gave Chinchou a good TACKLE into the tree. It seemed to be knocked out, so Gers took that opportunity to use his great ball. The Chinchou went in with a flash. The ball was glowing, but not moving. The ball glowed for a few seconds, then dis-illuminated.
"Alright!" Gers cheered.
"Cool," Medli said. "I've never seen something like that before! And I've seen alot."
"I know you have," Tetra gave a large wink to Medli. Medli smiled at this.
"Okay, let's help Justin get his next!" Medli said.
"Thanks girls," Justin said. "I don't think I need help. Feebas keep jumping out of that river over there, so, I just need to be quick."
Gers called back his Poochyena, just as Justin called out, "EEVEE!" There was the usual flash, and Justin's Eevee appeared. Justin took this opportunity to use his earpiece on his Eevee. It said, "Eevee, level 23, male, Normal."
"Okay," Justin was talking to Eevee. "Help me catch a Feebas, alright?" The Eevee gave a small 'Vee!' in agreement.
"I'll help you guys," Tetra told them.
"Thanks."
They reached the river in which was Justin's hook. They sat down, just as a Feebas jumped up and splashed back down into the crystal clear water.
"Okay," Medli started. "Are these what you're looking for?"
"Yup," Justin answered. "These are those who are them!"
"Uhh," Medli said. "Okay."
"There!" Tetra screamed. A Feebas jumped up right in front of them. The Eevee seemed to have better reflexes than the humans, for it jumped up and TACKLED the Feebas before it hit the water. "Alright! Go Eevee!" Justin shot up and yelled.
The Eevee used it's tail to throw sand at the Feebas' eyes, then Eevee TACKLED it again. Justin used his earpiece and repeated what it said to everyone. (Yvon and Gers had gotten there by then.) "Feebas, level 20, female, oh good! Water."
The Feebas was not fighting back, it was just flapping around, like a real fish would if put out of water. Justin thought he should try and catch it now, so he did. FLASH! The Feebas went into the ball, and it wiggled around a bit, but it stopped moving and stopped glowing very quickly.
"Wohoo!" Justin cheered.
"That's three for you, right?" Gers asked.
"Yeah," Tetra answered for Justin.
"Aww, that's awesome!" Justin called back his Eevee and picked up his new female Feebas.
"Good!" Tetra clapped. "Now we can visit the coliseum!"
"Whoa! Hold up!" Yvon shouted. "You never said we were leaving after!"
"So?" Justin said. "We got what we wanted! Now we want to go visit the colloseum!"
"Where's the colloseum?" Medli asked a little distrought.
"Over there!" Tetra pointed in the direction of Realgam Tower, which looked very dark behind the lowering sun.
"Realgam Tower?" Gers asked
"No, Gers!" Tetra said loud. "Past it! You can just see the colloseum!"
Tetra was right. When Yvon and Medli looked, they could just see what looked like a giant rock in the distance.
Medli lightened her face. "Oh, Yvon. We'll be able to drive there and back within a couple of hours! What'll we ride in?"
"I saw some buggies up at the gate." Justin pointed behind him. "I bet we can use one."
"Well," Yvon said. "We should leave now. Let's go!" He led the way up the path to the gate, and there was an older couple getting off of a buggie for six. "Excuse me," Yvon said to them. "Can we use this?"
"Sure you can!" the woman said smiling. She threw Yvon the keys, and Yvon went into the drivers seat of thelarge buggie.
"Thank you!" Medli told them politely as she took a seat in the middle with Tetra. Justin sat in the passenger seat, and Gers climbed into the back.
"Nice kids, these days," the five heard the old man mutter.
"Alright," Yvon said while starting the large buggie up. "Why do you guys want to see the colloseum, anyways?"
"Same reason we came here!" Tetra answered while Yvon drove out.
"Oh, I see! You want to watch pokémon battles?" Medli said. "That would be fun!"
"No," Justin said. "We're looking for one."
"Ah,"
The five kids kept on talking as they drove along the sunset towards the heap of rock known as the Orre Colloseum. As they got closer they could make out that it was shaped like a giant stone hand, with a colleseum on it's palm. But they noticed something else, it wasn't crowded. It didn't seem to have-well-anybody around. Maybe it was closed?
When they got to the colloseum, they could see people inside, but they could hear screaming.
