Chapter 10: Sibling Love

Lovrina and Maddy are talking about the current leader of the Aether Foundation Lusamina. "Hello there Miss Lovrina and Maddy, you wanted to speak with me?" she asked.

"Yes Miss Lusamina, I hope you are doing well lately," Lovrina said as Lusamina got out of her coma due to Cipher's medical aid which allowed her to wake up and resume her control over her company.

"I am doing well thanks to your technology," Lusamina said.

"Good, we need to talk. Things are getting heated with Wes and his crew of misfits of former criminals along with the new kids on the blocks like Serena and your daughter," Maddy said.

"Getting pretty rough out there. My daughter become a part of those band of thugs and rejected me," Lusamina is still angry at her daughter for abandoning her and not liking her shady dealings.

"Well, that doesn't matter. Once the Grandmaster gains the power he seeks. You will regain your family back in the new world, a nice happy family," Lovrina said as Cipher gave Lusamina an offer she can't refuse.

The Grandmaster of Cipher wants a partnership with the Aether Foundation aiding their technology and research with Lusamina helping out to gain a better life in the new world that the Grandmaster will create.

"Of course, I lost everything and I got nothing else to lose," Lusamina said as her weak smile turns into a devilish grin. "Yes, everything will be okay and I will finally be happy in the new world," she thought trying to justify her harsh logic.

Back with Lillie who is in her bed who is dreaming about her brother. "Oh brother," she struggled as she is within a cold room to see her dying brother on the ground. "Please no, stop. Don't give up," she said as she looks into his dead eyes with tears swelling in her eyes.

Lillie wakes up with her tearing still. "Oh my, that was a terrible nightmare," Lillie thought as Snowy comes up to sense Lillie is sad to comfort her by rubbing her head against her chest. "Thank you Snowy, I need one of your fuzzy hugs," Lillie said as she holds onto her snow fox.

Snowy is licking her face. "Oh no, fox spit," she said as she gets out of bed to only be in a white nightgown to go downstairs. She sees Wes and Serena showing off their different Eevee evolutions.

"I love your Espeon and Umbreon. They are so cute," Serena said.

"Thank you, I keep my fur nice and clean," Liz said in Serena's mind.

"I had them since I was little when they were both Eggs. They are siblings and lost their mother a long time ago. It's something we can relate to," Wes said.

"Oh, you three are orphans. That is pretty sad but you all found each other. That is pretty sweet," Serena said.

"Yeah, it Is a good thing," Lillie overheard them talking.

"Morning princess," Wes said as he kisses her on the lips.

"Morning honey, let me join in," she said as she joins in with Liz, Biz, and Sylveon playing with each other.

"So how did get your Eevee to turn into a Sylveon?" Wes asked.

"Oh well, I have been training my Eevee with a few fairy moves like Dazzling Gleam and Draining Kiss. I trained with her for a while and then she evolve into Sylveon. She is one of my oldest friends along with my Delphox. The girls always come through for me," Serena said.

"I see, makes sense. Eevee as a Pokemon is so cool. They changed into so many different forms with their unique roles. Wish I can have a Sylveon but I have a pure Fairy type I am happy with," Lillie said as she is proud of her flower fairy Florges.

"I see, can I see all your Fairy Types?" Serena asked as Lillie nods her head.

"Sure," she goes back into the cabin to grab her bag filled with Heal Balls holding in all her Pokemon. "Come on out everyone, greet my new friend," Lillie said as all her Pokemon come out to spread their legs.

"Goodness, I need to spread my legs," her Galarian Rapidash said within Lillie's mind. Serena looks to be impressed and awestruck by how cute all her Pokemon are.

"Goodness, these look so beautiful. You got a strong-looking Florges," Serena said as the Florges has white flowers. "Her flowers are so pretty and she is Kalos. My home region," Serena said to feel happy to see a Kalos-based Pokemon here.

Serena checks out a Wigglytuff, Magearna, Diancie, Dedenne, Galarian Rapidash, Alolan Ninetales/Snowy, Ribombee, Azumarill, and Iron Valiant. "Gee so strong but what are these?" Serena asked to look at Iron Valiant, Diancie, and Magearna.

"These three are pretty rare Pokemon. Magearna was a gift from my father, I found Diancie in a Cipher lab and Iron Valiant I found in a Cipher warehouse," Lillie said.

"I see, I've never seen them in my travels before," Serena said.

"I am lucky to found strong Pokemon. One or two more would complete my Fairy team," Lillie said.

"Pretty good, I wonder what would you catch. I recommend Togekiss, they are pretty strong," Serena said as Lillie cooed at the thought of owning a Togekiss.

"Oh, they are so adorable and strong too. I will get to catching one someday," Lillie said as they get a call from Sonia on their comlink.

