Pokémon: Wings of Beginnings
Chapter 15: An Eon to Find Part 1
June 19th, 2020
10:56 p.m.
Training Grounds
It is a silent night while Blitz looked at the practice dummy sternly while he took on a fighting stance and did several hits on it while blocking the wood that came his way. He did it expertly, despite his low intellect, his physical and expertise in combat was high.
He did a quick wind-up punch and instinctively blocked the whirling wood that came to him in under a second.
He took a deep breath. He finally got a hang on things and after every mission he tackled. He was about to try again when a strong wind blew him into a tree.
"Whooah-Oof!"
He stayed there before falling into the pond. Cold with the temperature of the night.
"...Brr!!!"
He flew out of it and went around the field wildly. He shook the water off and shivered when the cold winds hit him. He sneezed.
"Cold! Cuh-cold!" Blitz sneezed again.
He flew around a bit more and turned to the shower rooms. He nodded, something about the hot waters it could sprinkle out. He went in and looked at the thermos. With a little of focus, he turned the knob...
"...Hoooooot!"
He went out and rolled on the ground to cool himself off. He knew he shouldn't placed it on 50 degrees Celsius.
"Hooahh, ahhh, hot, hot!"
He rolled there for a few minutes before he finally rested. He laid there for a few moments until he felt the wind from before hit him. He stayed in place using his claws, not to be sent flying again by that pressure of wind.
"Nnn! Not going to let that go again!"
It went on for a minute until it stopped. He let out an exhale, someone had flown as fast as a jet to be able to make him feel that. He looked around spotting no one but him in the area.
"Where? Where?" Blitz says to himself. What just... happened?
...
Maybe he needed to turn in for the night. He let out a yawn. "...So late!?" Blitz took notice of the time. He let out another yawn. Yeah, it was night. He decided to turn in the night.
June 20th, 2020
8:12 a.m.
Lusiane's Room
"I'm sorry Lusiane but...You are no longer an older sister."
"I... I don't... Who..."
"What? How could you not know him? I thought you loved him? He's your little brother."
"Wh-who... Who is...? What even..."
Lusiane opened her eyes and was greeted with the usual furniture in her room. Her room was mostly a blend of even white and some tints of purple on the walls. She pulled the blanket away with a soft feel including the matress under her. Wardrobe, bookshelf, table with a laptop on top of it, a body mirror... everything here was accounted for.
...Another of those dreams from her past. Of a little brother she never knew. Why he passed and how close they were is unknown. She couldn't answer those.
It was the past... right? But, why for these dreams?
She shook her head and held it. No use going back to the past and remaining there. She needed to move forward. There was a knock on the door.
"Um...Ms. Yundet?"
Right, that voice belonged to Iron.
Lusiane walked over and opened the door, allowing her view of the Shiny Metang present.
"Oh, good morning." He bowed down and looked over at some kind of box. "I don't know about this and how to decipher its code. The algorithm is very complex and Professor stated that he could decipher it and he only specialized in creating anti-viruses and finding virus present. I went to ask Mr. Atad about it but he was too lazy to do it unless..."
"Oh..." Lusiane breathes. "...You will need to give Glitch something."
"Something?" Iron looked confused. "What is this something? He only spoke of 'Special Item'."
"...Yes, that is it." Lusiane nods.
"Is it special?" Iron asked.
"...In a way, yes."
"I see..." Iron nodded and looked around. "Also the reason I am here is because, last night, we've been robbed off a number of supplies."
"...What?" Lusiane asks. "Robbed? Is there any form of recordings or so to identify the perpetrator?"
"None, it was so fast that the thing we ever saw is a blur." Iron stated. "A white blur, that's it."
Lusiane wondered about it some more before she turned to Iron. Iron looked up as she told him to see the storage area.
June 20th, 2020
8:28 a.m.
Storage Room
"You...did not see the perpetrator?" Gardious questioned.
A shake of the head from the staff in charge of last night.
"I see..." He turned to Blitz nearby. "You stated that you felt a jet pa-Polarize, Blitz?"
He was still asleep. A snot bubble expanded and shrunk while he snored. Seemed like he was still drowsy staying up late. He continued to sleep in front of the staff without a care in the world. Gardious sighed.
"Polarize, Blitz?" He called out.
Blitz snorts loudly, looking around in a blur after the bubble burst from the sudden call. He let out a gasp, woke up in a start, and spoke out, "White blur! Atad!"
