Okay, I have a question that I can't help but wonder. Should I scrap this story all together or continue, because out of all of my stories, this is the one where I've gotten the least reviews. Maybe its because people don't like OC stories. I don't know…
Anyways, enjoy this next chapter.
Chapter 13: The Escape
"Find anything?" J.C. asked as he, Viki, and Rei looked around in the forest. The last place Rex was before his disappearance.
"No…nothing…" Rei sighed as Viki looked down, in horror at what he saw. Rei noticed the dark-blonde girl's expression. "What's wrong Viki?"
Viki picked up the pieces. The pieces to which was once Rex's mobile phone. "Rex's cell…that man who jumped my brother must've smashed it!"
"Oh man…" J.C. shook his head. "That's not good."
"Now how are we supposed to find him? It's not like we can track down a person's Pokenav or something…unless they took that away from him, too!"
"Yeah…" Viki was about to cry, over the fact that she would never find him, but suddenly blinked. "Wait a second? Wasn't there a number to call if you've just happened to lose your Pokenav?"
"Well…yeah…but…you can't use it to find other people's Pokenavs?" Rei reminded.
"Yeah…with the old model!" Viki smiled as she pulled out her Pokenav! Unlike the older, original model, this one was in a silver color, but much smaller. "But with these babies, we can track other Pokemon Navigators given that we input the correct product number. Perfect if you happen to misplace your Pokemon Navigators!"
J.C. smirked. "I imagine…it's perfect for you!" He had heard about Viki's constantly growing history of misplacing things: House Keys, Pokeballs, School Books, just to name a few…
Viki stuck her tongue out at him as she took out her cell and dialed the number. "Okay…now to type in the ID number…hmm…what was it again…"
…
The room was in silence…dead silence as Reginald looked around the room. The same room which a fierce battle took place. His instructions were to check on the prisoners to see if they were still dead. And if they were…take their Pokemon. But Reginald had other ideas…
He walked up to the fallen body of Aurora as he took a look at her. She was quite the beauty, wasn't she? Even when she was knocked out, she looked stunning. The way she styled her fiery red hair. The beauty of her ruby red eyes…when they were opened… She was such a treasure. A treasure he was determined to make his.
"Poor lass…" He sighed as he walked over and kneeled down in front of her. "Don't worry…daddy's here for you now…" He extended his hand, particularly to the girl's backside. Just as his hand was about to felt the fabric of her skirt…
"Brute, Hyper Beam!"
Reginald turned around as he saw a Machamp firing a blue-colored beam directly towards his direction, but it was too late, as the Shadow Syndicate member was hit!
Aurora got up from the ground as she then proceeded to kick the violet-haired man in the ribs before recalling her Pokemon. "Pervert! Served him right…"
Rex proceeded to recall his Machamp and the rest of his Pokemon. "Well what'd ya know? Pretending to be dead actually worked!"
Aurora brushed off her skirt, tank top, and vest, "Yeah…but weren't you cutting it close? Lover boy over there almost took advantage!" She went over to grab the key from his belt. "Good! Now we can get out of here!"
"Let's do it quick, before Frankensteins 1 and 2 wake up and it all goes downhill!" Rex suggested, noting the asleep Charaligatr and Icetoise as they then used the key to open the door. They were now in the hallway once again. "Okay, which way to go?"
"Lesse…" Aurora was going to ponder, but then noticed Rex taking out his Pokenav. She then glared at him…
Rex noticed Aurora, more particularly the vicious look she was giving him… "Uh oh…" He mouth, feeling that it was all about to hit the fan…
She grabbed him by the loins of his shirt, "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT YOU HAD A POKEMON NAVIGATOR AND YOU DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING UNTIL NOW?"
"I just remembered it when I tried to get you! Then, as you know already…"
Aurora sighed as she released her hold on him. "Well...fighting won't solve anything…" She looked around. "Isn't there an exit somewhere around here?" Much to her dismay, all of the doors that were available were too similar, except for a few markings in some kind of language. "You wouldn't happen to speak Spotanese, would you?"
"Damn, it's like we conquer one problem and walk right into another." Rex looked around and saw that there were two paths: One on the left and the other on the right. "Looks like we have two options: We could go left or right? I say left!"
Aurora shook her head. "I think we should go right!"
"And walk into a trap like last time? I don't think so! Left's the way out!"
"No, right!"
"No left!"
"Right!"
"Left!"
Aurora sighed, "Okay, since we're going to keep arguing back and forth like 12 year olds, I suggest that we do Rock Paper Scissors!"
"Okay then…" Rex sighed. 'Aurora's more of the paper type…' He grinned as he went for Scissors. Unfortunately, he had made the wrong assumption as Aurora went for rock!
The winner giggled, "Looks like we're going right!"
Rex sighed, "Okay, but if we walk into another trap…"
"Oh don't be such a worry pants." Aurora said as she ran off, leaving Rex dumbstruck.
"Worry pants?" Shaking his head, Rex rushed off after her. "I hope that you really know where the exit is!"
"To be honest, I have no clue!" Aurora smiled. "But at least no one appears to be ar-" She was interrupted by a large crash within a nearby room. "The heck?"
