Chapter 35: fires of battle
Josh:
Courtney continued to fly out of the range of the admins range, with her Ninetails in her arms, she let out a barrage of fire ball like attacks from above. The surprise attack startled the admins and created an opening for both Tanks Swampert and my Gyarados. Me and Tank gave the command for both of our pokemon to use hydro pump at the same time, both shot a high pressured blast of water from their mouths to the Camperupt. Unfortunately, they saw this attack and both said "use earth power" the earth in front of the Camperupt fractured and splintered up as it formed a small wall from the rubble. Jolteon couldn't hold back his excitement any longer, he ran to the solid wall with water reflecting off of it. I shouted "Jolteon, get back here right now" before I could say or do anything else, Jolteon had already used the wall as a blind spot. He was clever and used the water from the hydro pump, using lightning bolt on it to make the lightning jump over the wall and hit the Camperupt. He spent a lot of time watching me in battle and had learnt a lot but looks like he didn't learn too much from me. lightning attacks would do some damage but Camperupt is also a ground type so the electric attacks will be half as effective at best. Jolteon flinched when both Tabitha and Courtney both commanded in unison "use eruption" myself, Tank and Courtney were surprised when from behind the wall a giant eruption of fire and fireballs shot out like a small volcanic eruption.
The heat from the eruption disrupted even the fire barrage from above and pushed Jolteon back. Leafeon pulled him to her and returned to me more worried than before. I could hardly blame her, they blocked and pushed back not one but 2 water attacks on top of Jolteons sneak attack. This is concerning that both admins are this strong and as me and Tank pondered on the next course of action, the molten rocks that flew from the ground was aimed to the former admin. She was able to dodge, but barely as the ground emanated extortionate amounts of heat and even was melt some of the ground. A small pool of larva was separating us from those admins and Courtney above seemed more determined to take them down, I could hardly blame her though. She just learnt one of her comrades perished at the current admins hands and to make matters worse, he took pleasure in the act. I have no doubt that she would be able to take on one of them, but with us separated from her, we can't assist her in the battle and she'll be fighting both on her own. Courtney flew down to us as the admins were preparing another ground based assault, I called my pokemon back and said "we can train with the other gym leaders and we can fight them later" I could tell Courtney wasn't pleased with this idea and the eeveelutions by our side were either too scared, protective or too eager to fight. Courtney agreed that training would benefit everyone and we fled the battle, we heard the admins grunt as we made our escape.
It didn't take us long to get back to Fortree City and to the gym leaders headquarters. Norman filled in the gym leaders that were present about the events that took place as well as what happened to the gym leaders down there in intensive care. Courtney wanted time to herself and just stayed on the roof where battles could take place, I think she was frustrated and needed to let off steam. Leafeon padded off to the side and Jolteon followed, he seemed in distress and she seemed like she couldn't relax. I'm guessing because Jolteon ran off into the thick of danger with no plan, if Nei were here, she'd be able to tell me what they were both thinking and feeling. Seems like everything is falling a part and that Team Magma and Aqua were the reason for the problems at hand. The reason behind the radiation being soaked up was still confusing, Courtney can confirm that Team Magma wouldn't behave like this and that searching for a specific place wouldn't be on the list of things to get done. She confirms that both organisations would focus on getting the biggest body, aka the legendary pokemon, so finding a tower in the middle of an ocean seemed out of place. On top of that, Team Aqua is soaking up radiation from Meteor Falls to create that green orb. They went out of their way to make it, forget how they did, what reason could they need such a weird looking item? Every time we seem to get pieces of their plan, new pieces appear that make everything seem so out of place. I kept thinking and couldn't help but to think all of these separate events need to have a connection to make sense. If there was one then I can't see it, I'll need the information from Team Aqua obtained by the girls to confirm if they are all part of the same plan. We failed to stop the meeting and both teams have made contact, can't even find the base without the girls.
Right now, one of the girls needs help, Tank is continuing his training to get his pokemon up to higher levels, some of the other gym leaders are training their own way and Courtney needs someone to support her during this time. I don't know what I can do to help her in this time, but maybe if I were to talk to her, I might be able to help her through this and we can make a plan together. It'll be some time before the machine can traverse the sea to those deeper regions, so we might be able to train together even and work as a good team. This is my hope and learning from how Nei interacts with people will help me more to get to people emotionally.