"Like the reports." Gardious sighed.
"H-huh?" Blitz blurts.
Gardious turned to see Lusiane and Iron arrived.
"Yundet, Polarize, Iron." Gardious greeted. "You arrived."
"Iron-Huh?" Blitz blubbers, still in a daze.
"Commander, Iron told me about what transpired last night." Lusiane states.
Blitz got back in attention afterward, shaking his body wildly and remaining still to look in position.
"About the storage, about 20% are gone." Gardious explained. "Every footage showed a white blur and that's it. Unable to identify what Pokémon it was as a result."
"It identified as a purely white Pokémon, none could match the speed it travelled." Iron added.
"A white Pokémon?" Blitz wondered.
"None of those identified don't match the speed it travelled." Iron reminded.
"Hmm..." Lusiane pondered. A white Pokémon with such incredible speed? Thinking about it more deeply, a white blur, and the speed involved, it isn't a clear image at all.
She looked over to see that at the storage area, a Seismitoad she never saw before stood at its entrance. He knelt down at the area and rubbed his webbed fingers on the ground. He seemed to be analysing the evidence to let them identify the perpetrator and some clues on where they went.
"...Even with their high speed... they must have let something fall..." the Seismitoad mumbles to himself. "And maybe by tracking down the location of where it has been..."
He was the one yesterday. What was his name again? Right, Swamp Cornus. He looked over a piece of rubble and read the notebook he held.
"Hmm... Quick speed, but white blur... If only we could get a clearer picture or inference..." Swamp writes down.
Lusiane came over and looked at a particular piece of rubble. She looked around the area, none of it matched the material of the rubble she just found. Swamp looked down and recognized the rubble.
"Hey, hold on for a minute!" Swamp called out to her.
He quickly headed over to her side and examined the material. "This, I'm sure I seen this before..." he looked back at his journal and flipped through the pages. "...Right... here? Yeah, this is it!"
Lusiane looked at the page he has shown to her. The Outer Ruins of Old.
"This place..." Lusiane murmurs. "I've heard of it..."
Being one of the more advanced ruins in terms of technology. It appeared as if those from outer space came here during the time technology wasn't advanced. It let to them making this base and abandon it after an unknown event. No one knew why but...
She turned to Swamp, he had been there before?
"Swamp?" Lusiane asks.
"O-oh!" Swamp appeared to just realize her direct presence beside him.
She looked at the book and pondered about it. What did he found there?
"This, uh... well..."
It ended with a narration of a doorway that can't be opened unless inputting a password to open it. Swamp tried to do it but the next thing that happened on the notes was something confusing. It was him waking up in front of the ruins, not knowing what happened when he incorrectly guessed the password. Only thing was that he knew when regaining conscience was his shirt was torn off and the sight of dried blood. An unknown force attacked him and wiped his memory clean of that ruin's interior. It was fortunate that his writings weren't removed.
"...Like... that." Swamp fully recapped his experience there. "I guess I didn't get something right and..." He sighed in disappointment when he read it. Forgetting the sights he saw inside it.
"...Perhaps... in this field, you might be Sunai." Lusiane muses.
Swamp gulped, he remembered Brandt state that his accuracy wasn't on par with Sunai's but made it up with his skills in two martial arts. He looked at her with a small blush and blinked a couple of times.
"You mean... that kind of... talkative Inteleon?"
"Yes."
"I heard that you beat him in written tests..."
She nodded when Iron overheard their conversation and pondered. "The one with a defective personality?" He asked. "Maybe this is why he lost to Ms. Yundet in that test."
"Oh, well..." a pause. "...Who happened to tell you about that?"
"Mr. Flashrost, Guy." Iron answered.
"...Oh... That answers that." She sighs. That lackadaisical bear...
Swamp looked at the box Iron carried and pondered what it was. He looked at the material and realized that the box had the same material as the one he checked on.
"Wait, Iron!" Swamp headed over to the box and examined it, running over the notes he had. He read it and measured the dimensions it had. A place of where this thing belonged to. He turned to Iron.
"Iron, this needs to be brought along with us!" He exclaims, rather energetically to add.
"But, how will we crack the code?" Iron asked while Glitch suddenly appeared. "Ah!"
"Ho? Code?" Glitch wonders.