"Oi, I need you three to do something for me. There is a convey in the desert south of the Crown Tundra where they are holding some prisoners who are from regional police. They were looking into the disappearances here but Cipher got to them and shipped them to a hideout. Wes, this fits you very well," Sonia said.

"I am on it. With my new Cyclizar. I should be able to chase it down," Wes said.

"Lillie and Serena, there are sights of the Mother in an old mine from what people tell me about her appearance," Sonia said as Lillie nods her head.

"Okay. I and Serena can handle it," Lillie said.

"Good. Keeping up with the good work," Sonia said as she cuts off for everyone to get into their gear.

Lillie gets into a white sundress with white tights underneath. She gets into white knee-high boots and white fingerless gloves. She ties up her long platinum blond hair into a high ponytail.

"Okay I am ready to go," Lillie said to meet up with Serena outside for she is in a red pleated skirt, black top, and brown boots.

"Looking nice," Serena said.

"You too," Lillie said as Wes uses Liz to teleport out of the cavern to their mission. "Seems like we need a ride," she said.

"Oh, that's easy. Delphox can teleport us to the south where this cave is," Serena summons her fox witch.

"What is your wish, Serena?" Delphox asked with her mind.

"I need you to teleport us to this location," Serena said as Lillie shows her the area on her phone to give her an image to warp towards.

"Okay, hold on it girls," Delphox said as she uses teleport to warp them out of there.

Mother is within her caverns to have a vicious surprise for Lillie. "Seems like they took the bait. I hope Lillie would be happy to see her missing brother," Mother said with a vicious smile for the mutant Gladion is sitting in the corner of a room feeling weird.

"Lillie, Lillie," he groaned repeatedly as he shows no intelligence left in his eyes as Mother is laughing at the upcoming scene she is going to show with glee.

Elsewhere Wes is on top of a hill overseeing a Galarian Desert to see a cargo train going across tracks. Wes uses his binoculars to see the train is covered with Cipher Peons with weapons and Pokemon protecting their cargo.

"Okay, time to go," Wes said as Cyclizar goes into Ride Mode for Wes to get on the seat. Its throat sac and curled-up tail look like wheels for they speed off to drive down the hill to catch up with the train.

One of the Peons looks over to notice Wes is coming their way. "Looks like the traitor has come to greet us. Time to give him a proper welcome," the Peon said as they send out two Gengar to fly towards Wes.

"Shift Gears," Wes said as Cyclizar powered up to increase his speed to go 100 MPH to dodge incoming Shadow Balls. He fires flashbang shells to blind the incoming hostile Pokemon. "Biz, Dark Pulse," he tosses his Poke ball to summon his Umbreon and unleash bolts of darkness to overwhelm the Ghost types.

Biz uses Copycat to copy Shadow Ball and fling out the ghostly ball to strike down Gengar taking it down. Biz is in front of Wes holding on tight with Wes avoiding the incoming energy blasts from the last Gengar.

The Gengar is flying toward them with Gengar going to slash Wes. Biz uses Sucker Punch to slam hard into the ghost type to knock it onto the sands.

Wes summons Liz to teleport her brother and herself into the back train cart to start tearing apart the guards.

"Oh shit," the Peon fires his gun with Liz putting up a barrier to block his shots with Biz using his Iron Tail to crush his skull.

They send out a few Talonflames trying to set up Fire Spin traps trying to block his path. Wes rolls up to a hill to drive off it to get over the fiery twisters by his firing his Double shot with his slugs killing off the fiery bird Pokemon. The birds are shooting fireballs hitting the sands with dusty clouds covering Wes's path.

He switches to his custom pistol to set up three round burst. He aims and drops incoming Talonflames becoming bloody strains on the sands. Liz and Biz are killing off Pokemon and humans alike within the train carts. Espeon lifts an explosive crate with her mind and tosses it into a group of humans to turn them into piles of burned gore.

A Golem is blocking their path with Biz tanking a few hits from falling rocks. He uses Iron Tail to crack the Golem in half killing it instantly as Wes puts down the last Talonflame. Cyclizar switches to his legs to jump on top of the train cart to go onto his hind legs.

Then a Salamence appears trying to stop Wes from getting inside as it uses Flamethrower. Cyclizar uses Dragon Pulse to clash with the fire move to cancel each other out.

The Salamence lunges towards the duo with Wes firing shots into its wings to make it flinch. Cyclizar uses Dragon Claw to slice up the wings to make it flightless with him biting into the Salamence's skull to use Thunder Fang.

He shoots lightning through its head and begins to cook it until its brain is fried killing it. Wes's Cyclizar kicks the dead dragon aside to fall onto the hot sands to left it behind. Another Gengar appears to launch a Shadow Ball to target Wes with Cyclizar knocking it away with ease.