"What's happening?" Gers said to his companions.
"I dunno," Yvon said. "Maybe it wasn't a good idea to come here."
When they got all the way in, the could see that there were guards infront of the opening, from the inside. People were panicking all over. What caught the attention of the five arriving teens was the sight of blood - lot's of blood - pouring in tiny streams from the lifeless body of a man sitting against the wall. A woman was screaming at him, tears running down her neck. The five recognized her as the woman who worked at the Orre Bank.
"NO! DENNIS! YOU CAN'T BE DEAD! NO! DENNIS!" she sobbed. She then looked at a woman standing in the middle of the playing field with dark, fiery eyes. "HOW CAN YOU KILL A MAN JUST BECAUSE HE REFUSED A BATTLE!"
The woman was tall, and had long brown hair. She laughed evily, then noticed the five teens behind the guards. "Hey, you idiots!" she yelled. "Get those kids!"
The guards turned around suddenly, and pulled out weapons. They didn't quite look like guns, but they looked like they shot something.
"Get them in here!" The guards obeyed their master, and motioned the kids to walk inside. With a better view now, the kids realised there were only about fifteen people in the colleseum, all of which were looking at them.
"What are you children doing here? Were you looking for a pokémon battle? ANSWER ME!"
"Yes, ma'am," Justin said. "Who are you?"
"Me?" the woman looked disgusted. "Im am Monika! Admin Monika!"
"Admin?" Yvon said. "That's a wierd name!"
"It's not my name you idiot!" the woman strode up to the five. "It's my rank!"
"I'm sorry," Justin said. "I was under the impression that you killed that guy, and killing is wrong! So, that kinda means you don't have a rank!"
"Shut up!" Monika slapped Justin in the face. "Damn kids! That man didn't deserve life!" The banking woman made a large cry after hearing this. "All I wanted was a battle!"
Justin was rubbing his cheek, looking at 'Admin' Monika. "I can give you a battle! And I'll kick your ass!"
"Oh really?"
"Yeah!"
"FINE!" Monika shrieked.
"This isn't a good idea!" Tetra whispered to Justin.
Justin turned to his friends and whispered while Monika whispered to her guards. "Yvon and Medli! Try to get out of here! Use force if you have to! Gers and Tetra stay with me!"
They all agreed and turned to face Monika, who was already starting.
"I may have only one pokémon! But it's very powerful! Go! MACHOKE!" there was a huge flash, and a large, muscular Machoke appeared. "Still think you can kick my ass, kid?"
Justin repeated what he heard from his earpiece to his friends, "Mackoke, level 35, female, Fighting."
"Ha!" Justin chuckled loudly. He turned to his friends, "Cancel the escape, I can beat her bad! Go! ARTICUNO!" Justin threw his ball, and out with a flash came Articuno.
"Holy crap!" Monika gaped. "How did..."
"Articuno! ICE BEAM!" The Articuno obeyed Justin. It tilted it's head back, charged up energy, and shot the ICE BEAM right at Machoke's head. The Mackoke couldn't take the hit. As strong as it was, it couldn't take Articuno's beam. It collapsed right infront of it's trainer. All the people on the stands hushed up to silence. Monika claimed back her Machoke, and fell down to her knees.
"I can't compete with that!" she muttered angrily. "How could...? Their just... AARRGGHH!"
She got up abruptly, and ran out the exit behind the five kids. Yvon began to go after her, but Justin stopped him.
"We'll see her again," Justin said, looking after Monika's steps. "You'll see."
Justin ran towards the dead body of the man named Dennis, his friends following, speachless. The banker woman was still sobbing. "Oh, Dennis!"
"Why would that woman kill this guy?" Yvon said. "He doesn't look very strong."
"We'll find out," Medli said. "We'll all find out."
"Should we..." Tetra began.
"Something tells me something is going down on this island," Justin said to Tetra. "We need to find out what."
"I told you!" Medli shoved Yvon.
"Shut up!" Yvon shoved her back.
"Told him what?" Justin, Tetra and Gers asked them quietly. The wind started to blow at that moment, and people in the stands were gathering around them, staring at the dead, bleeding body. The sky was orange-red from the sunset, and the clouds were gathering as well.
"Told him what?" Justin repeated.