"Glitch?" Iron exclaimed while Gardious came with Blitz back to being asleep.
"Same place to be investigated." Gardious spoke out. "Cornus, this place is the same place of you about to go to for your first mission, correct?
"Yes." Swamp affirms.
"Then, I shall let you investigate further into this ruins." Gardious declared that Swamp nearly jumped with excitement. "For this mission, both Polarize, and Yundet shall accompany you." Swamp smiled while Glitch looked at Iron holding onto something he found along the way.
"Blitz, where did you get this?" Iron asked while looking at some kind of black dragon sweating with something glossy and wraps of cloths around him. Some bruises could be seen around him. "Is this Zekrom?"
"Is that Zekrom?" Blitz asks, already back to full attention from earlier.
"Oho! Gimme, gimme!" Both turned to Glitch.
"Um...What is it about?" Iron asked as he opened it. Lusiane gasped.
"That is-"
"..." Iron froze.
"Iron?" Blitz wondered.
"Gimme, gimme~" Glitch kept waving his arms in front in a rapid blur.
"..." Iron wiggled around and gave the magazine to Glitch. He wiggled several feet away from Glitch. "What's with Reshiram licking his pecs?"
"Huh?" Blitz asks.
"I know the Zekrom I've read in history books state his body is more masculine than his counterpart but not THAT muscular!" Iron panicked. "And weren't they genderless? How can he have such a detailed sculpture and build!? Tell me that Zekrom isn't real!"
"Iron? Iroooon?"
"Remember, if you wanted Atad to join you, you have to give him that to have him fully cooperate with you." Gardious sighed. "Don't ever read it."
"Huh?" Blitz was still lost.
"Oho~" Glitch was hugging the... magazine, as if it was an untold treasure. Lusiane sweated while Swamp nodded in understanding. He knew what treasures were and they were...
...
...Suffice to say, minds think differently.
June 20th, 2020
10:21 a.m.
Outer Ruins of Old
Lusiane walked around the area she was in. She looked around it, this place was where she was born. Where she lived until she gained the Dynacrystal and moved into WINGS. She wondered why she came here to find some kind of flower. She walked for hours until she found a Dynacrystal. The same Dynacrystal that changed her life forever.
She heard laughter...One of a child and one of static. She turned to one direction and there she saw her younger self..
...She was... playing with someone... right?
"Yundeeeet?"
...That... that should be the case... but... she forgot...
"Heeeyy!"
"...Hm?"
Blitz was holding a marker while she woke up. They were inside an aircraft, the one that was for them to make their way to their destination.
"Are you awake? Awake?" Blitz repeats.
Lusiane blinked for a few times and held her forehead. "I dozed off, didn't I..."
She looked at her hand and spotted some marks on it. Marker ink.
"..."
So...That marker he held...
Silence passed for a few tranquil moments before Blitz shouts out in pain. He flew around the corridor while Iron and Swamp looked at the box they had.
"Mr. Atad?" Iron called out to the lock of the box. "How is it?"
A couple of seconds passed and Glitch's head went out of the lock. "Oho! Will be done!" Glitch answers. "In about one more hour max!"
...
The two gloomed in disappointment.
"Oh..." Iron grumbled.
"You're nearly done...?" Swamp mumbled.
"15 minutes minimum~" Glitch adds. They groaned again in disappointment while Lusiane watched.
"Glitch... is a quick worker when... well, motivated." Lusiane says. She swings and dismisses a called chakram.
She looked over Blitz lying upside-down on the cockpit with eyes swirling in the holes. Iron looked over the controls on auto-pilot and nodded at this. Swamp, meanwhile, wondered about who was controlling the aircraft.
He raises a hand. "Say... How is this aircraft...?" Lusiane looked at where he was pointing at and nodded about how this was controlled remotely. "...Oh...
"The controls are usually automated to our destination, or someone from HQ will control it." Lusiane explains.
Swamp nodded and Iron jolted. "You mean, it is either Mr. Zakh or Ms. Safka who do it?" Iron asked. "I only done it on simulations so...I don't know how it works. Does it have to do some kind of radio frequencies?"
"You will be able to control an individual aircraft with one of the many stations set to manual pilot the aircrafts."
Swamp was intrigued by this. However, there was one drawback for this.
"...Then what happens of you lose connection?" Iron asked.
"Oh, that... the aircraft will likely fall."
The two gulped and Blitz looked excited.
