Chapter 3 – Morally Black
A/N: This is a original Pokemon Fan Game, made by Amethyst. if you wish to check it out and play the game download it at Reborn Evolved. search for it on your web browser if you want to get to the website.
Time: 8:00 (the next day)
Location: Lower Peridot Ward
"Hey, look it's him again!" one person says. While a kid with Pitch black hair and grey eyes walks down the street.
"Where is he going?" another says while the kid heads down a back alley.
"Pft… think we could jump him?" one tries to say in a hushed voice.
"What was that?" The boy turns and looks at the man. The boy takes out a pokeball reading for a blood-bath.
"N-nothing." The one who met the boy's eyes, backs away.
"That's what I thought, you said. Hela." The boy then takes out his Zoura and disappears into the back alley.
"That's black demon for you…" The last few words from the people who were talking.
"…" The boy smiles, as he hears his named called. Who is this trainer? Then you are new to Reborn, a feared trainer. The Black Demon Nero Umbrasyl. He's feared by many trainers. The reason, Nero isn't the nicest of trainers.
Ring! Ring!
Nero's pokegear starts to ring. Nero, reluctantly answers the call. "*A sigh of being pissed off* What do you want?... Yeah, I wasn't captured, not like I wouldn't have been able escape…. Yeah, yeah... Of course, I'm pissed! I'm the one who destroyed the train! Yet the fucking Grunt gets all the fucking credit!... You want me to return to base?... Hell no! I'll back when I want to. Not when you fucking ask!"
Nero, while still invisible loudly hangs up, and starts to walkthrough the destroyed city of Reborn. Yes, what he said was correct. Nero was the one who destroyed the train and Grandview Station. Although the target survived. The target Ame, with out her the city would once again fall into ruin. Nero planned to take all the credit for destroying the train, but his allies had other plans. Those plans to lay all of the blame on a grunt.
That was the reason for his sour mood. As it is now the grunt had most likely given up all information about the plans and what they were doing.
Pit pat.
The sound of falling rain had begun. A storm had just started to brew overhead. "Tch, to start fucking raining… Eh, a little rain never killed anyone. Hela Return, Rain plus illusion never works."
"Zor…" His Zoura groans upset to return to its pokeball.
"Fine. Just drop the invisibility." Nero says angerly. And so, Hela dropped it illusion of invisibility.
As Nero tried to continue his way, he heard voices from behind him. This one was female "Woah! That person just appeared out of nowhere!"
"Oh, so it seems." A male voice also noticed his presence. "Wonder who he is?"
Nero glances to where the voices were. It was two kids, like him age fifteen. The boy had white hair and blue eyes, the way he was dressed was prim and proper compared to Nero's Jacket, t-shirt and pants. Nero annoyingly said that the boy looked disgusting in his mind. While setting his eyes on the girl, it has annoyed him. The girl was just another blonde bimbo to Nero.
"Should we say hello?" The boy, who was no other than Percival Whitehall. Asked his companion Lucille Luxen. "It could be a good way to teach you about Pokémon Battles."
Before Lucille could answer Nero decided to not bother with them. And started to walk away. "…"
"Hey, he's leaving!" Lucille shouted, "Hey wait!"
As Lucille started to give chase, Nero's own pace increased as well, and as he turned a corner. "Hela, invisibility again…"
"Zor." Hela agreed, even though having an illusion in the rain was hard. It did make it harder for someone to be spotted.
And as Lucille and Percival turned the corner to look for the boy, they were chasing they were surprised to not see him there. And so, they continued their way to see if they could find the boy.
Nero then continued to look through the rainy streets, though being forced to avoid the two trainers from before, Nero found that he ended up in the northern part of Peridot, the Peridot Ward. Meaning that he just got further away from his base. But was instead in front of one of the old Peridot Factories. Out in front of one of the factories Nero noticed a boy with green hair, glasses and green eyes.
