Sorry this chapter took so long to make, I just came back from vacation but I wanted to get a chapter out before the new year. Also, this chapter will introduce custom moves, these attacks do not exist in the actual games and I will explain what they do at the end of the chapter. So without further adieu, enjoy!
The group began travelling through Route 9, it had a similar look to a savanna with some woodland areas. About halfway through the route was the Maroon Village, a rural town that didn't really have anything well known about it, except that it had the best Lava Cookies outside of the Hoenn region.
From above, the TDS zeppelin had sent a group of grunts down to capture pokemon. Typhoon and Pandora were among the group of grunts.
From down below, the group was having a rather easy time getting through the route. They soon encountered someone they were not happy to see again.
"It was only a matter of time before I saw you all again."
"Hello Alan..." Jack said without much enthusiasm.
"I see you've all gotten three badges, but you've still got a long way to go before you can even consider going for the league." Alan noted.
"We'll get there before you can even blink!" Diego remarked.
"Hmph, you can talk but can you battle?" Alan questioned, Diego got one of his pokeballs ready. Before a battle could start however, a wild Raticate appeared out of the grass. It appeared to be running from something, however it didn't get very far as it was soon captured by a TDS grunt.
"Gotcha!" He said, he then noticed the 5 trainers. "Crap!" He cursed as he ran back into the grass as soon as he could.
"What was that guy doing?" Julia asked.
"I don't know, but it can't be good!" Renée replied.
"We need to go after him!" Diego announced, the 4 of them ran after the grunt, with Alan walking casually after them. He didn't seem to really care about the captured Raticate. After about 5 minutes of chasing the TDS member, the group discovered the whole group of grunts that had arrived from the zeppelin earlier.
"Well, well, well, look what the Meowth dragged in." Typhoon chuckled, Jack and Diego recognized him from Mt. Moon. Pandora saw her friends and tried to hide from them, from the looks they gave Typhoon she thought they would be angry with her if they saw her associated with him.
"You again!" Diego complained.
"This is your last chance kids, leave now!" Typhoon announced.
"Not unless you tell us what you're doing first!" Jack answered.
"As if I'd tell you! Troops, scatter!" All of the TDS members scattered, the group followed after them.
Alan was still walking through the path that the group went through earlier. He was walking by a river and he saw a Tentacool swimming by, he looked down at it. The next thing he knew, the Tentacool was captured in a rusty gold colored orb of energy. He looked up and saw a TDS grunt store the Tentacool away in a box.
This especially angered Alan, not because he wanted to capture it, but because when he saw the Tentacool get captured he saw it's look of despair and fear in its eyes. The TDS grunt saw Alan giving him a death glare so he made a run for it.
"Come back here and fight like a man!" Alan shouted as he ran after the grunt.
Jack had followed Typhoon and several other grunts to a the base of a mountain. Jack beat most of the grunts on the way.
"Hehehe, you know Jack, my bosses have been watching you, they want you to join us." Typhoon explained. "Think about it, you could be the most powerful trainer in the world. More powerful than the Champion, stronger than Red... stronger than your own Father!"
"Never!" Jack hissed. The two began to battle, Jack sent out his Spearow while Typhoon sent out his Scizor.
Diego was also following a group of grunts through the woods, though he had already beaten all of them except for one, Pandora.
She tried to get as far away from him as possible. She didn't want him to see her, at least not as TDS grunt. From what she was seeing, he did not like them. Pandora took out a pokeball and sent out an Absol, it was a gift from her uncle, Sidney.
She hopped onto Absol's back but she was soon spotted by Diego.
"Absol, use Quick Attack, let's get out of here!" Pandora ordered, the two ran off, Diego tried to follow them but he couldn't catch up to a speeding Absol.
The twins went together, they encountered a few TDS grunts but they were easily beaten by the twins' teamwork. They eventually ended up on the more mountainous part of the route, they couldn't find any more grunts since they were all in the forest.
"Do you see any more?" Renée asked.
"Nope..." Julia answered.
"I guess we have to head back then. We can't waste any time!" Renée stated.
They began to retrace their steps, Julia then hear the sound of flapping wings, after what happened with the flock of Spearow, she was a but more alert around birds. She turned to face the sound and was in awe at what she saw.
"What's keeping you sis?" Renée asked, Julia pointed to the sky, Renée saw what Julia was referring to and she was struck dumb as well.
There were three giant birds, one of them was light blue, a mist trailed behind it. The second one was yellow, it's wings made the sound of crackling thunder with each flap. The third one was reddish-orange, it's wings and head had fire on it.
"Woah, I never thought I'd get to see the legendary birds!" Julia said, she seemed especially interested in Articuno, Renée shook her head in agreement, she couldn't decide which one she liked better, Zapdos or Moltres.
As the birds dissappear Ed into the clouds, Renée noticed the doubts of a battle.
"Spearow, use Aerial Ace!"
The twins looked down and saw Jack battling Typhoon.
Julia gasped, "We have to go help him!" They hurried down the mountain as fast as they could.
Pandora had escaped to the base of the mountain where Jack's battle was. She, along with many other grunts, had gotten behind Typhoon. They had to wait for the zeppelin to pick them up, it was due to arrive any moment since on of the grunts called for evacuation.
Several yards away, Diego had given up trying to find Pandora, he began looking for his friends. Suddenly he was knocked down by someone, he looked up and saw another grunt. Before Diego had a chance to react the TDS member ran away. Alan then came by, he helped Diego up and the two chased after the TDS grunt.
"Why are you helping me?" Diego asked.
"I know I'm not the nicest guy around, but at least I don't abuse pokemon!" Alan stated, a fierce look was in his eyes.