"It will fall?" Blitz asks.
Lusiane nodded.
"Really? Like..."
"Blitz, don't cut off the connection!" Iron warned.
Click.
...
The aircraft already begun to fall without any controls. "Bliiiiiiiittttzzz!!" Iron screamed as he and Swamp took the box.
"Oho." Glitch responded.
The hatch opened up and Lusiane held onto some rails while Blitz was blown back. Iron and Swamp looked at the incoming Shiny Metang.
"Oh no." Swamp began.
Blitz rammed into them and they were sent flying out of the aircraft, screaming. Lusiane sighed. "Just a... normal day. Somehow." She comments.
She measured the altitude of where they were now, nodded, let go off the rails, grabbed all devices out of a rack at the end, and went out of the aircraft. She watched the aircraft fall with the three falling above her.
"I can't float 200 meters off the ground!" Iron screamed through the fall.
"What do we do!?" Swamp exclaimed.
Blitz just spun at the air rather carefree while Lusiane showed some devices. These things were some form of small bags. "Use these!" Lusiane called to them. She threw one for each of them with Blitz tied around by it. Once they got their own, Lusiane took hers and demonstrated what she should be done. She first pulled the string and held the handle that came out of the bag. The insides of the bag then suddenly expanded into a balloon-like form and Lusiane's descent is slowed greatly.
"A balloon?" Swamp blinked in surprise. Nonetheless, he pulled and created the balloon.
"Okay!" Iron nodded and did the same thing, he was pulled back up through the force and his descent slowed.
"Whoooaaahaaaaah..." Blitz kept on swirling about, but he eventually got his fill and pulled too.
The four floated down while the aircraft fell and a large explosion erupted at a distance. Lusiane sighed, another crash.
"Is everyone alright?" She asks as they descended carefully.
"Fine here." Iron let out. "This is common for you?" He noticed at how calm Lusiane was.
"Yes." She answers.
"I don't believe it..." Swamp was still taken aback.
"Land already?" Glitch asks.
"Still a few more feet off the ground." He turned to Blitz and smacked him. "We could had avoided this!"
"Ow!" Blitz shouts.
Lusiane watched the two bicker. She had a small nostalgic feeling over this. Why was it this felt familiar?
Her younger self stood while some static was heard. She turned to see a silhouette crying over some ice cream that fell on the ground. She looked over her own cone of ice cream.
She walked over to the crying silhouette. Her hand stretched over to pass her ice cream. "Here, you can have mine..."
The silhouette looked at her and then her ice cream. More static as they took the ice cream and cut it in half. Lusiane looked at the other half and then more static. Her younger self laughed.
"..."
"Ho? Lusiane?"
She snapped back to reality and realized that they were 20 seconds before touching the ground. She nodded and turned to the rookies while Iron held the box.
"We'll drop down at here."
"Okay." Swamp confirms.
They all nodded and looked at a clearer space of safe land to mark their spot there. Swamp looked at a distance and at his notebook about the description of the ruin's exterior. "Hmm... Based on my notebook... I think it should look like that over by the distance..." Swamp read.
Lusiane nodded and looked at the ground about to make contact in 3...2...1...
They all touched down on the ground. Lusiane first pulled the handle and the balloon closed up back to where it was as a small bag.
Iron reached the point he could hover and pulled the handle. He floated up a few inches off the ground and watched as the balloon returned to the bag. He stared at this.
"This is pretty amazing." He exclaimed in awe. "But...I will just be doing here on this mission."
"I like it! Go blow and shrink!" Blitz chirps. And was promptly slammed against a tree. The two stared while Swamp landed and pulled the handle to retract the balloon. He turned to Iron and the box with Glitch the lock.
"How's progress?" Swamp asks.
Glitch waved. "A little more and... done~"
It opened up and there inside was an orb. The two were in awe of the sight. However, what was this orb for?
"Swamp, do you know something?" Iron asked. Swamp scratched his head in response. He looked at his notebook again, nothing about that was stating of why this orb was needed.
"Blitz?" Iron looked at Blitz looking at the orb in curiosity.
"What's this?" Blitz immediately spoke his mind.
"Not sure, seems Swamp doesn't know too." Iron explained. "But something had to do in this dungeon."
"Oh?"
"Yes...I wonder what it is too."