"?!" Nero then recognized who the boy was. He had read the green hair boy's profile before. The kid was Fern, the younger brother of Onyx Ward's Gym Leader. Nero then wondered what the boy was doing there. Knowing that it probably would be stupid, it would be worse if Fern noticed someone invisible. "*Hela drop the invisibility, and return to your pokeball. *"
"*Zorua! *" Hela responded in a hushed cry. She was reluctant but she knew something was coming and listen to her master.
As Nero got closer, he noticed that the boy was talking to himself. "Uh, where are they? They said to meet at the old factory. Maybe they meant the other factory. They should've specified."
"*Other Factory… goddamn it. Bastard already cracked." Nero cursed, realizing that the last part was a bit too loud.
"Hm?" Fern noticed the presence of Nero. "Hey, what are you looking at?"
"Some weird plant that's sprouting out of the ground." Nero said, moving in closer. And as that happened, there was a clear disparity of height between the two. With Nero being the taller one.
"Got a problem?" Fern responded standing his ground. "I hope not. You don't know who you're messing with."
"Oh really?" Nero gave a demonic smile. "Neither do you."
"Name's Fern." Fern boasted, thinking it would intimidate Nero. "I'm the cool cat and top dog. Got it?"
"*Yawn*" Nero yawned, thinking along the lines of. "(He's about as intimidating as a kitten, and probably a bitch too.)"
"Cuz I don't think you do." Nero's yawn only pissed Fern off. And grabbed a pokeball from his belt and tossed out a Budew. "Get ready for a lesson in class!"
"Oh, I'll be the one teaching you! Hades!" Nero smiled tossing out his Zoura disguised as a Houndour. Creating some fake flames in its mouth.
"Damn… Budew Return!" Fern started to switch his Pokémon as he though he was at disadvantage.
"Your easy! Hades Pursuit!" Nero smiled, and commanded Hella forward with the single hit Hela knocked the Budew's health down to 33%.
"Tch. Sandile you're up!" Fern angrily called out.
"Hades continue with Fury Swipes!" Nero commanded. While distracting the Sandile with Illusions, Hela managed to hit the Sandile five times. Bringing the Sandile down to 45%, though it could have done more if the Sandile didn't have intimidate.
"Ha! That the best you got! Sandile Bite it!" Fern called out. The Sandile managed to bite on to Hela, bringing her to 82%. Also dropping the Illusion. "Wait what?!"
"Ah, I wish I could have fooled you more. Hela, Fury Swipes again!" Nero smiled, Hela this time only got three hits leaving the Sandile at 20%.
"I-I wasn't fooled by that ridiculous cheap trick. That Illusion didn't even look like a Houndour!" Fern tried to cover for his failure to notice.
Nero laughed. "Then why switch out?"
"… Sandile Bite Again!" Fern calls out. This time he gets a critical, bringing Hela down to 58% percent.
"Pft! Your dead. Hela, Fury swipes once more!" Nero said. with that the Sandile Fell. "You still have that Budew sitting at what thirty percent?"
"Shut up!" Fern yells as he tosses out his Budew once more. "Budew, Absorb that Zorua's HP!"
"As if you can out speed me! Hela Fury swipes once more!" Nero laughed, Taking out the Budew. "So, is this all a Trainer from the Onyx can do? Thank god, my parents never sent me there."
"You think you can get away with that? Rowlet!" Fern sends out his final Pokémon.
"Hela, Fury swipes again!" Nero commands. Hela runs in to attack the Rowlet, but the owl flies into the sky dodging the attack.
"As if you can defeat us! Rowlet Leafage!" Fern has the Rowlet send leafs into Hela, with critical damage, knocking her to the ground.
"…" Nero goes silent at the sight of his Pokémon falling.
"What? Scared? You should be after seeing a move like that!" Fern laughs his head off. "A weakling like you is no match for someone of my level!"
"What was that?" Nero's anger flashes. He grabs his strongest Pokémon and tosses them out. "Grim, you're on."
"What?! How do you have one of those?!" Fern looks on in surprise to the Pokémon Nero sent out. "I mean is that supposed to scare me."
Grim, Nero's strongest looks at the owl with a smile. "You know? I forgot to introduce myself. I'm The Black Demon. This is my reaper. Now Grim, assure this victory."