"Don't tell me that there's another fusion Pokemon in there…" Rex groaned. Shadow and Shellshock were still knocked out from the battle with Aurora earlier, and Drego got dominated by Charaligatr and Icetoise, as well as Brute, who just used whatever energy he had left to save Aurora from basically being raped by Reginald. Charex and an exhausted Edge were the only Pokemon he had left, but who knew what kind of Pokemon were in there. He didn't know about Aurora's situation, except that her Delibird, Cloyster, and Sneasel were taken out. At least she still had Sealeo and hopefully another Pokemon he didn't know about.
"Let's keep on moving, hopefully whatever it is won't-" Aurora was interrupted as the door was instantly blasted into oblivion. "…Come out…"
What came out from the door were what appeared to be not fusion, but regular Pokemon, which appeared to be from both the Hoenn and Johto regions. At least they appeared to be normal at first before Rex and Aurora noticed the glowing red eyes of the Pokemon.
"Look on the bright side, at least they're not Fusion Pokemon!" Aurora snickered as she took out two Pokeballs.
"This day just keeps on getting better and better!" Rex did the same. "So what'd ya want to do? Faint 'em or catch 'em!"
"Not sure…how many Pokeballs do you have?"
Rex dug into his pocket and saw for himself the amount of Pokeballs he had. "I got two great balls and an Ultra Ball!"
"I got about three Net Balls." Aurora said after examining her Pokeball supply, which grabbed her acquaintance's attention.
"Net Balls?"
"Pokeballs make specifically for bug and water types." Aurora explained as two Nuzleaf advanced towards them.
"Catch whatever you can…" Was all Rex said before he tossed out two of his occupied Pokeballs. "Charex, Edge, let's go!"
Aurora followed suit. "Sealeo, let's do it!"
The Pokeballs opened as the Charmeleon, Feraligatr, and Sealeo jumped into a battle stance as Rex examined the Dark Stone-influenced Pokemon.
"How many are we dealing with?" He asked.
"Aurora examined. "There's two Nuzleaf, a Grovyle, a Combusken, and…oh man…three Houndoom!"
"Three Houndoom?" Rex blinked. He knew how vicious Houndoom were. Especially from rumors that a Houndoom's flame would not be extinguished until it has burned the object the flame is applied on completely. The fact that they were now under the influence of the Dark Stones didn't help either. Needless to say, Rex needed to take it out as soon as possible. "I'll handle them!"
"Wrong, we'll handle them!" Aurora corrected him, "You may have a water type, but my Sealeo' has the Thick Fat special ability so I'll take on two of them, you take on one."
"Seven on three isn't the best of odds…" Rex sighed… "This is the Charmeleon incident in Saffron all over again…" He took out his Pokedex. He knew about the Houndoom already, but nothing about the Nuzleaf or Grovyle. He did an info search on Grovyle…
Grovyle, the Wood Gecko Pokemon. This Pokemon adeptly flies from branch to branch in trees. In a forest, no Pokemon can ever hope to catch a fleeing Grovyle however fast they may be. Grovyle is the evolved forum of Treecko and the pre-evolved form of Sceptile.
"Grovyle…" Rex said as he went to look up the data on Treeko. "Looks familiar to me for some reason…"
Treecko, the Wood Geko Pokemon. Treecko is cool, calm, and collected – it never panics under any situation. If a bigger foe were to glare at this Pokemon, it would glare right back without conceding an inch of ground. Treecko is the pre-evolved form of Grovyle.
Rex blinked as it all came back to him. Didn't the Shadow Syndicate kidnapped at Treecko back at Birch's lab? And if the Evolution Inducement wave's done its work, that same Treecko evolved into the Grovyle standing before him. "So that's why they used the Inducement Wave!" His eyes narrowed. Edge, water gun the Houndoom! Charex, Flamethrower on the Nuzleaf!"
Aurora joined in. "Sealeo, use your Water Gun on the Houndoom too!"
Edge and Sealeo shot their Water Guns in stereo at the Houndooom, knocking them back into a wall. However, the Dark Pokemon just shook it off as they growled at their attackers.
"Okay, water moves are super effective against fire types, right?" Aurora asked
"When a Pokemon's affected by the Dark Stones, their stats become jacked!" Rex informed.
"Terrific…" Aurora glared as Charex's flamethrower knocked the Nuzleaf down, but gets knocked back down by a green blade on Grovyle's arm.
Rex blinked, "The hell?"
It was now Aurora's turn to inform Rex. "That's Leaf Blade! Grovyle's signature attack."
"It's that powerful?" Rex rolled his eyes. Of course it was that Powerful, especially with the Dark Stone's influence. "Okay Charex, use Flamethrower on Grovyle, then Seismic Toss on the Nuzleaf!
The Charmeleon jumped up and unleashed its Flamethrower onto the Wood Gecko Pokemon before landing on one of the Nuzleaf, picking one up and jumped into the air as it then rolled in mid-air, similar to the Earth's rotation on its axis. When gravity forced Charex downward, he proceeded to toss that one Nuzleaf onto the other, knocking them both down, but like the Houndoom, they got back up, hardly showing the effects of that attack.