"Ruins..." A voice cried out. "I am bored. I need some excitement now. But, don't have any skills. Argh, what can I do!?"
"Hm?" Lusiane looked over. Swamp, Iron, Blitz and Glitch soon followed.
The speaker was a white rabbit. The rabbit was mostly white in color with the long ears having yellow insides. Her eyes had white irises and red-orange pupils. Around her eyes were navy blue patterns. Her eyebrows were yellow and they came to the top of her eyes to her nose that they looked like a crown and her forehead was patterned to look like a tongue of fire. Each side of her head had two whisker-like tufts. Her ankle and feet were navy blue and toes tipped red-orange. Each foot had three yellow dots of fur. She wore an orange jacket with a navy blue shirt underneath and white shorts.
"A Cinderace?" Swamp wonders.
"Has to be..." Iron pondered about her appearance. "She is white furred and fast but she isn't supposed to be that fast. It's impossible for her to travel that fast, Blitz?"
Broken-lines filled Blitz's outline from where he was. "Blitz!?"
Glitch jabbed forward. Blitz was charging toward the Cinderace while she turned to face him. She gave a confused look.
"Prepare to meet your maker!" Blitz announces, knowing full well that he is already seen.
The Cinderace sighed and did a roundhouse kick. Blitz was stopped in his tracks and immediately consumed in flames. He was sent flying back, screaming that the group moved out of his pathway and he exploded. They sweat as Blitz rolled on the ground, trying to remove the flames off his body.
"Can't you not charge ahead?" Iron scolded sternly. "She isn't the one we're after."
"Cinderace can't fly." Swamp added. He sprayed the Shiny Metang with water while Lusiane looked at the Cinderace with her arms on her waist. She looked crossed of a stranger attacking her.
"Okay, tell me who is that jerk who tried to attack a pretty girl like me who stumbled upon some ruins because she is bored?" The Cinderace demanded.
"We're all sorry for... well, that dumb Shiny Metang's actions." Lusiane tells the Cinderace.
"...Well, apology accepted." She looked. "Hmm...Yeah, he is stupid."
Blitz growled while Iron shut him down with a glare. Blitz nodded and stopped attacking while Iron took out some Rawst Berries.
"By the way, who are you guys and do you know these ruins?" The Cinderace asked.
Swamp stepped forward. "Actually, we're exploring this place. It's... tricky to look into because I wasn't completely prepared with everything back then." He told her.
"Hm...Are you an explorer of some kind?" She asked and hands motioned to the sides of her head and moved them around as if she was fixing an invisible hat. "Your clothes...lacked the hat."
"I... don't really need a hat... and you could say that I am." Swamp says.
"Hmm...Well, you're average." The Cinderace analysed and turned to Iron. "You, average." To Glitch. "You...Um...particular." To Blitz. "You, below, below average." Was she analysing them based on looks? They felt indifferent.
Iron nodded, he seemed to accept the fact that he wasn't handsome nor ugly. Swamp scratched his head. He was alright with it. Glitch... turned his head around. What was particular? Blitz was taken aback.
"Below, below average!?"
He turned to Iron and whispers. "What does she mean?"
"Um...I think it was based on...Looks?" Iron answered.
"But don't we look so alike?" Blitz asks.
"Um..."
"Hm, are you going to go inside this ruins?" The Cinderace asked. "If so, can I join?"
"Are you sure?" Swamp asks. "It could be of unknown dangers: I can only read up what I record, but I don't know if it changes..."
"Well, that's why you here, Average Toad!" She exclaimed and turned to Lusiane. "You the leader here? I want to join."
"..." Lusiane had been studying the Cinderace throughout the entire time. Her reaction time was pretty impressive, who was able to react on time when Blitz charged in. The kick itself was strong, like what her species could do, she engulfed someone like Blitz into a fireball. "...Will you promise to you that you will be careful and not do anything threatening alone?"
"Hm? Sure thing." The Cinderace answered. "Name's Scorch Bacon."
' Bringing home the Bacon...' Iron thought about what the name.
"Alright..." Lusiane nodded. She looked at the other members present. "You should know our names for communication..."
"Iron Polarize." Iron introduced.
"Blitz Polarize." Blitz finally says after some silence.
"Ho-ho! Glitch Atad!" Glitch introduces.
"Swamp Cornus." Swamp answers.
"Well, nice to meet ya all!" Scorch greeted and looked at Lusiane. "Please to meet you, uh..."
