Alya's father had just left to go catch a pokémon. She knew the story. Some customer would come to his office and order a special pokémon, he'd leave for a few days, and then come back, with or without the pokémon. In the meantime, she was responsible for watching the company and making sure everything went smoothly. But this time, she had indications that everything might not be running as smoothly as she might desire. Uness had called her down to the tech room to have a look at something. He rarely did that, and then only when there was a problem. And this time, it sounded serious. She picked up a chocolate bar on the way down.
She was right to have been worried. Uness' Shadow Detector program had been activated. The Shadow Detector was a program Uness had been using during the last Cipher plan, to help find the Shadow pokémon. Its job was to react every time it found a Shadow pokémon and pinpoint its location. After Cipher had been taken down again, it had simply been left running. But now it had roared up again. That could mean one of two things, either that Cipher was creating Shadow pokémon, or that one had entered the program's detection field. Since all the pokémon were purified, only the former was possible. Cipher was moving again. And, being such a large company, Sonos would be targeted first. Alya thought for a while. She had to alert Lorno and the police. She decided it was best to talk to Lorno first.
Lorno usually acted as the top admins' bodyguard, but he also guarded the building. That was why she hadn't taken him with her down, and why she still thought she was safe inside the building. Lorno had a bunch of tough pokémon, among them a Walrein and a Charizard. The Charizard had been one of Cipher's Shadow pokémon in their last plot, and had ended up being snagged by Lorno in a raid in one of their headquarters. He had managed to purify it after 2 days, which was still the record in the Orre region, and a remarkable feat. Lorno was probably the only Sonos admin with an old Cipher pokémon. The Walrein had been with him since he was a child and it was a Spheal, and was a formidable foe to take down after training with Lorno for all those years. He could not be easily taken down. Yet, when she arrived upstairs, both had fainted, along with the Umbreon and Gardevoir he had. His Salamence was fighting still, but didn't have much left. She could see the problem. The Cipher peon had brought a Kyogre, which he used to pound on Lorno's pokémon. Alya knew he wouldn't win, and tried to think up a plan. She couldn't think of anything else than trying to succeed where Lorno failed, though she knew that if Lorno lost, that wasn't likely. She still had to try.
Once the Kyogre had Icebeamed Salamence out, the trainer turned to Alya. To her surprise, he didn't attack, but simply told her to come with him obediently. She was not being attacked, she was being kidnapped. She refused. He shrugged, then ordered the Kyogre to take her. She sent out her Raichu.
"Raichu! Thunderbolt!" she cried, knowing it would listen and obey. She just hoped that Kyogre wasn't faster. It was. Before Raichu had charged its attack up, it had shot an ice beam at it. To her surprise, the ice beam fainted Raichu in a single hit. Her next pokémon was a Sceptile. Immediately after sending it out, she ordered it to use Leaf Blade, hoping that it would be faster than the Kyogre. This time, it worked. The Kyogre was knocked back, but after struggling for a short while, it came back up. It then hit Sceptile with another ice beam. Just like Raichu, Sceptile was knocked out in a single hit. She knew, however, that another strong hit would knock out Kyogre. Knowing that it would be her final chance, she sent out her Aerodactyl. It wouldn't deal a very strong blow, but it would be strong enough, and Aerodactyl was her last pokémon to have the speed to pull it off. She had to take a chance. She sent it out.
She had very little time to decide on a move. After thinking for half a second, she decided Take Down would be her best bet. Aerodactyl heard her order and immediately rammed into Kyogre, knocking it out. The trainer was shocked. Alya walked toward him. Then he changed his expression into a smile. "Oh well. I can't do anything about that. I'll just hope that the next one does better." Alya stopped. She wasn't prepared to face another one. Least of all a Groudon, which would be the most likely companion to Kyogre. Even though they were mortal enemies, people tended to prefer using them together, for reasons unknown. She thought for a while. A Groudon would be slower than a Kyogre, and it was a Ground type... she wondered if her Dewgong could pull something like that off. She decided to try.
Sure enough, Groudon was the next pokémon. She ordered Aerodactyl to use another Take Down. Groudon was, however, more of a physical pokémon than Kyogre. The attack had much less of an effect, and Groudon simply used fire blast. Aerodactyl, also being a physical type, wasn't very well prepared for a fire attack. One of this magnitude easily fainted it. Alya sent out Dewgong. She knew that speed was of the essence, also on her part. She had to order quickly. She ended up ordering an ice beam. Her Dewgong was fairly fast. Even though it wasn't as fast as Aerodactyl or Raichu, it was faster than Groudon. And that helped. Dewgong shot its ice beam at Groudon before it could react or even attempt to defend itself. Groudon's flinching made it obvious that Dewgong had scored a critical hit. However, it wasn't enough. Groudon was still conscious, and used another fire blast. It wasn't supereffective, and even though Dewgong's thick fat cut the damage in half, it was still enough to knock Dewgong out in one move. "Well," she thought, "I took most of its health." She sent out her Alakazam. She didn't know if it could withstand an attack from Groudon, but she hoped it could. Groudon was too fast, though. The moment Alakazam came out of the pokéball, it was hit by a fire blast. And, contrary to what she had hoped, it fainted immediately. She had one more pokémon. She had to rely on her Typhlosion.
She hesitated a bit. She knew this was her last chance, and if she could knock out Groudon, she could be able to escape unharmed. She considered her next action. She had four moves to choose from; sunny day, toxic, flamethrower and blast burn. She had acquired this pokémon from the previous Mt. Battle champion before he retired, the last pokémon he ever gave away. She knew that Typhlosion was resistant to fire, and that Groudon apparently acted on its own. If she was lucky, it'd use fire blast again, which she was sure Typhlosion could survive once, given the power she had seen so far. But she would only be able to move once, since Groudon was faster than Typhlosion. Toxic wouldn't have time to work, and she couldn't take advantage of sunny day. All in all, blast burn was her best option. She sent Typhlosion out, and ordered a blast burn.
This round went as she had predicted. Groudon, being the faster of the two, started out with a fire blast. It hit Typhlosion, and took most of its health. She had to rely on the next attack. Typhlosion charged up an enormous amount of fire, like it always did when it was about to use blast burn, then released it all on Groudon. Groudon was a ground type, so it wasn't resistant to the attack. The fire knocked it out, but Alya saw it was just barely. She took a deep breath, and calmed down. She had survived, and defeated the two legends. But the Cipher peon just kept smiling. This alarmed her, and she realized that he had one more. She had been too busy to check this far, but now she checked. Yes, he had one more. He took out the last pokéball and threw it. When she saw the great green serpent that came out, she knew it was over. She could defeat an overpowered Kyogre and an equally overpowered Groudon, but taking on a Rayquaza after that was simply impossible. She withdrew Typhlosion, and gave in.
A few days later, Ordan came back. Lorno, who was heartbroken over having failed the task of protecting the boss' daughter, told him everything that happened, and handed in his resignation. Ordan tried to talk him out of it, but Lorno had made up his mind. He left his Charizard for whoever would take over after him, and left. Ordan had a problem. Not only had his daughter been kidnapped, but the company had lost two vital admins.