He takes another Shadow Ball and does no damage with its Normal/Dragon typing giving it immunity to Ghost moves. Cyclizar uses Thunderbolt to spit arcs of lightning from his mouth to zap the Gengar to stun it while following up with a powerful Dragon Pulse to put it down.

"Having a dragon on my side is pretty good," Wes said as Wes tells his Pokemon to stay up on the top with him going inside. He rolls into the window to pop Peons in the head with his pistols. Biz and Liz taking out groups of enemies.

"That Cyclizar has done a good job," Liz said.

"He does, we are close to our target," Wes said as they bust through the door to enter inside to swiftly take out the guards.

Wes looks into the room to see the cops are dead. "Oh no, Sonia. The cops are dead," Wes said as he searched through their belongings.

"Oh crap, too bad. They had the information we can use," Sonia said.

"Oh, I found something. A data disk," Wes said.

"Oh goodness, this wasn't a waste of time. Come back and we can look it over," Sonia said as Wes set up a few bombs onto the Cipher train to teleport out of there. The bombs explode with the train getting derailed to crash onto the desert sands becoming unusable.

Elsewhere Lillie and Serena teleport into a forest with Delphox sense company here. "We got trouble," Delphox pulls out a tree branch which is her wand from her furry sleeve to see a bunch of Beedrills trying to swarm them. "Mystical Fire," a plume of flames shoot from her branch wand to swirl up flames around them.

Her fire move is burning away the Beedrill swarm and seeing them falling onto the ground burning to a crisp. "Wow, pretty and deadly," Lillie said.

"Pretty much my team in a nutshell. Come on, the cave is nearby," Serena said.

"I will protect you," Delphox said as they go deep within the forest to see a huge rocky wall nearby.

"Gee, I hope he is okay," Lillie mustered.

"You say something, Lillie?" Serena asked.

"Oh, I was thinking about my brother. He went missing a few months back," Lillie said.

"Oh, I see. I am very sorry about that. I shouldn't have brought it up," Serena said.

"No, it's okay. I want to find him. A person called the Mother mentioned him and I got a good feeling he is here in Galar somewhere," Lillie said.

"I hope you find him. What was he like?" Serena asked.

"He is a bit hard on himself and has a chip on his shoulders due to our upbringing. After our father disappeared into an Ultra Wormhole and then came back. He never was the same, he lost all his memories and doesn't remember any of us. Mother took it the hardest and never was the same after that," Lillie continued.

"She is obsessed with the Ultra Wormholes and the Ultra Beast who lived over on the other side. Her control over us was so tight, it was unbearable. She even dressed me up as one of the Ultra Beasts with a certain sundress and hat," Lillie said as Serena feels sympathy for her.

"That is nuts," Serena said.

"Yes soon after what happened after me and others stopped my mother and her company. Time passed and she has gotten out of her coma via unknown means. I was traveling the world trying to become a great Fairy Pokemon Trainer while my brother went off to do his own thing until recently when I lost contact with him," Lillie said.

"Well hopefully nothing bad happened to him," Serena said as they both feel intense pressure in their minds.

"Speak of which, you want to see your brother," Mother said within their minds.

"You have my brother?" Lillie asked.

"I have him here within the mine, you can see if you want," Mother laughs at her with Lillie summoning Snowy to aid her.

They managed to find the abandoned mine for they hear a powerful roar that echoed through the caverns. "What is that?" Serena asked as Delphox is gripping her wand tightly.

"Brace yourselves, this person is filled with malice," Delphox said as an energy blast comes into the hallway. "Protect," Delphox conjures a barrier to block the attack.

"Lillie, Lillie," a familiar voice deep in pain and malice.

"Brother!" Lillie rushes into a huge space to see a large lumbering humanoid moaning in pain. "Brother!" Lillie said as the mutant creature is rushing towards her.

"Sister!" Gladion said as Lillie is about to reach out to him but the mutant Gladion is about to cave in her head.

"Lady Lillie," Delphox points her wand to cast a psychic barrier to block the powerful punch saving Lillie from getting killed instantly. "Lillie, open your eyes. This thing is not friendly," Delphox can only sense malice in this mutant.

"Brother, what happened to you?" Lillie cried out with tears pouring out of her eyes to be scared by his appearance. He is 10 foot tall hulking humanoid monster. "After all this time, I am too late," Lillie said with sadness and anger building within her heart.

"Terrible boy. He was part of Morpheus's experiments but sadly he didn't cut it. Now I am going to use him to draw you out and finish you off. I am going to enjoy seeing you fighting your brother," Mother said within their mind to have a laugh lingering there.

"Damn it," Lillie said as she uses Burst to transform to get ready for a fight. "Serena, get ready," Lillie said as she is getting very angry. "Using my brother as an experiment and turning him against me. You monster!" Lillie said as Mutant Gladion lets out a big roar to echo through the rocky tunnels.