"Lusiane Yundet."
"Okay, Lusiane Yundet!" Scorch nodded.
Lusiane looked at the team. She herself was a long-ranged fighter, Iron wasn't a combatant and he wouldn't help much in combat, Blitz, meanwhile, was more into combat up-close and most physically powerful among them but lacked the skill, Swamp could be a navigator and handle himself in both ranges, Glitch was a...particularly a strong fighter, and Scorch may be strong in both range and had the speed. Lusiane wondered about the placement of the team before they enter the dungeon.
They also had to consider attacks from the back, Iron couldn't be set at the back of the team. Considering what Swamp wrote, Glitch may be needed to hack alien technology. If that were the case, Iron could help in hacking the lesser security to save time and hasten Glitch's hack into the security frame and firewall.
If ranges can be covered in the middle, then...
She looked at some pebbles around and at Scorch. "Scorch, you should hold onto..." She gave some pebbles to her. "You should have some ammunition for your skills."
"Okay then, you're pretty smart." Scorch complimented while Iron held the box with the orb in it. The group Lusiane ordered to be positioned had Blitz at the front. Iron, Glitch, and Lusiane herself in the middle. And Swamp and Scorch for the back.
With that, they entered the ruins while Lusiane looked at the writings Swamp wrote. She looked around it, trying to see if there were traps while Iron took out a device Glitch gave him to be able to make a map so that they can find their way out back once the mission was over. Swamp looked at the details around the ruins, some were different from what he wrote.
"So, you know how it looked?" Scorch asked. "Did anyone venture deep here?"
"Yes... Roughly..." Swamp looked back at his notebook. "But for others? I'm not sure..."
"So, let's on-" Scorch began as Swamp told everyone to stop. Blitz looked down and saw that there was a pressure plate below him. For being someone who floats, he wasn't able to activate it. He looked back at everyone.
"I recorded it, and it shouldn't be here from what I wrote..."
"It shouldn't be?" Lusiane asks.
"I'm sure it isn't from the last time... Does this mean that the ruins alter their layout?"
"Or that one who stormed the HQ last night." Iron inquired.
They looked at him and spotted the same piece they found in the HQ. Swamp took it and matched it with one of the broken pieces. They matched.
"It belongs in here..." Swamp murmurs.
"Then that means...Someone went here before." Iron muttered. "Also, why did this box happen to be from a mission earlier. The team who investigated another ruins brought this earlier and what did it have to do with these ruins?"
"That's what we'll try to find out." Swamp tells Iron.
They nodded and continued their trek while avoiding the traps around them. Swamp sniffed and took out his handgun and fired. A Dulled was dissipated from the vibration the bullet let out. Swamp looked at the area around him while the Dulled appeared, Lusiane looked at him. Trust...She trusted him to get them here around. No use backing out now. He analysed the traps and the Dulled appearing.
"Some came in later than before..." He mumbles. "So, it really is happening... the entire ruins changed while I was gone..."
He nodded and went to the front. Blitz looked as he was pushed to the back with Scorch. Swamp looked at the architecture of the ruins and at Scorch. Creating blockage for the Dulled to be unable to reach them but that would block them from entering it again until the next shift inside the ruins. But...The one Iron held. That orb...That's it! He looked at Scorch and directed her to the present columnal structures he could see that would provide what will help them.
"You mean, bring them down?" Scorch asked about this crazy plan with a smile.
"Yes." Swamp nodded.
"Then, I think I have to put you up." She smiled and took five pebbles out. She did several kicks on them before each turned to fireballs. She targeted the columns before she exclaimed. "Shooto!"
She kicked them and each fireballs hit the different columns of the ruins. The entire place shook and several fell on the Dulled around it. Swamp faced the rest and told them to run. Everyone did and made their way deeper in the ruins. The rubble fell and crushed several Dulled while the group run. Lusiane threw her chakrams to the side and directed them at the Dulled that charged in on Iron. She did a flip over a debris to boost her jump and kick a Dulled away and took Iron up.
"Whoa!" Iron exclaimed, he was not fast and needed the faster and stronger Lusiane to help him.
"Iron, instructions!" Blitz asks.
"Um!" Iron looked around and spotted Swamp unloading his handgun's magazine at a Dulled. The vibrations were going out at the Dulled. "Scorch, toss my brother toward the Dulled. Blitz, deliver the Dulled to Kingdom Come!"