Grim Jumps into the air knocking the owl to the ground one shoting it Fern stands stunned until he finally shakes out of it. "Hah! Way to get lucky."
"Was it really Luck, or a difference in strength?" Nero smiles, looking at the small green haired boy.
"Whatever, man. Don't have time for this. Unlike you, I have places to be, and people waiting for me." Fern turns and starts to walk away. "Later Loser!"
"Gr…" Grim growls as the Fern Flees away.
"Don't bother an idiot like him isn't worth our time." Nero smiles. "Time to go back to base. We have guests to prepare for."
Time: 14:00
Location: Under Opal Bridge
"I think we've hidden from the rain enough." Percival says as he looks out from under the bridge. So far in their adventure in Reborn, he and Lucille have been trying to explore and understand the city. While that has been happening, Percival had also been showing Lucille the ropes of being a Pokémon Trainer: Pokémon battles, fighting and catching wild Pokémon.
When it started to rain, Percival suggested to go look for some cover from it. Although Lucille noticed person appear out of nowhere. Lucille thought it was interesting, Percival didn't like how he acted.
"Just a second! We're almost done!" Lucille calls; Percival looks over to see. She was still trying to catch a Panpour. If she manages to catch it, this would be her third Pokémon. Her other two, Treecko named Theros, and a Munna named Luna. With this Panpour, Lucille prepared to throw a pokeball once more. "Alright, you're getting caught this time!"
Lucille throws the pokeball, it hits the Panpour. Red light absorbs the Pokémon, and brings it into the pokeball… One shake… Two… Three and click.
Percival who was impressed with Lucille, "Good job this is your second capture proved to be successful."
"I know, it's so thrilling!" Lucille gave a bright and brilliant smile. Almost as if the train incident from yesterday never occurred. "So, what are we doing next?"
"Well… If you don't mind, I would like to challenge the local Pokémon Gym. I hear it's at the cities local power plant. It's the girl with green hair from yesterday." Percival explains
"Oh… I didn't really talk to her yesterday, she seemed nice." Lucille nods along. "Well then let's go!"
Lucy starts to walk a head; she seems to be unfazed by the events off yesterday. Although Percival doubts that, but he doesn't want to call her on it. So, the two of them start walking through the damp streets, to where Julia's Pokémon gym was. The Neo-Circuit Power Plant. Percival and Lucille, walk through seeing how bad the city looked. Even though it wasn't hurt by the train from yesterday it was a complete mess.
When the two got to the front of the power plant, they saw the girl with green hair, Julia. Walking out of the Gym. "Oh, hihi, Percy!... Um Lucy!"
"Hello." Lucille greets her.
"Percy, were you coming to challenge my gym?" Julia asks before Percival could get out his greeting.
"Yes, I was." Percival answers.
"I'd love to battle you, but it's gonna have to wait; we've got trouble!" Julia shouts in an excited voice. "I just got a report from Ame about the bombing at Grandview Station! They caught the perp', and not only was he not working along, but there's a whole team! He said that the next place they were going to blow up was the power plant—MY gym!"
"That is quite alarming." Both Percival and Lucille say.
"If they successfully destroy a powerplant like this, the whole city could be without power for weeks… months even! That is quite disastrous." Percival continues
"Nobody booms things without me, least of all MY things!" As Julia yelled that, she began to leave. "So, I'm going to hop over there and teach them a lesson! One of my friends is going to come help, too, so I've gotta run~"
As Julia starts to run ahead, Percival sighed. "I guess no Gym battle to day…"
"I wish we could do something to help…" Percival hears Lucy say.
"I know! Why don't you come, too?" Julia yells over to the two. "Meet us at the Mosswater Factory. It's right by the train tracks! See you there~"
Percival a glance towards Lucille, who has a mischievous smile on her face. "So, what are we waiting for… don't tell me you are going to allow them to go free!"
"Fine. Let's go." Percival agreed. "(I do want some pay back for yesterday.) Let's not get left behind, shall we?"