"Cry princess, I love your tears," Mother mocks her as Mutant Gladion unleash waves of energy to shake the whole room and blow them away.

"Don't hold back, there is nothing left of you brother but a hollow shell," Delphox said as Lillie using Neppy's psychic powers can sense the same thing.

"I know, Morpheus destroyed his mind and twisted him into a monster. We need to put him down, so he can't hurt anyone," Lillie said bracing herself to kill her monstrous brother. Snowy is unleashing beams of ice to slow down Gladion.

Delphox is leashing out whips of flames to burn into the thick hide of the mutant human. "Fire Blast," Delphox releases a powerful symbol of flames to slam into the monster to knock him into a wall.

Mutant Gladion grabs onto several crates to toss at them. Lillie blasts them out of the air with precise Psybeams to blow them up. Lillie swiftly uses her claws to slash into Gladion's hide. "Shadow Claw," Lillie is craving into the thick hide and follows up with a powerful ghostly wail to send the mutant flying across the cavern. She slams him with a powerful force to hold him in place. Delphox and Snowy go into peppering the beast with elemental attacks. Snowy fires a Moonblast and Delphox uses a psychic blast to do some terrible damage.

Gladion slams his fists onto the ground to unleash waves of energy. The three avoid his attacks to focus on weakening the monster further. Snowy uses Dazzling Gleam to release bolts of rainbow light to cut into the beasts.

Delphox and Lillie lift big pieces of rock with their minds to fling them into the mutant doing some damage. "X Cross," she slices the air to conjure a red energy X to launch it into Gladion to crave into the body.

Snowy fires Ice Beams to hit the legs to lock Gladion in place as Delphox uses Confusion to strike Gladion's mind. He is dazed by the attack with Lillie flying at full speed to smash into the mutant. He drives her claws into the torso of the beast unleashing psychic energy to blow a hole through the mutant to put him down.

"Oh, the big brother finally falls," Mother said as she begins to suck the biomass of Gladion.

Lillie looks at his warped face to place her hand on his cheek. "Sorry brother, I hope at least you found peace," Lillie said as she killed her brother with his body began to melt away into orange goo leaving behind a twisted large skeleton. They see the goo flying deep within the cave to merge with the Mother.

"Thanks for the show, goodbye," Mother said within their minds to teleport out of there.

"She is gone," Delphox said to sense she is not there anymore.

Lille got out of her Burst with tears going down her face. "Damn it, she is so twisted. Using my brother like it's some sick game," Lillie wept to cup her face with her hands.

"Oh Lillie," Serena pulls in the tall young lady with a hug trying to be comforting. "It's okay, you got me, Wes, and the others. You are not alone, okay," Serena said in a gentle tone.

"They are going to pay for this. This is not some freaking game and yet they still laugh like it's one," Lillie said as her tears went from sadness to anger.

"Right, they are not going to get away with this," Serena said as Delphox teleports them back to their hideout in the vast cavern.

Wes is there to come back from his mission. "Wes," she goes over to her boyfriend to embrace him.

"Hey there Princess. What's wrong, seems like you saw a ghost," Wes said as he lifts her chin to meet her lovely green eyes filled with tears of righteous anger.

"Those bastards lure us there to the cave. They used my brother and turned him into a mindless monster," Lillie said as Wes's eyes widen by this.

"What, seriously. You found your brother but Morpheus got to him first," Wes said returning her embrace to hate to see her deeply hurt like this. "I am sorry princess, we were not fast enough but we got some good news," Wes said as he kisses her on the forehead trying to calm her down.

"Well, at least something good happened today. What did you find?" she asked as she wipes the tears from her face. Her face is puffy and red trying to compose herself.

"Well, the cops were dead on the train but they have data on something happening in Rose Tower in the main city. Morpheus set up a hidden lab within that building and we need to get inside to seek out data about what he is going to do with his plans for Galar," Wes said as Lillie nods her head.

"Sounds serious but getting into the main city is going to be tough. Sonia has a contact who can show us a way into the tower undetected," Wes said.

"Seems like we are getting to the bottom of this. Good luck honey," Lillie said as she kisses him on the lips to go inside to rest for a while to calm her head.

"Gee, that mother is insane. Twisting things like they are toys," Serena said.

"Matches Morpheus perfectly. Let's rest up, I am tired," Wes said as they go inside the cabin to prepare for the next mission.

After a few days, Morpheus is on top of a mountain as he looks onto the town of Gladwell with a vicious smile on his face. "Wes and his crew are becoming quite a pain. This town, how so small and sad," Morpheus summons his Shadow Rayquaza to order the attack the town letting it rage all over it.

The dragon roars to lunge in to attack the town to begin hazing it to the ground as a bunch of Shadow Pokemon begin to raid the town. "Come and play hero Wes, you will face my wrath," Morpheus said as he laughs at the suffering he is causing to the quiet sea-based town.