"Okay!" Scorch nodded and readied a kick after she threw a large boulder at the Dulled chasing them.
"I can totally do the arms work!" Blitz perks up.
He used the kick's force to propel himself after using a rock as a platform. The Dulled looked as Blitz threw the rock at it and proceeded to bash it to split into large pieces, grabbing one and swinging it to bash that Dulled. Glitch peeked to see several animate tablets float about in the ruins. Hieroglyphs.
"Ho-ho!" Glitch's arms glowed.
An arm cannon appeared. Lusiane retrieved her chakrams and tossed Iron upward while Glitch summoned a turret and fired shots out of it and his arm cannon. The two Pokémon separated and Iron watched as the bullets grazed between him and Lusiane with awe. The shots hit the Hieroglyphs and several got hit by combusting explosions, some frozen and some struck by electrical bursts.
Iron was taken by Lusiane again while Swamp triggered a trap by firing a wire. Everyone went to the side as lasers and a saw shot out and destroyed the Dulled that jumped down at them. They continued their pace while Iron held on the box. Scorch did a flip and kicked a Dulled back with a U-turn and shrugged off a spray of mud that hit once she returned in place. Lusiane realized that she changed typing.
"That means... Libero as your Ability?" Lusiane inquires to Scorch.
"Indeed." Scorch smiled. "I would had added you to my tier list if you had been a man." She flipped and threw a poisonous garbage at some Dulled.
Glitch happily fired his gun and turrets. Iron stared in shock.
"If he is this strong, why won't he leave the lab?" He asked.
"...Well... He just prefers the inside of the HQ." Lusiane states, there was even questioning in her tone.
Swamp looked down. He spotted another pressure plate and some linings hidden on the floor before it. He turned to the team and took out a grappling hook. Blitz went in and passed the floor, Lusiane and Iron with Glitch in the lock came, and he had Scorch go on. The team looked back as Swamp attracted the Dulled to himself and looked at the holes around him. Water flowed around him. He urged the team to continue onward before he ran, fired the grappling hook he had at the ceiling, and stepped on the pressure plate. The floor parted before him while he swung with the grappling hook. The Dulled fell down while he released the rope and met up with the group while water spilled out and filled the floor.
Iron checked the map. "40 seconds till the floor submerged." He announced as the map was filled with water.
"Hurry then, we can't let this crazy plan Swamp had kill us!" Scorch exclaimed.
The group ran out of the hallway as water crashed down behind them. Lusiane and Swamp looked for an exit and there, they spotted a doorway closing down. Lusiane reared Iron back and threw him in.
"Whoa!" Iron exclaimed as he landed on the other side of the door.
Blitz came in, followed by Lusiane, Glitch, and Scorch. Swamp looked back, the water was behind him before he fired his gun at a rope that hastened the drop of the doorway. He slid down on the ground and entered before the door could smash his head flat. The water hit the door and stopped as the floor flooded fully.
Swamp got up and saw that everyone panted. That was an intense chase...
"Are you...sure you...aren't...Indiana Jones..." Iron breathed.
"That was... hardcore!" Blitz punches in the air.
"Let's do it again!" Scorch inquired before both of them were nudged at the head by Lusiane.
"No, we've all got a job to do, along with ensuring safety of a civilian." Lusiane tells the two. "We mustn't take any detours especially right now."
"Huh?" Scorch looked around. "What do you mean 'a civilian'?"
"I think she's referring to you?" Blitz asks.
"Huh!?" She exclaimed. "I can fight just as much as you all do! Didn't you see before?"
Lusiane watched the two bicker while Glitch flapped around while Iron checked if the orb was alright. He sighed, it wasn't damage as Swamp sat down and wrote things down on his notebook. Glitch looked at the murals around.
"Oho?" Glitch scanned and floated over, looking at them in a quick pace.
"How old are you?" Scorch asked while she drilled her fist on Blitz's forehead.
Lusiane joined Glitch in reading the murals while Blitz squabbled, speaking his age to answer Scorch. "20!"
"Oho, that means I am older." She chuckled. "20, are you? 21, am I. Ohohohoho!"
"No, no! You look way younger than that!" Blitz swung his arms by the sides.
"Why, thank you." Scorch snickered. "Guess that means stupidity make you grow too old."