"This is getting irritating." Aurora said as Sealeo fired its third water gun along with Edge at the Houndoom. The fire Pokemon appeared to be seriously weakening, but their desire to defeat them hid it from the water Pokemon. "We have the advantage against them, why are they still fighting? Do they ever give up?" Aurora looked around. "Where's Combusken?"
Rex looked away from Charex hitting an Iron tail onto the second Nuzleaf as he saw the Young Fowl Pokemon diving directly towards Aurora. "Aurora watch out!"
Aurora turned around as she saw Combusken dive directly at her. Fortunately for her, she was shoved out of the way. Unfortunately, Rex was knocked down hard by the Fire/Fighting Pokemon's Quick Attack.
Charex noticed his trainer being knocked down and barely conscious. His eyes narrowed as the flame on his tail began to burn fiercely as hints of blue and white could be seen. An orange-like aroma glowed around the Flame Pokemon as Charex set his sights onto the Pokemon responsible. The one Pokemon who he now wanted to attack: Combusken.
Charex shot an orange-like beam at the Young Fowl Pokemon but it dodged out of the way, leaving the two Nuzleaf to be hit. Aurora meanwhile went to check on Rex, to see if he was okay. That was twice he had saved her: Once from Charaligatr, now from Combusken. Her attention then turned to the shiny Charemeleon whose eyes were narrowed, focusing his blasts onto Combusken. An attack that was known as Outrage! It was powerful, but Aurora knew that soon Charex would become confused and may began to attack itself or worse Sealeo and Edge.
She turned her attention back to the red-haired boy as she tried to get him up. "Come on, Rex! No time to mess around!" She shook him, trying to get him to at least sit up.
"So…that's how…a Quick Attack…feels like…" He said, which only got him a slap from Aurora. "Damn it Aurora, what's your-"
"Snap out of it!" She said. "Your Charmeleon's about to suffer from Outrage and you're sitting there with a dazed look on your face." She then sighed. "You can't be risking yourself to save me all the time. I can defend myself, you know!"
Rex saw Charex take down all three Pokemon with Outrage, leaving Grovyle the only one standing. "Meanwhile, the Houndoom had just unleashed a smog attack, which was taking its toll on Edge and Sealeo.
"There's only one chance left…" Rex got back up on his feet as he looked towards at Aurora. "You think that Sealeo's up for a Sheer Cold?"
Aurora nodded as the Houndoom went for the strike. This was their only chance. "Sealeo!"
"Edge!"
"Sheer Cold!"
"Hydro Pump!"
Edge unleashed the powerful jet stream of water known as Hydro Pump as Sealeo unleashed the stream of cold air from his mouth. The Hydro Pump hit one of the Houndoom hard into the steel wall, which knocked it out, and the Sheer Cold soon made the second one unconscious. Leaving only one…
"Edge, Scary Face!" Rex ordered as the Feraligatr gave the Houndoom the scariest face it could've done, which somewhat startled the Dark Pokemon. Giving Aurora the opening she needed…
"Okay Sealeo, Body Slam!" She ordered as the Blue Seal-like Pokemon leaped up as it landed directly on top of the oblivious Houndoom. "That shall do it!"
"Okay, we have six Pokeballs, we have six Pokemon that need to be captured!" Rex took out his three empty ones. "I'll take two of the Houndoom and the Combusken. You get the third Houndoom and the Nuzleaf!"
"Even though I don't really like Fire Types, sounds like a plan to me!" Aurora said as they then tossed their Pokeballs at the fallen Pokemon. However, Combusken revived just long enough to notice the capture attempt. The Fire/Fighting type fired a flamethrower at the tossed Pokeballs, hoping to evade it, as he kicked the Pokeball that was designated to capture him right back at Rex. Combusken then gave Rex a look that said, "I don't think so!"
"Dang…" Rex sighed as only 1/3 of their Pokeballs actually made it to their targets: Two of the Houndoom, much to Aurora's dismay…
"It just had to be a fire type I managed to catch…" She sighed, "Aw well …"
Rex just glared at the Combusken as he proceeded to escape. The Nuzleaf and one Houndoom were out cold, while the other two Houndoom were captured, each with his and Aurora's Pokeballs. That left the only Pokemon that was not captured, has escaped, or fainted: Grovyle.
Speaking of the Wood Gecko Pokemon, Grovyle jumped up as it then dove on top of the Charmeleon, drilling its claws onto the Flame Pokemon's head, which knocked him out of his semi-confused state.
"That would be Crush Claw." Aurora informed Rex as Charex stood up on his feet, recovering from his attack.
"You alright, Charex?" Rex asked his Pokemon, only to receive a "Char" for an answer.
"It's now three-one-one now!" Aurora cheered as Edge and Sealeo proceeded to corner the Grovyle, but one sinister "Char" stopped them in their tracks, as Charex narrowed his rage-filled eyes as he walked over.
"Charmeleon Char! (Grovyle is mine!)" He said to the others Pokemon as they stepped aside out of his way. Charex was ready to attack the Grass Pokemon and to show who was indeed number one!