Everyone ended up at the base of the mountain, the Team Dark Star zeppelin had arrived. All of the members of TDS swarmed inside of it, except for Typhoon, who was still battling Jack. Spearow was beginning to get worn down by Scizor attacks.
"I'm impressed, no pokemon has lasted this long against my Scizor!" Typhoon acknowledged. "Scizor, use Bullet Punch!"
Scizor sped towards Spearow, it's fists had turned into a glowing silver color, it battered Spearow with a barrage of punches. When it was Over, Spearow was struggling to stand up.
"Typhoon, sir, aren't you coming?" One of the grunts asked from the zeppelin.
"Drop the ladder, I'll be up in a little bit."
A hatch on he bottom of the zeppelin opened, a ladder dropped out of it, Typhoon began to climb the ladder, the group tried to stop him. Julia and Jack both sent out their Ralts, Renée sent out her Growlithe, Diego sent out his Zubat, and Alan sent out an Ariados.
"Spearow use Aerial Ace on the zeppelin!" Jack ordered, Spearow attacked the vehicle, despite Spearow's small size, it actually managed to cause the zeppelin to start rocking back and forth in the air. This caused the grunt that Alan was chasing earlier to drop the box of pokemon he captured. The box fell out of the hatch that the ladder came out of, taking the chance, Alan made his move.
"Ariados, use Psychic now!"
Ariados' eyes began to glow with an eerie blue aura, this same aura surrounded the crate, breaking it and releasing all of the pokemon inside. Most of the pokemon had wings so they got away easily, the only one that didn't was Tentacool, thankfully Jack's Spearow caught it in midair and helped it back into the water.
"Grrr, Scizor, use Insect Crash!" Typhoon commanded, Scizor's claws began glowing dark purple. It began charging at all of them.
"Zubat!"
"Spearow!"
"Use Air Cutter!" The two boys said simultaneously.
"Growlithe, you use Flame Burst!" Renée commanded.
"Ralts, use Confusion!" Jack and Julia ordered.
Zubat and Spearow flapped their wings fast enough to form a blade of wind, Growlithe's attack collided with the Air Cutter, lighting it on fire. The two Ralts joined hands, their combined psychic power created a small blue-green pulse of energy that was then shot towards Scizor. All of the attacks hit Scizor dead on, knocking it out easily.
"Hmph, this isn't over!" Typhoon called out, recalling Scizor into its pokeball, he then sent out his Solrock. "Solrock, use Flash!"
Solrock let out an intense burst of light that blinded the trainers, they couldn't see anything, but they heard the sound of a camera flash. When they could see again, their eyesight had returned.
"They're gone..." Julia said.
"What are they planning?" Julia pondered.
"Whatever it is, it can't be good..." Renée added.
"We'll have to cancel our battle Diego, I have more important issues to worry about now." Alan stated, Diego nodded his hand in understanding.
"But the next time we meet, we'll battle. The same goes for you too Jack."
Jack gave Alan a competitive smile, Alan then left into the woods. The group then turned their attention to another glowing light, they turned to face it and were amazed at what they saw, both Ralts were evolving!
"Wow, they evolved into Kirlia!" Renée exclaimed. Julia scanned the Kirlia with her pokedex.
'Kirlia, the Emotion pokemon: It has enough psychic power to distort space and see into the future.'
"Wow super cool!" Julia cheered. Jack's Kirlia still had a scar on its left eye, Julia's Kirlia had a longer 'tutu' than Jack's did.
Alan searched around the woods until he found the stream he was by earlier. Coincidentally, the same Tentacool he rescued was there! He took out a PokeNav Plus and scanned the Tentacool, he took out pokeball with the intention to capture it. Surprisingly though, the Tentacool leaped out of the water and let itself he caught! Alan seemed surprised at the eager attitude Tentacool had to join him, but he was glad nonetheless.
In the TDS labs, Pandora was listening to Typhoon who was giving her orders.
"You did good today Pandora, the bosses were pretty satisfied with what you got. Now I need you to activate the RM-24i. We need it to make sure our friends don't interfere again."
Pandora understood what she needed to do, but she looked conflicted about it, Typhoon noticed this.
"What's wrong?"
"When I first came here, you and Sirius told me that three of my friends were supposed to be working here too, but only Simon and Ryan are here. Who is the fourth person supposed to be?" Pandora asked.
"I'm going to be honest Pandora, Jack was supposed to join us, but after today, there's no chance he'll join. That's why we need you to activate the RM-24i, to sure he and his friends don't interfere anymore."
Pandora was shocked at this, but she couldn't really talk back to him. She hesitantly went up to a machine, and pressed a green button. Suddenly a pair of red eyes began to glow, Pandora backed away in fear, the revving of a chainsaw was also heard. Suddenly this creature howled, Pandora and Typhoon had to cover their ears due to the sheer volume of it. Typhoon smiled to himself while Pandora began to scream.
"Hehehe, this is gonna be good!" Typhoon snickered, he pressed a button that opened a garage door leading out of the labs. The creature saw the exit and dashed into the outside...
What kind of creature did Typhoon just let out into the world? Does Alan really have a heart? Who knows, but what will happen to our heroes next? Only time will tell!
New move: Insect Crash
85 base power and 100 accuracy.
It's a Bug type attack (obviously).
Description: The user slams into target with all of its might, may cause the target to flinch.
In a way, it's similar to Take Down, only it can cause a flinch, though it's a rare chance.
Do you like the idea of new moves by the way? If so, what kind of attack do you want to see? Perhaps I might include it in the story.