"Alright, Thanks Percy!" Lucille said with a bright smile, as they started to chase after the hyperactive Gym leader. They continued to chase after her very far, pretty much back the way they came. Until they reach a factory that oddly enough didn't look rundown. Upon noticing the two, Julia squeals in a high-pitched voice. "Ah! You came!"
"WE were right behind you. You just move very fast." Lucille said out of breath. Much like Percival was.
"Well I was just thinking of how we can get in. The door is sealed shut, soooo… okay stay back!" Julia looks to a sealed metal door. Then she places a small bomb in front of it. "Kaaaaaaaaaa…"
Kaboom!
Both Percival and Lucille are left speechless. Percival then says. "She has this covered pretty, well doesn't she?"
"Well we are still helping." Lucille says to Percival.
"All better!" Julia exclaims as if they should ignore that she just exploded a metal door. She looks over at Percival and Lucille, noticing someone is arriving from behind. Two people both with heads of green hair both are wearing glasses. "Hey, where did you guys come from?"
The one on the left, she was tall, and had a more machine-like voice. As if all emotions were discarded. "Explosion detected. Julia's presence confirmed."
"Well whaddya know! Make things go boom; acquire friends~" Julia smiles at the two that just arrived. "Percy and Lucy, this is Florinia. Back in school, she was my roommate and BFF~ Aaaand this is Fern. Hi Fern. Okay, moving on!"
"Hah! I get no respect." The kid with green hair laughs. "But it's fine. Just know I'm the cool cat, and top dog."
"Time wastes. Let us Proceed." The one with the mechanical voice… Florina states.
"Don't mind my sister, she's kinda weird." Fern says. "People call her 'Flobot' cuz of how she talks."
"That's… that's quite rude." Percival noted.
"Well, I call her Rini, because she's not a robot!" Julia exclaims. "Now come on, focusies, we have bad guys to boom! Supposedly this is their base. The guy who bombed Grandview Station is with this group called 'Team Meteor'. Weird name, right? But if we don't get in here and boom their faces off, they're gonna keep booming everything else!... A Practice I normally approve of, but not like this. SOOO, Chaaaaaaarge!"
Julia led the charge. Once inside the building they all had their sense of smell berated all of them. Percival instinctively covered his nose, and noticed he wasn't the only one to do it. "…"
"This place smells terribadtastic!" Julia said. everyone else agreed.
Percival walked up to the railing, that Julia and Florina were standing at. He glances over, to see a pool of brownish liquid. "Is that water?"
"If it is… It shouldn't look like this." Lucille stated in surprise.
"The wine hue indicates high levels of pollutants. Estimated toxicity: ninety plus percent." Florina says in an unchanging voice.
"And this is being dumped right into Azurine Lake. No wonder it's so poisonous!" Julia shouted angerly.
"Yeah, yeah," Fern said bored. "Blahblahblah, enough with the hippie environmental bull, let's just get going."
"We have to stop this factory from ruining the lake! Team Meteor clearly doesn't care about the well-being of the city!" Julia shouts.
"The path diverges." Florina says. Pointing to two hallways. "The most efficient course of motion for facilitation of thorough investigation and reclamation of this property is a similar bisection of the party."
"And in English?" Fern said.
"Split the party." Percival tries to clarify. "(Does this kid have any limits on his sass?)"
"Duhhh!" Julia says with her tongue sticking out. "Girls will come with me! We'll take this wing. Percy, you go with Fern. Try not to let his attitude get to you~"
"Excuse me?" Fern says as if insulted. No wait he was.
"Nothing!" Julia cheers. "Come on, let's goooooo!"
Florina drags off Lucille, while Florina stays for a minute. "Proceed with caution."
"I always do, sis." Fern says in a proud voice.
"You were not the intended recipient of my previous statement." Florina stated. "Permission for you to be in life-endangeringly reckless: Granted."
As Florinia leaves, Fern turns to Percival. "As you can see, she didn't get enough hugs growing up. Not my problem. So, Percy, is it? Looks like it's you and me. Just try not to slow me down."
"…" Percival rolls his eyes, knowing Lucille got the better group to travel with.