"...I am 20..." Iron told Swamp. "Yes, we're twins but I am older a couple of seconds. How about you?" Swamp counted his fingers and went back at his notebook. 22 years old.
"I'm 22." He answered to Iron.
"Oh, that means...I don't know what to call you." Iron wondered. "You just joined yesterday that makes you the kouhai but you're older than me so you must be the senpai..." He shook his head and was getting more confused. "Ms. Lusiane is 22 and is my senpai and Glitch is also senpai." His eyes swirled. "What should I call you?"
"Maybe... you can think about this later?" Swamp suggests. "Just call me Swamp."
"Okay, M-I mean, Swamp." Iron nodded with smile. "It's nice to make you my acquaintance."
Blitz and Scorch spun around the ground arguing. "Like you wouldn't get a girlfriend until you grow old!" Scorch shot at Blitz.
"Says who!" Blitz shouts.
"Silpid UFO!"
"Rough Kicker!"
"Punching Rocker!"
Both of them didn't know Lusiane was approaching them. She made slow steps while they continued to fire back insults at each other.
"Oho, Swamp!" Glitch waved over to Swamp.
Swamp looked over at Glitch while Lusiane grabbed the heads of Blitz and Scorch and pushed them apart to the sides.
Smack!
Both of them laid on the ground with their heads smoking with large bumps. Scorch laid on her side with her arms in front of her and Blitz held the top of his head. Lusiane let out a sigh and returned back to the other group. She looked around the murals, they all depicted all about...the beginning of the Dulled.
"Oho! Summary!" Glitch passed a electronically generated document to Swamp.
Swamp stared at this with Iron stunned behind of how quick Glitch was able to process it while he looked over the murals. Back from the ancient times, written on this walls.
"Ms. Lusiane...This painting of a woman and a box..." Iron looked.
"A box..." Lusiane stared at it. "She opened it, unleashing the many horrors from within the container..."
"All because of curiosity." Iron continued while Swamp looked around the murals.
He read them and he spotted some form of murals that depicted those horrors. Loss, Depression, Emptiness, Apathy, Sadness, Shame, Fear, and Ruination. They travelled across the world, attacking the conscience.
"...This..." He mutters to himself. "The horrors unleashed onto the world..." Swamp got back to writing all of them down. They did accurate depictions of each of these horror. All affecting one's actions. Led to betrayal, despair, and killing each other due to panic. The horrors done this to them all. However...
At the end of the murals, depicted one thing strong enough to save everyone from these horrors. The power of Freedom. It was the last thing to come out of the box and with its power, it can defeat the horrors but one day, they'll return, along with Freedom.
Swamp wrote them down some more and looked at something. He read his note again and realized that this was the same gate he went through but was sent out when he failed to do the password.
"Hold on, everyone." He called out to them.
They turn over look at to him. "This is where I was forcefully expelled from last time."
"How do we open it?" Blitz asks.
"I was thinking the same thing, I can't and tried my power to prevent old magic from sending me out of the ruins." A voice explained, everyone got ready. "You must be hunters who dared to take my older sister."
"!!!" Iron exclaimed and looked up. He tried to remember what the Professor taught him. "Force of aether, protect thine of mortal realm from art minds. Shellga!"
With that chant, he created a barrier that blocked a force of a sphere from hitting them. Iron gasped in pain as he prevented the attack from hitting them. After a few seconds of trying to block it, his eyes widened. The barrier shattered and it was followed by a powerful explosion. Everyone held their ground while Iron was sent flying away.
"Argh!" Iron screamed as he was forcefully slammed into a wall.
"Iron!" Blitz exclaimed. He rushed into his brother. He looked over and realized that he was unconscious. He seethed and turned sharply while the others readied their position. "Hey! You're gonna pay big time!"
The speaker was an avian-like dragon styled after a plane. He had blue fur all around with white ones over the top part and stopped over his collar and sides. He had a pair of red eyes and two tufts over his head at the sides. His forehead was blue with a white oval piece on it. A large, triangular, red mark was on his chest and plane fins-shaped wings on his back.
He leered at them. "I may be the younger one but..." He summoned a three-segmented staff. "I shall protect her from you."
This dragon...He was...
It was starting to come together, but was it really him? A Legendary Pokémon that raided WINGS for a reason?
"I, Latios Eon, shall be the one who shall give you a ticket to the afterlife."
Chapter 15 Concluded